Erm, About That Stranger Things Season 5 Time Jump...?!
Warning! SPOILERS for Stranger Things season 4 volume 2.
Stranger Things season 5 is expected to open with a time jump, as confirmed by the Duffer brothers, though season 4's cliffhanger ending throws the time jumps effectiveness into doubt. Stranger Things season 4 ended with the show's biggest, most ambitious cliffhanger yet, with Vecna seemingly beginning his invasion of Hawkins and the rest of the world. This begs the question of how the time jump will work, given such a huge event beginning already.
With every season of Stranger Things wrapping up their respective stories fairly neatly, from Will being found in season 1 to Eleven closing the gate in season 2 and the Russian operation and the Mind Flayer being foiled in Starcourt in season 3, it came as a bit of a surprise that Vecna's plan succeeded in Stranger Thingsseason 4's ending. After taking the four victims he needed to open the required amount of gates to the Upside Down, Vecna joined all four gates together to begin the Upside Down's invasion of Hawkins. Usually, this ending would be expected to carry over directly into Stranger Things season 5.
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However, the confirmation of a time jump from the Duffer brothers means that audiences won't see the immediate aftermath of Vecna's initial invasion. How will the time jump work? Well, there are many ways it could that make sense both in the context of the story and outside factors from the show's production that spurred the Duffer brothers to have a time jump in the first place.
Firstly, the main way the Stranger Thingsseason 5 time jump will work is in the Duffer brothers' initial reasoning behind the decision. The creators
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