This week, Princess and Tessa complete their Stranger Things 4 conversation, a bittersweet ending to our current Stranger Era. They play a spicy game of kiss/marry/kill, make mixtapes for all of our beloved children, and discuss all of their juicy theories for the series finale. !!SPOILER WARNING!! for episodes 8 and 9 of Stranger Things 4!
This week, Princess and Tessa complete their Stranger Things 4 conversation, a bittersweet ending to our current Stranger Era. They play a spicy game of kiss/marry/kill, make mixtapes for all of our beloved children, and discuss all of their juicy theories for the series finale.
!!SPOILER WARNING!! for episodes 8 and 9 of Stranger Things 4!
Netflix Geeked - Ep9-Stranger Things Vol2 Part 2_MIX_V2.mp3
CLIP: [00:00:01] Geeked.
PRINCESS: [00:00:05] Hello, Geeks. I'm Princess Weekes.
TESSA: [00:00:06] And I am Tessa Netting.
PRINCESS: [00:00:08] And you are listening to the Geeked podcast, your weekly energy boost of the worlds fandoms and stories you love.
TESSA: [00:00:17] Each week we're going to skim the surface of what's popular and geek culture. Then Deep dive into the lore of Netflix worlds bigger than our own.
PRINCESS: [00:00:24] Today's world. You know it. You love it. You've seen it by now or you're in the wrong place. We are finishing up our conversation about Stranger Things for Volume two.
TESSA: [00:00:33] Oh boy. It is time to hear all of the theories, all of my thoughts. And I just want more and more stranger things all the time. Always. So, I'm sad that this is coming to an end.
PRINCESS: [00:00:48] I agree. Like I got totally hooked on this season. It revived my love of the show and I cannot wait for the series finale season. But before we cry about that, fess up. What's got you geeked this week?
TESSA: [00:01:09] Well, for me, I sort of freaked out when I found out that the Duffer Brothers had this huge announcement. They're forming Upside-Down Pictures, which is a new production company, and they're going to develop all of these new projects with Netflix. And so they.
PRINCESS: [00:01:31] Oh, my gosh.
TESSA: [00:01:31] Gave a little sneak peek at a few of the projects currently in development. There was a live action death note, which I'm like again?
PRINCESS: [00:01:43] All right, bold, bold choice.
TESSA: [00:01:45] It waas such a bold choice for the first thing, I was like, oh, wow. Okay. So, like,.
PRINCESS: [00:01:50] Choosing. Choosing chaos, like, right off the bat, it's like, you know what? Boom
TESSA: [00:01:54] It's ballsy, you know what I mean? And I was like, You know what? I respect it. The next was an original series from creators Jeffrey Addiss and Will Matthews, who created Dark Crystal Age of Resistance. So some sort of new series. And then a series adaptation of Stephen King and Peter Stroud's, The Talisman, to be created by Curtis Quinn. And did you catch that? Lucas was reading that to Max at the end of Straight.
PRINCESS: [00:02:29] Yes.
TESSA: [00:02:30] Ha, ha.
PRINCESS: [00:02:32] I was like, look at them, promoting themselves this, so cross-referencing you'll have to see.
TESSA: [00:02:38] I love it. I love it. And then the one that people are most excited about is a live action Stranger Things spin off series based on an original idea by the Duffer Brothers. So I don't know if that's going to involve like the same characters or if it's just going to be in the same universe or I.
PRINCESS: [00:03:00] That's so exciting.
TESSA: [00:03:01] But it means that we're still doing some sort of stranger things stuff either in Hawkins or with that lore. So that's why we need more lore. Give us more lore, please.
PRINCESS: [00:03:13] All the lore.
TESSA: [00:03:14] And then the announcement that had me the most excited, which is a new stage play set within the world and mythology of Stranger Things produced by Stephen Daldry. And it oh and he's directing it as well. And Stephen Daldry he produced The Crown, The Reader, and Billy Elliot. So.
PRINCESS: [00:03:41] Oh, my God. And who was in Billy Elliot?
TESSA: [00:03:46] Me! It was. This was just for me personally. This announcement was just just for me because I.
PRINCESS: [00:03:52] And that's okay.
TESSA: [00:03:53] So, you know.
PRINCESS: [00:03:54] You're worth it.
TESSA: [00:03:55] Thank you Princess, because I was so excited about this, this man, Stephen Daldry, he is one of the nicest directors that I've ever worked with. He is a sweetheart. But the most important thing about him and that I noticed working with him is he works so, so well with children. Like he can just get these incredible, like, emotional reactions from them. Like he treats them. He doesn't treat them like children. He treats them like actors, like they have full minds because they do because these these children are working the same job that the adults are. So I think that goes a long way. And if they are going to be having either a new group of kids or the same group of kids or some sort of thing, I just know that it's going to be done right because I know that he just is so good at making things look amazing on stage and so good at working with children. It's like, yes, yes, yes, yes. It made me so happy in. So that's what's got me geeked. Princess, what about you?
