The reason Vecna, like Eleven, can open gates is because Vecna was once Eleven’s “sibling.” In a sensory deprivation tank hallucination, Eleven learns Vecna’s entire story-how he moved to Hawkins with his family, the Creels how he developed psychic powers and hatred for his sinning parents how he killed his family, leaving only Victor (played in his young form by actor Kevin L. We’ll need more Dustin exposition to work that one out. Time travel is still a recent phenomenon in Stranger Things. (More on that down below.) Plus, the gate was opened again by the Russians in 1985, so shouldn’t that have given the Upside Down a hardware update? Perhaps the upside down is permanently stuck in 1983? Still, that seems impossible because we know the gate opened as early as 1979. If the gang has entered the Upside Down in 1983, at the moment Will was first captured, wouldn’t that mean, technically, Will is also in the Upside Down (or, rather, Will -3 years)? Wouldn’t it also mean that in a short amount of time, Barb will enter the Upside Down. Nancy’s discovery opens up some potential plotines for the next season of Stranger Things is it possible to use the Upside Down to travel back in time? While we don’t know if one can re-enter the Right-side Up three years in the past, it does seem possible to access past objects in the Upside Down.Ĭonceivably, one can also access past people in the Upside Down. The Upside Down always seemed to be frozen in time, but which time has never been fully explored. The most recent diary entry is dated 1983, meaning the Upside Down is three years old-or at least, the version of the Upside Down the gang entered is three years old.īefore this moment there was always a question of continuity in the Upside Down: how is it that every location, object, thing, exactly mirrors the Right-side Up? Is there a monster keeping the Upside Down constantly updated for every change in the Right-side Up? Instead, they find shoes, though Nancy says the shoes are old. When the Upside Down gang arrives at Nancy’s house, they are unable to find two guns kept in a shoebox under Nancy’s bed. Here are some key discoveries from the Stranger Things 4 Part 1 finale. So before Part 2 rolls around, let’s take stock of some of these new discoveries. How the Upside Down works may now be the central question of the series. What they found could change everything we know about that world. In season 4, it took seven episodes for the gang to re-enter the Upside Down. Facing the slimy pubescent horrors of the Upside Down-which is maybe a metaphor for adulthood or simply a creepy-ass place that reflects, impressionistically, all our adolescent anxieties-is nothing compared to horrors of actually getting older, and potentially growing apart. The real monsters are these things that threatened belonging, which is why features like bullying, alienation, and outcasts figure so prominently into the seasons more than monsters, these things are what kids fear. The conflicts are monster-driven, sure, but they’re primarily interpersonal they involve those things that stand in the way of friendship. The Season 4 Part 1 finale gave us even more insight into this inverse realm, which may be the key to understanding not just Part 2, but also the series itself.įrom its first season, Stranger Things has been about childhood. While adults, soldiers, and scientists enter the space, only kids seem to be inexplicably drawn to it, trapped inside it, possessed through it. Part Dante hellscape, part real-world application for skills acquired playing Dungeons and Dragons, the Upside Down is also uniquely adolescent. Serious question: What is the Upside Down? Throughout four seasons of Netflix’s Stranger Things, we’ve only become vaguely acquainted with the metaphysically inverted, floaty dust particle reality beneath Hawkins, Indiana-and, presumably, all of space. The following contains spoilers for Stranger Things 4 Part 1
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