Stranger Things creators say they’ve known the final scene for “six or seven years,” and “always knew what the last 40 minutes were going to be” | The Duffer brothers have been working toward the ending of Stranger Things for years

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  1. This is the type of intentional writing that rewards diehard fans. Happy for them.

    That said, I don’t think they anticipated the series being as big a hit and had some filler in there to pad more episodes.

  2. I’d hope so considering how long it takes to make each season.

  3. I know how it’s going to end: Eleven is going to put her hands out in front of her and start screaming until her nose bleeds, then the big bad will dissolve into a burst of dust.

  4. They should have worked on the rest of the series with as much fervor. I stopped watching a handful of seasons ago because of the terrible writing.

  5. I’ve suspected we’ll find out it’s all just a D&D campaign they’re doing while they’re back in town for their 10 year high school reunion.

    I mean I hope not but they at least talked about it for a bit.

  7. It’s going to end with all of them getting their college diplomas.

  8. So, they came up with the ending after the end of season 4?

  9. I kind of hope that doesn’t turn out into a HIMYM situation. In the first season they were all kids. Eleven is married now. The characters and actors have grown.

  10. I watch for the nostalgia which I think they are really good at

    I will be excited to see what they do next

  12. That’s a coincedence. It been 6 or 7 years since i cared

  13. It ends with El doing her thing and then it fades out to the main kids sitting around a table playing D&D and it turns out it was all one big campaign that they were doing and they’ve actually still been kids the whole time.

  14. 11 is going to sacrifice herself to save the day. Everyone is sad. Final scene is everything back to normal with everyone being happy. Montage. End.

  15. If it ever comes to the small screen, someone tell me how it went.

  20. Getting LOST finale hype flashbacks and look how that turned out 😭

  21. Well, yeah, I hope so. It makes a lot more sense than working toward the beginning for years.

  22. They will be transported to the upside down and fight Vec with powers that characters in Dungeons and Dragons would have. Eleven will give them these psychic powers, and they will even wear costumes.

    I felt it was building towards a big real life D&D game/fight for some time, and it will end with sacrifice … with my money being on Will. His story arc will come full circle, and he will protect and save his friends and loved one!

  24. So, will the season start with “5 years have passed since…”? How else is the fact that the kids are adults now going to be explained?

  26. That kind of phrase makes me thing about two options:

    One the most obvious it’s that the whole history is a D&D campaign what would be unfortunate but realistic.

    The other is everything goes well but with some causalities but there is a time skip showing how every kid became a grown up and have a normal life now.

  28. I know Reddit doesn’t love this show but honestly I just did a full rewatch to get ready for the new season and I just loved it. Love the 80s vibe, the characters, the mall! And everything else. Very excited for the new season

  29. Wow, Gamesradar. It’s as if, I don’t know, they actually wrote an outline and mapped out their story. You know, what good story telling is supposed to do?

  30. Th final scene will be an homage to the final scene from a superior property from the 80s.

  31. The end of season 3 was actually a perfect way to tie off the whole thing, season 4 was a mess of retconned, incoherent nonsense with absolutely zero stakes…I have almost no hopes for the final season being good but would love to be proven wrong.

  32. They’ve already said that most of the final episode is an epilogue of sorts. What could the final 40 minutes be if they’ve had it planned this long?

  33. Good!

    Creators SHOULD know the end of a show or film!

    Unlike Disney who restarted the Star Wars franchise with a trilogy that had no ending planned until well into production 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

  35. All will join hands with 11 like hands across America

  36. Joyce walking into what she thought was Hopper’s dojo and finding a Duane Reade bag with the handles tied

  39. Good! It’s like the anti-LOST, and I respect the hell out of it. I think a lot of series’ shouldn’t be green-lit in the first place without the ending being at least broadly known. That’s just about respect for the audience.

  41. Will and the demogorgon fall in love, big wedding in the Upside Down.

  42. I’m not expecting it, but it would be full if they did a breakfast club style ending

  43. All the surviving numbers comeback to start a superhero franchise. Everyone else dies.

  45. So they’ve known since they stopped filming the last season??

  46. Was the plan always to wait until the cast was ridiculously older and it made no sense?

  47. Jumanji they all go back to the start of the upside down and barb is there

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