Stranger Things 2: 4 massive questions after the final trailer
In under three minutes, Stranger Things 2 has changed everything we know about the season. Here are our four biggest questions.
Stranger Things 2 is finally within sight. Two weeks from now, it’ll be time to hunker down and power through all the episodes, lest you walk into the office Monday morning (or wander onto Twitter) and feel completely left out.
Just to make the wait that much more agonizing, Netflix dropped a trailer today, which is Friday, Oct. 13. One has to wonder if Netflix actively set things up so that it would all work out this way, because it’s almost too perfect.
Anyway, here’s the trailer:
Now, to the questions we have.
Hello, Steve. How big is your role?
Okay, that kicker at the end with Dustin asking Steve if he still has the nail-bat was probably not supposed to be as funny as yours truly found it. Anyway, Steve shows up a lot in this trailer, and it has us wondering how much he knows, how much he’s going to get involved in the weirdness (after mostly staying out of it in season 1), and if Nancy, Steve, and Jonathan are going to become the teenage monster-slaying dream team as the older counterparts to Will, Mike, Dustin, Lucas, and Eleven.
It certainly looks as though Nancy, at least, is ready to step up yet again, if that shot of Hopper tossing her a weapon is any indication.
What can we expect of Max?
Nerdist has posited that Max will “have a big role […] throughout the season,” but she doesn’t even get to speak in this trailer, only getting a few reaction shots here and there. Granted, presumably Stranger Things 2 doesn’t want to give the game away completely when it comes to her, but what dynamic will she add to the group? Is she primarily going to contrast Eleven? How does she fit in to the horror aspects of the show? Going into the season, she’s still one of our biggest question marks.
How is Will different from Eleven?
It’s hard not to draw parallels between the Eleven flashbacks from season 1 and what look to be plenty of scenes in the hospital for Will in this return to Hawkins. As our sister site, Netflix Life, notes, Will’s a key to Stranger Things 2 — but this time, we actually get to see more of him. However, just speaking on a practical level, the hospital scenes will differ in that Will’s being tested for something that normal medicine can’t treat, while Eleven’s tests were for specific traits from the Hawkins lab.
It’s clear, though, that there’s a sort of paralleling going on between the two characters. How will Will’s story diverge from Eleven’s? What will their interactions be like? How much will we see them interact?
What are the drawings?
There’s a key shot that appears to show Joyce sitting on the floor with drawings all around her of a blue trail. Is this the new wall of letters and lights? Possibly. Is it actually a trail, or is it instead a path? If it is a path, does it go? To the Upside Down, or somewhere else? Who made the drawings? (We have to guess that that answer is Will, but it’s too early to confirm anything solidly.) Are they actually that meaningful in the long run, or will they end up playing only a small role?
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What about this trailer still has you asking questions?