Some S4 Soundtrack analysis that led me to some interesting discoveries (Part 1)
I’ve been meaning to post this for a while now, but after digging (and I mean DIGGING through the soundtrack and all of the music played in all 4 seasons, I finally found some interesting inspiration for the show.)
First up, a track called “The Box” that plays when Jonathan and Will have the talk at Surfer Boy Pizza.
This track has legitimately driven me insane because @chirpsythismorning mentioned it to me a few weeks ago while I was on vacation… and I took that time off and ran with it for analyzing. . .
So, what I found was that the track “The Box” actually comes from a very interesting silent Sci-Fi / Fantasy short film written by an incredible team of deaf artists! It’s about 20 minutes long, and it’s a rather powerful film.
Here’s the link if you want to watch it!
Anyways, I thought it was rather interesting that “The Box” was playing when Jonathan and Will have their talk and Will doesn’t remember having a Lego stuck up his nose…
The shots in Mather that felt very much like it inspired a lot of the ideas surrounding Vecna and where NINA was placed in the show…
Now, a lot of these shots caught my eye while watching the short film…
But something else that is important to note is the description of the film itself…
It’s interesting, watching the main character battle within himself and there’s some odd flashbacks, almost, that he has that aren’t able to be explained within the context of the movie, they just occur - it’s one of those things that just is.
And after watching, I looked up the filming location for Mather… and it is Coyote Dry Lake in Barstow, California.
But I noticed that the shots and the blocking in Mather looked familiar to me because of these shots:
They didn’t film at the same place, but the setting and what they borrowed from the film Mather (2019) was intentional.
Anyways, “The Box” plays when Mather finds the seeds (I believe). It was kind of hard to pinpoint the music.
I’ll add more to this once I get more screenshots, but for now, I’m leaving this as is and I’ll edit it with updates later.
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have you seen @chirpsythismorning ‘s thoughts about Hopper and Joyce being Will and El’s biological parents? and if you have what do you think about it
WillEl: Schrodinger’s Twins
Hello, anon! I had seen some of those thoughts previously, but now that I’ve gotten this ask, I’ve decided to take a deeper look onto it!
So, do I think Will and El are biological twins? Yes and no. Not that I’m undecided, but literally, yes AND no. They both are and aren't related, depending on the timeline.
Looking at this post, there’s something specific that I disagree with:
“El nor Will are related to Henry by blood,” This is something I can agree with but ONLY when we consider Edward. IMO, one way or another, in at least one timeline, El is a Creel. There’s very little doubt about that in my mind.
However, I think she’s most likely the daughter of Edward Creel, rather than Henry Creel, and Edward and Henry don’t seem to exist in the same timeline. And I agree that Will is never related to Henry or Edward/is never a Creel.
So, Mike and El are both Creels/related in the Edward timeline but El is NOT related to Will in the Edward timeline.
AND
If Mike and El are NOT related in the Henry timeline, and El IS related to Will in the Henry timeline.
Then that’s how I can see the Creel-Wheeler and Willel twins stuff coexisting without Mike and Will being related, as even through timelines, they would not be related, as Will is never a Creel, and the timeline where El is a Creel is the one where she is not related to Will. This would also track with Will seemingly having two different birthdays (March 22nd and May 22nd)- one where he shares a birthday with El, and one where he does not.
If I had to choose between El and Mike being Creels vs WillEl biological twins though, I think there’s more evidence to support the former, although like I said, they can coexist when we consider Edward and timelines.
So, if Edward is El’s father in one timeline (the timeline where she’s NOT biologically related to Will but IS biologically Mike’s cousin), then who is her father in the other timeline?
This is a difficult question because we don’t know how many timelines there are, but I think there’s these options:
1.) Henry
Since Karen is only related to the Creels in the Edward timeline, Henry Creel could still be El’s father without Mike and El being related (and therefore without Mike and Will being related if Will and El are related). However, this would mean that Henry is also Will’s father if Willel biological twins is true, and it would also mean that Mike and Will ARE related through timelines, so I think we can write off Henry as being El’s father.
2.) Brenner
He's an option I guess, but I don't really see him being El's biological father (setting aside henry/edward/brenner parallel weirdness)
3.) Hopper
There is a line that I noticed when it comes to the question of “could Joyce and Hopper have had kids?”
