By Chris Snellgrove
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It’s an thrilling time for Stranger Issues followers. The sequence finale is dropping on New 12 months’s Eve, and we’ll lastly uncover whether or not our characters can roll a crit hit and efficiently defeat Vecna as soon as and for all.
Understandably, followers have many questions on the finale, together with who will die and whether or not the Thoughts Flayer is admittedly as dormant as everybody thinks. Nevertheless, I’m centered on a unique query that the present has thus far refused to reply: what the heck is so necessary about November 6, a date that Stranger Issues is totally obsessive about?
November 6 Is The Day Time Stopped
This thriller all started with the revelation that the Upside Down is frozen in time on November 6, 1983. That’s the identical day that Will Byers was kidnapped, which made followers speculate that there should have been some sort of connection. Ultimately, we bought a sort of reply: that is the date Eleven opened a gate to the Upside Down by making psychological contact with a Demogorgon.
That also leaves a number of mechanical questions for Stranger Issues followers to unpack, after all. It’s nonetheless not precisely clear why time is totally frozen within the Upside Down, however the authentic thriller appears cleared up. Eleven created a bridge to a world of monsters, and one among them snagged Will that very same day.
Thriller solved, proper? Nope.
November 6 Is Extra Than The Day Time Stopped
Not precisely: later, we discover out that November sixth, 1959, can also be the day that Henry Creel (the longer term Vecna) was going to make his appearing debut in a play directed by Joyce. Quick ahead practically three a long time, and on November sixth, 1987, Vecna will attempt to merge the hellish dimension dubbed “the Abyss” with our personal world.
These occasions (particularly the play) seemingly don’t have anything to do with when Eleven simply occurred to open a gateway. So, we’re left questioning what the heck is so vital about this explicit date. Hopefully, the Stranger Issues sequence finale will present some solutions, however it’s oddly fascinating that the present has turned this date into a serious thriller that has lasted practically a decade.
The play Stranger Issues: The First Shadow clarifies that that is the date issues went catastrophically flawed for Henry Creel. After gaining powers in Dimension X, he kills his mom and sister, injures the woman he loves, and is hauled again to Hawkins Lab by Dr. Brenner. Due to this, some followers suppose that Henry (now Vecna) is obsessive about this date, returning to it as a sort of traumatic reminiscence.
There Are No Coincidences
Traumatic reminiscence would clarify (partially, no less than) why Vecna needs to launch his loopy “merge the worlds” plan on November sixth. He could be re-enacting his trauma, and even sharing his ache with everybody on the planet on a morbidly ironic date.
It wouldn’t clarify why this simply occurs to be the identical date that Eleven opened the gate to the Upside Down, inflicting Will Byers to get kidnapped by Vecna. It might all simply be a coincidence, however I feel Lucas spoke for all of us in Stranger Issues Season 5 when he mentioned, “I don’t consider in coincidences… Not anymore.”
It’s a really protected wager that the Stranger Issues sequence finale will present some reply to why November sixth is so necessary. Whether or not that reply will fulfill the followers who’ve been puzzling over this thriller for years is one other query fully.
The standard of that reply might decide whether or not the present efficiently sticks the touchdown or turns into the following Recreation of Thrones: a masterpiece that slowly unraveled till there was nothing actually left of the present followers as soon as cherished.
