This post check massive spoilers forStranger ThingsSeason 1 and promotional cloth for time of year 2 .
Stranger Things 2debuts on Netflix at the end of this hebdomad and , amazingly , it ’s been well over a twelvemonth since we first met the cast of character and ventured into the Upside Down for the first clock time . There are few stated facts aboutStranger thing 2 : the tone will be darker , sentence has progressed so the series takes place in 1984 , and thanks to the trailers , we know Will is see some sort oflarge monster in the cloudsas he has … sight ? premonition ? There ’s room for guessing .
“CLOSE GATE”
The most important matter to remember is that the portal to the Upside Down that was open by try out on Eleven is not closed , even after the Demogorgon is defeated . What comes through that logic gate to another dimension and how it breaches the passage seems to be the cardinal drive force behindStranger Things 2 .
Hopper ’s aspect and lines indicate that he ’s the one pushing the possibility that all the events of Season 2 are emanating from Hawkins National Laboratory ; he even has a single-valued function with homocentric circles suggesting " emanating " is the right word . Something come out of the Labs ’ portal , and flamethrowers did n’t work to carry it . If Will ’s visions and seizure are connected to the Upside Down , something less touchable could be oozing through and only Byers can see it .
Whatever Eleven did to start the hepatic portal vein ca n’t be well undone . Audio ripped from Netflix ’s " Countdown toStranger thing " website revealedhidden morse computer code : " . _ . _ . C . _ . . L _ _ _ O . . . S . atomic number 99 _ _ . G . _ A _ tonne . east " This same kind of morse computer code was commonly included as a lower-ranking social function on old school walkie talkies , like the ones used in the first season by Eleven to pass on with another proportion .
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The danger in Hawkins is n’t a psychic child . The danger in Hawkins the other , darker , dimension that refuses to stay on one side of the room access . Will Byers is seen draw tunnels or tendrils in a mad montage , later we see him being exchange down the hallway of the schoolhouse as shadow spreads like nervure of immorality reaching out towards him . We do n’t screw if the Upside Down wants Will specifically or if the cloud behemoth is trying to enter our world . What we know for certain is that Hawkins wo n’t be rid of its supernatural issues until the portal site is keep out tight .
The importance ofDungeons and Dragons
One of the original theory aboutStranger thing 2involved the ogre the group face at the last of season one ’s D&D session from the finale . With Will finally back from the Upside Down , the grouping is playingDungeons and Dragons , with Mike in the Dungeon Master smear . Mike warn " It ’s almost here " before plank down the Thessalhydra . The drone forStranger thing 2have let in the same line but from Will , impart even more credence to aPajibapost from 2016 dig deep into the playact creature .
The Thessalhydra is a variation of the mythological Hydra which appear inAdvanced Dungeons and Dragons Monster Manual IIin 1983 . The creature has inscrutable origins and could even have been create or manufacture by some grim force-out . The Thessalhydra reproduced by spawning a cross of whatever it infected , like a certain slug that Will Byers puked up into the lav sink maybe ?
The gargantuan soma in the clouds does n’t seem to have multiple heads , but the Demogorgon and Petals from time of year one did n’t share the exact same characteristic either . What theD&Dencounters have in common is that Will the Wise should have used his fireball spell . The teaser forStranger thing 2have play up flaming being used as a weapon . We see a flame thrower Aaron’s rod what looks like a expectant tentacle down in the science lab in the second trailer , and there is an installment called " Will the Wise . " All the coincidences have many call the tail monstrosity from the time of year two trailers the Thessalhydra and it ’s easy to see why .
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We don’t really know what happened to Hopper’s daughter
The first time of year of Stranger Things give us a few intimation . In one setting , we see Sara Hopper become suddenly terrified while play with her parents out of doors . Then we see her presumptively after chemotherapy while Hopper reads to her . We ’re told she died of Crab but … did she really ? David Harbour who play Hopper ( and will be the new Hellboy in an upcoming reboot ! ) toldTV Guide :
" Hopper ’s daughter will be the primary focal point of Season 2 , but not in the way that you think it will be . Hopper ’s understanding of that relationship and Hopper ’s understanding of being a Father of the Church and of being a man maturate deep and deeper in Season 2 , and we get a lot of metre to explore what that is , but it wo n’t be in the literal way that you think it is . I do n’t need to tell you any more than that because it ’s unspoilt stuff . "
Which sounds like Sara Hopper could be of import in a plot way , or that Sara Hopper is just authoritative in a thematic way . In Season 1 , Hopper used the pain of the passing of his nipper to motivate his search for Will Byers , and his Eggo - stashing relationship with Eleven at the ending of the first season had some people questioning ifEleven was in secret Hopper ’s daughter somehow(unlikely ) . It seems more like the doctors observing Will Byers might be more dark than they seem , perhaps like the doc that regale Sara Hopper ? If we went back to that first introduction in Season 1 and the reverse slant of the appalled fiddling girl ’s perspective , would there be a jumbo shadow ogre in the clouds ?
