At the end of Stranger Things season one (yes, there are spoilers ahead. But come on, you've had a year to watch eight episodes) when Hopper the copper left some Eggos out in the snow, we all assumed they were meant for Eleven. But that innocent assumption was admittedly made in the desperate hope that somehow, someway, saying goodbye to the first series of the world’s favourite Netflix show, didn’t mean saying goodbye to El, too.
It was one thing coming to terms with the season finale sneaking up on us out of nowhere, it was another processing the possibility that Eleven wasn’t coming back from the Upside down and we’d never see Millie Bobbie Brown on our screens again.
But alas, the masterminds behind the phenomenon knew that we wouldn’t be able to handle whether or not Eleven would be reappearing in Stranger Things season 2. So they teased us. They released a promo picture of the cast in which, low and behold, Millie Bobbie Brown was in (praise be to the TV gods).
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Eleven wants to be in the upside down
Didn’t see this one coming, did you! One very eloquent person on the A Stranger Things Theory thread was having a go at answering one of the questions we didn’t quite know how to ask. If Eleven and the monster are linked, and we know that there are ways to get between realms (putting aside how difficult that is for a second) AND Hopper leaving snacks for Eleven out in the real world even though we’re pretty sure she’s in the Upside Down, how and why wouldn’t she just nip back to come and get’ed?
WINST0N thinks it’s because she’s happier down there. ‘Well about mid season we have Eleven debating wether or not she was the monster (this is just after throwing Lucas and knocking him unconscious) but is comforted by Dustin and Mike that she was not. But maybe the events of the last episode changed her mind, in the last episode we seen the boys and her surrounded by soldiers and evil old lady (forgot her name) rather than being captured Eleven used her powers to kill all six (or seven) bad guys. Even as an adult it takes a toll actually killing someone and we have to remember Eleven is a twelve year old. So I think Eleven can go back and fourth but is choosing to stay in the upside down due to her being afraid of what she can do’.
Head spinning yet?
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.