From the fate of Hawkins to unresolved relationships, many plot threads remain dangling in the hit Netflix series. Join us as we explore the burning questions and crucial storylines that need to be addressed before we say goodbye to our favorite characters from the Upside Down.
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00:00Hey.
00:02Yeah?
00:04Are we okay?
00:06Welcome to Ms. Mojo, and today we're looking at 10 unfinished storylines in Stranger Things
00:12that need to be closed in Season 5.
00:14And now this cult is protecting its leader, Eddie, hiding him.
00:21The Invasion of Hawkins.
00:30Four times max.
00:35Let's get the most obvious out of the way first.
00:38The Invasion of Hawkins will need to be wrapped up.
00:40Duh.
00:41The fourth season ended with major fissures erupting in the town's streets
00:45and virtually destroying the entire downtown core.
00:48These fissures were initially passed off as an earthquake,
00:52but that explanation is seemingly thrown aside once the Upside Down begins invading the town.
00:57It's been less than 48 hours since a 7.4 magnitude earthquake rocked the quaint town of Hawkins,
01:0480 miles outside of Indianapolis,
01:06in an event that seismologists are calling a natural disaster of near unprecedented scale.
01:12Our heroes can only look on in shock and horror,
01:15as giant pillars of smoke emerge from the ground and tower into the sky,
01:20a biblical site straight from the apocalypse.
01:22Where this storyline goes from here is anyone's guess,
01:25but it's sure to be the most major plot point throughout Season 5.
01:43Callie.
01:44Sister.
01:47Sister.
01:48We know you probably tried wiping that episode from your memory,
01:52but surely you remember Callie?
01:53She appeared in Season 2, which seems like it was 20 years ago at this point,
01:58alongside a group of silly punks.
02:00While her episode was widely hated, it did introduce some interesting elements,
02:05like Callie choosing a path of revenge against the employees of Hawkins' lab.
02:09If he's alive, Jane will find him, just as she found you.
02:13Do it, Jane.
02:16Do it.
02:18Eleven ultimately decides not to continue down her wayward route,
02:21and departs for Hawkins,
02:23leaving the fate of Callie and her group ambiguous.
02:26It'd be nice to get closure in Season 5,
02:29with Callie returning as either an ally or an antagonist in the fight for Hawkins,
02:33and offering thematic resolution to her and Eleven's respective paths.
02:37Your mother sent you here for a reason, remember?
02:40We belong together.
02:42There's nothing for you back there.
02:43They cannot save you, Jane.
02:45Nancy and Jonathan.
02:47This loving couple has been a pair since Season 2,
02:50when Jonathan went with the pullout.
02:52A pullout couch, that is.
02:53So, Jonathan.
02:56How was the pullout?
02:59I'm sorry.
03:01The sofa.
03:03Oh, yeah.
03:04Yeah, it was good.
03:07I bet.
03:08Unfortunately, things were pretty rocky between the two throughout Season 4,
03:12with both taking different paths in life.
03:14The two are suffering under a long-distance relationship,
03:17with Nancy in denial about their future,
03:19and Jonathan expressing his intent to break up with her.
03:22What is your approach here, man?
03:24To just slow motion break up with Nancy?
03:27I guess.
03:28No, man!
03:29The two are also unknowingly clashing about college.
03:32Nancy believes that they're both going to Emerson,
03:35but Jonathan has secretly accepted a spot in Lenora Hills.
03:38Their final scene together is a telling one,
03:41with Jonathan lying to Nancy and continuing the charade of applying to Emerson.
03:45We can't wait to see how this tension boils over in Season 5.
03:48Your application letter.
03:52Not that it matters at all anymore, but did it ever come?
04:02No.
04:03No.
04:04Not yet.
04:06Hopper and Joyce.
04:07I'll tell you everything over dinner.
04:09I was thinking, you know, Enzo's tonight, 7 o'clock.
04:12Hey, before you say no, I'd like to make one thing crystal clear.
04:16This is not a date.
04:18If there's one question we need answered in the final season, it's this.
04:22Will Hopper and Joyce ever go on that date to Enzo's?
04:25Come on.
04:26He dressed up in his finest Magnum P.I. shirt and everything.
04:29That's a lot of color for you, Chief.
04:31It's cutting edge stuff, all right?
04:35It's cutting edge!
04:37Romantic tension first appeared between the two in Season 3,
04:40with Hopper asking Joyce out, getting jealous of other men that she talked to,
04:44and getting upset when she expressed her desire to leave Hawkins.