PRINCESS: [00:04:58] Well, first of all. I want to say, because at the time that we're recording this, I want to say R.I.P. to the creator of Yu-Gi-Oh. He just passed away today and Yu-Gi-Oh was such a huge part of my childhood. It got me geeked a lot. Growing up, I had a dual disk. I played with my older sister. It was one of the first ah-nee-meh. I'm pronouncing it that way, you know to be dumb. But it was one of the first animes that I watched with my sister in English and Japanese. So it has a very warm place in my heart, so rest in peace to him. But I also have just been enjoying playing a lot of video games. I've been playing The Quarry because it's giving me Stranger Things Camp Edition, and I've been watching a show that actually airs today, the day of our This Gets Released, which is Resident Evil. I've been really enjoying it. I really love the actress who's in it and I am just having a good time watching zombies eating people. And I'm going to go see Thor tomorrow. So. It's supposed to be gay? We'll see, disney. We'll see about that.
TESSA: [00:06:11] How gay is this?
PRINCESS: [00:06:12] I'm like, liar, liar, pants on fire, right.
TESSA: [00:06:16] I was like, okay, do not trust.
PRINCESS: [00:06:20] Do you think that if they think since the guy who did Billy Elliot's involved in that stage, do you think maybe Tom Holland might get stranger things?
TESSA: [00:06:27] I didn't even think about that, but it could. I mean, anything is possible at this point. I don't even know what the play's about. I don't know if it's a musical, if it's just a play play, if they are recreating, like the first season or taking bits from the show, or if they're doing a completely new characters in Hawkins outside of Hawkins, I don't know. I don't know what it is. I don't know the details about it. But hey, if Tom Holland wants to, I'm sure.
PRINCESS: [00:07:00] I mean iconic child, iconic child and forever kid, he could definitely pull it off.
TESSA: [00:07:06] He might be a little busy.
PRINCESS: [00:07:08] That is true. He does be booked and busy. But yeah, those are the things that have gotten us so geeked this week. And now we get to pivot back to talking about our favorite subject, Stranger Things.
TESSA: [00:07:22] Princess. Okay, I have to mention one more thing.
PRINCESS: [00:07:24] Do it.
TESSA: [00:07:25] The thing that's got me geeked this week that also involves stranger things is this Eddie Munson is a vampire theory that's going around Tik tok right now.
PRINCESS: [00:07:34] Yes. Yes, I love it. And he he fits in perfectly with The Munsters. So I'm like, please, just copy and paste.
TESSA: [00:07:42] I am down there like, listen, he's going to become Kas, he's going to become a vampire. He's going to, like, wield a sword. I'm like, Hey, I'm down. Why not? We don't know what's happening.
PRINCESS: [00:07:55] Let's do it. And also Metallica loves him playing the guitar. So I think if you- see, I can't imagine being like an actor and having one of the best metal bands of all time, being like, Good job, lad.
TESSA: [00:08:47] All right, Princess, it is time for those strange, strange things.
PRINCESS: [00:08:55] I love strange things.
TESSA: [00:08:57] Before we get into our discussion, we're going to play a little game. I thought we should play this game because they played this geeked week. So I was like, We should play this too. We're going to play Kiss, Marry, Kill with some stranger things characters and we're just going to see how it happens, who we're going to kiss, who we're going to marry, and who we're going to kill. So. All right, first step we got, this one's hard. This is actually the hardest one we have. Eddie.
PRINCESS: [00:09:26] Oh, Gosh.
TESSA: [00:09:26] Robin and Steve.
PRINCESS: [00:09:30] You can't put all ten's in the same place.
TESSA: [00:09:35] I know! This is the hardest one. It's actually impossible.
PRINCESS: [00:09:37] You can't put all 10s. Because if I kill Robin, then all of a sudden I'm homophobic and then how am I supposed to kill Steve. That's Dustin's dad, and Eddie's already dead, and I don't want to see him die again. You know what? Yeah. We'll just. All right. I am going to kiss Robin because she's. She's a lesbian and she deserves love. I am going to marry Steve and kill Eddie because Eddie's already dead. So.
TESSA: [00:10:13] Again!
PRINCESS: [00:10:13] Ripped off that bandaid. So much for murder.
TESSA: [00:10:19] Brutally murdered again. I guess I. I hate this. I hate this so much. But I guess I'm going to kill Robin because I can't.
PRINCESS: [00:10:29] I knew you were going to kill Robin.
TESSA: [00:10:30] I can't kill Steve or Eddie. They're my favorite characters. And I love Robin. But, like, I'm Robin. Like, people say that I look like her, so it's like there can't be two of us. So one of us has got to die. It's me or here Okay, so, yes, I'm going to murder her. Unfortunately. I'm going to marry Steve, and I'm making out with Eddie in the upside down. And I will save him.
PRINCESS: [00:10:56] Upside dow?.
TESSA: [00:10:59] I'll make out with him right before he dies. It's just the worst.
PRINCESS: [00:11:04] Amazing. Just tongue kissing to the apocalypse.
TESSA: [00:11:08] Exactly. Okay. Next up, we have Jonathan, Nancy and Argyle.
PRINCESS: [00:11:16] Oh, man. Can I killed two people? I mean, like, honestly, it's.
TESSA: [00:11:22] This is going to be difficult for Princess for other reasons.
PRINCESS: [00:11:24] Yeah, it's like, man, I really want Jonathan to go, so. I feel bad, but I'm going to say I'm going to I'm going to kill Jonathan. Cause he very much annoyed me all this season.
TESSA: [00:11:40] I mean, you guys have been foes.
PRINCESS: [00:11:42] Except when he was nice to Will.
TESSA: [00:11:43] Yeah, that.
