Finishing S.T.5 with Siegfried, we got to the part where the nature of the upside-down reality bubble is unveiled. Which I'd guessed shortly before. I wasn't surprised by the Einstein-Rosen bridge, nor the involvement of timey-wimey shit; it was the One Thing the show hadn't done yet, really, so it was inevitable. Stephen King's deep in the show's DNA, so Of Course there's time travel shit.
Sig remarks, "Time travel's really popular right now. Because we don't want any of this shit to be the way it is."
To which I respond-- deep in my own re-watch of the german Netflix show, 'Dark', and amused by how much it owes to Twin Peaks, minus the infantile humor and absurdist wit --"Time travel, and dopplegangers. We don't want to be When we are, and we don't want to be Who we are."
Of course the real reasons for the popularity of time travel narratives & doppleganger stories comes down to money. If written properly they can be extremely cost-effective stories to produce. But I think our reading of these tropes applies perfectly well too. Two things can be true simultaneously.
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