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Stranger Things 2X9: Chapter Nine: The Gate
🕑 Added 2024-07-24 21:00:03 +0000 UTCOkay, so, this was an action packed season finale. I liked so much about it. I think this was probably the best episode so far.
We've got Eleven showing back up. Her reunion with Mike was delightful. And her non-introduction to Max was fun.
But onto the real story. We've got three different stories running simultaneously here. And all of them are dependent on each other. Joyce, Nancy and Jonathan take Will to Hopper's cabin in the hopes of burning the cloud, spider monster out of him. It turns out that it works, but not without considerable pain to Will and a concerted effort by everyone. Eventually, Nancy stabs Will with a hot poker while he's choking Joyce, and that seems to do the trick.
Back at the Byer's house, the rest of the kids who are being watched by Steve, devise a plan to enter the tunnels, and lure the Demo dogs to them, so they stay away from El while she trying to close the gate. Eventually, they run into Dart, who happily eats Dustin's 3 Musketeers bar and lets the group pass unharmed.
While this is happening, Hopper and Joyce had to the lab so she can close the gate. However, this thing is huge. And it's taking forever. She eventually manages to tap into her anger, like Kali taught her and she's up floating in the air and using more energy than it seems she has. While she's doing this, the Demo dogs are attacking and Hopper is fighting them off for her. After a while, she finally manages to close it. And she basically collapses into Hopper arms.
And then we get a nice little wrap up at the end. The scientist has managed to get Hopper a birth certificate for El with the name Jane Hopper. And all the kids go to the Middle School Dance. Max and Lucas dance, El and Mike dance. Poor Dustin asks a bunch of girls and they all turn him down, so Nancy dances with him. It's a nice ending for these kids who finally have a chance just to be normal kids for a night.
However, at the end, we see the cloud, spider monster in The Upside Down, so we're already gearing up for S3.
Comments
Elsa Reinsch
(1) LOL TBH it's sort of funny to think of Joyce coming home from an emotionally traumatizing night just to open her fridge and see a dead demodog lmao. Poor Joyce! (2) Damn I really despise Billy. The thing that Billy has against Lucas is that Billy is a racist. The creaters/writers of the show have confirmed in an interview that Billy is a racist. I always cheer whenever Max sedates him and nearly takes his dick off with that bat lol (3) Millie is such a great actress and she was put in some insane situations. For instance in that scene where she's closing the gate... The gate itself was CGI so she was screaming at nothing. She was also fake screaming because all her screams are added in post production. With the amount of screaming she does, Millie always loses her voice so they do that in post production to minimize the amount of time that she loses her voice. So Millie's being lifted in the air, both arms up, fake screaming at nothing in a completely quiet set, or at least almost completely quiet.... she might scream ever so quietly so as to preserve her voice. And the way she does this and makes it so badass and real. I mean the CGI helps as well but Millie is such an incredible actress too. (4) Steve is one of my favorite characters. He's such a fuckin hero and the fact that he goes to Barb's funeral at the end even though he and Nancy broke up and he technically has no responsibility to go but he goes because he's a sweet/amazing/empathetic guy! (5) Paul Reiser's character is named Sam Owens. (6) I can't wait for your reaction to season 3. It's one of my favorite seasons. I always flip flop between season 3 and season 4 but season 3 definitely has a special place in my heart.