PRINCESS: [00:11:43] Except when he was nice too Will, that's the only thing good he's done. I think I'll kiss Argyle. And then again, I guess I'm going to have to marry Nancy because, you know, she's the only one who's allowed to have Second Amendment rights. So I need to be with the girl with the gun. So I'm choosing Nancy. What about you? We all know you going to kill off Nancy. So let's just get that.
TESSA: [00:12:06] No! I want to marry Nancy, too. I'm telling you, princess.
PRINCESS: [00:12:10] We're going to be wives!
TESSA: [00:12:12] We're all going to be wives together. I've turned around on Nancy. These last two episodes really sold me on her because I just the problem was that I was like putting Nancy in between these this love triangle. And that's how I saw her for so long in the love triangle just always annoyed me because to me, it just wasn't like I didn't believe it or not. Like, why are you making me try to care about this? So that's what made me really not like her, but honestly, like her being with Robin, her sort of like having that dynamic. And I love how she's progressed in the season and I really, really like her character now. It's wild to me. It's like Steve. It's like I didn't like Steve and then I loved Steve. So now I'm loving Nancy. So I'm marrying Nancy for sure. I think I'm going to kill Jonathan, too. I, I feel bad. We, like, hate Jonathan so much, but listen, listen. We like him.
PRINCESS: [00:13:08] It's not personal.
TESSA: [00:13:08] When He's a good brother and when he's there. Yeah, well, it's just this season turned him into this, like, stoner bro, and I wasn't about it, so. Okay, next, we got two more couplings. We got the daddies. So we have all three stranger things daddies. Vecna, Hopper and Papa.
PRINCESS: [00:13:35] Well, Papa's going right in the trash, so we're killing him off instantaneously. Agree? I think this I think this might be very similar to yours, but I'm going to marry Vecna and kiss Hopper. I, you know.
TESSA: [00:13:51] Oh, interesting.
PRINCESS: [00:13:54] I really just want to be the queen of mean. I want to rule the upside down with Vecna. It's a power move. I'm going to be stirring my way to the underworld top as well. So yeah, I'm going to do it my way and then I'll still make out with Hopper. He's got a good beard. I want to know what that feels like with all that Russian stubble feels like on my face. That'll be fun. Before he goes to the superior choice of Wynona.
TESSA: [00:14:21] Right? That's. Or the superior choice of me. Because I think I want to also. I think I want to marry Hopper. He's such a dad. I can't like I. Listen, I Love that guy.
PRINCESS: [00:14:35] You've been thirsting after him forever, too. It's. You've loved Hopper consistently.
TESSA: [00:14:39] I have for seasons on end, and Vecna is a new fling. He's a new love. And again, he's someone I just want to make out with someone in the upside down and I want him to tie me up in his tentacles. So it's like that to me is not a marriage. That is more just like-
PRINCESS: [00:14:57] And you would know.
TESSA: [00:14:59] That is a hot fling that I but I don't want to like, you know what I'm saying? I'm like, I want this hot, sexy moment, but then I want to be married to Hopper.
PRINCESS: [00:15:09] You want you want a hot Vecna summer, and then you want a nice Hopper Autumn. Understood.
TESSA: [00:15:17] Yes.
PRINCESS: [00:15:17] I'm picking out where you're putting down, girl. No shame.
TESSA: [00:15:21] But queen of the underworld. Man That is. That's the way to go, honestly. Also, like, I feel the mind flayer would be like all towards you, you know what I'm saying? Because if you marry Vecna, then it's going to be serving you in all the best ways.
PRINCESS: [00:15:35] Yeah, I'm really going to be working on getting everything together. We're not going to steal kids anymore. No more abusing little babies.
TESSA: [00:15:45] You're turning things around.
PRINCESS: [00:15:47] I'm go- Yeah. I'm going to. You know, I'm going to girlboss gate keep the outside that I'm like, you know, we're we're putting in new policies now. We're going to have, you know, daycare, all of the essentials.
TESSA: [00:15:59] God bless.
PRINCESS: [00:16:00] You know, we can we can rule the underworld softly, you know, soft power.
TESSA: [00:16:06] Oh, my God. That's amazing. Hilarious. Okay. And then lastly, we got the baddies we have the demodogs, the demobats and the Demogorgon.
PRINCESS: [00:16:17] So I think I going to kill the the bats because I don't like bats. They freak me out. I'm not Batman. I will-
TESSA: [00:16:28] Well, actually, you are Batman, then. Because Batman doesn't like Bats either.
PRINCESS: [00:16:32] I feel like Batman appreciates the bat. You know.
TESSA: [00:16:36] Probably eventually.
PRINCESS: [00:16:37] I think he's had enough exposure therapy that if he didn't like them before, he loves them now.
TESSA: [00:16:41] He comes around to them.
PRINCESS: [00:16:43] Right. He's like, we can have a relationship. I think I want to kiss the demogorgon. That seemed like it would be interesting. I feel like it'd be a very, like, all encompassing experience, you know, just having that much suction on my face. And, I mean, I've had bad kissers who do a lot of suction, but I feel like the demogorgon could do it in, like, a thoughtful way.
TESSA: [00:17:03] Maybe.
PRINCESS: [00:17:04] And then I'll marry the demodogs.
TESSA: [00:17:05] I'm also going to kill the bats because I'm pissed at them about how they killed Eddie.
PRINCESS: [00:17:11] And bit Steve all over.
