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chase lee says what do you predict will happen next season oh i'm the worst predictor ever
where's roxy when i need her i thought bob was a suspect that's true so what do you think now i think
i think that monster at the end is going to be involved all right there's definitely going to be a love
triangle between steve jonathan and nancy i can predict that i don't know i mean there's
gonna what i predict is also will cannot be another victim like he was in seasons one and two
as great of an actor as will is like he needs to just be part of like someone else being like
victimized by the monster and it's like all right my turn to help solve the crime to to
to helping this person out or just uh stopping the monster in this kind of way that's my
prediction what about you man um i don't really know and it's odd because i feel
like, oh, should I not be predicting anything because I have seen them, but obviously, as we see,
this is like me rewatching everything for the first time. And I'm thinking, like, I don't remember
season three, really. Um, uh, yeah, I'm not, I'm not going to predict anything. I got another one.
I'm afraid to do it because I don't know if maybe, is there four seasons now? We're going to watch.
Okay. I got another prediction. Go ahead. Do Sharama who I can't remember the Red Ranger Jason from the
Power Rangers movie. I'm sorry, I just really can't remember. Do you remember his name besides
I don't, but it's fine. Sorry, Max's older stepbrother. I really feel like he's going to have the
Steve treatment, the redemption arc. Now that we've seen that he's physically and mentally being
abused at home from his awful father, I feel like he might join the crew and get that arc.
I also feel like possibly they were setting up an affair with the mom. I don't know. Maybe they do
a great job. This showed the Duffer brothers and the writers room do such a good job. I'm sorry that I
overuse this word. Subverting your ex. But it's, again, it's done in such a way that, you know,
there's times where you can watch movies or TV shows where it's like, okay, they're just
doing it just to do it. And it's not done in a way that moves the story for or moves the
story forward in a way that's satisfying or develops the characters. They're just doing it
just to be edgy and cool. But this is actually done in a way that's like keeping you on your
toes and like i really don't know what's it's unpredictable in a good way yeah so like when you say
make your predictions i can say what i think the love triangle i'm i'm pretty confident in that
with jonathan and steve and nancy just from the look from steve from the conversation they had
and like i might have been a shitty boyfriend but you know or you know i'm pretty good babysitter
like they're setting that up as as happy as jonathan and nancy are and you know we saw that they
juiced it at the place.
I mean, problems do arise in relationships, and I'm sure there's going to be something
there.
That's the only one I'm really definite, confident about it.
Yeah, just I'm not sure if that's, I mean, here's the thing.
When Nancy looks at Jonathan and Jonathan looks at Nancy, they have it in the writing
where it almost thinks that's unbreakable.
So I don't know how Steve would break into that, but Jonathan would have to mess up really bad
and or Nancy, and I don't know, that could be a thing.
The thing about the affair, I really thought, like, even, like, right in that moment, they were maybe going to juice it.
But here's the thing.
When he left and he got into his car, he dropped the act, and it made it look like, oh, he was acting for her to get the information.
Now he was angry and he was going to go to that house.
So I don't know what's going to happen there.
But, yeah, who knows?
I'm just excited for the next season.
Chase Lee asked another question.
I haven't seen this season in years, but I remember episode seven being the least popular episode at the time.
If you can recall Tara, what is your least episode, least favorite episode of a show that you love?
This is specifically for you.
I guess I could answer that too.
Yeah, go ahead.
Well, I'll let you go first because I got to think.
Well, my memory is bad.
Least favorite episode of a show that you love.
Well, I'll just go with the, I'm going to think either entourage or small.
because those are my two favorite shows or cobra kai god the least favorite episode oh that's a really
hard question yeah because i love so many episodes i'm just trying to think of an episode i dislike
from any of those three shows oh this is because you're putting me i'm sure i could think of one
it's just on the spot thinking of an episode i really dislike of one of their shows you know what i'll
tell you right now because i'm watching love island on my channel um the first episodes of love island i do not
like them at all because number one they introduce the characters in a car and then the characters
talk and you're like we're trying to see them juice and make out now come on let's move it along
and we don't get to see that until the very very end of the first freaking episode so i hate those
the first episodes uh i got to watch that show i thought i figured out i'm not going to go too much
into detail in case we ever watch it or you ever watch it on your own time because i know that
would be a lot of episodes for us to react to smallville there's an episode i believe it's in season
five it's very similar to well it's it's a buffy the vampire slayer esk episode it's just it's not
very well written it's just not a i still find it fun and entertaining but it's it's just not a
very good episode so i would say that episode in season five where there are vampires involved
okay um our next one is from rage god and i almost when i glanced at first i thought did the rage
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Anyway, Rage God said, after seeing the last shot of the Mindflare looming in the upside down over Hawkins Middle School,
what are your theories or predictions for the potential future of the Mind Flair in season three,
despite the gate being closed?
