Warning: Spoilers forward for Stranger Issues season 5 finale.
Stranger Issues delivered an explosive remaining episode after almost a decade of Netflix’s sci-fi sequence, and questions stay after the season 5 finale, together with Jamie Campbell Bower’s complicated character, Vecna/Henry Creel/Mr. Whotsit/001’s connection to the Thoughts Flayer.
In an interview with Tudum by Netflix, the present’s creators, Matt and Ross Duffer, in addition to Bower, handle the connection Stranger Issues‘ most important antagonist, Vecna, has with the Thoughts Flayer. Throughout a pivotal second within the finale, Vecna is proven confronting his demons throughout the Nevada cave he is spent all season avoiding, and Will Byers (Noah Schnapp) tries to cause with him and present he is being manipulated.
As a substitute, Vecna refuses the compassion and states that the Thoughts Flayer merely “confirmed me that this world is damaged, that man is damaged.” Bower acknowledged that this was an enlightening second for Vecna, but additionally the viewers and followers around the globe: “It was the primary second in Season 5 [where] I actually felt human once more and understood him. I felt like I’ve been wanting to guard him all this time, as a result of I felt like all of the individuals simply hate him. And it was at that second that I used to be like, ‘Now you see why I’m [the way I am].’ “
Ross Duffer additionally addressed the connection between who Henry Creel was and who he grew to become by the hands of the Thoughts Flayer inside these caves:
“We did focus on with the writers’ room if he may have a Billy [Dacre Montgomery] second the place he turns in opposition to the Thoughts Flayer [in a] Darth Vader-type scenario. However the extra we talked about it with the writers and with Jamie [Campbell Bower], he’s gone to this point at this level to get right here, he has to justify every part he’s carried out. And the one method to justify that’s to go, “I selected this, and I imagine on this nonetheless.”
Regardless that he’s shaken by seeing this reminiscence, he’s too far gone at this level to show in opposition to the Thoughts Flayer. However we needed to depart it as much as the viewers when it comes to whether or not younger Henry did select this or whether or not it was merely the Thoughts Flayer controlling him from starting to finish. However finally, when it comes to the place Henry goes, it doesn’t matter as a result of he chooses the aspect of the Thoughts Flayer on the finish of the day.”
Billy’s dying in season 3 was a pivotal second for a personality who started as a egocentric, smug, and quite unlikeable particular person who then was taken management of by the Thoughts Flayer in the same method to Vecna, however throughout the finale at Starcourt Mall, Billy sacrifices himself for Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) and his step-sister Max Mayfield (Sadie Sink). Vecna, nonetheless, selected to stay together with his plans, which finally led to his head being amputated by Winona Ryder’s character Joyce Byers.
All seasons of Stranger Issues can be found to stream on Netflix.
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2016 – 2025-00-00
- Community
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Netflix
- Showrunner
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Matt Duffer, Ross Duffer
- Administrators
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Matt Duffer, Ross Duffer, Andrew Stanton, Frank Darabont, Nimród Antal, Uta Briesewitz
- Writers
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Kate Trefry, Jessie Nickson-Lopez, Jessica Mecklenburg, Alison Tatlock