What if they’re literally pulling a Henry Creel.
What I mean by that is in the first flashback of the Creel house, they barely focused on Henry at all. You barely get more than 2 shots of his face and they don’t mention him having nightmares or visions.
Then later we get the full picture and his involvement and all the details.
What if they’re imploring the same misdirection technique, not focusing on Will’s point of view really whatsoever in terms of the over arching story but when the time is right they’ll just spill all the beans, showing us all these different events in new context from Will’s point of view
That’s a fair point. The Duffers do like parallels.
Do you think Vecna will try to pull a “We’re not so different” with Will? I wouldn’t mind that so long as Will resists. I don’t want them making the gay teen pining over his friend into a villain.
I’m almost positive Will will get the “join me” speech but there’s no way Will is turning evil. He’s a good boy deep to his core. All the parallels I’ve made between Will and Henry is not to say Will will become like Henry or that he’s evil, they’re the same but opposite. Foils.
I don’t expect a repeat of season 2 where he’s straight up possessed and is forced to betray his friends, but I can imagine a scenario where he’s fighting off the influence of Vecna/the Upside Down because he is irreversibly connected to it as the Duffers and marketing keep reiterating.
I want all of this to be leading to Will being the major important piece in defeating the Upside Down/Vecna but we’ll see. What better way to take out the villain that with someone exactly like them. Minus the evil.
I do agree that it would be a repeat of season 2 if Will got possessed/turned evil again.
I’m partial to my own theory of the Mindflayer being Will’s dark side that he has to accept as part of himself to become whole (as Brenner told El). Once he does, he’ll gain his powers. That might be too much to fit into season 4, though.
Guess we’ll see, but we won’t get answers till season 5 most likely. In fact I’m not expecting anything from Will in season 4 now. The Duffers and Noah himself seem to be saying all the answers about Will are coming NEXT season.