This is my prediction.
The Mind Flair is going to win.
all the main characters are dead it's over they are screwed um i i mean obviously you know you got
this major threat looming it definitely set up the stakes for season three in regards to predictions
i don't know again this show does such a good job of keeping you on your toes and being so
unpredictable i just know that they've got a tall task ahead of them but as long as they stick together
i think they'll be okay i'm sure
curious if the sister though is ever going to come back because i think they left it oh even
though she was on the road and and left after the police kind of raided their place in episode
seven i think they left it open end because i think they can need all the help they can get
and having you know uh eight and eleven working together on top of the whole team i think that
would help fighting that thing yeah the mind flare so maybe that's my only prediction also too i
would i think it might be if we'd really do go the redemption arc for sorry calling him again
Dusharama, if we'd really do go with that, having him join the team as well.
Those are the only theories and predictions just right now on the spot I can come up with.
But, oh, and Hopper and Joyce, I think they're going to get together.
I think that was kind of set up there, obviously, too, at the end.
Yeah.
I'm very curious as to why they put the mind flare directly over the middle school.
And that says to me, like, okay, if this is the god of all the little things,
the little things ran back and now it's fully in the sky, I'm like,
Is it going to be able to, like, take over the school, like the minds or the bodies of those
because it's so large now, right?
The babies went to it, and that scares me because now I'm thinking it has more juice
and it's even more powerful now.
Yeah.
Which is even, and the gate being closed, like, you know, Chaseley said,
despite the gate being closed, obviously we're seeing that didn't really help us.
But it did go back into the sky, and it's not now on the ground.
But in the sky, because of all the freaking things.
Right.
Now I'm worried about how much ground and how much space it can actually cover and or destroy.
Yeah.
How's it going to get back into our world?
I was about that.
And also, too, he probably died when I'm curious if Darts going to come back.
I don't know.
See, that's why I love that.
Yeah.
Made me sympathize with a monster.
made me sympathize with Steve,
made me sympathize with doucheerama.
I know.
How do you do that, Duffer Brothers and Writing Team?
Good job.
They do a good job.
All right, Daniel says,
which development from season two
are you looking forward to seeing focused
on the most in season three?
Max's bond with a group,
Mike and Eleven's romance,
Joyce's loss of Bob,
more of Steve and Dustin's bromance.
Steve and Dustin's bromance,
I could not get enough of that.
All the ones you just mentioned were really good.
I love Bob.
seriously that tore me apart and I was so glad to be wrong about being
suspectful of him it's just it's you know we're in the show where you got this
this government agency so it's understandable I think you know in my defense to
be so suspectful of anyone that we don't know of right away yeah but yeah I think
Stephen Dustin's romance it's just because I again I was not expecting that at all yeah
that's just one of the most least expected interactions that I would ever think would
works so well and seeing that little brother big brother tandem and just how they just complete each other
because they're you know obviously steve is going to again deal with the the love triangle and then also
too dustin you know he's still got his a group of friends as well but there's times where they are
lonely and then they complete each other in that way and i don't know i just i really can't it like
there's a comedic beat that that fits it and there's an emotional being i think they just really
balance each other out and just a fun and just an emotional way that just I can't get enough
of. Yeah. I would agree with that. My first instinct was to go with Steve and Dustin. But you know,
I am more excited to see what happens with Joyce and Hopper. Hopper's like totally been there for her
and been such like a calm support, but also just like I even just like as a friend. Like they've
done everything together since season one.
which is wild and we all know that when he back in season one maybe the beginning of this season
where he's like so bob right and that was the underlying message so that's what you that's what
we're going with here you know and we could tell that he was a little bit jealous a little bit of
pullback there but the next part i would say i'm i'm excited to see what 11 and and mike are
doing like are they going full on juicin because we did see them kiss and they all
obviously really like each other but here's the thing they're like best friends and i would love it
if they get together and their boyfriend and girlfriend i'm just wondering if they're like too
young or something like because i don't know if i just feel bad for dustin that's my thing
Dustin is sort of left out.
