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00:00What if, instead of getting on a spaceship and going home,
00:11E.T. stayed in suburbia and became Elliot's love interest?
00:17As wacky as that sounds, this is essentially the premise of Stranger Things.
00:23And while it's plain as day to see Spielberg's influence on the series,
00:27it's worth digging into the underlying psychology of this particular update
00:32to the original inspiration.
00:34Why make the alien an object of romantic and sexual attraction?
00:39You look at her all like,
00:41Hi Elle, Elle, Elle, Elle, I love you so much!
00:45In fact, this whole story of monsters and upheaval triggered by the arrival
00:50of a strange girl could be read as an allegory for the onset of puberty.
00:55I felt it everywhere, everywhere.
01:00When Eleven shows up, the lives of four inexperienced boys
01:04are rocked by forces they find both scary and awesome.
01:08These are friends, these are crazy!
01:11And that take over their bodies,
01:13making them feel they're not the same people anymore.
01:16As the catalyst who introduces the kids to this disturbing,
01:19yet magnetic new reality, Eleven is the symbol of puberty itself.
01:24You're blind?
01:25Blind because you like that?
01:26A girl's not grossed out by you!
01:28And at the same time,
01:29she's the character we watch experience puberty most intensely.
01:33And I never leave!
01:35Nothing ever happens!
01:37So here's our take on how Eleven's arc can be read as a parable of puberty,
01:42and how this brave and unusual character shows us how to find power
01:47in even the most trying, strange phases of life.
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02:22So to kick off, we've made two really fun video essay style quizzes on Stranger Things.
02:27First, find out which Stranger Things kid are you,
02:30and then prove your pop culture expert chops by seeing how many of the show's homages you can catch.
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02:54Eleven is the ultimate strange thing of the show's title.
03:01Do you think she's acting weird?
03:03You're asking if the weirdo is acting weird.
03:07When she shows up in season one, she is like an alien to Mike and his friends.
03:12I've just never seen a kid with a tattoo before.
03:15And the Duffer brothers actually told Millie Bobby Brown to base her performance on E.T.
03:21There's a pretty relatable metaphor operating here.
03:24Pre-pubescent boys easily might see girls as if they're another species.
03:29We never would have upset you if we knew you had superpowers.
03:33Small touches reinforce Eleven's association with the early cues of adolescence.
03:38She regularly bleeds, which is something her peers haven't seen before
03:42and which freaks everyone out.
03:44She causes boys to lose control over themselves and their bodies,
03:47and she disrupts the social order, creating friction in a same-sex friend group.
03:52Because she's trying to sabotage our mission.
03:54Because she's a traitor!
03:55When the androgynous-looking Eleven first meets the boys,
03:59she could easily be one of them.
04:01Think you could steal from me, boy?
04:03And it's noteworthy that she doesn't really see any difference.
04:07She even starts taking off her shirt in front of the guys,
04:10which sends them into a panic.
04:12Over there?
04:13That's the bathroom.
04:14Privacy.
04:15Get it?
04:16So, while Eleven has been raised more or less oblivious to any gender divide,
04:21it's clearly ingrained in the boys' mindset,
04:23and they feel the need to teach it to her.
04:25Eleven's nickname, given to her by Mike,
04:27Maybe we can call you Elle, short for Eleven,
04:30sounds like the French word for she, reinforcing that she represents the feminine.
04:36Mike quickly gives her a makeover to make her more girlish
04:39and distinguish her from the boys.
04:41Pretty.
04:42It's striking that he takes so much agency in shaping Eleven
04:46to match his idea of what a girl is like.
04:49It's as if she's a blank slate he projects his conceptions of sexuality onto,
04:54and that supports the sense that she represents puberty in general here.
04:58Do you like Eleven?
04:59What?
05:00No!
05:01Ew!
05:02Gross!
05:03It's significant, too, that Eleven's arrival coincides with Will's disappearance.
05:07Do you really think it was a coincidence that we found her on Mirkwood?
05:10The same place where Will disappeared?
05:12That is weird.
05:13On one level, it's as if Will has been lost to, or taken over, by puberty.
05:18And he's not the only young person whose life changes when Eleven enters the fold.
05:23Days later, Mike's older sister Nancy loses her virginity to Steve,
05:27and Nancy's best friend Barb ends up in the Upside Down.
