Welcome back everyone it's Charlie this is going to be my new stranger things
season 5 video so amazing news the duffer brothers finally announced that
they are doing stranger things season five so i'll explain what's going on
what they've said about the villains what they said about the russians during
season four about hopper coming back and about what's going on with their
schedule and when we'd actually see season five episodes because they're
still in the middle of shooting season 4 right now
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videos i'll be doing stranger things season 4 videos as we
learn more about that too so we'll just start with the big stuff
and number these as we go along just to stay organized
but the duffer brothers were doing a big interview they started by talking about
the russians as villains in the cold war themes and how they originally set that
up during season one in how some of their early story lines
that they didn't really think too much about
actually turned into much bigger things for season 4 and season 5.
they talked about how they originally set the russians up it's just a small
nugget as part of 11's training you see them using 11 to try and spy on the
russians as part of this cold war program
you learn that the russians are trying to do the same thing trying to create
their own espers like 11 to spy on the americans
during those tests is when she lost control of her abilities and ripped a
hole in the fabric of our dimension creating the gateway through which the
mind flare was able to enter in various stages
season to season from the upside down so a lot of those early concepts that they
set up with the russians versus the americans in this cold war program
turned into their big season four story line because now we're literally
in russia one of their taglines when they release the last big stranger
things season 4 trailer was from russia with love like literally they're going
to russia now because hopper stuck there the russians were big villains during
season 3 but the duffer brothers were talking about how the show is
positioning them as the new main villains whereas in season 3 the duffer
brothers just considered them side villains and billy was intended to
be the main villain at least through the mind flayer because the mind flare was
controlling everyone like literal meat puppets infecting them with that
goo they actually said that whole billy arc during season three was supposed to
happen during season two but daiquiri montgomery's audition tape just blew
them away so much that they wanted to turn billy into a much bigger character
so that's why that all played out during season three
they also implied that they haven't gone back to start shooting season four again
yet because of the virus they got shut down in production just a couple weeks
after they've started filming season four episodes so they still have a long
way to go on those and it sounds like they won't
be filming again till this fall they just say that they're excited to go back
and film so obviously they're not filming right now
the way they talk about it they already know what their ending for the show is
going to be and they know when it's going to happen
and they've been using this virus shutdown to sort of plot that out and
figure out how much more time they need to tell that so i suppose it's possible
that they could go beyond season five but the way they talked about it in
previous years is that they had a relatively short story planned and they
weren't planning on stretching it out for seven or eight seasons or anything
like that so right now i'm just assuming that they
stop at season five and that's the final season
but because of the schedule on season 4 being delayed it sounds like they won't
start filming season 5 episodes until spring next year or summer but netflix
did talk earlier about possibly trying to film stranger things season 4
and season 5 back to back but when they were talking about that they were mostly
referencing the issues that they had with the kids getting too old too fast
aging up otherwise they'd have to have some big
time jump at the beginning of season five
now it's more about the virus delaying everything but i don't think the kids
getting older is that big of a deal like look at eleven during season one
now look at millie bobby brown now in real life as we speak
most of the younger people who watch the show for 11 for millie bobby brown and
the kids probably don't even pay attention to details like that they're
more concerned with the plot and what the characters are actually
doing but the duffers didn't give away any huge spoilers as to who the main
villain of season 5 would be outside of them finally fridging the mind flayer
permanently because as at the end of season 3
they've still only defeated the avatar meat puppet it was controlling through
the dimensional rift from the upside down
operating this giant beast by remote control and all the people it infected
with the goo including billy for most of the season
that was what his big sacrifice was at the end of the season 11 was able to
enter his mind and free him from the control of the
mind flayer by showing him his mother and his happy memories of his past
then he was able to quote unquote throw himself on the grenade before it could
kill 11 of the others and even though we know that hopper is
coming back because he shows up in the season 4 trailer in siberia russia
laying all that track billy is still currently supposed to be dead
so if daiquiri montgomery comes back it would have to be as a memory of billy in