Especially since right after that line about Joyce and Hopper screwing, somebody yells “WILL!”
So, in one timeline Edward and Terry are likely El’s parents, and in another, Joyce and Hopper are likely El’s parents.
There is no doubt in my mind that El is a Creel in at least one timeline. The evidence is absolutely there for it.
James has made some great posts about this resemblance here, here, here, here, and here.
And I think that anyone using the resemblance between El and Joyce as evidence for them being related also then needs to consider the very strong resemblance (and constant parallels) between El and Henry/Edward, because otherwise, it feels like cherrypicking evidence rather than looking at what the evidence actually is. I'm NOT saying that chirpsythismorning is cherrypicking evidence, I'm just saying this in a general sense, which also includes me needing to acknowledge that there is a resemblance between Joyce and El just like there is between El and Henry/Edward.
Hell, we literally see El with the name "Eleanor," with a blonde wig (like Henry/Edward), wearing a dress VERY similar to Alice's style of dress, with roses on the wall, staring into a mirror (all of Henry/Edward's mirror imagery), and then she later gets referred to as Mike's cousin in that EXACT outift. El and Mike are absolutely Creels in one timeline.
However, I think that El is Edward’s daughter, not Henry’s and that in the timeline where El is Edward’s daughter, Will and El are not biological twins, and Mike and El are only related in the Edward timeline.
Summary
Timeline 1:
Edward Creel is El’s biological father, fathering El in the lab as part of Brenner’s attempts to recreate him.
Terry Ives is El’s biological mother.
Joyce Byers is Will’s biological mother.
Mike and El are blood cousins.
This is because in the Edward timeline, Virginia Creel is Victor Creel’s daughter/Edward’s sister and Alice Creel is Victor Creel’s wife/Edward’s mother.
Their roles are swapped from what they are in the Henry timeline.
And this makes Mike and El cousins because Karen Wheeler is very, very likely Daughter Virginia/Edward’s sister in the Edward timeline (with Connie Frazier being Mother Alice), and so, if Edward and Karen are siblings, then their kids, Mike and El, are cousins in the Edward timeline.
Karen Wheeler is a Creel (Daughter Virginia)
Hopper and El are not blood related.
Will and El are not blood related.
Joyce and El are not blood related.
Timeline 2:
Edward Creel does not exist in this timeline. Henry Creel is not El’s biological father. El is not a Creel. Mike is not a Creel.
Joyce Byers is El and Will’s biological mother.
Will and El are twins/blood related.
Mike and El are not cousins/not blood related
Karen Wheeler is not a Creel
Hopper and El are possibly blood related, as he is possibly her father and Will’s father
Brenner and El are possibly blood related, as he is possibly her father and Will’s father. However, I think Hopper being the father is more likely, as he seems to be Will’s father in one timeline and if Will and El are twins, then he’s also El’s father.
I hope this makes sense. Narratively, do I love the idea right now of Hopper being El's biological father? No. But I'm confident that if that's what ST is doing, then they're going to do it well, and I also acknowledge that there does seem to be a fair bit of evidence pointing to it. Who cares what I do or don't like if the evidence is there for it! And again, I'm sure that if they're doing it, it'll be done well without undermining the found family themes in ST.
And I absolutely, firmly believe that El is a Creel in one timeline, and that Mike is also very likely a Creel in that same timeline. Will is never a Creel, though.
This theory combines the Wheeler-Creel analysis with Jo’s “Willel twins,” analysis which, frankly, I think is the best way to approach this because it means we don’t have to ignore any evidence (such as all of the things that point to El being a Creel AND all of the things that point to Willel twins).
As well, I also think there’s a chance that Will and El aren’t related in any timeline and that El is Edward’s daughter in one timeline and Henry’s in another (and Will and El are never related so Mike and Will still are never be related) and that Hopper is simply Will’s biological father, not El’s, but right now I’m leaning towards what I laid out in this post with twins in one timeline vs not twins in another.
Also, if anyone is still confused about what the hell I’m talking about with Edward Creel, where he came from, how Karen and the Wheelers etc play into it, you can find a post explaining Edward here. And here is the initial post about Karen Wheeler being Daughter Virginia from the Edward timeline.
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