TESSA: [00:17:15] Oh my guys bit Steve way too much. And the fact that I was stressed out multiple times that I'm like, okay, enough. So they got to go. I'm pissed at them. The demodogs were sweet, like they were kind of nice. Remember when my that one became friends with Dustin or whatever?
PRINCESS: [00:17:30] Oh, he named him after one of the Three Musketeers. I think the-
TESSA: [00:17:35] Dart! I think I'll kiss the little demogogs on their little heads.
PRINCESS: [00:17:41] On their demo-brows.
TESSA: [00:17:44] On their demo-brows. And I'm going to marry the Demogorgon because that's the OG baddie, you know. He was the first villain. And actually I remember in season one I got scared of the demogorgon. So I'm down to marry this.
PRINCESS: [00:18:00] Exposure therapy that.
TESSA: [00:18:02] Yes. Yeah. Exactly. And also it's humanoid.
PRINCESS: [00:18:05] You scare me. I want to know more.
TESSA: [00:18:08] Yes, yes. Tell me everything. Let's get over this. Together we can go. And therapy. Love the bullbasaur. Like into it.
PRINCESS: [00:18:18] Making out with Bulbasaur. I'm dead. All right. So that was a lovely game that I think tells us a lot about each other, about who we would kiss, marry and kill. But now we are going to do another game that's a little bit more musical, right, Tessa?
TESSA: [00:18:37] Yes. I'm excited for this. Okay. This is we're making a mix tape for Vecna. For all these characters that we didn't get to find out what their favorite songs are that would save them from Vecna. So we are going to decide what songs, what 80s song would save each character from Vecna's curse.
CLIP: [00:19:11] Madona, Blondie, Bowie, Beatles, Music! We need Music!
CLIP: [00:19:11] This is Music!
TESSA: [00:19:11] And I'm going to put it out there that when I was thinking of songs, I wasn't thinking of like the exact eighties, like years. So if my years are messed up, please don't come for me. But I was thinking in the eighties realm, but I wasn't like, Oh, this is 87, so this can't be a song that they can use. I wasn't thinking like that, so I apologize.
PRINCESS: [00:19:36] And I did. So it's like when I was like under like like. No, can't use that one causde it was to soon!
TESSA: [00:19:43] Ah Princess. You're so, so, so smart. So smart. You did it the right way.
PRINCESS: [00:19:49] I leaned into my Ravenclaw this one time.
TESSA: [00:19:51] Yes, that's good. We love that. Okay, so what where who do you want to start with? Where should we start?
PRINCESS: [00:19:58] Well, how aabout I just go through what I picked, and then you can tell me what your picks weere.
TESSA: [00:20:01] Okay, I'm down.
PRINCESS: [00:20:02] All right. So I started off with my least favorite Jonathan. For Jonathan, I put Could You Be Loved by Bob Marley and the Wailers, because I feel like he's in his white boy listening to reggae phase right now.
TESSA: [00:20:19] Yes.
PRINCESS: [00:20:19] And I think that that song is both appropriate for his pastime hobby of getting high, but also dealing with all of his emotional romantic angst about Nancy. And if he deserves her and all that bullshit.
TESSA: [00:20:35] For Jonathan, I chose Teenage Wasteland like Baba O'Riley, by The Who, just because it reminds me of how he is wasting his teen years.
PRINCESS: [00:20:49] He is the wasteland.
TESSA: [00:20:52] Also I thought some like Smith song because isn't he into the Smiths? Isn't that like canon? I feel like that was canon or something, so.
PRINCESS: [00:20:59] Probably.
TESSA: [00:21:00] I don't know.
PRINCESS: [00:21:01] He's a boy.
TESSA: [00:21:01] He's a he's a boy in the eighties. So some Smiths song, Teenage Wasteland. Those are my thoughts. Okay. Next.
PRINCESS: [00:21:08] All right. So the next one I did because I just randomly just thought of characters names and I did it. So with Erica, I put Another One Bites the Dust by Queen. I feel like that's what she listens to when she gets ready to, like, destroy people for her campaigns. Like, I just think that she's so cool like that and she would listen to Queen and that would be her like her jam to pump herself out before a campaign.
TESSA: [00:21:31] That is so wild because I thought of that song for Steve because it literally.
PRINCESS: [00:21:37] Oh wow!
TESSA: [00:21:37] Yeah, I thought of the same song because at the beginning it goes, Steve walks merrily down the street with his brim pulled way down low. And I was like, Oh, my God, it fits perfectly. It's Steve. And I could use my gosh, like, batting like things to the another one bites the dust, but I can see how that could 100% work for Erica. And I also have other songs for Steve, but what I thought of for Erica was, We're are the kids in America. Oh!
TESSA: [00:22:05] Because, you know, you can't have America without Erica.
CLIP: [00:22:08] Just the facts.
TESSA: [00:22:09] So those are my thoughts.
PRINCESS: [00:22:11] Just the facts.
TESSA: [00:22:13] I love her. She's the best.
PRINCESS: [00:22:15] I love her so much. Well, then let's I'll pivot to Steve. So I had a weird choice for Steve. So for him, I picked Africa by Toto.
CLIP: [00:22:24] I made it popular. All right,.
TESSA: [00:22:26] Wait that's good! I think that's good.