Lucas has Max, and now Mike has 11.
Will doesn't have a girlfriend, really, right?
Yeah, he doesn't.
He doesn't.
Maybe they'll both find someone.
But I think also, too, in regards to what you just said with a hopper, you know, that
underlining quote with the subtext, you know, reading between the lines, what he said to,
so Bob, huh?
I think, too, the reason being that he didn't have time to pursue that relationship with Joyce
because he was taking care of 11 for the past year.
so it makes sense now he's you know obviously he's not going to take advantage to her vulnerability but like they really need each other right now so yeah i'm i'm looking forward to then also two last thing the fact that mike and eleven got maybe 15 or 20 minutes of screen time together in season two like i'm really looking forward to seeing more screen time between the two of them in season they have incredible chemistry i'm down with that all right gareth said yo
yo i was really concerned that you guys wouldn't be doing three episodes this week so thanks for going
extra mile we got you we got your back now that we're officially at the end of season two
which character had the greatest impact on you and who you're looking forward to falling through
on season three p s can't believe we're already at the end of season two bring on season three i'm
with you garris let's freaking go i agree with you who had the greatest impact
i mean i know bob's only in season two for he had a great impact so many characters i could go
with i don't know man i want to go with hopper just the way like how protective he's been over 11 i know
how hard that's been you know the redemption fact a redemption um story with him in regards to developing
like the loss of his daughter and then taking on 11 and taking her on as his own daughter and the
fact that he is just so protective of the rest of the kids as well and like that's what like and that's what
he is he's the sheriff so that's just in his nature to be so protective and then again
you know how he was comforting joyce without actually saying anything too it's just he's just a
really good person also to nancy as well and i could just go example after example with all
there's so many great characters on this show okay you took you took one i was gonna say because
my initially thing was hopper i'm gonna jump in here because i was gonna go for nancy the only reason
with that why is because um that especially in that ending scene well also the scene before when she's
with Steve and he says you should go with Jonathan and she looks at him and she so genuinely says
Steve like she knows it and he's just like it's okay it's okay like he he gets it now you know
a little bit more than he would have before and I found that really like somewhat heartbreaking
but also so genuine because the thing is she you could tell in that moment without a
lot of words she still cares um and then what like blew it out of the park for me well i would say made
the biggest impact but of course it's one of the very last scenes is her choosing to dance with
dustin that absolutely made my heart explode and i the second she looked at him from across the gym
i i thought like oh nancy is that person who would give right she and she
gives to like Jonathan and that's why it works because Jonathan is also such a giver right I believe that
Nancy would be taken advantage of because she's a giver and I feel like if she was with a taker they would
just take take take take and that was such a beautiful moment with her and Dustin and she was totally
there for him and like her talking him up and being like they're going to be running after you soon
And he's like, you think, and when we go to the cheesy smile on his face, that's just the best.
Well, you know, she learned a lot from her amazing dad.
But I think that song, too, was really appropriate that was playing too.
It just really fit the tone of the scene and the emotional beat in the scene as well.
It's really a good song.
I agree with that.
Thank you for the question.
Kevin B.
You ever noticed how the upside down seems to get creepy whenever the gang is stressing over their own problems?
If you had to pick, whose personal drama is basically giving the upside down a VIP pass to Hawkins.
And if that person actually faced their issues head on, do you think the rest of the gang might finally catch a break for once?
That's an interesting observation.
I have not personally ever noticed that, but I'm sure that is, yeah, I remember because we're doing, like, how we're doing this.
Not saying that we, that's not something that we cannot notice, you know, but that is.
