bringing these theory back:
i've seen someone mention the dnd game in season 3 might be foreshadowing and i don't think we talk about it enough.
so it starts off with a town getting attacked;
(e.g Hawkins)
and then Will starts off with saying "do you guys here that, it sounds like thunder...but no wait, that's not thunder; that's a hoard of juju zombies"
so the scene shows will planning out a dnd game where they are being attacked by zombies. this sounds really familiar with the plot of season 3, with heather and billy being possessed by the mind flayer and basically acting like mindless zombies.
if billy and heather (and the rest who were 'flayed') are considered zombies and the mind flayer is basically made up of all of them, then it's true that the whole game in season 3 is foreshadowing to the later events (the whole starcourt battle scene)
behind flayed!billy in this scene, we see a lot of other characters here. this very obviously takes place in the upside down
[screenshots from 'Billy gets possessed' by AceWolfBoy on youtube]
and in season 4, nancy says that there isn't anybody in the upside down and then she adds “as far as i understand yeah" but it definitely could be foreshadowing as well.
[screenshots from 'the mind flayer speaks' by Nerd Clips HD on youtube]
he tells el that "i can see you, we all can see you"
someone said that this was henry talking through billy and i completely agree. he's referring to the flayed (zombies) as 'we'.
so theory: the mind flayer could possibly come back in season 5 and hoards and hoards of people could be possessed to basically break down hawkins.
maybe the return of billy and heather as well
[screenshots from 'Mike and Will fight' by Gin Freecs on youtube]
looks like a scene where mike's just making fun of the game.
but if the first part of the game was foreshadowing, could this also be?
could we possibly maybe get a scene in season 5 where mike is fighting the mind flayer and loses an arm?
and then this scene right here;
also the whole 'not thunder, but zombies' thing in the dnd game made me think a lot about how in the upside down the only sounds you here other than the creatures themselves is thunder. could be, again, foreshadowing of (possessed) people in the upside down.
i know it's not much but i feel like we don't talk much about these scenes and how season 3 had a lot of potential spoilers. these were all theories made back in 2022 and i'm really tryna bring them back to relevance again.
could be fun to think about a potential fight scene with mike and the mindflayer/ the flayed and losing an arm (since we were robbed of the possible scar he could've gotten from the fight with billy) and maybe some potential sacrificing from the characters (either mike or lucas), and the idea of actual people fighting against them instead of just monsters.
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