Stranger Issues idea suggests Vecna appeared all the best way again in season 1
Warning: spoilers for Stranger Issues season 4, half 1 forward…
Stranger Issues season 4 launched Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower) as the brand new huge unhealthy of the present. The terrifying wizard-like creature has been terrorizing the youngsters of Hawkins all by means of quantity one. Specializing in these with traumatic backgrounds, he seems in visions earlier than brutally killing them.
Nonetheless, the reveal on the finish of episode seven (which you’ll learn all about in Stranger Issues 4 half 1 ending defined) could counsel he’s been lurking within the background for lots longer than this. We discover out within the closing episode that he was created by Eleven again when she was nonetheless within the Hawkins Laboratory – earlier than the occasions of the primary season happened.
In consequence, some followers suppose he could have been concerned within the disappearance of Will Byers (Noah Schnapp) again in episode one. This idea facilities across the grandfather clock chimes that mark Vecna’s arrival each time he targets a personality.
Through Den of Geek (opens in new tab), a TikTok person (opens in new tab) noticed how a really comparable clock noise might be heard simply earlier than Will is taken into the Upside Down. When he’s using again from taking part in Dungeons and Dragons, he falls off his bike after seeing the Demogorgon in the midst of the street. As he tumbles down the hill, a loud clock chime might be heard, adopted by a number of quieter ones.
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This isn’t the one time a clock has been heard within the present, both. One other TikToker (opens in new tab) observed that in season 3, a clock is chiming when Billy Hargrove (Dacre Montgomery) first meets the Thoughts Flayer. At first of the second episode, he sees a horde of individuals coming towards him within the Upside Down after being pulled into the dimension at Brimborn Metal Works. Throughout this second, a clock might be heard loudly chiming within the background.
What makes this idea all of the extra tantalizing is the reveal from Duffer Brothers that Vecna has been a part of their plan all alongside. In an interview with Tudum (opens in new tab), Matt Duffer shared that exploring that character was a part of their preliminary pitch for the present.
“We had this 25-page mythology doc that Netflix made us write all the best way again in season 1,” he defined when requested concerning the Vecna twist. “As a result of we have been like, ‘We all know what’s occurring within the Upside Down, kind of, however we would like it to be unknowable. We wish it to be mysterious.’ However they have been like, ‘Yeah, however are you able to write it down?’ And so we wrote all of it down.”
Talking about exploring the origins of the Upside Down, and specifically who One/Vecna/Henry Creel is, he added: “We’ve been ready to get into their backstory, when it comes to, clearly, the thriller of what occurred to the opposite numbers. Particularly One, proper? And, it simply took us some time to get round to telling that story.”
Stranger Issues season 4 can be returning with two closing episodes very quickly – try our launch schedule to be sure to don’t miss them. Within the meantime, we’ve been compiling some extra theories forward of the finale. Some viewers suppose Steve might be in peril whereas others have been questioning if a shocking character might be serving to Vecna out.
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