My Stranger Things Season 4 conspiracy theory
(Spoilers for season 3) Okay guys, I have a big theory. I’m not sure if other people noticed this, but I’m going to lay it down for you. So You know how they made so many allusions to back to the future in season 3? I think that El and company found a way to travel back in time through the upside down and they were there in episode 8, trying to save Hopper. Perhaps they found another test subject in their new town whose special power is time traveling? I think they succeeded. Here’s why:
So episode One it shows all of the Russians in their suits. They’re green suits with gas masks.
and then here, right before Joyce pulls the plug, here are the workers in red hazmat suits, and for some reason they slow-mo step out and stare at Hopper and it zooms in on their eyes, and are those people familiar? Are they the kids, sort of grown up? One of them looks like Jonathan?
You might think this is just a coincidence, but remember: color coding. Earlier in the episode you see a bunch of workers running around, but there are some wearing green hazmat suits and some wearing red ones. The red ones seem to be trying to interact with our main characters more than the green ones. Here are some in green:
and then here are some in red, actually trying to shut off the machine, but they’re just kids, they don’t know how it actually works:
And then the next shot shows the guys in green running to the right and the guys in red running to the room that Murray is in:
You may think at first these guys in red are trying to arrest or kill Murray, but what if Murray messed up something and that’s what these time travelers are trying to prevent? What if they succeeded getting in there or told Murray through the door what to do? We don’t see very much of Murray after this, only one shot. But “aren’t you a little short to be a stormtrooper?” Isn’t that hazmat person right there a bit short? Maybe it’s Dustin from the future.
I think that they found out how to work the machine so that it would not kill them, just make a blinding enough light that it would obscure Joyce’s vision of Hopper while El, walking up to her dad with her friends, could pull them into the upside down in time. After all, she was able to disintegrate herself and the demogorgon season one, and she survived.
Hopper nodding for Joyce to do it.^
^El and Jonathan and possibly people she meets in her new town.
And the upside down has a skewed sense of time. After all, Billy went into the upside down for what seemed like a long time, but he was probably just gone for a little bit. Will also goes into the upside down and seems to be gone for a long time when he’s actually just standing out in the field, hallucinating. This time anomaly will allow for Hopper possibly being popped out of the upside down somewhere in Russia and getting caught by the russians. This would account for the Russian’s mysterious prisoner, “The American”. It’s Hopper, and he’s been saved by El and her time traveling friends.
One reason I think they would include this twist is because, as stated earlier before, they were making a lot of references to Back to the Future, even having them watch it, showing a poster, having the music hilariously when it cuts back to dustin, and oh yeah, Marty McFly wears a hazmat suit in back to the future, and it looks A LOT like the red hazmat suits, to conceal his identity. Nice reference, guys.
^Marty, pretending to be “Darth Vader” from the planet “Vulcan”, threatening to melt George McFly’s brains unless he asks his future wife to the Under the Sea Dance.
Anyway, this has been my theory. I hope you like it!
