Stranger Things might now be known for its irresistible mix of humor and scares, but when the Duffer brothers started putting together the first season of their hit Netflix show behind the scenes, it apparently had a much more dramatic tone that soon evolved after one particularly surprising revelation. During a recent “Fix It in Post” panel at Netflix’s FYSEE LA festival (via Deadline) Stranger Things editor Dean Zimmerman revealed his part in altering the tone of the show in season 1, noting that the Duffer brothers may write “very tight scripts and are very specific on how they want their tones” but that they were taken aback by some early tweaks in the edit room, which ultimately caused a domino effect on the rest of the series.cnx.cmd.push(function() {cnx({playerId: "106e33c0-3911-473c-b599-b1426db57530",}).render("0270c398a82f44f49c23c16122516796");});“The interesting thing is in season 1, when we first started, it was all about the drama,” Zimmerman said. “Everything was super intense, and kept you on the edge of your seat. And there was a scene in particular that I decided to cut as a comedy instead of a drama, and when I showed it to them, they freaked out and didn’t know what to do. And the one thing they did say was, ‘Now we have to go back and rewrite all the scripts to put more comedy into it.’” Zimmerman added, “You know what I said to them? Obviously through all the years that I’ve been working in this business, I was like, you need to have those moments of levity, and you need to have those moments where you can let the audience sit back before you punch them in the face with something super scary or super dramatic and it’s something they learned very quickly. That was a big tonal shift in season 1 that then carried out throughout the rest of the seasons. So, when you talk about tone with them, it all stems from the writing. But that flexibility that we all have in the cutting room is to create something completely different than what’s on the page.” Without Zimmerman’s guidance, it seems Stranger Things may have turned out a little differently, with fewer moments of levity to set up its scares. Though Zimmerman didn’t break down which scenes were intended to elicit more laughs, some of Stranger Things‘ funniest moments ultimately grew out of the friendship between Steve Harrington and Dustin Henderson, and Erica Sinclair’s razor-sharp sarcasm during its five-season run.The post The Season 1 Moment That Changed Stranger Things Forever appeared first on Den of Geek.