Factual error: When Hopper's daughter is dying in 1978, the staff says that the pulse oximeter is dropping. Pulse oximeters were not commercialized until 1981/1983 and not in widespread use until at least the mid 1980's.
Chapter One: The Vanishing of Will Byers - S1-E1
Continuity mistake: When Will is being chased by the monster and runs into his garage, he pulls down his .22 rifle hanging on a wall rack. After he loads a few rounds aiming it at the door, the monster appears behind him. After Will and the monster disappear, the scene shows his rifle is back on the wall rack in its original spot. Did Will or the monster place it back on the wall rack while Will was being abducted? (00:07:25 - 00:08:10)
Chapter One: The Vanishing of Will Byers - S1-E1
Factual error: The boys need Will to roll a 13 to hit the Demogorgon with the fireball in the DnD game. Fireball is an automatic hit. Players roll for damage only. They mention the 13 needed to hit in the final episode as well.
Chapter Two: The Weirdo on Maple Street - S1-E2
Factual error: When Steve and Nancy are making out, the intro to "A Hazy Shade of Winter" by The Bangles plays. While the original version of the song was released by folk-pop duo Simon and Garfunkel was released in 1968, the version heard here was released in 1986, 3 years after the scene takes place. (00:52:30 - 00:55:40)
Chapter Two: The Weirdo on Maple Street - S1-E2
Factual error: When Chief Hopper and his fellow patrolman are standing over the lake, Hopper has a radio on his belt. The radio is a modern Motorola walkie talkie and at least a decade newer than it should be.
Chapter Three: Holly, Jolly - S1-E3
Continuity mistake: When Mrs. Wheeler bursts through the door, angry with Nancy about lying to the police she throws her purse down. When they get to the kitchen she throws the same purse down again.
Chapter Four: The Body - S1-E4
Continuity mistake: Right after Nancy puts together the torn photo of Barb at the pool it cuts to Dr. Brennan and crew in hazmat suits. At the beginning of the shot when they try to reach Shepard on the comms, the digital clock reads 6:54:08. After Brennan says "Try him again.", the shot has the clock blurred in the background as 6:40 something, and a bit later it reads 6:40:55. (00:27:20 - 00:27:54)
Chapter Four: The Body - S1-E4
Factual error: When Chief Hopper cuts open the fake body of Will, it appears that he opens a knife with a thumb assisted blade which wasn't invented until 1995.
Chapter Five: The Flea and the Acrobat - S1-E5
Factual error: The bus that appears in the scene is a Blue Bird TC2000 dating from 1998 to 2003, long after the setting of the series. (00:38:15)
Chapter Six: The Monster - S1-E6
Continuity mistake: Eleven is in the shop and stealing eggos. As the freezer door shuts she walks away holding three boxes. The next shot of her walking towards the exit she is holding four.
Chapter Seven: The Bathtub - S1-E7
Continuity mistake: When Mike and Lucas notice a van pulling out of a side street and coming to them, the sky is blue, but in the next shot, it is orange. (00:04:03)
Chapter Seven: The Bathtub - S1-E7
Factual error: When there is a pan closeup shot of the walkie-talkie the boys are going to finally talk to with the sheriff, there is a book called Great American Ghost Stories by Hans Holzer on the shelf to the left. That book was published in 1990, not in 1983, the year of the episode. (00:18:30)
Chapter Seven: The Bathtub - S1-E7
Factual error: High school basket ball courts didn't have a three point line until the 1987-88 season - not in 1983.
Chapter Eight: The Upside Down - S1-E8
Factual error: When Nancy shoots the creature the second time, she fires at least 8 shots from a 6-shot revolver without reloading. And that's assuming she reloaded after firing 3 shots at the creature the first time, even though the situation made it seem unlikely. (00:20:30)
Chapter Eight: The Upside Down - S1-E8
Factual error: This error occurs multiple times during the Series but most after 11 and the demogorgon disappear from the class room a modern periodic table is shown. There's at least a 1/2 dozen elements on it that weren't discovered until the 2000's.
Answer: Technically Steve was never intended to die in Stranger Things. The Duffer brothers wrote a pilot script for a miniseries called Montauk that would eventually become Stranger Things. In that version of the story Steve is a more overtly villainous character and is killed by a monster. The Steve character was reworked once Stranger Things was created due to Joe Keery's more likeable approach to the character.
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