A dark reflection of our world

[Disclaimer: cet article mentionne des éléments de l'intrigue

de la première saison de Stranger Things]

Suppose... what your faith has said was essentially correct. Suppose there is a universal mind controlling everything. A god willing the behavior of every subatomic particle. Now, every particle has an anti-particle. Its mirror image. Its negative side. Maybe this universal mind... resides in the mirror image instead of in our universe... as we wanted to believe. Maybe he's anti-God, bringing darkness instead of light.

John Carpenter, Prince of Darkness (1987)

Tandis que je listais ici ou là certaines références de la série Stranger Things, l'une d'elle, pourtant évidente, m'avait échappé : "Prince of Darkness" de Carpenter. L'image du miroir devient, dans la série, celle de l'envers du plateau de jeu.

- When El showed us where Will was, she flipped the board over, remember? Upside down. Dark. Empty. [...] When El took us to find Will, she took us to his house, right? What if he was there? What if we just couldn't see him? What if he was on the other side? What if this is Hawkins and this is where Will is? The Upside Down. Like the Vale of Shadows.

- "The Vale of Shadows is a dimension that is a dark reflection or echo of our world. It is a place of decay and death."

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Visuellement, je serai assez tenté de rapprocher les personnages de Barbara Holland et Catherine Danforth... 

...ainsi que leur destinée.