Happy Sunday, my fellow strangers! It’s Mrs. Strange once more. On today’s episode
for Stranger Universe, I will explain the mind blowing ending to Stranger Things 4,
Volume 1.
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Stranger Things season 4 volume 1 ends in a dramatic fashion, finally revealing Eleven's
secret history and the origin of Vecna. With a little over a month left to go until the
second half of the season, viewers are now theorizing on what is set to happen in the
conclusion of the penultimate chapter of the Stranger Things franchise. The episodes are
much longer than the previous seasons, in part reflecting the vastness of the stage
the characters are now acting on. This time around, the cast is spread out across the
globe, with Joyce and Murray heading to Russia in search of Hopper. The A-plot, of course,
is still taking place in Hawkins as Stranger Things confronts a new type of monster from
the Upside Down. Rather than a mere creature, Vecna is a humanoid being who possesses the
ability to enter the minds of others and kill them in a truly brutal manner. He's operating
from the Upside Down itself, and every time he murders he tears open another Gate. The
Hawkins kids attempt to use these Gates against him in Stranger Things season 4 volume 1,
but in truth their plans would never have worked; Vecna is simply too powerful. Only
one person can possibly deal with Vecna. That person is Eleven, who's now working alongside
Doctor Martin Brenner to regain her powers. Volume 1 builds to a thunderous ending when
Vecna strikes back against the Hawkins children.
The last we saw of them, Steve, Nancy, Robin, and Eddie were in the Upside Down, realizing
that they didn't have a chance against Vecna and the monstrous creatures from the Upside
Down. Fortunately, Dustin deduces the location of another Gate, and he's able to communicate
it to them using methods that have been part of the franchise since season 1. However,
the group are spotted by one of the Demobats as they're making their escape, allowing Vecna
to discover their location through the hive mind he is part of. He manages to strike Nancy
right before she escaped into the real world, attacking her mind with his illusions. Vecna
plays on fear and grief, torturing his victims with visions of their past sins. In Nancy's
case, he's able to build upon her regret for the death of her friend Barb in Stranger
Things season 1. Vecna's accusation that Nancy has forgotten her friend seems to be the reason
for why he wants to punish her. Far from having forgotten Barb, though, it seems Nancy has
buried her grief and self-hatred deep within her mind, allowing Vecna to play upon it.
The longer Nancy remains in the vision, the more danger she is in. Will Nancy die in Stranger
Things 4 Volume 2? She's fortunate that she isn't alone, however, and the kids have already
managed to bring Max out of a similar trance. They'll hopefully be able to do something
similar for Nancy.
One of the biggest plot twists in this episode is finding out that the Upside Down is stuck
in the past. Nancy is shocked to realize this twisted copy of Hawkins is actually stuck
in 1983 - specifically on November 6th, the very same day Eleven opened the Gate for the
first time and Will Byers went missing. It's possible opening that Gate fused another dimension
- the home of the Mind Flayer, the Demogorgons and the other creatures that have been seen
in Stranger Things - with a bad copy of Hawkins. There is still some loose relationship between
the Upside Down and the real world, however, explaining why Will could use lights to communicate
between the dimensions in Stranger Things season 1. As for Vecna, his backstory has
finally been revealed, with the plot twist being that he is number One, the first test
subject of Hawkins Lab as well as being Victor Creel’s son, Henry. However, his plan remains
something of a mystery. The Gates he has opened could serve as the bridgehead for an army
sent by the Mind-Flayer. It's possible Vecna is actually attempting to create enough Gates
to draw the Upside Down and the real world together, so the dimensions collide; there
are strange earthquakes shaking the Upside Down, perhaps hints of dimensional instability.
As for the Russian storyline, the volume 1 finale builds off the season 3 post-credits
scene, which revealed the Russians had captured a Demogorgon while in Hawkins and were feeding
prisoners to it. Fortunately, Hopper is able to figure out how to keep a Demogorgon at
bay long enough to get his miracle, with Joyce and Murray managing to let him out of the
makeshift arena where he was fighting the creature. The group must now escape from the
prison in Kamchatka, and find a way back to the United States. A teaser from volume 2
reveals that the Soviet Union has what appears to be part of the Mind Flayer, or at least
the particles of it. Have the Russians experimented on creatures from the Upside Down? We shall
see. Lastly, the California crew wasn’t here in the final episode of volume 1. The
last we saw of them, they got Eleven’s location from Suzie, so here’s hoping that we get
to see more of them in volume 2. Overall, super exciting times.
And that is all that we have for today. What did you think about the ending for Stranger
Things 4 Volume 1?
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