The New Stranger Things: Tales From '85 Trailer Ignites A Wild Fan Theory

Netflix has figured retired really to support "Stranger Things" going forever: If nan streamer is consenting to recast nan voices and explore sections of nan sprawling timeline successful animation, each pinch original creators The Duffer Brothers connected committee arsenic executive producers, it feels for illustration location could genuinely beryllium nary extremity successful show for this franchise.

Unless, of course, nan assemblage isn't into it. It's excessively early for immoderate conclusions to beryllium drawn connected that front, but nan latest trailer for nan franchise's first spin-off series, "Stranger Things: Tales From '85," has arrived, and putting nan communicative elements aside, nan aesthetics of nan show ... aren't great. In fact, nan aesthetics are much akin to a video crippled than a TV series, and a Reddit instrumentality mentation suggests location mightiness beryllium much to that anticipation than meets nan eye.

If you've ever played immoderate of Telltale Games' video games, nan stylized, illustrated, popular creation look of "Tales From '85" mightiness look acquainted to you. That institution worked connected games group successful nan world of "The Walking Dead," "Fables," Batman, and more, and gained fame done its decision-based gameplay that fto players make choices that guided their communicative experience. 

It turns retired Telltale was erstwhile processing a "Stranger Things" game, but it was scrapped erstwhile nan institution temporarily unopen down. Now a Redditor is theorizing that "Tales From '85" is really comprised of nan bones of that abandoned project. "I'm still convinced this started life arsenic a TellTale crippled earlier that institution went bankrupt and they salvaged nan scripts and animation, reworking it into a series," LapsedVerneGagKnee wrote.

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Until personification officially goes connected nan grounds confirming this theory, we can't run nether nan presumption that Netflix took nan characteristic designs, scripts, and animation components from an abandoned video crippled and reworked them into this animated series. But it's besides difficult to contradict that nan caller show has a very akin look to Telltale's cell-shaded location style, and what we tin spot of nan communicative feels somewhat flimsy, particularly compared to nan live-action "Stranger Things" storylines. 

Someone successful that aforesaid Reddit thread posted a video that claims to beryllium footage that Telltale developed for its "Stranger Things" game earlier nan institution unopen down (it has since reopened, by nan way). I person not been capable to independently verify nan legitimacy of this clip, but I'll driblet it present anyway:

Obviously there's a quality betwixt this developmental footage and nan polished last merchandise that's making it to Netflix, and I won't dress to understand either nan animation pipeline aliases nan video crippled workflow good capable to opportunity whether this instrumentality mentation is afloat plausible. At nan extremity of nan day, it whitethorn not matter. From Netflix's perspective, they're conscionable wondering if all of those group who are furious astir Eleven's destiny successful nan "Stranger Things" finale will beryllium consenting to jump backmost into that world successful animation form. 

We'll find retired soon enough: "Tales From '85" hits nan streamer connected April 23, 2026.