eleven's head or a mental projection of the mind player
but within the world of the show billy's physical body is dead as is alexis
so press f in the chat to pay respects right now the season 4 replacement for
billy in terms of just main villain for the story arc outside
of the mind player is going to be tom blasia's character from game of thrones
it's really hard to pronounce his last name so i'm probably messing it up but
he played jack and hagar on that series a badass assassin
faceless person so he definitely has a type the season 4
trailer just makes it seem like he is the boss or the administrator of this
russian prison gang that hopper is a part
of just a stone cold killer and he's definitely a big level up in terms of
human villains from billy but in terms of season 5 villains and
twists that the show hasn't used yet and things that it's set up previously
ideas that it hasn't paid off there's the whole concept of russian espers like
eleven like during season two we met eleven's
sister just another person that was part of the americans program but it was
implied that the russians had their own version of this program
they didn't really explain what the russians want with the upside down
during season three but i think it's all just part of that cold war narrative
that they set up during season one they want to weaponize it in a bunch of
different ways and use the upside down like a fast pass system
like we see them laying this railway here anything that exists
on the regular planet earth in this dimension also exists in the upside down
but they also have that white demogorgon that they have captive at the end of
season three they probably hope to control their own
army of demogorgons and demo dogs harvested from the upside down
but it's not really clear if they're aware of what the mind player is
doing it sounds like because they're teasing going back into the upside down
during season four that they'll address that in some way
like they do reopen a portal to the upside down but the mind player takes
advantage of it and because you have all the russians 11 and the whole team
together the mind player comes for 11 and the
russians get caught in the crossfire because up to this point it doesn't seem
like the mind flayer really cares about what the russians are doing
just expect it to be way crazier way grosser and way bigger and for them to
all die horribly than the people during season
3 including jack and hagar's character here usually the only time they don't
kill off villains like if he survives to season 5
is when they want to do a big billy twist and turn them into a much bigger
villain in the next season but like the duffers say they already
know what the final ending of the series is going to be and what else could that
be but them finally defeating the mind
player for good and then 11 getting to live a normal life with
hopper i know everyone has theories about how the show is going to end and
one of the other main characters is going to wind up dying
there's always tragedy every season but i do think that the show
wants to give eleven a version of a happy ending that she saw for herself
even if it's not exactly the way she expects it to be like they won't have a
complete downer ending for the show but the other big things that we know
about season four so far is that they will have an extra episode it'll be nine
episodes total they'll be tweeted out all these scripts here in their nine
different scripts meaning nine different episodes
we know that episode one is titled the hellfire club which is a big british
reference and a marvel comic book reference for the x-men team
in the show it might just be what the group calls itself as they get older and
embark on their mission to save hopper and even though 11 seemingly lost her
powers at the end of season 3 she's probably just having some trauma
issues and has some sort of mental block that was erected when she
thought that hopper died just the trauma from that experience
just sort of cut her off from her abilities temporarily
but since they don't want to drag their feet too much at the beginning of the
season early prediction at the end of season 4
episode 1 after moping around all summer thinking about hopper being
dead she kind of gets her powers back and senses him on the other side of the
world and realizes that he's still alive and then they start to rally the group
to find a way to save him there has to be some reason
that they find out that he's still alive and then go try to save him
just in terms of big historical cultural 80s references because the show trades
on 80s jokes and references so much because we're going to russia at this
time my big theory is is that they're going to use chernobyl in the meltdown
to explain the season 4 finale in another big disaster
involving the mind player but because of all the christmas themes that they're
setting up in these teasers they might wind up dropping season 4 episodes
around the holidays in 2021 like the end of 2021 and they probably won't be able
to get season 5 episodes out at least until
summer 2022 the next year but like i said it sounds like they're going to try
and shoot season four in season five back to back
but the netflix stranger things accounts are all really active
all the time so they'll be dropping teasers for season four stuff for the
rest of the year so anytime they drop new footage or a big teaser for season
four of course i'll do a video about it let me know in the comments what are you
most excited about if you have any big questions
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