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At the end of Season 1 , Hopper ’s dedication remains in dubiousness : We saw him get in an overlooked machine at the end , presumably having arrive to some deal with Hawkins National Lab to allow Joyce and himself access to the Upside Down vena portae . inquire that portal and what arrive out of it could still be Hopper ’s job , but it is just unclear where his loyalties lie beyond him feeling protective of children . Did Hawkins research lab know something about Sara that has kept him there?Was she One , Seven , or Ten ?
AGremlinsconnection
In case you miss it , Stranger Things 2underwent a very sneaky change of sequence claim . Very quick after the show was picked up for a second season , Netflix released a mystifier that appear toreveal the titles for the next season ’s sequence . They were : " Madmax , " " The male child Who come Back To Life , " " The Pumpkin Patch , " " The Palace , " " The Storm , " " The Pollywog , " " The Secret Cabin , " " The Brain , " and " The Lost Brother . " Jump cut to October 9th of this class when the following teaser hit Twitter :
The new episode claim are " Madmax , " " Trick Or Treat Freak , " " The Pollywog , " " Will The Wise , " " Dig Dug , " " The Spy , " and three enigma chapters - which may or may not be the same ( see below ) . The interesting absence seizure during the change is " The Pumpkin Patch " with several references to the actual pumpkin patch up location popping up in promotional material and theStranger Thingsmobile game , plus a shot of hatched ( ? ) or eaten ( ? ) pumpkins in the trailer that match the single in the posters .
New art for " The Pollywog " has the claim hidden inside a trash can and the terminal trailer has Dustin approaching a trash can with hisGhostbusterswand drawn , as if there ’s something within . A new episode claim " Dig Dug , " references a video plot where you have to ruin underground tunneling monstrosity . TheStranger thing 2teasers are decayed with tunnels .
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The canonical theory last : we ’re seeing the steps of something evolve . Perhaps it ’s a slug or bullet produced by Will between the seasons ( The sewers are also a location in the unexampled fluid game ) , or maybe it ’s something else , but it seem to hatch from or eat on pumpkin . The name " Pollywog " ( a polliwog , a young iteration of an amphibious vehicle ) plus Hopper ’s line from the net trailer ( " It ’s not like it ’s before . It ’s grown . " ) probably mean Season 2 ’s monster evolves by course , likethe movieGremlins(released June 1984 ) .
The implications of the other abandoned titles
In the net teaser trailer , we see Eleven with curly dark hair employ her powers to lift up a chain lock on a room access . The door swings undefendable and we get a wider shot of the hall that can be matched to the Ives household from Season 1 . In that house Becky Ives keep an eye on over her sister Terry Ives , Eleven ’s biological female parent . It ’s not well-defined what brings Eleven to where her catatonic female parent is or why she reckon so nettled off while it ’s happening , but there is one more hint in the net laggard that we ’re not done exploringwhat really bechance to Terry in the MK Ultra broadcast : a dead reckoning of what looks like Terriundergoing jolt therapy , nestled amongst some straightaway cuts . If Eleven is inquire her beginning , is it just to reconnect with her mother , or could the old " The Lost Brother " refer to another numbered , superpowered nipper ?
In the first preview to have new footage , we can see Hopper in an empty room and the windowpane blow out . Some have ruminate this isThe Secret Cabinfrom the baffled instalment titles . If Eleven actually does run away the Upside Down before regrowing her hair , how does Hopper know how to find her in the wood ? Could the hit of multiple storylines save El ’s secret hiding place until the final third of the series ?
" The Brain " is the most ominous of the titles left out now that the shadow monster has been shown multiple time and shot of tentacles or shadower veins in the shoal chasing Will has been show . The Brain suggests a cardinal hub for some sort of action , which could be … anything ! The Gate at Hawkins Lab ? The master copy of some hive - creative thinker animate being ? The literal brainiac of Will Byers?Get your guesses in now .
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