Ice scream.
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You have binge-watched the implausible third season of Stranger Issues and you have ended up right here — after the ultimate credit rolled (after that post-credits scene) you clearly nonetheless have questions. Season three actually tied up various free ends however it additionally created a handful of recent ones, little question as a result of Netflix have plans to get a fourth season of Stranger Issues occurring someday within the close to future.
However sufficient of that. When you get previous the robust ’80s nostalgia and all the refined particulars you missed, you need solutions. We do too! So let’s head into the Upside Down collectively and dig deep into a few of the large, WTF questions we nonetheless have.
Take be aware, it is all spoilers from this level on.
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Let’s soar straight to the ultimate moments of the season three finale “The Battle of Starcourt”.
Goodnight, candy dad bod
Hopper will get the axe within the last episode as Joyce Byers blows up the “key” retaining the door to the Upside Down open. Nevertheless, whereas we see members of the Russian facility get obliterated by the explosion, we do not see Hopper’s destiny. That leaves issues conveniently well-placed for Hopper to return or to be discovered within the Upside Down. He is in all probability solely sporting a towel, but when he is alive, we’re comfortable.
Additional proof that he might have been transported to the Upside Down earlier than being rezzed is a line through the post-credits scene within the last episode. These credit present a fancy in Kamchatka, Russia, a tiny peninsula north-east of Japan. Two Russian troopers go to open a door however one of many troopers says, “No. Not the American,” and as an alternative opens one other metal door of a (soon-to-be-eaten) prisoner.
Is the American our previous mate Hopper? And can he come hop, hop, hopping again to Hawkins? Who is aware of. But when he’s being held within the advanced, I am nervous that a secure weight loss program of borscht will see him lose his immaculate dad bod.
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Oh, and one other factor about that Russian advanced? It homes a freaking Demogorgon, the flower-teeth-faced monsters launched in season 1. Thus, it seems our Russian comrades visiting Hawkins have some expertise opening doorways to the Upside Down. Seeing the Demogorgon crawl out of the darkish suggests Hawkins is not the one method in, that means the world of Stranger Issues is more likely to get a lot, a lot greater in season four.
Typically I unintentionally name it the Demo Gordon and picture it will get actually offended at unhealthy restaurant house owners.
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Energy >9000
Talking of the world of Stranger Issues: We have now seen much more than simply Hawkins, Indiana with Russia entrenched as Upside Down-chasers. Nevertheless, our first glimpse of the larger universe got here from a much-lambasted episode in season 2: “The Misplaced Sister”.
In that episode, we see Eleven journey past the bounds of Hawkins and meet up with a handful of vagrants in Chicago, searching for out one of many women she noticed within the “rainbow room” — the room she was held in on the Division of Power pre-season 1. That lady, Kali, was the eight to Eleven’s… uh, 11 and we see early in season 2 that she has the identical telekinetic talents.
On the flip, by the point season three is over, Eleven has fully misplaced her powers. Whether or not she’s simply been going too laborious or she’s hit superpower puberty, we’re unsure.
Flip it as much as 11
That brings up an vital level about Eleven’s powers. The extent of her telekinetic talents remains to be sort of a thriller, nonetheless, three seasons in. I’ve one explicit query I would like answered however I am additionally to know what these powers are doing to El? They appear to be detrimental, contemplating each time she makes use of them she finally ends up with epistaxis. Is that this meant to indicate her mind being damage? Her blood vessels working time beyond regulation and bursting? As a scientist I actually need to grasp how this factor is working.
Alas, we nonetheless do not actually know — we simply know Eleven can virtually rip issues aside together with her thoughts so play good, Mike.
Hop, hop, hop.
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Distant mines within the facility
Hawkins is — apparently — a spot the place tremendous secret organizations assume they will conduct their tremendous secret actions with out being found. Clearly, Hawkins is the exact opposite. In season 1, we see the Division of Power is hiding kids beneath Hawkins and ultimately a complete portal to a different world. They hold that secret pretty effectively till some meddling youngsters come of age.
With that pedigree in Hawkins, is likely to be time to begin placing in a couple of extra safeguards in case you’re making an attempt to run a facility you don’t need anybody to learn about. What sort of sub-standard safety methods are the Russians working although? They go away their secret spy services unguarded for enormous durations of time and make them accessible, with no traps, by way of air ducts as a part of the busiest mall on the town? You are virtually begging for a handful of inquisitive youngsters to drop down into the power and discover out all of your secrets and techniques. That is Hawkins, man and these youngsters are one Nice Dane away from a Thriller Machine.
Guard. Your. Spy. Stuff.
Terminator Grigori
Alright, so the Russians have one super-powered guard with ridiculous energy. There have been a number of instances I anticipated him to show to goo and simply slink by way of a wall or one thing — however he ended up biting the mud. Nevertheless, he did appear to have energy that far exceeded the traditional grownup, Russian male. Was he created in a lab? Are there extra tremendous troopers? Was he half Demogorgon?
The Bye-rs
Joyce packs up the household house in Hawkins and heads into the sundown with Jonathan, Will and Eleven. We’re unsure the place the Byers and their plus-one are headed proper now. I assume there’s an opportunity they find yourself in Chicago… would not that be a useful method for El to get her powers again from the one different child she’s ever met with telekinesis? Sure? (Signal me up, Duffer Bros., I received this.)
Cannot spell America with out…
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DM Erica
The MVP of season three, Erica Sinclair, has the sass, smarts and sentence construction of a girl effectively past her years. On the finish of the season, she’s gifted a D&D set from the departing Byers and this appears significantly vital. Maybe Erica and her friendship circle would be the focus of season four?
Is Billy sizzling or not?
Kidding. Clearly this one has been answered comprehensively.
Steve’s hair
What is going to occur to it as we push deeper into the 1980s. What if we hit… the 1990s?
Oh god. I am actually eager for frosted suggestions Steve, child!
