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Matt and Ross Duffer, the creators of Stranger Things, discuss the challenges of fan expectations and how they maintain authenticity in their storytelling, especially in the face of a large and diverse fan base.
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00:00I mean, you know, there's so much noise around the show and, you know, everyone wants different things, etc.
00:08So because the fan base is so large and the demographic is so spread that at the end of the
00:16day,
00:16you just can't really worry about it too much. You're going to drive yourself crazy.
00:20So it just our approach is sort of to try as much to replicate how we wrote season one,
00:30which is just rely on each other and our instincts and rely on the other writers in terms of what
00:37feels right to us.
00:38And if Ross and I are happy with it and the other writers are happy with it,
00:42and then ultimately the actors are happy with it, we feel we've landed in a good place.
00:47And hopefully that resonates with the audience.
00:51I mean, you just you explore every ride. I mean, you spend so many hours in the writers room.
00:55So we probably explored every single possible version, right?
00:59And which is always fun. And you're like, what does this do to the show?
01:04What does this do to the other characters? What feels natural? What feels forced?
01:08I mean, that's the thing. You never want to do something for shock value.
01:10So that's that's the thing that Ross and I wanted to avoid.
01:13It always had to be, you know, if you're going to do something, it has to be there has to
01:18be a reason behind it
01:19that that that is much more meaningful than just shocking or surprising the audience.
01:24So that was sort of the that was that was how we approached it.
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