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On today’s episode for Stranger Universe, I will talk about the possibility that time
travel will be featured in Stranger Things 5!
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When our heroes lose the battle and the world comes to an end, sometimes the only solution
is to turn back the clock.
Every major franchise on television and cinema has dabbled in this in some capacity, be it
the Avengers, the Justice League, Doctor Who, the Umbrella Academy, and going back as far
as 1980s classics like Back to the Future and The Terminator.
Even Game of Thrones had a few instances that saw the future affecting the past.
It’s a recurring trend that has been present in lots of stories over the decades, especially
with those from the sci-fi genre.
This brings us to Stranger Things as it heads into its fifth and final season.
Based on some truly legitimate evidence in Stranger Things 4, the finale of the Netflix
flagship tv series could very well use time travel as a way for Eleven and her friends
to save the day once and for all.
The signs are there if you go all the way back to season 3 and see the references to
Back to the Future, or Hopper’s letter to Eleven when he mentions this:
And then there’s this scene from season 4, when El is reading her letter to Mike.
Throughout Stranger Things season 4, there are tons of references regarding the manipulation
of time, which may be a sign of what’s to come later in season 5.
In episode 7, when the 001 reveal is happening, we see young Henry Creel watching the clock
and the hands turning back.
Why the fixation on clocks in the first place?
Maybe he can manipulate time, just like how Eleven manipulating space by accessing other
dimensions.
When he was attacking Max in the finale, Vecna said that he saw all of her friends and knew
what they were doing.
He knew their plan, knew it was a trap, but still went through with attacking her because
he already knew how it would all turn out.
Vecna would get his victim, he would survive.
This explains how he showed Nancy visions of what was to come.
He didn't think them up.
They were memories because he had already seen it in the future.
The Duffer Brothers also said in an interview that the Upside Down being stuck in the past
would be an important plot point in Stranger Things 5, so they introduced it in Stranger
Things 4.
Based on how the penultimate chapter ended, season 5 will start off in the middle of the
action with Vecna starting his invasion, and when all of the things in Nancy’s vision
start coming true, such as Mike and the rest of their family dying, and the huge creature
with a gaping mouth roaming around Hawkins, the problems are gonna have to be solved with
time travel.
The Upside Down being stuck in November 6th, 1983, cannot be some pure coincidence.
As it stands now, Hawkins is facing the apocalypse from the Upside Down, and the odds are insurmountable,
all because Vecna seems unstoppable.
Max Mayfield is in a coma.
Eddie Munson is dead.
The town is fully on the satanic ritual train of blaming everything on Eddie and the Hellfire
Club.
It seems totally plausible that season 5 will end up feeling a lot like Avengers: Endgame,
where the only way to avoid certain doom is to rewind time.
My guess is that the only way to time travel would have to be from the Upside Down, because
if what Nancy said is correct about time being frozen in 1983, then that would mean that
Vecna was committing his murders from the past.
In other words, Vecna was in 1983 when he was killing his victims, who were all in 1986
at the time that they were getting killed.
It sounds mind blowing when saying all of that out loud.
With all the hints and signs from seasons 3 and 4, that would leave room for a final
time travel twist to be incorporated in the plot of the final season.
While Vecna was doing his actions from the past and affecting the future, maybe our characters
will be aiming at the opposite direction, going into the Upside Down to rewrite history
in 1983.
This will be a risky move for our writers and co-creators because all of this could
affect Will Byers going missing, the portal at Hawkins Lab being opened up by Eleven,
and other major events that occurred early on in the show.
If done wrong, this plot device could immediately lose the audience and cause the series to
jump the shark, which would be bad enough since this is the final season.
But if done right, it would be a perfect solution for our heroes to undo all of the major failures
they’ve experienced, and it would give the show its biggest plot twist, hidden in plain
sight through hints and Easter eggs from previous seasons.
But at the end of the day, it’s just a theory.
We shall see if any of this ends up happening in Stranger Things season 5.
Overall, very exciting times.
And that is all that we have for today.
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