PRINCESS: [00:22:29] Because he's not into rock. He doesn't know who Ozzy is. He's a dork. And, like, Toto is like that dorky song. I can see him thinking he's so deep in, like, such a beautiful song, you know, just like him doing gelling his hair. And all the rains down in. Like, I could just see him just.
TESSA: [00:22:45] It's perfect, Princess.
PRINCESS: [00:22:47] Just jamming to that.
TESSA: [00:22:47] Because do you know that's the song that was playing that while that they played in the show when he and Nancy, like, first kissed?
PRINCESS: [00:22:54] Oh, really? Yeah, I forgot about that. Oh, man, I forgot about that. So it has so many meanings aall right, nailed it.
TESSA: [00:23:02] It has so many meanings. So I think you really nailed that one. I think that's pretty perfect. Another one I thought of for Steve was Danger Zone. Highway to the Danger Zone, because he's just been driving all the time with the sunglasses and the cool hair and all that. Also, Somebody to Love was just one that I thought because I'm like. This boy cannot find somebody to love.
PRINCESS: [00:23:27] That's a good Will song too.
TESSA: [00:23:30] Yes. Honestly. Yes, I think you're right. I think it is more of a well song, because I think Eddie could I mean, Eddie, I think that Steve could have the love, but he doesn't open himself up to it because he's just obsessed with Nancy. So.
PRINCESS: [00:23:44] Exactly.
TESSA: [00:23:45] You know, it's not like Steve can't pull because that man could.
PRINCESS: [00:23:49] He. He absolutely could. It's like you said you could. But you ask why? Why can't you pull, Steve? For Will, I did a double. I did a two thing for Will, I put You Make My Dreams Come True by Hall and Oates.
TESSA: [00:24:06] Stope it. That's so cute.
PRINCESS: [00:24:07] And Dancing with Myself by Billy Idol.
TESSA: [00:24:12] Princess stop it's so sad. Oh, no. I mean, it's perfect. But it's sad. This little sad boy I can't. I just chose the obvious choice for him. Should I stay or should I go? Which is what he listened to in the first season when he was in the upside down, like, remember when he was like saying it to himself over and over. But I like that. I like your answers because mine's obvious and yours is more thought out. And I think it's very fitting.
PRINCESS: [00:24:47] They are they are equally good. And I love them. I actually. Should I stay or should I go is what I put for 11.
TESSA: [00:24:54] Oh, interesting. Uh. Is that foreshaadowing?
PRINCESS: [00:24:59] Because her whole thing is. Theories! But her whole thing is about, like, you know, her stuff with, like, staying with well and being a hero and, like, what is her real path? And I'm just like. Should I stay or should I go? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
TESSA: [00:25:19] I for 11 thought of two things. The first one that I thought of was Material Girl, that Madonna song when she and Max, like, went shopping and it seemed like she was happy for the first time in her life.
PRINCESS: [00:25:31] Yeah.
TESSA: [00:25:32] Like, actually was like having fun and not stressed because it's like she had happy moments with Mike, but like, that was like the first moment where she was really carefree and able to like, be herself outside of her powers, it seemed like. So I thought of that. And then another song that I thought of was Heroes by David Bowie. Just because they've played that, they've played like the Peter Gabriel version of that song a couple of times now in Stranger Things, I think that that song is going to be the final song, like the ultimate final moments. So I just want that to happen. So I'm just putting I'm manifesting it so that it can be the final song.
PRINCESS: [00:26:13] No, I. I love that. So for Nancy. No, not for Nancy. For Robin. Okay. I put I love rock and Roll By Joan Jett the Blackhearts because she's a baby lesbian. And there's no way you can be a baby lesbian and not love Joan Jett. So it's like even if she doesn't love that song, she just loves hearing Joan Jett sing it. Like, I just feel like she's just like, that's her girl crush. That's the who she wants to be. And yes, soon as I was thinking about this, I'm like, Oh, yeah, Joan Jett, 1,000%.
TESSA: [00:26:45] My choice was also because she was gay. I thought of Edge of 17 because I was like, Oh, bitch, you got to love Stevie Nicks,.
PRINCESS: [00:26:55] Right?
TESSA: [00:26:56] And another one I thought of was Cherry Bomb. I thought that would also be a good song for her.
PRINCESS: [00:27:02] Me too! Yeah, I Thought that as well.
TESSA: [00:27:02] You know. Cherry Bomb! I can just see her, like, rocking out to that song personally.
PRINCESS: [00:27:09] Absolutely.
TESSA: [00:27:10] But all of these are good.
PRINCESS: [00:27:10] I think that's a good song.
TESSA: [00:27:11] Yes.
PRINCESS: [00:27:12] No, we are we're really we're really killing it.
TESSA: [00:27:15] We are. We know.
PRINCESS: [00:27:19] So I was looking. Let me see. Let's go to Nancy, actually.
TESSA: [00:27:23] Okay.
PRINCESS: [00:27:24] So I put Faithfully by Journey.
TESSA: [00:27:26] My God, I love that song.
PRINCESS: [00:27:29] I love that song. And I also just think of it as like, she isn't a longing person, but like, I think that she's very, like, sweet and kind. I think that Nancy doesn't get to be soft enough. So I can just kind of like how Max's song is so different from, like, her esthetic, you know, like, right. Max has, like, this very, like, tough girl esthetic. But her song is like this old soft ballad. I feel like Nancy is also someone who is just very hardend on the outside, but inside she just wants to be true to like the girl that she is. And I was like, That's Faithfully. So that was why I picked that song for her.