you know we're trying to keep this as entertaining for you guys as possible so sometimes we might miss something like an observation like that but that's very intuitive to have that and now it's going to make me think of that when i see whenever i see the was it the upside down so but i love that i would say like in terms of like who has to face their their problems i mean i feel like will has been through the most amount of problems by far in the first two seasons because he's been the victim right in the
first two seasons so I would say
will by far for me in the
first two seasons no question
yeah I'm wondering
um he was trapped in the
upside down world right and then he was
and then he had the monster the shadow
monster in season two so I would
say will I don't want to give the
the same answer so I mean I'll
just say um
here's what I'm
teeter tottering on
um is that
Lucas still has
little bit of unresolved like he's the one that was saying she's not part of our group no that was
Dustin Dustin was saying about max like she they keep saying she's not part of the group and I think
that's an issue for all of them like Mike said it straight to her he's like just because you did that
you're not part of the group um but now he has 11 back and it's still it's tough to see max
out there in the wind how 11 just like walked right by her and I
I think they all got a little bit of issues to face
but right now I think Nancy has really helped Dustin out
but I think that Mike and will
will probably have the most to deal with
if it's not sure their own issues in accepting Max
eventually we have to get to the point
where they go you're part of the group now
I could see that with 11 as well like
oh yeah and 11 because she walks right by her they got to get on board with that yeah and also the trauma that
she's faced from the laboratory and just having to face that and then with mama and then just with everything
she had to deal with with hopper and like the anger issues that they had and then just being a fish out of water
and learning everything new so i could see that as well just like having the you know seeing the upside down
as like dealing with that that trauma so yeah i could see that too that's that's a good point i don't know
who gives it the VIP pass though you know that that's a that's a tough one um good question the great
observation though seriously that was a really good one i'm gonna start thinking about that a lot more
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a part of my fitness journey so justin de caesar i've always said the show was has just great vibes
because it captures such a specific time period and the weather and hawkins is always so specific
as well it just makes me feel cozy i agree another show that does this a lot for me is twin peaks
never seen it do you all have any great vibes shows that y'all love because of the time period
slash weather in the show.
Time period and weather.
I mean, it's going to feel funny because I watched,
I know it's hard to believe,
but I watched like the same three shows and repeat
Entourage Smallville and Cobra Chi.
You know what show I've been recently watching?
Which one?
It just dropped on Amazon's called We Were All Liars.
And there was another one on Netflix that dropped
and they're always in like the hands.
Hamptons, and it's summer and, like, drama goes down, right, with these rich people.
And I think that that, those, it just makes me feel like, oh, it's like, it's summer and
we're in the Hamptons, and the weather, it's like, it's always, like, sunny and bright.
And they really pump that, like, rich, privileged life into you to where you almost feel like,
yeah, okay, this is might, might be what it, what it feels like, which is, is actually a lot of fun.
because I've never been in the Hamptons and I'm not loaded.
So I'm going to go with that for now.
I mean, again, because I don't really watch a ton of TV and I just watch those three shows, mainly.
There's no time period or weather in those three shows where I'm like, that makes me feel cozy.
So I can't give an answer to that.
I can give you a video game.
I don't know if cozy is the right word, but the time, the time period in the weather, I'm like,
this just captures the atmosphere so well.
So I'll give you a video game.
Batman Arkham Origins and that game is so underrated and needs to be remastered how's that all right let's go with
that love it all right our last one j l wyerman out of the two seasons you have watched which is your
favorite thanks love watching along with you all glad you're here thank you yeah thank you thank you
I love season one so much yeah I'd probably go with one
one might be probably better but two is still so great it might be one because that one episode
even though i still liked it episode seven but i just like how they capture again even though
season one did a great job capturing the 80s but it hit like because i'm the reference easter egg guy
and like you know you hit the the ghostbusters the terminator you got aliens because it was
capturing my nostalgic feel i'm just from from a visual perspective and we were and we were
so on Halloween, which is my favorite holiday
and we were in that time period, I'm just from
again, from a visual perspective, I'm
just going to go with season two, but I think
season one probably might have been a
little bit better in regards to story
and characters. Like season two is like, it's
like right here. It's like right below it,
but I would probably just pick season two.
Probably just skip over
the Mew part. Other than that,
yeah, and also too, you made me
care about this
freaking for dart, this monster
and sympathize with him. And again, going
back to do charama again like i don't know how they keep doing this so i think i'm just going to go
with season two and you're going to go with season one yeah i'll go with one i think the the little
hum that came into season two was obviously episode seven but here's the thing it set a foundation
four eleven and her powers but where it lacked was all of our favorite characters so
what they did smartly is especially in eight and nine is where they all come together and i i my assumption is
that the writers directors the duffer brothers would have learned from season seven going let's not take a
hard left anymore that's the one we got where we got a little more foundation information about 11 that
we may have possibly needed a little bit but really the the only thing that i got for
from that was the girl telling her you have to tap into your anger, which did actually help her
kill at the end, right? Close the gate. Because she realized I have to tap into something.
And she didn't realize she was tapping into something when the bus was coming at her.
So we do need that. I don't know how they would have delivered it in a different way.
but I think the only place that it was lacking
was not having those main favorite characters
in that episode and seeing everyone together.
