Happy Pride Month, my dear strangers! This is Mrs. Strange, and on today’s
episode for Stranger Universe, I will go over another teaser for Stranger Things:
The First Shadow, which reveals lots of new clues and hints for the upcoming stage play!
A new teaser for Stranger Things The First Shadow dropped on social media yesterday,
with new hints about the upcoming prequel live on stage. More tickets are now on sale for the
stage play, if you’re willing to travel to London just to see it. Stranger Things:
The First Shadow will introduce audiences to the younger versions of Jim Hopper, Joyce Maldonado,
Bob Newby, and Lonnie Byers, as well as the return of the young Henry Creel from Stranger Things 4.
The mini teaser they just released is not that different from the first one that announced the
play, but it reveals so many new clues about the plot. It shows a blood moon, a cat, and a church
where a girl watches behind the window. There is also what appears to be a crow and a spider,
the latter of which means a lot for Henry Creel as seen in Stranger Things season 4. The First
Shadow is a direct prequel to the official story of the Stranger Things saga, and it is canon to
the television series, so don’t be surprised if they make references to it in season 5. The
fact that the stage play keeps emphasizing that it may hold the key to the end is enough proof
that plot details from the play will show up in Stranger Things 5. What stands out immediately
to me with all of the new clues presented to us by the teaser, is that The First Shadow will be
heavily influenced by the works of Stephen King, who is already an inspiration for the main show.
However, what I mean is that most of King’s horror stories, such as It and Stand By Me,
take place in the 1950s or have elements related to that era in history. The black cat immediately
stands out as well, and the first thing I thought about was the cat from Pet Sematary,
another iconic Stephen King horror novel. The black cat is an icon of Halloween and is a sign
of bad luck, or an omen to be precise. The same thing can be said with the raven. Combining all
that imagery with a church and a girl watching from inside leads me to believe that we will be
dealing with another form of supernatural evil like we did in season 4. Speaking of the girl,
it remains a mystery to see who she truly is. The first thought I had was that she is Virginia Creel
watching Henry from afar, but other people think it could be Joyce, who will be a major character
in this new storyline if the announcements are anything to go by. Whoever it is,
being placed inside a church implies that there will be a lot of religious undertones, maybe even
another satanic panic element like Stranger Things 4. Add in the visual of a blood moon,
and it makes all of this sound like there is some element of the good versus evil, and maybe even a
biblical prophecy about the end of the world. As for how Henry Creel fits into all of this,
maybe he is seen as a child born with gifts to do the greater good, but of course, that was not the
case at all as we saw with season 4. Some fans speculate that maybe there will be a church girl
that falls in love with him or vice versa, and she tries pulling him to the light. In general,
all of this imagery from the teaser give off the impression that this was something not
made out of sudden and that the Duffers may have been developing this for longer than we think.
In my opinion, I believe that the main storyline from The First Shadow was originally included in
Stranger Things season 4. We had rumors about a young Hopper storyline and something that
connected him to the Creel family in the 1950s. The main connective tissue here of course is
Henry Creel, who later became Vecna and was the driving force behind the Hawkins Lab massacre as
well as the murders in the spring break of 1986. Perhaps this additional layer to the story in
season 4 was too much for the Duffer Brothers and the other writers, since they already had several
separate storylines all happening at the same time in Hawkins, Russia, California, and Nevada.
Perhaps they decided to release this as its own separate story done within a stage play. However,
considering how long Stranger Things 4 is and how long Stranger Things 5 is rumored to be,
I honestly think that both seasons and the addition of this story had more than enough
content for a sixth season somewhere in within all of this. Considering how big Stranger Things
is for Netflix, I am sure that the studio and the executives would’ve loved to see a hypothetical
season 6. If not, they could have also done The First Shadow as a live action prequel miniseries
released on Netflix this year or next year, serving as the bridge between seasons 4 and
5. Anyways, I am still looking forward to seeing how all of this will play out in a stage format.
The stage play will begin its first show on November 17,
2023 at the Phoenix Theater in London. Here’s hoping that it will be televised on
Netflix sometime in the future for the whole world to see. Overall, very enticing times.
And that is all that we have for today! What do you think about
these new details and clues from Stranger Things: The First Shadow?
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