Chapter 7: The Massacre at Hawkins Lab

hey
friends
lads. uh, birds (? im gonna stick to lads)
u know what time it is
thats right its more stranger things. if i get more russia than eddie im gonna throw a table
lets go oh yeah some things were trying to kill steve i forgot oh look its the demobat-slappin crew. hes ok lads heres steve beating the shit outta one of them cos heaven forbid we think he wouldnt be able to do that heres a shot of steve with blood pouring from his mouth cos thats sexy if youre into dudes like steve
and also dudes like steve having internal organ damage
are u ok says nancy because the other 2 people who could asses steve damage are
1. his best friend
2. eddie


and we cant have that cos his best friend is
1. a lesbian
and the other person is
2. eddie
gotta have the ex lookin him over for drama reasons robins like what if the bats have rabies
like i know theyre supernatural spacebats BUT WHAT IF YALL
(i know shes not on the screenshot but let me have this thank u) ok for once im siding with everyone else cos robin is like we shuld see a doctor cos if its rabies ur dead n its like. really. is now the time robin
finally they got across what they were tryna do from the start, ithink
so uh yeah the greater teens are in the upside down now. wooo intro
woo!
gee i wonder what this ones about. this looks like russia. in the words of. uh. someone
whooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo cares el is talkin to papa
papa is like pls help me find how the massacre happened
while the show goes: its eleven lol
and were all sitting here like: nah man so the idea w/ this dude is they all call him papa and see him as a father figure but hes always dressed to the nines
like u could at least ditch the vest and the tie man
u dont look like a papaw you look like a. idk man a guy about to give a ted talk on stocks its time for more nina sensory deprivation flashback time yayyyy meanwhile the lesser teenagers are bein interviewed by the cops more frighteningly all their parents are there. and lucas' sister
they do a poor job of tryna explain why they were at the lake everyones fighting. the day is saved
and by that i mean the cops say im gonna go talk to each kid individually the greater teens are still hiding from upside down monsters. steve still doesnt have a shirt. nancy's all like stee ur gonna die ur losing blood we gotta make sure ur alright and the show frames it like "she still loves him. dont u love the drama"
no show.
i dont care.
but go off or whatever.
>steve has the wimpiest wound ever cos this is netflix
ok i'll try to take that seriously i guess robin meanwhile goes hey so i got the encyclopedia from the letters r to t so lemme rattle off everything i know about rabies cos u bet ur ass im gonna hit u with an oar if it turns out you have it nancy: ok i did ur bandages you look at least 35% hotter now climbs a rock to distract himself
hi if you havent seen any of stranger things so far but wanna watch season four pretend you're eddie and you're golden. hi sorry but no. i dont buy this
so nancy just warned eddie "hey watch the vines, everything here is a hivemind" and eddie's like a what
no no no.
we used to call that hivemind the mindflayer.
thats a dnd thing.
you cant fuckin tell me that eddie, a seasoned and respected dnd player doesnt know what a fuckin hivemind is. nuh-uh.
RESPECT. YOUR. AUDIENCE. nancy's like we dont gotta go to the cops i got guns
and eddies like whaaaaa
and we're all like uh yeah duh cos shes done three seasons of this show a course shes got guns.
but i wanted to screenshot eddie so there.
once again giphy delivers.
steve jeans jacket get!
Lou: how is eddie still alive i thought people were manhunting him
well he's in the deadly underground world that is exactly like his town but without the people.
so uh,
hes slightly more safe, probably more russia
no. papa tortures two cos he bullied eleven and thats against the rules. i mean harrassing anyone is against the rules but uh yeah there u go bondiiiiiiiing
steve fought demobats and eddie immediately goes omg just like ozzy osbourne
he didnt bite its head off, edward. geez
but whatever pls bond thank u honey i know ur trying but ur makin it worse with everything you say pls stop
steves like look man i only listen to duran duran pls stop i feel like biting an animals head off nowadays wouldnt go over as well as it did then
even with a metalhead crowd
but i do remember that that was a thing people knew ozzy for i. i kinda hoped his first name was oscar.
oh well eddie's like so uhhh i guess we got shared custody of dustin huh hi hello this line is the reason there's 547 wattpad fanfics about these two.
(idk i just made that up but i'd put money on it)
also another scene that was gif'd.
more importantly eddie talks about the fact he really didnt like steve based on stereotypes and he had to confront himself about that and that he was wrong THAT IS NOT. the line
gdi giphy i cant preview
eddie is actually talking about how impressed he was with robin and nancy instantly diving in to save steve cos he was afraid and only did so cos he didnt want to stay behind
then he goes "oi stee i kinda ship you with nancy i already opened a tumblr blog for it so you better give me some material" My names erica and im here to be sassy!!
ok well. i think the show just hinted that lucas is a furry
cos erica was all like i'll tell dustin whats under ur bed if you dont let me join
and after than erica just keeps makin animal puns dustins like omg guys i think i figured out the main plot
they figure out vecna makes a psychic connection to its victims to open more gates
to bring the upside down to the world erica goes listen guys i know im normally the snappy one whos smarter than all of you put together but right in this moment im the avatar for the no idiot left behind audience so please overexplain the plot thank you
oh they actually dont have him explain it on camera
so that mighta just been "erica wasnt a part of it, lets catch her up"
which is fair i suppose the greater teens find out the upside down is slightly outdated for some reason.
