So I’ve seen the released soundtrack titles and the last song is “To be continued”, which implies that the songs are in the correct display order. If so, THAT IS FUCKING TERRIBLE. Song number 21 is clearly a reference to Mike concluding Eleven needs him to find her (I think that he’ll be seeing her and he will think it is an allucination. I also think she is somehow stuck in the upside down/in a third dimension/somewhere between here and there and, unable to come to this side, she will find a way to comunicate with him in order to be found). In the trailer he says “Sometimes I feel like I still see her” and we hear her voice telling him “Find me” or she just says “Mike”. I couldn’t hear properly.
Song number 25 is called THE RETURN. Song 26 is THE ESCAPE. That is the only thing that might mean the theory is wrong, which I hope it is, because she first needs to escape to then return, so, in case they refer to her trajetory back to our dimension, the songs might be out of order.
That being said and adding the time of them trying to find Eleven after Mike asks the gang for help… it’s very likely that she will only meet the boys again at the very end of episode 7 or 8, for narrative drama purposes.
Max will be probably “taking her place” in most of the season. I put that in between quotes because that is a terrible way to describe her adding to the gang. I believe and hope that the Duffer Brothers do not mean to create a fake rivalry between the girls and divide the fans in two sides. Hopefully, Max and Eleven will grow a strong friendship in season 3.
To those who’ve seen Doctor Who, I think Eleven will spend most of her screentime trying to find a way back to our dimension and failing, which will be heartbreaking. That is very similar to what happens to the Doctor in the 9th season. In some of Eleven’s tries, she might actually cross over to this side but only temporarily.
The hole we see in the trailer (the one that Hopper looks into and then Steve, Max, Dustin, Lucas and Mike also look into) is probably a lead to where Eleven is. If Hopper knows how to find her (as implied in the end of season one) and is not telling the kids for their own safety, then they might ask Steve’s help to take them there for their rescue mission). They won’t ask for Nancy and Jonathan help’ because they are much more responsible and they will be probably at the Hawkins Lab (as we’ve seen in the trailer).
I really hope I am wrong, we’ve been waiting so long to see them together and now it seems even less possible that it will happen at the beginning or even at the middle of the season. Their dynamic is one of the best things about the show. The drama obviously is important and exciting but we only have a few episodes before waiting an entire year all over again and I’m afraid we won’t get enough content.
ALSO I TRIED REALY HARD TO WRITE THIS WITHOUT CAPS LOCK ON, BITCH I AM FUCKING BURSTING INTO TEARS PLEASE REUNITE MY BABIES THEY DONT DESERVE THIS NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO