#st5 wrap party

[will80sbyers]

Lmaoooo

[finnoahsource]

some pictures of Finn and Noah at the Stranger Things 5 wrap party! 14/12/24 via

[ellstinson]

[nataliadyernews]

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[byler-alarmist]

I'm not setting my hopes too high, but listen - the fact that they named off every member of the S1 party's story being over except Byler was SO sus....

the duffers are nerds, have we ever considered that spin off might be a D&D inspired

what if we're getting cleradin

[noahschnappinfs]

Noah dancing with Caleb at the ST5 wrap party

[faelorelia]

Thoughts on the latest ST5 BTS footage 🎞

After watching the "first look at ST5" video for the nth time, I can finally put my thoughts into text. I was extremely hyped when I first saw it, and it made me very emotional – realizing that the end of this series is coming and that we’ll actually get to see it one day.

I love how they showed us the BTS video instead of a super short teaser because it allowed us to finally see all of our favorite characters along with some new ones. 👀 The boys finally have lots of scenes together; the Wheelers interact more (I'm especially excited for Mike, Nancy, and Holly interactions); the older teens are all together; El is about to kick ass; Hopper is going through it again; we can see Joyce at last; we get a glimpse of different characters that will be important next season; various character groupings are guaranteed; and Will is indeed in his main character era. This is truly exciting!

I'm particularly happy to know that we'll see a lot of the original party together: hanging out with each other at school, planning and strategizing together, and of course, working as a real team to defeat the evil and save the day (again). We’ve watched them grow from little kids playing D&D into young men who are not to be messed with. I love these characters very much!

I'm glad we'll get to see flashbacks of what happened to Will in the Upside Down when he went missing, and of course, I'm super excited about the new plotlines and how they decided to wrap this whole story together. I feel it's going to be amazing! 🌟

[henrysglock]

i love all your theorizing about henry, but how likely do you think it is that it'll actually become canon? bc like, i'd prefer spending time with main group of characters, the party, the teens, joyce and hopper, and seeing their arcs. and i definitely want a satisfactory ending for henry's arc, but i have a hard time picturing a huge twist about multiple henry's and deep diving into the creel family and brenner and time travel, etc in s5. esp bc s5 is supposed to be a lot shorter than s4. idk i'd just love to hear your thoughts!

Oh I’ve been waiting for this one!

Yeah, no, they’re definitely not going to take time to lay out every detail and deep dive into every aspect of characters’ relationships to each other. Are we going to get details on the mechanics of it? Probably not. Are we actually going to return to the fucky NINA sequence? Maybe, maybe not. I don’t know!

However…there are plenty of concrete details they have to explain, many of which point to a canon time travel/alternate universe twist.

They have to explain Henry (?) turning back the clock, because they made a point to show us that. They spent a great deal of time on that specific shot.

They have to address Alice’s death, because they explicitly don’t show it, there’s no way Henry (?) physically could have done it if he was trancing Victor the whole time.

They have to address the discrepancies in facts between Henry’s (?) retelling of the 1959 massacre and Victor’s retelling of the same night.

They’ll likely address the discrepancy between the description of the rabbit scene and what Raphael is portraying on screen.

They’ll likely address the 1979 Massacre weirdness too, because they explicitly don’t show Henry (?) killing anyone but the first set of guards and 002…and we also have an image of a blood-free Henry (?) looking at the dead children in confusion.

To do all this, they’ll most likely address the content of the newspapers re: Henry and Edward Creel, especially with so much twin imagery and the concepts of twinners/alternate timelines.

I think they’ll allude to a lot of the fucked-up bits of the Creel-Brenner relationships the same way they used subtext to tell us the kinds of abuse that were done to Henry and El in Brenner’s lab (i.e. the framing of the electrocution scene, the 3 legged Papa drawing, Brenner’s mannerisms with the children). I don’t think they’ll have the time to actually lay all of it out explicitly, and for some parts…they legally/morally can’t and shouldn’t lay it out explicitly.

So…There are a handful of things the Duffers must address, but they definitely won’t explicitly address every clue and the mechanics of everything/every detail. They simply don’t have time for all that within the structure of the season. However, they don’t have to flesh it all out to make the twist work! They really only need a handful of well placed shots; the whole thing could realistically be wrapped up within the same span of time as the NINA twist sequence…that was a huge twist too, and it took a relatively small amount of time. They had Cali, Hawkins, NINA (not memories), and Russia all happening at the same time as the NINA memories thing, and they made it work. They can definitely do the same for a time loop/alternate universe thing when all we really have going on in ST5 is a) the battle against Vecna, and b) the search for Max.

Hell, they’ve already set us up for it with multiple Chekhov’s Gun details in ST4! They kind of have to address it, at this point.

That said, they definitely won’t flesh out every single relationship with backstory re: Henry within the frame of the TV show…That’s what the play is for ;) The First Shadow my beloved…come home to me…

[samaraevanswriter]

PREDICTED GROUPS / ST1 ---> ST5:

• The party - El, Will, Mike, Dustin, Lucas, Max

• The older teens - Nancy, Johnathan, Steve, Robin, Vicky

• The adults - Joyce and Hopper

AND/OR:

5 smaller groups with everyone's storylines

- Group 1 - saving Max - El, Lucas, Erica ---> I think Erica will help El come into her own the same way Max did in S3, and Lucas and El are likely to bond a lot through losing Max

- Group 2 - I know what you are - Mike, Will ---> Will's central storyline and Mike refusing to leave him alone alongside their love story

- Group 3 - helping Dustin - Dustin, Steve, Robin, Vicky ---> Dustin's gonna be dealing with Eddie's death in ST5 so Steve and Robin will be on him like leeches, plus a Robin and Vicky plot

- Group 4 - the joys of parenting - Joyce, Hopper ---> I hope we get to see them just happy together before snapping into 'protect my babies' mode with the wonder twins

- Group 5 - Sherlock and Watson - Nancy, Johnathan ---> I doubt Nancy will let it go that the upside down's stuck in '83 and they'll be investigating a whole lotta stuff

CAMEOS to wrap up or full-circle to S1:

- Mr Clarke!!!! Maybe answering the phone as Erica's teacher for a science question??

- Murray murraying in Byler's direction

- Argyle - it'd be great if he came back to Hawkins on Christmas break from college with Johnathan, but if not, I wanna see them hanging out in their dorm before Johnathan leaves

Argyle's not a definite to stay in Hawkins especially after the 2 year jump if him and Johnathan have college in California, but I hope he at least makes a cameo after the time jump

- Hellfire club! It'd be great to see the 3 boys making a memorial for Eddie + maybe after the time jump, a new generation of Hellfire with the party leading

- Someone should probably check on Dr Owens and see if the dudes alright

- Mini flashbacks to all the dead characters

- If we're getting a lot of Lucas and Erica together in ST5, I wanna meet Tina onscreen and have the girls annoy Lucas

- Suzie being the only one to make the new Dustin smile

[will80sbyers]

stop why are they so adorable 😭

[will80sbyers]

why is he always dressed like Waldo 😭😭😭

[finnoahsource]

Noah dancing with Caleb at the Stranger Things 5 wrap party! 14/12/24 via

[will80sbyers]

[finnoahsource]

More of Finn at the Stranger Things 5 wrap party! 14/12/24

📸: atomic.vamp

[finnoahsource]

Finn at the Stranger Things 5 wrap party 14/12/24

[finnoahsource]

Finn at the Stranger Things 5 wrap party 14/12/24

📸: moomermaid