TESSA: [00:28:04] That's so sweet. I love that. My my answer for Nancy was very it's not that deep. I, I just chose Take My Breath Away, because you had that Tom Cruise poster up in her room and I'm like, Oh, this bitch is going to love that song. And it just, I don't know, it just reminded me of her and like, that romantic moment. Like I could see her just being like, Oh, it's so romantic and like really being into that. I also thought of Love is a Battlefield I thought that would be a good one.
PRINCESS: [00:28:35] Mm. That's a good one.
TESSA: [00:28:38] Love is a Baattlefield. I love eighties music. It's so good.
PRINCESS: [00:28:42] I agree. Like, I think it's so fun. And, like, that's why making this playlist was so fun to do, because I was like, Oh, right. That song is fire.
TESSA: [00:28:49] Mm hmm. Agreed.
PRINCESS: [00:28:51] So the next person I have, we only have, I think Mike and Dustin left after that.
TESSA: [00:28:56] And Lucas.
PRINCESS: [00:28:56] And Lucas. Yeah. So I have Lucas now. And even though I know it's problematic now, but at the time, they wouldn't have known. Thriller by Michael Jackson. I mean, like I mean, like, you know, like Michael Jackson was the super hero.
TESSA: [00:29:11] I love Michael Jackson.
PRINCESS: [00:29:12] Like he was. Yeah. He was like the artist of the time, and he's dead. So it's like, you know, whatever. But it's like, I think Lucas absolutely loves Thriller. And I said, my, that's like, kind of my, like, pop culture stuff. But my thoughtful choice was Iron Man by Black Sabbath because I think of it is like how he has to put on this persona, this false suit of armor when he's on the basketball team with all these fucking mean jocks and how he has to pretend to be one kind of person when he's not. So I was like, Oh yeah, let's put a little Sabbath in there. So, yeah, those are my picks for Lucas.
TESSA: [00:29:47] That's those are good. I also chose a Michael Jackson song, which is, but I chose an earlier one. I chose I Want You Back. Oh, baby, give me one more chance! Cause he is simping over Max.
PRINCESS: [00:30:01] Oh cause he wants Max! I know. I love them so much. For Mike.
TESSA: [00:30:06] Oh, no.
PRINCESS: [00:30:07] I put Uptown Girl because I think that's because he's just, you know, 11 is his Uptown Girl. And, you know, she's been living in a lonely world.
TESSA: [00:30:16] I chose every breath you take, which is the song that was playing when he kissed 11 at prom. And I think that to him that would be, like, ultimate thing in his brain. Yeah, exactly. Cause he's already proposing to this girl, so obviously, that's their song.
PRINCESS: [00:30:34] I loved you forever. I'm like Michael.
TESSA: [00:30:37] I know. Men need to step it up, please.
PRINCESS: [00:30:40] Right. This. This child is doing you doing over. Yeah. And last and my probably my most controversial pick is I put for Dustin, I put Super Freak by Rick James. Because I think that Dustin is a I just he's a big goober and I just thought it was funny.
TESSA: [00:31:03] And so that's hilarious. What about The Neverending Story, Princess?
PRINCESS: [00:31:09] Oh, you know what.
TESSA: [00:31:11] Come on! Come on!
PRINCESS: [00:31:13] You're right. I have to get to my co-host again. She she that is definitely on his mix tape. But everyone groans like we're not playing. It's like,.
TESSA: [00:31:21] Oh, definitely, for sure.
PRINCESS: [00:31:23] And it has to be the version that they sang. Like they had to have done a recording of it that he has on tape already.
TESSA: [00:31:30] 100%. Definitely. Oh, my God. That's so funny. That's perfect. That would definitely be it. Love that.
PRINCESS: [00:31:38] Love that. And the adults don't get any because they don't matter. They don't have time to listen to the radio in Soviet Russia. Sorry.
TESSA: [00:31:50] Sorry, guys.
PRINCESS: [00:31:51] Protecct your kids better. And then you can have music.
TESSA: [00:31:53] Oh, my God.
PRINCESS: [00:31:57] But speaking of these kids and everybody. Let's talk about some of our faves for season four and our overall thoughts.
TESSA: [00:32:06] All right. Well, my overall thoughts for season four, I just got to say that Stranger Things really came through this season and solidified itself yet again as one of the best television shows of all time. I'm just going to say that because I am so impressed at how everything is tied together, how even when there's been a couple of things that don't make sense, they try to make it work. It's like there's effort there. I just I've just been so burned by shows that have built up over the seasons and then disappointed me at the end. They couldn't stick the landing. And not only shows, movies, franchises, many things have disappointed me. And right now it looks like Stranger Things is just going right in. And I feel in my heart that it's going to stick the landing like next season. And that just makes me so happy. And it's like they're ending it. It's like, okay, this is the ending. This is what we're thinking. They're thinking through it. I want people to think through this stuff. I don't understand how people don't, and it's making me upset. So this is that's why I'm very happy.
PRINCESS: [00:33:11] No, I agree. I think that, you know, there's been a lot of discussion about like how long stranger things should have lasted or like if it would have been a one season show. And well, that first season was absolutely excellent. I am glad that we've gotten to see these characters evolve and change. And I, I think it's going to stick the landing. I'm hoping it does, because I really felt like this this season really brought back what makes the show so good and what makes it so emotional for so many people. So I definitely loved this season and I definitely feel like it is. It is the stranger things that I missed and I'm glad it's back.
