Good evening, my fellow strangers! It’s Mrs. Strange back again. On today’s third
episode for Stranger Universe, I will go over the fate of Hawkins at end of Stranger Things
4, and how that might impact the plot in Stranger Things 5!
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Over the course of Stranger Things season 4, it’s revealed that Vecna’s plan is
to create enough gates to the Upside Down to allow it to enter Earth and completely
overwhelm and destroy it. Through various circumstances, all of the main characters
end up learning about this, despite everyone being scattered across the world in Stranger
Things 4. They each come up with their own plans for fighting Vecna and saving the world.
At the end of it all, Vecna ends up defeated, but they weren’t able to truly put a stop
to his plans, and Hawkins ends up caught in the crossfire. Not only is the ending of volume
2 the dourest finale Stranger Things has had yet, but it also appears to promise the biggest
shakeups to the show's status quo. There is currently very little information about Stranger
Things 5 is known at the moment, so everything about how the season 4 finale will relate
to season 5 will be largely speculative. However, the ending does provide enough clues for what’s
most likely to be dealt with in season 5, so there should be merit in discussing them
to build a hypothesis for Stranger Things season 5. One of the last shots of season
4 was of a field of flowers turning gray as an ash-like substance rains down from above,
and there’s a good reason for this. While everyone’s combined efforts were enough
to defeat Vecna and stop him from making the Upside Down destroy the world, because of
Max’s temporary death, a massive gate was still able to form in Hawkins that the Upside
Down appears to be leaking out of. The full effect of this is unknown, but the spores
that fill the air of the Upside Down appear to drain the life of everything they touch,
which is why the flowers and other plant life of Hawkins is turning grey at the end of Stranger
Things season 4.
It’s been well-established that the environment of the Upside Down is toxic to anyone and
anything other than its native inhabitants. The plant life of Hawkins turning grey appears
to be an extension of this, and the larger-scale effects of it all are likely to be expanded
on season 5. With how terribly things ended in season 4, it would be easy enough to conclude
that Vecna won, but that’s technically not the case. Vecna’s goal was for the Upside
Down to come to Hawkins and completely overtake it. As previously mentioned, thanks to Max
only temporarily dying, he wasn’t able to fully bring the Upside Down to Earth. The
Upside Down does appear to be leaking from the gate Vecna created, however, and based
on what the Upside Down’s spores are doing to the plant life in the season finale, the
Upside Down will likely be overtaking Hawkins and the rest of the world at a gradual pace
- instead of all at once as Vecna had envisioned. All of this, of course, makes for a clear
setup for Stranger Things 5. The spores of the Upside Down are likely going to infect
everyone and everything they touch and slowly kill them, with their radius of effect slowly
increasing over time. Everyone will need to try to figure out how to close the gate while
dealing with whatever illnesses the spores bring about. Complicating this would be how,
according to Will, Vecna didn’t die, so he’s bound to resurface at some point and
will likely try to fully open the gate and allow for the Upside Down to completely overtake
Hawkins and destroy the world. That, of course, would force Eleven and everyone else to defeat
Vecna once and for all, and with Vecna being revealed as the mastermind behind everything
that’s happened in the show, his defeat would put an end to the threat of the Upside
Down once and for all. Stranger Things season 5 is reportedly going to be the final season,
so a conclusion like that would be a more than appropriate way for the show to end.
Here’s hoping that the town of Hawkins gets saved once and for all in season 5. Overall,
very exciting times.
And that is all that we have for today. What do you think will happen to Hawkins, Indiana
in Stranger Things 5?
Today’s special shout-out is for Dustie Bun! Not only is the ending of volume 2 the
dourest finale Stranger Things has had yet, but it also appears to promise the biggest
shakeups to the show's status quo. There is currently very little information about Stranger
Things 5 is known at the moment, so everything about how the season 4 finale will relate
to season 5 will be largely speculative. However, the ending does provide enough clues for what’s
most likely to be dealt with in season 5, so there should be merit in discussing them
to build a hypothesis for Stranger Things season 5. One of the last shots of season
4 was of a field of flowers turning gray as an ash-like substance rains down from above,
and there’s a good reason for this. While everyone’s combined efforts were enough
to defeat Vecna and stop him from making the Upside Down destroy the world, because of
Max’s temporary death, a massive gate was still able to form in Hawkins that the Upside
Down appears to be leaking out of. The full effect of this is unknown, but the spores
that fill the air of the Upside Down appear to drain the life of everything they touch,
which is why the flowers and other plant life of Hawkins is turning grey at the end of Stranger
Things season 4.
It’s been well-established that the environment of the Upside Down is toxic to anyone and
anything other than its native inhabitants. The plant life of Hawkins turning grey appears
to be an extension of this, and the larger-scale effects of it all are likely to be expanded
on season 5. With how terribly things ended in season 4, it would be easy enough to conclude
that Vecna won, but that’s technically not the case. Vecna’s goal was for the Upside
Down to come to Hawkins and completely overtake it. As previously mentioned, thanks to Max
only temporarily dying, he wasn’t able to fully bring the Upside Down to Earth. The
Upside Down does appear to be leaking from the gate Vecna created, however, and based
on what the Upside Down’s spores are doing to the plant life in the season finale, the
Upside Down will likely be overtaking Hawkins and the rest of the world at a gradual pace
- instead of all at once as Vecna had envisioned. All of this, of course, makes for a clear
setup for Stranger Things 5. The spores of the Upside Down are likely going to infect
everyone and everything they touch and slowly kill them, with their radius of effect slowly
increasing over time. Everyone will need to try to figure out how to close the gate while
dealing with whatever illnesses the spores bring about. Complicating this would be how,
according to Will, Vecna didn’t die, so he’s bound to resurface at some point and
will likely try to fully open the gate and allow for the Upside Down to completely overtake
Hawkins and destroy the world. That, of course, would force Eleven and everyone else to defeat
Vecna once and for all, and with Vecna being revealed as the mastermind behind everything
that’s happened in the show, his defeat would put an end to the threat of the Upside
Down once and for all. Stranger Things season 5 is reportedly going to be the final season,
so a conclusion like that would be a more than appropriate way for the show to end.Here’s
hoping that the town of Hawkins gets saved once and for all in season 5. do you think
will happen to Hawkins, IndianaDustie Bun
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