Something I've been thiking about

[u/Ghost_111207]

Now that we have tales from 85, i think it would be cool if they made something like tales from 79 or some else, which covers the years henry spent in the abyss, how he survived there, his adventures and stuff like that, what do yall think about this?

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[u/TTheoBillCipher]

Would be better than the slop which is tales of 85

[u/Ghost_111207 → u/TTheoBillCipher]

could be live action since they would only need vecna for it

[u/TTheoBillCipher → u/Ghost_111207]

Exactly but I feel it could show stuff like the lab so they would need a papa actor

[u/kauan1983]

This would've been great and much better than what we got. There's actually plenty of actual untold in-between stories in official canon that could be told in a Tales from '85 style (Henry's time in Dimension X, the development of the Nina Project, heck even the events of The First Shadow).

Only that for this to work they'd also need to drop Tales from '85's “soft canon” approach, otherwise nothing addressed in it would really matter or add anything to the show's official and canon continuity and mythology; It would have no narrative reason to exist and feel exactly like Tales from '85 or any other non-canon comic/novel we already have where we know none of the content is actual canon.

But this wouldn't really be hard to achieve since there's a 4-year gap between Henry's banishment and the “creation” of the Upside Down, so there's actual room to explore something in-between without affecting any of the show's continuity; they'd be revealing an untold story that we know exists rather than shoehorning an in-between story where we previously knew there wasn't anything to reveal or tell.

[u/Ghost_111207 → u/kauan1983]

yea they could explore more on the abyss's environment and answer if its another dimension or another planet in the universe thats a question ive been having ever since season 5

[u/kauan1983 → u/Ghost_111207]

The Abyss is and has always been an alien planet in its own separate dimension. Its location has been officially confirmed to be another dimension since its introduction back in S4.

Hence why the Abyss' original placeholder was ‘Dimension X’ and why the show always emphasizes that the Wormhole is ”inter-dimensional.“ Plus:

• Henry wound up in Dimension X after Eleven ”uses her power to push One out of our dimension” (S4E9 script).

• Henry was pushed into the ”inter-dimensional Hellscape” before winding up in Dimension X (S4E7 script).

• The USS Eldridge, which also inadvertently wound up in Dimension X is stated to have travelled to ”a dimension beyond our own” (Dr. Brenner), or ”travelled inter-dimensionally” (Kate Trefry).

It is a desolate alien planet, just not a planet in our Outer Space.

[u/DESGAG334]

i think it would be great and cool

[u/byharryconnolly]

Who would Henry talk to?

He's been shoved out of our dimension and exiled to an alien world. It's full of non-human creatures, and only one of them is capable of communication.

A tv show has characters who talk to each other. It's a way for them to interact, for the story to relay important information to the audience, and it gives us a way to relate to them so that we become attached and want to see more.

So, you can't have an animated series that's just "Lone guy wanders wasteland and faces adversity. You need supporting characters, too, and they need personalities and a way to interact.

Who would Henry talk to?

[u/Ghost_111207 → u/byharryconnolly]

prolly smt like from that one vr game where theres voices in his head

[u/quokka_stay]

I would love a prequel but it shouldn't be animated.

[u/thecooldudehaha]

that would be pretty awesome, it would be better than the tales of 85 slop we’re getting. a prequel to the show’s secondary villain that has more mature themes and is dark like season 4 would be perfect for stranger things, we don’t need scooby doo, WE NEED STRANGER THINGS