05:31Eleven is the one who opens up the gate to the Upside Down,
05:36which feels like a metaphorical space for the loneliness that can come with maturing for an adolescent.
05:42Our fear of the changes happening within can alienate us from others.
05:46You might get irritable.
05:48You might lash out.
05:49In the Season 2 premiere, the first sign that Will isn't himself
05:53is when he starts to envision the arcade he's at with his friends turning into the Upside Down world.
05:59Suddenly, he's all alone, cold and unsure.
06:02Even though Harmony is restored and Will is eventually saved,
06:09the entrance of Eleven effectively ends the boy's innocent, carefree childhood.
06:15The monsters she unleashes by opening the gate reflect the dark, terrifying side of adolescence.
06:21And the monsters never really go away.
06:24An individual beast can be defeated, but another always seems to show up to take its place.
06:30It's almost more like a feeling.
06:34Thus, through the metaphorical space of the Upside Down,
06:38and the suffering that this transition causes Will and his friends,
06:41the series captures just how traumatic the changes of puberty can be.
06:46And they articulate a sadness that, for all that's gained with the access to a new world,
06:51something precious is also lost.
06:54What matters is that he is your best friend.
06:56And then this girl shows up and starts living in your basement,
06:59and all you ever want to do is pay attention to her.
07:06Eleven isn't just a symbol of the boy's puberty.
07:09Through her, we get to see a girl's experience of this phase.
07:13Get out of my head!
07:16Eleven begins as a very unusual girl who wants to be normal.
07:21And this is a feeling that puberty brings out in all of us,
07:24as our rapid changes might make us fear we're freaks.
07:28What's wrong with you?
07:29What is wrong with you?
07:31Like the innocent child before puberty, Eleven has grown up totally cut off
07:35from the larger world's cultural expectations.
07:38But she's suddenly given a new set of social rules.
07:42You go to school dances with someone that, you know, someone that you like.
07:47Without a mother figure to look up to,
07:50Do I have a mother?
07:51she's fascinated by Nancy as a model of what it is to be a teenage girl.
07:56Pretty.
07:57There's also something inside Eleven that gravitates towards typical teen girl things,
08:02and feels excited by this new world.
08:05You are beautiful.
08:09One of the trickiest things about this time of life is that
08:12these characters have one foot in adolescence and one still in childhood.
08:16Will wanted me to give him some space, so I'm giving him a few feet.
08:22They're on the border between the Upside Down and our regular world.
08:27You know on a Viewmaster when it gets, like, caught between two slides?
08:31Yeah, yeah, like that.
08:32Like, one side's our world and the other, the other's slide is the Upside Down.
08:39So to move more firmly toward maturity, Eleven has to take steps to assert and differentiate
08:45herself, and to free herself from adult control.
08:48Increasingly frustrated by her house arrest, she turns into the textbook,
08:53hormonal, irritable, impulsive teen.
08:55I hate you!
08:56The way she abuses her powers when upset is like a heightened version
09:01of the average adolescent's mood swings.
09:04She acts out the typical teen rebellion, blatantly disobeying Hopper's house rules.
09:09Rule number one, always keep the curtains drawn.
09:13And running away to see her long-lost sister, Kali, who brings out her punk side.
09:20Bitchin'.
09:21In this next stage of teenhood, instead of trying so hard to blend in,
09:25she's ready to stand out and express her feeling of being a freak.
09:29I'm just curious, you know, why all of a sudden you look like some kind of MTV punk.
09:33During this rebellious phase, she might remind us of the title character of Carrie,
09:38another young woman whose powers are fueled by her uncontrollable emotions
09:42and rage at what she suffered.
09:43As Eleven leans into her darker side, she briefly considers going full Carrie
09:52by using her abilities for violent revenge.
09:55You hurt Mama.
09:57But unlike the social outcast Carrie, Eleven is motivated by the desire to protect her friends.
10:04There's nothing for you back there, they cannot save you, Jane.
10:08No.
10:09But I can save them.
10:13Who have always seen her difference as a good thing.
10:16So do you think Eleven was born with her powers, like the X-Men,
10:19or do you think she acquired them, like Green Lantern?
10:23So there's a message here that all those things we find weird about ourselves
10:27are actually cool, as long as we surround ourselves with the right people who get that.
10:34And besides, why do we even need weapons anyway?
10:36We have her.
10:37She shut one door!