aka nancy has no guns oops
oh also the atmosphere in the upside down used to be toxic but its not anymore i guess.
bit of a plothole iirc hi i cant find a gif of eddie actively fucking with the chandelier in the upside down but he's signing sos cos hes the only one who knows morse and its the only thing he knows how to sign
so erica, dustin and lucas see the light do this
cos theyre all in the same house, but the elder teens are in the upside down version of it how do u know that robin u cant see that. then they use an etch-a-sketch to talk (that is a lite brite. good job past me.)
yay its the eighties!
ok so dustin's like theres a gate at every scene where someone died cos of how vecna connects to the victims
so now the teens are like lets go to eddies!!! robins like hey can we ride bikes from ur house to eddie's it'll be a nice callback to season one and eddie is like yeah you should let us do that cos neither of us were in season one it'll be so fun
Lou: this is really a love letter to the 80s
yeah its kinda funny to watch this and recognise stuff cos people older than me told me about it haha ITS BIKE GROUP ONE I REPEAT BIKE GROUP ONE IN REGULAR HAWKINS
ESCAPING FROM POLICE AS WE SPEAK
Lou: acab
oh theyre upside down. i wonder if- ITS BIKE GROUP TWO
TECHNICALLY BREATHING IN THE TOXIC ATMOSPHERE BUT LETS IGNORE THAT
oop a lot of russia stuff...
then eleven... !!! this lad's like im just like you el
this also reminds me this season introduces two english actors to the cast. can u guess who the only reason vecna says nancy's name here is cos he sounds like freddy krueger. thatd be cool if we didnt have dustin going OMAGAW IS JUS LIKE ELM STREET an episode ago. so victor creels son, henry creel, is the nurse/ordinary that is talking to eleven.
he talks about how he identified more with the solitary black widows in his house than humanity then hes like humans suck cos they all do the same thing: eat, sleep, work -
honey what do you think a black widow does.
a black widow eats, sleeps, reproduces, and dies.
but go off, i guess.
ur also a guy so choosing a spider that was named for the fact that the female usually eats the male right after mating is a bit weird.
(also slightly unrelated but i like to fact check and to air my frustration with cape shit a bit more i had to fucking add the word "ANIMAL" to my search of black widow to get rid of the marvel tripe and find the actual spider)
(I'll stop being a dick about superheroes in my own channel if its making anyone feel bad so just lmk but until then i'll keep venting)
Majo: (live ur best venty life)
Lou: (please don't stop this is very entertaining)
henry's backstory is basically: has superpowers like el, decides hes better than humans and becomes humanity's natural predator
all based on the fact that he doesnt want to live a nuclear life
like bitch u dont gotta
i think they might be tryiing to tackle the 50s standard but idk if they really succeeded there omg henry's doctor is papa. shock!!
also he just showed us he's the one who killed his mother and sister and traumatized his dad/made him take the fall for what he did so henry's like papaw realised that he couldnt control me so he tried to make more like me
tattoo gun buzzes hes like so el i hate all the other kids n i killed em but i like you!
trust me el come on did u ever see the show elfen lied? well see theres these things called diclonius and theyre like destined to replace humanity. thats us el. we're the diclonius. el why are you cringing im being serious-
(im half joking but elfen lied was actually an inspiration for stranger things. And season 4 taps into it quite a bit. Not badly though! It's adapted well enough imo) el says no thank you
id show the whole screen but
1. that ear u see in the corner belongs to a boy [tw body horror] with no eyes
2. the subs actually spoil something fun fact! remember i wondered when nosebleeds started for telekinetic powers when I watched scanners? Scanners actually is the origin of that! aint that neat.
I thought it was neat. henry is a lil upset he got rejected. his casting is great tho i gotta say his eyes look unnaturally blue and he's got sharp features that rly work for the character
idk why i said tho. im still not huge on this storyline i guess but i dont hate it! its alright. 🎵 give me a man who is five foot six 🎵
🎶 im a short king advocate 🎶
actually lets find out wait what. how tall is eleven ?????????
guess the floor is uneven. (honestly lookin at it now he's clearly a head taller than her.)
he looks an inch taller than her at most in this shot hi im putting "subtitling stuff" on my bucketlist for jobs now bye oh yeah this is still in her head. but also not. cos henry is like. yknow. also super powered and shit remember el was a lil babby when this happened. so heres the finale to her memory of the massacre at the institute: she yeeted henry into the upside down. when u underpay ur cg team so they animate ur villain transformation scene like its 1995 and its the power rangers omg. double omg. oh my god, it's rand geiger yall!
that was episode 7. two more to go
im a lil surprised cos that means i dont remember what happens in at least one a these episodes lol my memories are not long enough for two full length movie's worth of time
>rand
what kinda name is rand ok he looks like someone whos last name is geiger and whos first name is rand
got some slight thispersondoesnotexist.com vibes goin on
Lou: he sure does look just like a rand geiger
i dont like it i gotta be honest
Lou: Its the eyes, I think
yeah theyre so bright, and hes got eyebags but then no eyebrows unless you really look for em? it looks odd
it also just makes me look at the background ngl. its so staged
Majo: my man needs some brow pencil
he does!
n im saying that as someone who also needs brow pencil