Happy Saturday, my dear strangers!
This is Mrs. Strange, and on today’s episode for Stranger Universe, I will talk about another
cryptic tweet for Stranger Things 5 from the Duffer Brothers!
Yesterday, the Stranger Writers account on Twitter shared this image of the science fantasy
novel “A Wrinkle In Time” by Madeleine L'Engle.
It comes with no caption, but the mere sight of this book sent fans into a frenzy of theories
and speculation for what it could mean, and for good reason.
For the uninitiated, A Wrinkle in Time is the story of Meg Murry, a teenage girl who
is transported through time and space with her younger brother Charles and her friend
Calvin.
Their aim is to rescue her father, Mr. Murry, a gifted scientist, from the evil forces that
hold him prisoner on another planet.
Meg is a homely, loving girl dogged by personal insecurities and her concern for her father,
who has been missing for over a year.
The story takes off with the arrival of three very strange women who help them travel through
space and time in the fifth dimension through what's called the "tesseract."
This is where the story has some similarities with Stranger Things, and why the Duffers
most likely posted a picture of this book.
In their travels, the kids become aware of a darkness, the Black Thing, that threatens
to take over all goodness in the universe.
This darkness is also referred to as “it,” just like how Pennywise the Clown is also
called It in his eponymous Stephen King horror novel.
You see, the Black Thing in "A Wrinkle in Time" is its own dark shadow that looms over
planets and represents evil forces.
It has enveloped the dark planet, Camazotz, and controls its citizens through mind control.
The novel ends with Meg traveling to Camazotz to save her brother Charles from the Black
Thing.
Meg realizes that she has love and the Black Thing does not.
She pleads with Charles to leave it behind and tells him how much she loves him.
Now going back to Stranger Things 5, why would the Duffer Brothers get inspired by this novel?
Well quite frankly, because a lot of the themes in A Wrinkle In Time are similar to Stranger
Things.
The power of Love frees people from the Black Thing’s control in the book, just like in
Stranger Things.
With that said, the one thing fans are rambling about is of course the time travel element.
However, A Wrinkle In Time doesn’t exactly delve into that, at least not the way you
guys might think.
The father, Mr. Murry, invents the device known as the tesseract, which folds points
in space and time so you can travel between two multidimensional spaces the "short" way.
It’s kind of like when Mr. Clarke explained the way travel works with the Upside Down,
punching a hole in the fabric of space and time allowing you to travel between dimensions.
Speaking of which, A Wrinkle In Time was already alluded to in that scene from the first season
of Stranger Things, since "The Flea and the Acrobat" explanation from Mr. Clarke is pretty
similar to the Ant on the String explanation in the book for how the Inter-dimensional
travel works.
In regards to the characters of both the book and the show having similarities, Charles
allows himself to be hypnotized by the Black Thing to find out where Mr. Murry is being
held.
After Meg goes to find her father, the witches tell her that she needs to return to the enemy
planet on her own to save her brother.
As mentioned previously, she does so by focusing all of her love and care towards him, allowing
him to finally break free from the evil force.
You can interpret any of that in any way you want, but one could argue that Will Byers
is the Charles equivalent of Stranger Things, and Eleven is Meg.
Even though the kids go in to save their dad in the book, the final season of Stranger
Things will focus on saving Max Mayfield, who is alive somewhere within the Upside Down
or Vecna’s Mind Lair.
I don’t want the excitement to get ahold of me, but the plot of Stranger Things 5 being
focused on the sibling relationship between Will Byers and Eleven, the rescue mission
to save Max, and the possibility of Will being seduced by Vecna and the Mind Flayer as a
result of trying to save his friend, all of it sounds like something that could happen
in season 5.
And at the end of the day, the main theme of Stranger Things is love and friendship,
which would bring the whole series back to circle.
With that said, we shall see what inspirations they get from the novel to incorporate in
the final season of the series.
I feel even more proud of myself for putting “A Wrinkle in Time” as one of the episode
titles in my fan made title tease for season 5 from last summer.
I doubt there will be an episode actually called by that, but it’s just funny knowing
that the Duffers posted this recently.
Overall, super exciting times.
And that is all that we have for today!
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