10:39With her mind!
10:40For a long time, Eleven views her powers like a dark curse,
10:44echoing how teen girls tend to internalize hatred and disgust for their bodies.
10:49We're looking for some stupid monster.
10:51But did you ever stop to think that maybe she's the monster?
10:55Her supernatural abilities are mixed up with pain and anger at the trauma she's experienced,
11:01just as a teen's great developing adult potential can coincide with dark feelings and confusion.
11:08But when Eleven finds a way to use her powers for good,
11:11they no longer make her feel so monstrous.
11:14I'm the monster?
11:15No.
11:16No, Elle, you're not the monster.
11:18You saved me.
11:19I can do it.
11:20So she embodies how young women need to find an outlet for their emotions.
11:26I want you to find something from your life.
11:29Something that angers you.
11:31Now channel it.
11:32To channel whatever rage or frustration they feel into something that gives them self-worth.
11:37And your physical therapist taught her to channel all her rage into sports.
11:41It's symbolic that in Season 2 she closes the gate which resembles a wound,
11:45alluding to her vision of Dr. Brenner.
11:47You have a wound, Eleven.
11:49A terrible wound.
11:51So the best thing about Eleven's powers is that she can use them to heal herself.
11:57In other words, by embracing and not fearing what's weird and scary within us,
12:02we can empower ourselves.
12:04What you can do is incredible.
12:07It makes you very special, Jane.
12:10We can be strong enough to face and process where the confusion and shame come from,
12:15to work through those feelings instead of letting them eat us alive.
12:20They won't understand.
12:21Eleven would.
12:22She would?
12:23Yeah.
12:24She always did.
12:32If we're both going crazy, then we'll go crazy together, right?
12:35Yeah.
12:36Crazy together.
12:38Stranger Things puts forward the argument that friendship is the antidote to the pain
12:43and confusion of puberty.
12:45What?
12:46Is friend?
12:47Is she serious?
12:49Um, a friend isn't someone-
12:53It's someone that you do anything for.
12:55In Season 2, the shadow monster can only live in cold temperatures.
12:59He likes it cold.
13:00And this coldness it desires really symbolizes isolation.
13:04In the end, Joyce and Jonathan use heat to exorcise the monster out of will.
13:10But the other source of warmth in the scene is the love of the family and friends gathered
13:15around his bedside.
13:16Likewise, Eleven finds salvation in her new group of friends who become her chosen family.
13:21I never gave up on you.
13:23And the show offers an optimistic vision of relationships during this phase of life.
13:28Eleven and her friends figure out how to navigate these new challenges together.
13:31Do you want to dance?
13:33I don't know how.
13:36I don't either.
13:38Do you want to figure it out?
13:40Yeah.
13:41As the person who opens the gate to the Upside Down and the only one with the power to close
13:47it, Eleven is the bridge between two worlds.
13:51Just like puberty itself, she brings a lot of discomfort and unwanted change for the kids
13:56who thought they were fine as they were.
13:58They hurt me.
13:59Do you understand?
14:00But as her story shows, there are also amazing things that come along with the bad.
14:05Like a new sense of autonomy and identity, the introduction to adult adventures and pleasures,
14:11and the kind of firsts that we remember for the rest of our lives.
14:15Even though her appearance causes a rupture in the established order,
14:19it ends up making everyone's lives more interesting and deep in surprising ways.
14:24She's basically a wizard.
14:25She has superpowers.
14:26More like a Yoda.
14:27We may not all be so lucky in our experiences of puberty to find such amazing friends,
14:33and for some of us, that feeling that the girls or boys you like are aliens may stick around
14:38for a while.
14:39And plus she's skateboarding, so she's pretty awesome.
14:41Awesome?
14:42You haven't even spoken a word to her.
14:43Hey, I don't have to.
14:44I mean, look at her.
14:45But we can look to Eleven for perspective on how to survive not just puberty,
14:50but any difficult transition.
14:52I can fight.
14:54Better than any of us.
14:56She offers us the playbook for how to slay the monsters that terrify us,
15:00build unbreakable friendships,
15:03Friends don't lie,
15:05channel our painful emotions into healing ourselves,
15:08No more.
15:09and know that our own strangeness is our ultimate superpower.
15:15She's a weirdo.
15:16What does that matter?
15:17The X-Men are weirdos.
15:18A weirdo is for weirdos!
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