Stranger Things Creators Admit That Eddie Was Doomed Even If He Had Survived
Even though many Stranger Things fans are still mourning the death of Eddie Munson (Joseph Quinn), the Duffer brothers have confirmed that his alternative ending would not have made fans any happier.
Stranger Things introduced Eddie Munson as the Dungeons and Dragons-playing friend of Dustin who was quickly blamed for the first in a series of gruesome murders in Hawkins. While Eddie ultimately sacrificed himself to help defeat the true evil behind the killings, fans were disappointed by the Stranger Things death.
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While on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, the Duffers described Eddie Munson as a character who they knew would not get a happy ending, regardless of whether he survived the Demobats or not. They knew from the beginning that Eddie would not make it out of season 4. «In a way, we saw Eddie as a bit of a doomed character,» Matt Duffer said. «Even imagining the flip side of that where he does survive the battle is not a great life awaiting Eddie back in the right side up either. He was always really designed from the get-go as a doomed character.»
The Duffer brothers stated that the only logical conclusion to Eddie's story was death. In a way, he was meant to be a tragic character. «There was never any other arc for him and there was no 'how do you survive this'?» said Ross Duffer. «At the very end, you see people still drawing devil horns on his head. No one in Hawkins is going to accept a supernatural explanation for this. He would have wound up in jail and this fantasy that he would have been able to walk and graduate sadly was not ever a realistic outcome for him.»
Even though a season 5 return does not appear to be in the cards for Eddie, fans of
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