The video "Stranger Things 2 and Aliens: How to Build a Bigger World" by NowThis Nerd

research question that they aims to answer how the Alien series helped influence the show
Stranger thing season 2 world-building, they aim to explore the methods and actions that they
show and films took to reach the goal of creating a bigger world within in their universe along
with specific details on how this influences the actions took in the show. NowThis Nerd
introduced many supporting arguments to support his claims that they overall introduced more
monsters into the show changing the focus from one monster to multiple, changing of scale
between seasons, world-building, and subversions.
NowThis Nerd's supporting evidence included many similar clips from the Alien films and
Stranger Things Season 2 that support his claims. Such as the claim about how adding more
monsters to both series allowed the lore and world to be built further he included scenes from
both films in which they introduced more of the monsters changing the focus from one monster
to multiple them to show how stranger things took heavy inspiration from the Alien series. He
also explains the fact that both media took time to build on the world by introducing more
characters and backgrounds to pre-existing ones he stated that Alien introduced the Alien queen
to build upon the fact they are a whole race and civilization as well as stating that Stranger
Things took a page out of Alien's book as well by introducing a whole new monster that controls
the upside down to show how inspiration was taken. To further show how Stranger Things uses
the same world-building tactics he uses the fact that both series introduced the big bad
corporation behind all the problems, including clips of the sequels of the series to show them
explicitly stating the company's names.
NowThis Nerd main claim is that Stranger Things used foundational world-building tactics
created and used in the Alien films to create a story that pays almost homage to the Alien films
but still proves to be its own thing by adding its flair and twists of its own to Stranger Things
special.