That's what everybody loves.
Yeah, we went to a B plot
that maybe some people just didn't find interesting,
but I still found the episode very fascinating.
It was nice to just take a break for a momentarily, I guess.
I guess it was just because it was the whole episode,
but I found it fascinating just to see another test subject in there
who was traumatized.
and also seeing a different type of power
and I thought it was so inventive
seeing how she could create illusions.
Oh, yeah.
I loved it.
It was awesome, hands down.
It's just that's where their hump was.
Yeah.
Which I understand.
So I'll just give a few last thoughts
and we got to get out of here.
I adore this show.
I don't know where it's going to lead us.
I think that maybe the godlike thing
since it was directly over Hawkins,
I'm a little bit like, well,
the town is kind of small.
So maybe that doesn't say anything.
Maybe the school and everybody's in danger.
I don't know.
I am excited to see where Joyce and Hopper go.
Obviously, all the relationships that are flourishing at this point, I'm excited for that,
especially like, you know, Mike and 11 and then Lucas and Max.
I hope that nobody's, like, broken up by season three.
That's what I hope because, you know, we could skip time and I'm just excited to see, you know,
want to continue with the story and that was another hump right you're in season two you get to
episode six you get to seven you're like this isn't really a continuation it's sort of a left term but
it's fine it was still a lot of fun um i mean i love everything about this show i'm a huge fan yeah
i thought season two just again elevated uh incredible incredible season i don't know how you were
able to just keep it at that same intensity and that performative uh quality that you had that season
one but they did it duffer brothers writing team amazing amazing job i love how again the the characters
were just dealing with the ramifications and the consequences of the end of season one and kept
the show really grounded and the way they were able to develop them throughout the season just the
the moments we got with the characters the acting unbelievable the visuals the way they were
able to balance the horror, the drama, the levity, the comedy, everything just came together,
the music, just the emotional beats, everything just really, really strided out in such a
positive and beautiful way I thought this season. Just really quickly, two things, and I will
end on this. Bob was one of my favorite characters this season. I know we've mentioned
him already a couple times in these questions. I think the biggest thing is the quote I'll go back
to with him because I suspected him so much during the season as I mentioned a few times already is
don't judge a book by its cover judged by the content of the character and he is quite a character
yeah like to go out and we could see the and give Sean Aston a ton of credit for his acting performance
the terror in his face and to still like be able to have the courage to go out there because
they needed his computer skills in order to reboot the system so to still be out there and have
the courage to still do it to have the courage to talk to will when you know everyone was
treating him so differently and obviously i know jonathan did that as well and to bring him the board
games to try and because he didn't really have a father figure in there besides jonathan being the
older brother and to just try and fill those shoes in and to also make the suggestion
hey maybe we should move out here might be best for all of you and i just want what's best for all
of us yeah just such an incredible character that when it does happen you know you actually really
give a shit you know and that's what i think again those are the best type of movies and tv shows in
general are when we give when we really care about characters and i really did care about bob that when
it did happen like i was i think we were and i'm assuming the audience just heartbroken yeah so i think
bob such an incredible character and last thing again i'm really looking forward to the love
triangle i'm sure like you said everything probably might be fine with jonathan nancy yeah but having said
that because we like steve so much now it puts us the audience in an interesting
perspective because we like all three of these characters.
Yeah.
So it's like, oh, I like Jonathan.
Oh, no, I like Steve.
You know what I mean?
So it's like, that's how you do love triangles the right way.
If you hate someone, like in season one where we didn't care for Steve a whole lot, it's
like, oh, I want her with Jonathan.
It's an easy decision.
So it puts us again in a precarious position as well as the characters like, I don't know
what to do because temptation is here, but also Jonathan's a great guy and Steve's a great
guy.
so I just think it adds for drama and it's and the Duffer brothers really know how to handle drama as well so it's going to be interesting and fascinating to watch character wise what happens because they really set it up moving forward to season three so I can't wait and thank you guys so much for having joined I will just say lastly that what this show does a really good job of and it's really hard to do with such a large cast um is does make you actually care about each and
everyone all all 10 or 12 of them that's a lot of people it's a large cast ensemble um you have to really
write things the right way and go in and out of scenes with enough emotional information and
conversations to make you care and they've done that and like that's just that's already just like
hell yeah so anyway we love you guys we'll see you for season three very soon see on the next one
Thank you.
Thank you.