TESSA: [00:33:52] This was a make or break season. They really did nail it. I think that Vecna's whole storyline was one of the best things that Stranger Things has ever done.
CLIP: [00:34:05] It's time for your sufferinig to end.
TESSA: [00:34:07] This is how you show a villain's back story like it was so interesting. And also like the twist of Vecna like not only being one because like, I feel like people could pick up on that, but then him also being Henry Creel like, oh, my goodness. Right, chefs kiss.
PRINCESS: [00:34:23] Yeah, it was really well-done. And I think that the villain makes the story. And for Vecna to be so well integrated into just not just Eleven's backstory, but also the backstory of Hawkins is so important because it's like that's why this area is that nexus, you know, like he is the thing that drew that darkness to Hawkins. And I think that is an important thing that the town is also, you know, a character in this story.
TESSA: [00:34:52] For sure. Definitely. I mean, we'll see what happens next season because things have gone upside down, so to speak.
PRINCESS: [00:35:01] Bouncing off the ceiling.
TESSA: [00:35:02] Actually. Do you want to get into some of our favorite things this season, some of our faves?
PRINCESS: [00:35:09] Sure. Let's talk about our faves. So there's favorite characters, of course. And I know it's like we all love Eddie, but besides Eddie, I would say that my favorite characters this season were Max. I love Max. I felt like our whole story was really good. And I also really loved Nancy. I, you know, like this was a very good Nancy season.
TESSA: [00:35:31] I agree.
PRINCESS: [00:35:31] And and I think it was finally a return to form of having Nancy be with somebody interesting. It was nice to see Nancy again. What somebody, you know, who could challenge her and not just, you know, follow her around like a lapdog. So. Love that for me.
TESSA: [00:35:47] There should be the ticker on this podcast for how many times Princess takes down Jonathan. Because.
PRINCESS: [00:35:55] It's not my fault. He did it. He makes me do it. Yeah, I really think Nancy shines, what about you? Who are your favorite characters this season?
TESSA: [00:36:05] So my favorite character of all time is Steve for Stranger Things. And, you know, he didn't disappoint me this season. He was still great, still loved his character. Still loved the interaction that he had with the kids. I actually really did like him with Nancy. It came around for me because again, I got pissed with the love triangle stuff and like, if you want this to happen, let's just do it. Like stop doing this weird thing. So I hope that they end that honestly next season because I'm just over it. I'm just so over it. But I loved Eddie, I loved Steve. But my favorite like performances, like acting performances of the season were like Max, for sure. I think she really stepped it up like, Damn, she got so many monologues. Like, I knew I was like, Oh, this bitch is definitely going to die because she has so many monologues.
PRINCESS: [00:36:54] She she's acting, you know.
TESSA: [00:36:57] Exactly. But she now that though, like, it seemed really like that's hard to do. That's a hard thing to do. And she really committed to it and I was really impressed by her. So those are my faves.
PRINCESS: [00:37:07] What would be, you think, your favorite episode of this season?
TESSA: [00:37:11] Oh. That's difficult. I think for me. I mean, the final episode was very epic and I really liked the epic culmination moment. But as a full episode, I think Dear Billy was my favorite just because of the mystery of it, them trying to like figure it out before time ran out and then like it happening and then that epic like slo mo run at the end. And I was honestly like, worried that Max was going to die. Like, it was high stakes and also high emotions. And like the friendship montage, like I cried at the end of that episode. I really loved that episode. So I would say, Dear Billy, it was my favorite. What about you?
PRINCESS: [00:37:51] I think that's a good episode. I think I was looking through my notes. Episode seven The Massacre at Hawkins Lab, because that's where we get all of the backstory for 11.
TESSA: [00:38:01] Yeah, the reveal.
PRINCESS: [00:38:02] Yeah. We get to see them in the upside down using the morse code to communicate. Those creepy kids get murdered by zero, which is what they deserve. You know, that's the episode where we find out that Henry is Vecna. And also we see Barb because Nancy falls somewhere separately from everybody else. And I just thought that episode was just all tension, all giving Stephen King, E.T. Realness. So I think that's my favorite episode.
TESSA: [00:38:33] That wasa a good one. That was a really good one, man. Those reveals were nuts. I remember just feeling like whaat?! Love it. And then we're going to end it out with our favorite couple. So who? Who's it going to be?
PRINCESS: [00:38:44] You and Vecna.
TESSA: [00:38:45] Me and Vecna.
PRINCESS: [00:38:46] You and Vecna. You and Vecna.
TESSA: [00:38:48] Yes, forever.
PRINCESS: [00:38:50] I ship it. Even though I want to rule the underworld with him and just want to use him for his body.
TESSA: [00:38:53] I mean. Wouldn't you? His Grinch like body?
PRINCESS: [00:38:57] I got- the ultimate body. It's like what's keeping ,en from looking like this, and you just point to Jim Carrey and the Grinch. So you're just like, This is it.
TESSA: [00:39:06] That's it.
PRINCESS: [00:39:07] We aall become Christine Brinkley in that movie. Just like, his muscles.
TESSA: [00:39:13] I mean, he also has tentacles. So, you know.
