The Script for Stranger Things 4 Chapter Nine: The Piggyback

"Max sprints through the Creel house, moving room to room, searching for escape. She flings open a door only to find more rotted boards. Shit. She tries a second door. More boards. She tries a third door. And -- Freezes. This door isn’t boarded. Instead, it has revealed… another door. An eerily familiar one. THE SAUNA DOOR. Before she can even process this --"

“When I first heard it, from a dog trainer who knew her behavioral science, it was a stunning moment. I remember where I was standing, what block of Brooklyn’s streets. It was like holding a piece of polished obsidian in the hand, feeling its weight and irreducibility. And its fathomless blackness. Punishment is reinforcing to the punisher. Of course. It fit the science, and it also fit the hidden memories stored in a deeply buried, rusty lockbox inside me. The people who walked down the street arbitrarily compressing their dogs’ tracheas, to which the poor beasts could only submit in uncomprehending misery; the parents who slapped their crying toddlers for the crime of being tired or hungry: These were not aberrantly malevolent villains. They were not doing what they did because they thought it was right, or even because it worked very well. They were simply caught in the same feedback loop in which all behavior is made. Their spasms of delivering small torments relieved their frustration and gave the impression of momentum toward a solution. Most potently, it immediately stopped the behavior. No matter that the effect probably won’t last: the reinforcer—the silence or the cessation of the annoyance—was exquisitely timed. Now. Boy does that feel good.”

— Melissa Holbrook Pierson, The Secret History of Kindness (2015)

literally!!

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The Ken dance is so magnificent because it’s reminiscent of the Golden Age of Musicals when there would just be artful dance sequences for no reason other than the director wanted to have one.

David Suchet watching Poirot clips on Instagram

- Poirot and More clip, December 8 2023 (also on David's Twitter)

That's how it happened to me 🦆 S2 made me re-watch s1 and as 2019 is now a long time ago, I forgot how much I loved it!

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I CAN'T STOP LAUGHING AT THIS SEQUENCE Zoro looks so concerned

Imbolc Skies

yeah i bet he fuckin is

Really love that after Paul drinks the Water of Life, we never see into his visions again. We see the vision he has of Alia, and we see two brief flashes in the scene where he's talking to Jessica after he wakes up: an image of baby Jessica and a very brief flash of Paul's hand on the knife stabbing Feyd. That's it.

When he says, "I see possible futures, all at once. Our enemies are all around us, and in so many futures they prevail," it would be an obvious choice to show flashes of those futures. But we're just looking at a shot of his hand. We don't see what he's seeing in the visions for the whole rest of the movie. We only know what he tells us he sees.

love the idea that terzo's ghouls died with him, or got tossed back into the Pit... but what if they turned into pillars of salt

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