You want to cut out the scene of Max and Lucas silently writing notes to each other???

Without Argyle the Surfer Bro boys don’t find the Nina Project site in the desert (he spots the tire tracks) and they don’t rescue Eleven.

Vecna *is* the Mind Flayer.

“Defeating Vecna just led back to the status quo”

“but because he was assimilated by the Upside Down, leaving the final big bad to be the shadow monster / Mind Flayer as the unknowable eldritch personification of the entire Upside Down hive mind. Or maybe the kids rescue Max’s mind from Vecna early on, see that he’s weak now, and witness the Mind Flayer turn on him…

Also by the time this aired it had been announced that the Duffer Brothers were going to do an adaptation of The Talisman for Netflix.  Even if its inclusion here was done before that deal was finalized, they claim to be big fans of that book.

In the game the 4 of them go through the sewers but it’s to make it to a radio tower on the other side (where Henry is meeting up with the rest of his group - no one is after him in the game). Also in the game there are a LOT of Infected in the sewers you have to fight - they aren’t following you, they’re just the…

Sewers
Drawings outside sewer hideout entrance.
Rules
Ish
Soccer
Sniper
Henry abandoning Joel and Ellie, then coming back (much quicker than in the game)
Scorpions

“and have a fondness for ripping the heads off their enemies”

“One morning Henry wakes Sam and signs that Edelstein isn’t coming back (somehow he found out the rebels got him)“

This is not a bottle episode.

In the game Henry says “It’s your fault! It’s all your fault!” but as he says this he looks to the floor, not at Joel. It’s pretty clear that he’s talking to himself when he says this, not to Joel (this has been confirmed by the game developers).

I think this is all we get of Ish. In the game, you don’t learn any more about him by the time you get to the sniper. I was just happy we got one mention of him.

See John Carpenter’s The Thing.

Yeah, I’m listening to a podcast about this show, and the podcasters have played the game, so in the first episode they caught themselves saying “Joel and Ellie” a few times and switched to saying “Joel and Tess and Ellie”.  In the second episode they apologized for that and giving anyone new to the show the idea that…

Updating your argument from “14 years” to “11.5 years” isn’t the improvement you think it is. :)

If this series doesn’t have at least one scene of Ellie floating on top of a wooden pallet then what was the point of this series?

In the reboot have Cleese play Manuel instead of Basil.

Don’t mention the war!

So this new spinoff would be called what exactly?