Robin & Vickie’s Relationship Destiny In Stranger Issues Season 5’s Ending Clarified By Creators

Warning: There are spoilers forward for Stranger Issues season 5.The destiny of Robin (Maya Hawke) and Vickie’s (Amybeth McNulty) relationship is addressed by Stranger Issues creators Ross and Matt Duffer. Vickie learns in regards to the Upside Down and helps Robin and her associates combat towards the supernatural threats in season 5. Nevertheless, the Stranger Issues sequence finale doesn’t explicitly affirm what occurs to their relationship within the aftermath and Vickie doesn’t seem within the epilogue.

Whereas talking with Leisure Weekly, the Duffers reveal that they “did discuss” about what in the end occurs to Vickie, however they determined to depart it to the viewers to resolve what turns into of her and Robin. Matt just isn’t optimistic about their possibilities, although, acknowledging that almost all highschool {couples} don’t stay collectively after departing for faculty. Take a look at the Duffers’ feedback beneath:

Ross Duffer: We try this flash-forward in Mike’s story and we convey them as much as a sure level, after which we wish to go away it just a little bit as much as followers when it comes to the place these characters find yourself in the end. Do Robin and Vickie keep collectively? Perhaps, possibly not.

Matt Duffer: From my standpoint and from everybody I knew in highschool, what share of {couples} stay collectively after they go away for faculty? Extraordinarily low. Max and Lucas survive as a result of their love is that deep, however only a few others do. However, you by no means know.

Throughout Robin’s ultimate scene within the sequence, when she reunites with Steve (Joe Keery), Nancy (Natalia Dyer), and Jonathan (Charlie Heaton), she additionally makes a remark about “overbearing important others,” which already hinted that she and Vickie have been not collectively.

Between this line, Robin being away at Smith School, and the Duffers’ feedback, it’s all however confirmed that Robin and Vickie’s romance is over when the sequence picks up 18 months after they assist defeat Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower) and witness Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) make the final word sacrifice.

After Vickie realized in regards to the Upside Down, helped save Max’s (Sadie Sink) life, and have become a member of the group combating to avoid wasting Hawkins and the world in Stranger Issues season 5, quantity 2, her absence and the shortage of acknowledgment within the finale’s epilogue can really feel just a little jarring. An important deal has modified by that time, although, given the time leap and because the youthful characters proceed to develop up.

The epilogue additionally understandably prioritizes the principle Stranger Issues‘ characters who’ve been the main target for almost all of the present. Vickie was not launched till season 4 and didn’t develop into part of the central group till season 5, quantity 2.

Past Vickie, Matt’s response to her destiny additionally addresses why Max and Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin) are the one couple to definitively find yourself collectively. Whereas lots of Stranger Issues‘ characters get a contented ending, the Duffers acknowledge that almost all highschool {couples} do not final without end, even these like Nancy and Jonathan, who’ve been collectively for many of the present. Max and Lucas are an exception as a result of distinctive depth of their unbreakable bond cast in season 2.