Stranger Things season 4 Volume 2 ended with many questions still lingering.
Where and what exactly has happened Max, How can Vecna and the Mind Flayer be defeated,
and what will happen to Hawkins now that the Upside down is spilling
into the real world.
Well in the fifth and final season of Stranger Things, were hopefully going to be getting
answers to all of our big questions, and I thought it would be a good
idea to discuss some of them in this video.
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But without further a do, lets dive into my predictions for Stranger Things Season 5.
So at the end of Stranger Things Season 4, the battle for Hawkins and apparently the
rest of the world is about to take centre stage.
The long-length finale of Season 4 saw the main
characters reunite and temporarily defeat Vecna, but it came with a cost.
In the final two episodes Max aimed to bait Vecna, while Robin, Steve and Nancy would
kill him, hanging distracted in the Upside Down.
And while that was happening, Dustin and Eddie distracted the demobats to give the rest of
them enough time to defeat Vecna.
But with all the stakes, things were bound to go wrong in big ways.
This is because although Eleven found a way to piggyback into Max's mind so that she could
take on Vecna herself, she wasn't able to completely
save Max nor the eventual spreading of the Upside Down into Hawkins.
Vecna took enough of Max to open the fourth and final gate, bringing the Upside Down to
Hawkins, even if it meant he was heavily injured in the process.
Max's heart stopped to complete the fourth gate, and while Eleven found a way to just
about revive her, she now remains in a coma with her
consciousness buried.
So going into season 5, Vecna definitely has the advantage, and the rest of them will have
to put up a good fight, especially after the sacrifice of Eddie in giving
them time.
So the first question surrounds what happens to Hawkins now that it is full of the particulates
found in the Upside Down.
The hellish world has been unleashed upon Hawkins and we all want
to know how this will develop at the start of the final season.
Will there be an all-out war between the citizens of Hawkins and the creatures from the Upside
Down?
What will be left of the town following these portals opening up?
Is there a way of turning back the clock or undoing what happened?
And what is Vecna’s overall plan?
We now know that Eleven and the kids are prepared to fight off the evil that El helped
create, but are they ready for this to potentially spread further.
Well, I think Season 5 may be the first time we see no big time jump,
because that final shot of the spreading upside down does suggest that Hawkins is transforming
extremely quickly.
I think we will pick up right from where Season 4 left us and we'll be
seeing the chaos that is unleashed on the town.
I think we'll see the other citizens of Hawkins start to realise what has been hiding beneath
for so long, and the kids will have to convince them to fight and maybe even teach
them how to ward these monsters off.
It seems like the next logical step after how quickly the upside down is spreading and
how they will have to adapt very quickly to this situation.
I predict were going to see it spread even more and get to a point where the people of
Hawkins will have to listen to the kids and understand what the Upside down is and how
to stop what lies within.
And speaking of what lies within, this is where we come to the two central villains
of the final season and what we might see go down between them and our main characters.
In Season 4, we learnt how Vecna became the wizard he
is, following Eleven originally sending him into the parallel dimension after the massacre
at Hawkins Lab.
A world populated by monsters, but one that would only become worse once Vecna
came across a swarm of particles, soon to be the Mind Flayer.
It went into Vecna and gave him the power to lead the creatures in that universe.
So we are left with the question of whether he or the Mind Flayer are the big bad, especially
after Dustin suggested that he could be the Mind Flayer's general.
I'm guessing we'll find this out in Season 5, but right now, I think
it's safe to say the both The Mind Flayer and Vecna are going to be the two central
villains going forward.
Vecna will still be the focus because thanks to Will's earlier connection
with the Mind Flayer, who was operated by Vecna, he can still feel the villain's presence.
Will knows that despite the burns he faced, Vecna
will be back to fight, and like I said, I think it will be the combined weight of him
and the Mind Flayer the second time around.
It would raise the threat and truly put our central
characters in a very fatal position.
And coming back to The Mind Flayer, the Season 4 finale confirmed that the swirling particles
which Joyce and Hopper found in Russia, were essentially Mindflayer particles.
The Russians were keeping it there and likely performing experiments.
But when they returned to the prison to destroy the particles, everything had
escaped and we only saw Murray kill the demogorgons.
They were able to help the kids but the Mind Flayer particles are still missing.
And with Murray, Yuri and Enzo not seen back in the
states, what we might see in Season 5, is them staying there to track down and destroy
the missing particles.
If they do then maybe it could give everyone back in Hawkins the advantage
to defeat The Mind Flayer and then fight Vecna.
We'll have to see but I do think that this will play apart in the final season, as it
felt far too abrupt for them to just forget about.
And what we know is that all the main characters will be fighting a combined threat of Vecna
and The Mind Flayer to differing degrees.
But coming now to the next question left by the Season 4 finale, we're still wondering
what happened to Max after the brutal consequences in the battle we saw unfold with Vecna.
We know that Max tried to stay in her safe memories,
and while she even got help from Eleven, it wasn’t enough in the end.
