S2E9

Chapter Nine: The Gate

Stranger Things · 2017-10-27 · 62 min

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from 25 comments

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what happens

Eleven makes plans to finish what she started while the survivors turn up the heat on the monstrous force that's holding Will hostage.

how it went

Left to right is this episode — its opening to its closing minutes. This is the one span the comments were always describing.

FUN

how good a time it was

MEANINGFUL

how much it moved you

Read from 25 comments — 7 said when.

The number holds — it is read from every comment. The shape is not settled: only 7 said when something happened, and below 20 the same evidence split in half draws two different pictures. Drawn faint for that reason.

Not enough people said when to name this shape. The line is what the evidence draws, not a finding.

Hover the curveDrag across the curve to see what people said at any point.

height: how intense it got, 0–100
gold above: how tender it felt. violet below — what it cost. Thick on both at once means it was doing both.
tension rail: how much was still unresolved
grey haze: how sure we are — wider means fewer people described it

openingending

what people actually wrote

Grouped by where it was written, because a considered review and a reaction typed an hour after the credits are different things. Every quote links to its source.

Reddit24 read

“The monster in the last scene is like “HEY FUCKERS, I WANNA GO TO THE DANCE!””
AwesomeWhiteDude▲ 4,348about 90–100% inread it ↗
“There was a moment I was convinced he would die in the tunnel right before El shut the gate and the demidogs rushed at him and Dustin, I thought they would get him right as he lifted Dustin to safety or something”
hazier▲ 2,903about 75–85% inread it ↗
“For the last scene”
submortimer▲ 2,526about 90–100% inread it ↗
“It even dragged at that time.”
pointlessbeats▲ 2,013

who made it

directed: Matt Duffer, Ross Duffer
written: Ross Duffer, Matt Duffer

guest cast

Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.

Brett Gelman as Murray
Priah Ferguson as Erica Sinclair
Aaron Muñoz as Mr. Holland
Linnea Berthelsen as Kali
Cynthia Barrett as Mrs. Holland
DDonna Wright as Elderly Math Teacher
Randy Havens as Mr. Clarke

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