Wow, So The Duffers Are Really Really Going All In For The Wrinkle In Time Inspiration For Season 5

Wow, so the Duffers are really really going all in for the Wrinkle in Time inspiration for Season 5

I made a few posts about two months ago that are good supplemental reading material about how 'being different' in itself is a reference to a Wrinkle in Time, and how Escape from Camazotz is not about Eddie but another reference to the novel that symbolizes forced conformity.

We have (hopefully) photos coming later today of Mike, Holly, and Will riding on bicycles. Now this is so so interesting because the writers have already confirmed a Wrinkle in Time will be an inspiration for the season multiple times. Not to mention that it has already been written into the show since Season 1:

The 'A Wrinkle in Time' plot goes as follows: "Combining theology, fantasy, and science, it is the story of travel through space and time to battle a cosmic evil. With their neighbour Calvin O’Keefe, young Meg Murry and her brother Charles Wallace embark on a cosmic journey to find their lost father, a scientist studying time travel. Assisted by three eccentric women—Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, and Mrs. Which—the children travel to the planet Camazotz, where they encounter a repressed society controlled by IT, a disembodied brain that represents evil. Among the themes of the work are the dangers of unthinking conformity and scientific irresponsibility and the saving power of love." - Encyclopedia Britannica.

At a point in their journey, Charles Wallace becomes willingly hypnotized by The Man with the Red Eyes (a vessel for the IT). He tries to put up a fight but eventually succumbs to the hypnotism and is also kidnapped onto the planet / realm Camazotz.

Meg and Charles are siblings. Calvin is a boy from school who befriends Meg and then becomes her love interest. In the original movie adaptation, and at the beginning of the 2018 adaptation, he sports a distinctive green and beige varsity jacket layered with a red and orange plaid shirt.

I've talked about the themes in the novel in those two posts about, but I'll briefly emphasize that the main theme is nonconformity and how being different is good. Calvin and Meg in particular bond over their shared experience of 'being different', and Calvin is finally able to *cough* come out of the closet and start 'being different' openly.

And there is no world in which is this not intentional. :)

Noah in his newest tiktok saying he just met with his acting coach for a scene coming up 🤔🤔

Do actors normally do this or only for intense scenes?

Idk why but that struck my curiousity

I have no idea of what actors do or don't... but I know for sure he's gonna have intense scenes to act in season 5, maybe Noah just wants to make sure he does a stellar performance next season

I also know something secret that I won't tell here ehehe but who knows knows and I think he's gonna be filming something intense when he goes back regardless 🤭

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Oh for sure. I’m going to get into that in an actual dedicated post, but it’s going to be such a monstrosity of a thing to talk about that I don’t know how I’m going to do it.

I’m very familiar with Peter Pan from other shows that have used it as inspiration and already made me deep dive into the subject twice. I was already going to make a post about PP before, but I didn’t know if I was inserting my own interests into Stranger Things because the evidence wasn’t enough for a connection. But now it is.

Here’s a fun fact:

Peter Pan is considered by scholars to be inspired by the writer’s older brother, who tragically died at the age of thirteen and thus forever remained a child in the eyes of his family. In particular, their mother never got over his death. Contrasted to Will, who was of course ‘saved’ from this fate but therefore not spared from the equally terrible fate (in the eyes of the author) of having to grow up.

I can’t sleep because I just have so many thoughts rolling around in my head. The more and more stuff we get about S5 the closer I can get to being able to ‘predict’ where they’re going with it, not with hard facts about plots and locations but the thematic aspects as well.

The way children and childhood seem to be highly symbolic for this last season is very juicy. The random children in the mansion. The Derek kid at the farm. The supposed leak about Robin with all of those kids. The disappearance of Holly Wheeler. The rest of the kids in the Creel House / Playground scenes. The kids on the military school bus. The multiple flashbacks to our characters as their younger selves. Taking inspiration from children’s novels such as a Wrinkle in Time.

I said before I think this show is actually presenting lots of commentary on childhood nostalgia, meanwhile almost the entire media and general audience dismisses it for being un-self aware. But it’s very aware.

brenner 04x07: "you speak of monsters & superheroes. that's the stuff of myth & fairy tales."

mike 04x09: "you're my superhero."

okay so do i even need to explain this one

It’s probably because there are less strict legal regulations on working with a 13 year old actor (a teenager) versus a 12 year old actor (the accurate age for Jonathan). I don’t think it’s suspicious.

8 year old Mike and Will are being casted? And 13 year old Jonathan? (Technically the wrong age but whatever).

That is a flashback to the building of Castle Byers.

Users say Will is feminine coded and suddenly people come in claiming you’re calling him some even more exaggerated caricature of Kurt from Glee like whoa lets calm down here