My plan had been to wait until early December then start my Stranger Things rewatch doing an episode or two each day so that I would get to the final episode just as it came out. But I ended up starting early because I wasn’t feeling well and just needed to watch something. I believe I was watching the end of Season 2 when the first part of Season 5 came out. Since then, I’ve caught all up and watched some reactions to Season 5 as well as some theory videos. While some of the theory videos I’ve seen have gotten close, I haven’t seen anyone actually predict this.
First off, at some
point during my rewatch of Season 3, I wondered how the show would end and
where would the characters end up. And I
had the idea of there being a bit of a time jump and we’d see what the
characters were doing in a few years.
For example, we’d see Will going to college. He meets his roommate, who is impressed with
Will’s art or something, and then, somehow, we figure out the roommate is gay,
and we’d be left with the idea that Will may have finally found someone.
But after watching
the first part of Season 5, I’m pretty sure Will is going to die. Because I think either El or Will have to die
for the show to show that it’s serious.
I think they are the only ones that could do that. Killing anyone else – Steve, Joyce, even Mike
– I feel would just be killing a character just to kill a character. Like, Steve dying would wreck Dustin, but I
don’t really see that as a big enough series changing event.
The reason I think
it’s going to be Will, is I’m not sure Will is gay. I think it’s possible Will only loves
Mike. Possibly not even in a sexual way. I don’t want to try to label what Will is,
because I’m sure Will doesn’t fully understand it, and it’s possible he could
have met someone later in life that he could have developed similar feelings
for. But what I think will happen is
Will will basically take a bullet for El, not so much to save her, but to save
Mike the heartache of losing her. I
think that something that Capital T Tragic is the right amount of bitterness the
show needs for a proper ending. It ticks
the box of a major character dying to show things are serious, and it’s a death
that will affect a lot of people in different ways. It will hurt Joyce and Jonathan the most, but
then Hopper has a more or less stepchild’s death to deal with, Mike and El will
have to deal with what he did for them, and Robin will have lost a burgeoning
friend. And if his death is somehow
witnessed by the kids of Hawkins, they’ll have to deal with how they bullied
this kid who still went on to save them.
Or, a better/worse
than death way to do it, is they discover that to truly end everything, someone
needs to seal the worlds off from one another.
And it can only be done from the Upside Down and whoever does it isn’t
coming back. El is going to do it, but
while she and Mike share what they think will be their last embrace, Will
rushes past and start closing it. Possibly
even singing, “Should I stay or should I go now? If I go there will be trouble, And if I stay
it will be double.”
Or maybe everyone
dies. I guess we’ll know in a few weeks.
