In the eight - episode first time of year ofStranger Things , Netflix ’s 1980s sci - fi / repugnance / nostalgia mixtape , a faceless monster terrorise a suburban Indiana neck of the woods , shady regime suits convey paranormal experimentation , and four kids make a mysterious acquaintance who can do powerful thing with her mind . The splurge - worthy , reference - heavyshow , fromWayward Pineswriters Matt and Ross Duffer , connects many of the Lucy in the sky with diamonds in satisfy ways , but some things remain maddeningly unclear .
In honor of the Spielbergian series ' breakout fictitious character Eleven , here are a bunch of questions we utterly need respond whenStranger Thingsreturns forSeason 2 .
1. Who is Eleven’s biological father?
The show intemperately incriminate that Eleven is a child born to a cleaning lady named Terry Ives , who undergo the last gasps of the first-rate - secret MKUltra political platform . But who ’s her daddy ? Matthew Modine ’s Dr. Brenner defecate Eleven call him " Papa . " Is it possible that he was slumber with his MKUltra case and is the ( horrible ) biologic father as well as a surrogate one ?
2. Was there only one monster?
The Duffer Brothers treat theStranger Thingsmonster like the shark fromJawsor a Xenomorph from theAlienfranchise , hide the flap - faced beast in shadows until the mop up episodes . This distract from the fact there seems to be only one teras in the Upside Down property . If there really is a whole parallel version of our human beings on the other side , would it be more populated with creepy-crawly creature ? Maybe Petals the Upside Down Monster was just angry because it was lonely .
3. Why did Eleven disappear when the monster disappeared?
The audience does n’t witness the first moment that the lusus naturae passes through the gate into the Hawkins Lab , nor are we show how Eleven manages to escape the centripetal - deprivation armoured combat vehicle after coming into contact with the demon for the first meter . This think the rules regularise Eleven and the monster ’s connection are all but nonexistent . In the final episode , Eleven dissolves the animal into pieces . When the monster - dust clears , Eleven is also gone . Is there some variety of preservation of mass rule that we ’re missing ? Please do n’t make me flip through old physic textbooks .
4. Does Chief Harper know what happened to Eleven?
Stranger Thingsends with a prison term jump , clean up a month after the colossus is ( seemingly ) toss off . The last thing we ’d check prior to the time leap is Chief Harper ( David Harbour ) get into a car with two governing agents , but when we blame up with him a month later on , he looks like he ’s back to his day - crapulence self … except he posit a box of Eggos in the forest . Does Chief Harper know where Eleven is , or is he just hoping to tempt her back into Mirkwood ? This is leave deliberately unclear , and it ’s keeping me up at night .
5. Why are Nancy and Steve back together?
Despite growing nigher to Jonathan Byers ( Charlie Heaton ) during their engagement against the monster in the Byers plate , the end ofStranger Thingsshows Nancy ( Natalia Dyer ) cuddle up to Steve ( Joe Keery ) , who ’d only marginally redeem himself after being the world ’s unsound jerk to her and everyone else for much of the serial . Is she really that shallow ? Did her brief stretch in the Upside Down alter her senses ? Or is this another way ( along with the consumption of New Order ’s " Elegia " ) that the creators are say us they digPretty in Pink ?
6. Did someone create the Upside Down?
No one who has seen or discipline the existence of the Upside Down ever explain how the world posture alongside ours . When Eleven is in the receptive - deprivation cooler , she come in an all - black astral plane that is unlike from the Upside Down but also connected to both the Upside Down and the real world . A science teacher simplifies potential memory access to alternate property using an " acrobat and flea " analogy : an acrobat can only go forward or backwards on a tightrope , while a flea can go fore , backward , sideways or underneath the R-2 . But base on what we ’re show , it ’s unreadable what the joining is between the literal macrocosm , Eleven ’s astral plane , and the Upside Down . When Eleven first reports the monster , Dr. Brenner require to contact it , but does n’t seem concerned that an extra - dimensional creature is worry the same space as Russian spy . Is it possible that Brenner , or other humans , unintentionally willed the Upside Down into existence ?
7. Are there at least 10 other psychic children?
The boy give Eleven her name because of a tattoo on her forearm : " 011 . " This inculpate there are – or were – more psychic Kyd , right ? If Terry get pregnant without roll in the hay it during her metre being subjected to MKUltra tests , the possibility that El might not be the only child is very disturbing . Was Brenner ( or someone – or something– else ) impregnating study long before Terry had her child taken from her ? If so , will the show put in character with , say , a mystic 005 – or even cooler , 007 – tattooed on their forearms ?
8. Why did it take the monster so long to find Will?
The 7th episode ofStranger Thingsratchets up the tension by terminate on the demon determination Camp Byers , Will ’s concealment smirch in the Upside Down . Up to that level , the monster had been mostly focalize on other thing – scuff Barb into his attribute , mauling a deer , playing hide - and - seek with Nancy . But then all of a sudden he finds Will . What gives ? Is Will unequaled , or somehow different than Barb , who got web and tentacled much more speedily ? Complicating matters : Eleven has a visual modality of a slug cower out of Barbara ’s dead body . Will suffers from the same symptom in the terminal scene of the show . Did the demon know something about Will that we do n’t ?
9. Is Will the flea?
On that same breaker point , the end ofStranger Thingsoffers a potential setup for time of year 2 : when Will move to the bathroom and pukes up a slug into the sink , he is briefly enthral to the Upside Down without needing a portal to hand through . It seems like ride out so long in the universe ’s toxic atmospheric state may have had some side effects . That , or Will always had the ability to portal into the Upside Down , and that ’s why he was a target in the first place .
10. Who fixed the Byers family house?
A one - calendar month time jump does n’t adequately explain how Joyce Byers ( Winona Ryder ) , a single female parent in 1983 who needed a two - week advance to grease one’s palms Christmas lights when her Word went missing , manages to get her very damaged house fixedandstill have enough left over to purchase Will an Atari for Christmas . I ’d suggest that the townsfolk pitched in to help repair the burnt hallway , the gasoline - soaked carpet , the black paint on wallpaper , and the destroyed living - way walls , but I ’m jolly sure the deal made with the government mean that Joyce could n’t talk about why she mess up up her theater so gravely . Where ’d all that money and manpower fall from ? I smell conspiracy .
11. Why does Will roll multiple dice to cast fireball during the firstDungeons & Dragonscampaign?
First off , cast ball of fire does n’t require an onset roll ; his target ask to roll up a save . Second of all , even if Will was cast a save ( for some reason ) , he ’d only roll a exclusive d20 , not two handful of dramatically explode dice . Third , Stranger Thingsreally asks for the full nerd treatment , so do n’t look at me that way .
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