PRINCESS: [00:39:16] It's really there's no there's no downsides. I think I, besides Vecna and both of us. Vecna and the world. Definitely, Max and Lucas.
TESSA: [00:39:29] I'm just thinking of like, Vecna, insert fics and it's just not good. Yes. Lucas and Max are so cute, like like I said, They're so believable to me. All the rest of my favorite couples, like, don't exist. I like, like Eddie and Steve and Nancy and Robin. Like, that's actually who I would care about.
TESSA: [00:39:49] I do like Nancy and Robin.
TESSA: [00:39:51] You know what I mean? Like. But.
PRINCESS: [00:39:53] I know Robin's going to get that little, like, little Anna Green Gables girlfriend, which made me emotional because I love. But I'm also just like. But Nancy is also right there. I know. And she's just and she's begging for a man with qualities. And, you know, why can't it be a woman with qualitties. It's Robin. Robin is Cher. Cher is the rich man. Like, let's just do.
TESSA: [00:40:15] Exactly. Yeah, exactly. I mean, that's what I would want. All my normal ships are usually not canon. So. You know, it's one of those things where I'm actually shocked that some cannon ships, I'm like, Oh, okay, I can see that. So.
PRINCESS: [00:40:29] This is cute.
TESSA: [00:40:30] I think it's because it's children and you're, I'm like, Oh, this is sweet. This is young love.
PRINCESS: [00:40:34] Yeah.
TESSA: [00:40:35] Okay, let's talk about the future. Unanswered questions, theories for season five, what we think is going to happen. What do we want? Like, tell me, Princess, what's going through your brain? Because after that ending, you know, the barrier between the two worlds is gone. The four gates have opened and spread. Hawkins has fell. The Upside-Down has now leaked into the real world. So what do we think is going to happen next?
PRINCESS: [00:40:59] I think for the ultimate battle, my my one theory that I hope gets to happen is that Will will be part of the final battle, because he was in the upside down and he finally gets some psychic powers. He's not just going to be sad all the time. Like he was the one who was taken first. So he's going to be the one to help stop it.
TESSA: [00:41:19] You know, I just I think there's something about Will that is going to be so central and.
PRINCESS: [00:41:26] Well, you know, that's interesting because so, you know how like every season has, like, been like a DND villain, like, inspired villain, right? Like so in the games there is a character like a monster character who is sort of like the great mother of all evil, like she's like a primordial kind of being. I think she's like a five headed dragon or some shit like that. It's pretty. And I'm just like, I think that they are going to do that same. They're going to make a there's going to be another DND tie in character that sort of above all of that stuff.
TESSA: [00:42:03] Wait, wait, wait. Princess. That's it. That's it. Will's drawing. Will's drawing.
CLIP: [00:42:12] Can I show you something? This is amazing. Did you paint this? Yeah.
TESSA: [00:42:20] Oh, my God. Holy shit. Wait. I was like, because. Listen, listen, listen. When Will showed his drawing? I remember because I took notes, because I was so confused. I was like, why is this important? Because there is so much emphasis on Will's drawing. But in that drawing, there's, there's the whole party. And they're fighting a dragon. They're fighting a multi-headed dragon like a red dragon that has, like, multiple heads. That's it. That's who they're going to be fighting. For sure. Oh, my God. I think this is right. I think we just figured it out.
PRINCESS: [00:42:59] I think that's what it is, because I think I think it's going to be a version of, like, whatever this primordial being is, it'll be in the form of of this. They're very bad. So. Right. Like, I think. Did we just did we just stranger the things? I mean.
TESSA: [00:43:14] I think we did because honestly, that makes sense. This is a DND show. You're telling me that there wasn't a dragon yet? You telling you that they're never going to fight a dragon like in a DND show? Of course, they're saving it for the end as the final boss. Oh, my gosh. I am so pumped. I can't wait for this. Like this.
PRINCESS: [00:43:35] Yes.
TESSA: [00:43:35] Oh, man. Okay. And if you have any theories, thoughts, things that you think are going to happen, things that you want to happen in season five, please tweet us, message us at Netflix Geeked. You know, or you can just tag us on Twitter, Instagram, all of our Internet things, because I personally want to hear your thoughts. So.
PRINCESS: [00:43:56] Oh, for sure. Especially tell us about how we totally nailed that.
TESSA: [00:44:00] Yeah. The dragon thing. We did that.
PRINCESS: [00:44:03] We did it.
TESSA: [00:44:06] Yeah.
TESSA: [00:44:08] Okay, Princess, what's your one more thing?
PRINCESS: [00:44:10] All right, my one more thing is that I totally realize that there's one more song that I think Nancy would love. Heart of Glass by Blondie.
TESSA: [00:44:21] That's a good one.
PRINCESS: [00:44:21] So. Shout out to that song, which still hits. Blondie. Debbie Harry. You'd be doing that shit.
TESSA: [00:44:29] Amazing. My one more thing is, they better sell Eddie's necklace, because I think there's a lot of girls tthat are going to want to wear that shit. And boys. I think there's a lot of people, fans, humans that are going to want to wear that necklace. So, listen, Netflix merchandise human,s make it. Okay? I used to wear Will Turner's necklace around my neck like a little bitch. So I know that there's going to be people that want to wear Eddie Munson's necklace, so give it to us. Thank you.
PRINCESS: [00:45:05] You wish that you were Eddie's girl?
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TESSA: [00:46:50] Bye.