Happy Tuesday, my fellow strangers! It’s Mrs. Strange here again!
On today’s episode for Stranger Universe, I will talk about the time jump for Stranger Things 4
and how big it is versus its real world gap from season 3.
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Stranger Things 3 wrapped up with a lot of ramifications for the world of Stranger
Things. Eleven seemingly lost her powers, Hopper seemingly died and the Byers family left Hawkins
with Eleven. From that alone it's clear that the upcoming season has a lot of ground to
cover. Unlike seasons 1 and 2, which both had epilogues that took place a month after the main
events of each season, season 3 had an epilogue picking up 3 months later. The main events took
place in the days leading up to the Fourth of July in the summer of 1985, but the epilogue took place
sometime in early October that year. For now over two years since the release of season 3,
fans have been wondering when Stranger Things 4 will take place and which holiday it will revolve
around after a small focus on Christmas and a much bigger focus on Halloween and July 4th.
Thankfully, the mystery of exactly when season 4 will take place is answered immediately in the
latest teaser. It opens with Eleven's voice saying "Dear Mike. Today is day one-hundred
eighty-five." It's also revealed that Eleven and the Byers have moved to California,
and Eleven's voice is a narration of a letter she's writing to Mike back in Indiana.
Eleven's spring break is just days away, and she plans to see Mike during her vacation. If
Eleven's letter to Mike is written at the start of season 4,
then the season takes place in the spring of 1986, just about six months after the end of season 3.
There's also a high likelihood that Stranger Things season 4 will feature a number of
flashbacks, with a 1950's Creel House flashback already revealed in a previous
teaser A flashback detailing Hopper's survival and captivity in Russia would be a welcome one
as well, especially given that the Russians were shown to have a captive Demogorgon at the
end of season 3. As Papa is also shown in another season 4 teaser, more flashbacks may be in order
to explain what happened before the events of November 6th, 1983, especially with the knowledge
that there was a massacre at Hawkins Lab, thanks to the episode titles. Ultimately, the time jump
is somewhat a smart decision for the show. While it isn't an issue for adult characters such as Jim
Hopper, the six-month jump kind of helps explain the real-life growth of series stars such as Noah
Schnapp, Finn Wolfhard, and Millie Bobby Brown. With that being said, even though we knew the
spring of 1986 setting from set leaks, I am a little bit disappointed that the time gap isn’t
bigger. Season 4 is now confirmed for a summer 2022 release date, meaning it will certainly
come out 3 years after season 3 or maybe just a few days or weeks short of it, and you’re telling
me that the show has only jumped forward 6 months? I guess we’ll have to suspend our disbelief for a
bit but I was hoping they used the COVID delay to write in a time jump of more than a year
into late 1986 or early 1987. The reason why I’m feeling this way is because some of the actors,
such as Caleb McLaughlin, definitely aged a lot from the time they filmed Stranger Things 3 until
the time they started filming season 4 in the middle of the pandemic. Priah Ferguson was 14
during the production of season 4 and yet Erica Sinclair will still be 10 years old with the time
jump that we have. There’s also the confusion of when exactly it will take place during the spring
of 1986. If we take Eleven’s words literally and the epilogue from season 3, 185 days after October
5th, 1985 is April 7th, 1986. However, this doesn’t line up with the set leaks for Stranger
Things season 4 that we got over the course of the past year. Maybe the March 1986 calendar was
a distraction and the season really takes place in April, but spring breaks are usually in the weeks
leading up to Easter, and Easter in 1986 was on March 30th. Who knows, maybe Will Byers and
Eleven’s high school will have their spring break after the holiday, but it is quite confusing for
now. Until the season is released, however, hungry fans will have to get by on the teaser’s promise
that season 4 will be "the best spring break ever." Overall, very exciting times.
And that is all that we have for today.
What do you think about the time jump for Stranger Things 4?
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