Prior to now few weeks, there’s been a persistent rumor that the creators of Stranger Issues are quietly modifying previous seasons of the present for quite a lot of causes. It appears to have began with the Duffer brothers giving an interview in regards to the present’s fourth season, the place they acknowledged a minor continuity gaffe: Episode 2 was set on March 22, which an earlier season established as Will’s birthday. And but nobody on the episode acknowledge that truth. (Completely satisfied birthday Will, by the best way.)
Within the interview, the Duffers admitted that they merely forgot that that they had beforehand established March 22 as Will’s birthday, and revealed they have been excited about “George Lucas-ing the scenario” by going again into the present and dubbing the character who stated March 22 to say “Might 22” to take away the error. (Earlier than George Lucas bought his firm to Disney, he ceaselessly modified the previous Star Wars films based mostly on enhancements in know-how or his personal normal whims, typically with out even telling followers he was doing it.) In one other interview, the Duffers claimed “We’ve George Lucas’d issues additionally that individuals don’t find out about” — which despatched followers wanting into the present’s archives, looking for examples.
However that may be a harmful recreation to play, as a result of our recollections typically play tips on us, and make us imagine issues are totally different once we merely misremembered them within the first place. The George Lucas-ing quotes led some followers to say that the present had trimmed (or fully eliminated) a scene from Season 1 the place Charlie Heaton’s Jonathan secretly takes images of Nancy (Natalia Dyer).
However after some web sites began reporting the scene’s elimination as truth, and writing total opinion items about it as the beginning of a doubtlessly harmful development, the official Stranger Issues writers Twitter account posted a observe that learn “PSA: no scenes from earlier seasons have ever been reduce or re-edited. They usually by no means might be.”
In addition they responded on to a fan who requested whether or not that included this notorious (and apparently misremembered) scene from Season 1 of Jonathan spying on Nancy, saying that there have been no post-production shenanigans on that sequence as nicely.
The lesson right here: Don’t simply assume one thing is true as a result of somebody you don’t know claimed it was so on TikTok or Twitter. Confirm these items your self. The whole fourth season of Stranger Issues is now streaming on Netflix.
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