Vecna’s curse resulted in her having broken arms, broken legs and she
might be also permanently blind.
Her heart stopped for a brief period of time, and while Eleven was able to bring her back
to life, it remains to be seen what will happen to her next
season.
At the very end of the finale, she's in a coma with Lucas staying by her side, meaning
that Max’s fate is up for questioning.
Max's mind was blank when Eleven tried to wake her
up in the hospital and I think that this could mean a number of things.
Max might be buried deep in one of her subconscious memories or Vecna might still have control
over her.
But with Max having her mind entered by two very powerful
characters, when she wakes up, she might not be the same Max she was.
My prediction is that maybe the boost which Eleven gave her results
in Max also having some sort of power to awaken from this mind prison.
Yes, she will be physically damaged, but mentally I think she will have new powers to confront
Vecna in Season 5.
I think when she does build the strength to come back and discovers her own powers, then
I can see the combined battle of her and Eleven taking on Vecna for the revenge of what happened
in Season 4.
Again, I predict Eleven would be the one phsically confronting Vecna, but Max would be helping
using her new mind powers.
Might be a reach, but there's a reason she's still
alive and will likely be an important one come next season.
Overall, I think were going to see different groups come together and devise a plan to
take down the different villains and elements left to defeat.
Whether it be Max and Eleven vs vecna, Will and the other kids fighting off The Mind Flayer
or Murray, Yuri and Enzo tracking down the particles in Russia.
They'd all come together in the end to defeat Vecna and The Mind Flayer, but there would
also be some final sacrifices that would take place too.
We'll soon find out if that's the case, but this is where I now come to my predictions
on who I think might die in battle for Hawkins.
So by the time we reach the conclusion of Stranger Things, there's bound to be a few
deaths in the process, and not just side characters like we've seen bite the dust in the seasons
so far.
They very much hint in the finale of Season 4 that the fight to come will result in them
having to lose some people around them, and it'll be intriguing to see which characters
make the sacrifice come the end.
The first character I think will die in Season 5 is Steve Harrington, and I think after having
all the hints that he would go this season, the Duffer
Brothers would want to hang on to him, so that when he does go, it will hopefully be
with a big dramatic and emotional payoff.
We've seen a lot of him and Nancy re-connecting this season,
and in metaphorically relating to season 1, I think in Season 5, we might see Steve sacrificing
himself to save Nancy, Jonathan and the other kids fighting the Mind Flayer.
Of course, it could go the other way and instead be Jonathan
sacrificing himself to safe Nancy, Steve and his younger brother, but I think that with
the focus on Steve and Nancy in Season 4, it would
be a greater emotional punch if he helped to save the day and died doing so.
So that's my first death prediction.
The other major death that I can see being of a meaningful conclusion
here, is probabaly the death of Eleven.
While I think that Max and Eleven would be the ones trying to take down Vecna, I do think
that Max will be using her new mind powers to battle
Vecna, but when it comes to the physical side of the battle, it's likely that Eleven will
be doing that.
And because she's the one who originally opened the gate to the upside down, it
would only make sense that she'd sacrifice herself to defeat Vecna and prevent Hawkins
from being completely consumed.
So I think in defeating Vecna, Eleven will be the big ending
sacrifice and in defeating the Mind Flayer, Steve will be the sacrifice there.
There will be loss like the show has always touched on, but it will be the kids and the
rest of Hawkins coming together to defeat this evil, resulting
in a new sense of life for the town.
Hawkins has gotten worse over the years with the Upside Down bringing about devastating
deaths and events, so it would make sense that the ending
of Stranger Things would showcase the message of newly-found hope for the town, thanks to
the help and persistance of the characters we've
followed throughout all the seasons.
It would also end with them being known as heroes for what they did and sacrificed.
They'd have to further fight past the FBI and all the people that
have been after them, but this final battle would be the proof that they have done what
they have to help the people they care about and the people of Hawkins.
In a few years, we'll know exactly what The Duffer Brothers have in store
for us, but I expect a final season of battle and emotional payoff to really end this show
in a perfect way.
But they were my thoughts and predictions for Stranger Things Season 5.
There are of course many other smaller questions that need to be answered in the final season
and it's going to be interesting to see how the Duffer Brothers
will handle all of the answers.
Will Will tell Mike about his feelings and how will other characters in Hawkins react
to the Upside Down.
They are definitely going to be raising the stakes and bringing epic conclusions to the
show and while we're probabaly going to have to wait a few years to see how they do it,
hopefully it will all be worth the wait.
I quite enjoyed this new season and thought it was definitely the best since Season 1,
and apart from the last episode where certain conveniencies were
made, I really liked the sense of Horror and mystery that Season 4 brought back to this
show.
So I'm confident that Season 5 can bring all the emotional pay-off that we want to see.
But let me know down below in the comments section
what your predictions and theories are surrounding the final season of Stranger Things, alongside
what your thoughts were on Season 4 Volume 2.
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