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Originally Posted by Pizza

This might be in poor taste as I know she's a 14 year old girl, but...

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but I feel like strangling Suzie for making Dusty bun singing that song. Had everyone not been delayed for that 1:18 sing along, Billy and Hopper may still be alive as Billy may not have needed to sacrifice himself and Hopper and Joyce would've had the time to turn the key to blow up that machine.

If you're going that deep on timelines and realism in season 3, you're going to drive yourself nuts. Season 3 was very entertaining, but they definitely put style and entertainment over realism in most cases.

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I get that the local government was corrupt, but wouldn't the correct step be to notify the feds. Surely, they would react pretty immediately to Soviet communists building a giant military base/research lab on American soil.

The US government was also responsible for the initial research into the upside down, and have chosen not to do further research at this time. I seriously doubt they would allow the Russians to open up their own portal.

Hopper making a phone call, and then the US army rushing in, isn't nearly as dramatically engaging though.