04:48And while they are both clearly broken from their respective traumas,
04:52they do eventually share a kiss in Season 4.
04:54It's not a flashy romance by any means, but it's an authentic one.
04:58So say yes to Jopper.
05:00This time, it's gonna be different.
05:04It better be.
05:08I am not having another funeral.
05:20Vecna and the Mind Flayer.
05:22We need closure on another relationship, but it's not one of the romantic sort.
05:37No, we're talking about the weird, symbiotic relationship between Vecna and the Mind Flayer.
05:42This was very briefly hinted at in Season 4,
05:45with Vecna slash Henry seemingly creating it from the particles that are flying around Dimension X.
05:50But there are still plenty of unanswered questions left about the villainous duo.
05:54I saw a means to realize my potential, to transcend my human form, to become the predator I was always born to be.
06:09Were those particles intelligent or sentient before Vecna got there?
06:13If so, did the Mind Flayer allow itself to be controlled, or was that all Vecna?
06:18Is the Mind Flayer completely loyal to Vecna, or does it have its own agenda?
06:22Heck, what exactly are those particles?
06:25We'd love if these questions were explored in some capacity.
06:29That was, that was you.
06:31The Upside Down.
06:33We just tell our parents we have a V-Club after school.
06:35That'll give us at least a few hours for Operation Markwood.
06:38You seriously think that the weirdo knows where Will is?
06:41Just trust me on this, okay?
06:43The problem with expanding a story's mythology is that it opens more and more questions.
06:47In season one, we were perfectly happy with accepting the Upside Down as some creepy alternate dimension.
06:53But as the show expanded its scope, so too did the mythology balloon.
06:57And we eventually learned that Eleven inadvertently created the Upside Down when she made contact with Vecna's hive mind in Dimension X.
07:05All I needed was someone to open the door.
07:10And you did that for me.
07:13Without you even realizing it.
07:16Or something like that.
07:17It's all a bit unclear.
07:19Did Dimension X transform into the Upside Down?
07:22How did Eleven making contact with Vecna create a perfect physical copy of Hawkins?
07:26And what exactly is Dimension X anyway?
07:29We just don't know.
07:31But we would love to.
07:32At first, I believed you had sent me to my death.
07:37To purgatory.
07:38But I was wrong.
07:42I was somewhere new.
07:45Eddie's reputation.
07:46I didn't run away this time, right?
07:50No.
07:51No, no, no, no.
07:51You didn't run.
07:54You're gonna have to look after those little sheep for me, okay?
07:56The fandom loves Eddie Munson, but the people of Hawkins certainly don't.
08:01We obviously know the complicated truth about Eddie, and that he was a hero for saving Hawkins.
08:06But the citizens still believe that he's some kind of murderous, satanic cult weirdo.
08:11That's dramatic irony, folks.
08:13These murders are ritualistic sacrifices.
08:17We've all heard about how satanic cults are spreading to our country like some disease.
08:22And Eddie Munson is the leader of one of these cults.
08:26We later see that satanic imagery has been drawn onto Eddie's missing poster,
08:30signaling that his reputation around town is still in the gutter.
08:34Dustin knows better, and he tells Wayne the truth in regards to his nephew,
08:38bringing him a semblance of closure.
08:40Will he do the same for the entire town and help restore Eddie's reputation as a good guy?
08:45Or better yet, a hero?
08:47Only time will tell.
08:48He fought and died to protect this town.
08:53This town that hated him.
08:58He isn't just innocent.
09:02Mr. Munson, he's...
09:04He's a hero.
09:06Russia
09:07It's obvious that Russia has plans with the Upside Down.
09:16It all started when they built a hidden facility beneath Starcourt Mall
09:20and tried to reopen the gate to the Upside Down with a giant laser thingy.
09:25Why?
09:25And how did they know about the Upside Down in the first place?
09:28Well, that has never really been explained.
09:30And season 4 only added to the questions.
09:40We learned that Kamchatka Prison is holding its own creatures,
09:43including a demogorgon and what looks like the particles that make up the mind flayer.
09:48It's clear the Russians have had successful access to the Upside Down
09:51and are actively studying its inhabitants.
09:54Why?
09:55Scientific curiosity?
09:56Or perhaps something more nefarious?
09:59This is the Cold War after all.
10:01What the hell are they doing?
10:12What the hell are they doing?
10:13Wills can...