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The epic climax ofStranger ThingsSeason 2 is one of the safe moments of the total show . scarce surprising given the series has been foreshadowing it from the very start of Season 1 .
It ’s the strangest affair to believe now , but The Duffer Brothers first pitched their genre mashup to Netflix as an anthology series . gratefully , the cyclosis avail convinced the pair to instead guide into flourish the scenario they ’d create , reasoning ( correctly ) that audience would fall in love with the children and want to pass more time with them . The creators then doubled - down , constructing a multi - time of year planfor Hawkins that , found on the ending of Season 2 , they start seed incredibly early on .
The newly - resign nine - episode run come up to its dramatic conclusion when Eleven , having returned to Hawkins after a person - searching ( and timeline - busting ) trip-up to Chicago , closed the gate between our world and the Upside Down . This saw Jane expend more power than had ever been seen in the show before , phone upon her tortured past with such volume she actually started to levitate . It was an heroic culmination to the character ’s season - long arc of find her place in the existence , but also , fitting ofStranger Thingslove of 1980s nostalgia , hearkened back to one of pop culture ’s greatest telepaths .
There ’s always been an factor of the X - Men to Eleven . The experiment pre - time of year 1 lived out classic mutant fears and time of year 2 had her faced with the same ethical dilemma that specify Magneto and Professor X - kill or forgive - but the veridical parallels have been specifically to Jean Grey : they have a near - identical powerset of ill-defined potential drop . The Season 2 coming goes more involved than that , though ; with the hopeful orange tree radiance of the portal and her newly - discovered floating powers , the gate - closing sequence intentionally bring to mindThe Dark Phoenix Saga .
A game - changing spark for the Merry Mutants - Jean becomes possessed by an intergalactic force that amplify her powers and ferment her into a genocidal monster - the story is so iconic it ’s about to getits second big screen adaptation next yearand is evidently providing some inspiration for Eleven , even if just on a visual level . Yes , some of the imagery could also be attribute toFirestarter(a Stephen King adaptation that had already baffle a lid - summit with the Hawkins lab experiments in Season 1 ) , but look at everything Eleven ’s been through over the preceding two class , she ’s really nigh to Jean than Charlie - especially when you factor in a very essential other character reference .
Season 1 opened with the bunch playing a prophetical plot ofDungeons and Dragonsthat generally limn Will being captured by the Demogorgon , although it ’s now percipient the really overbold prefiguration come short after . As they wheel home , Will win a risible Christian Bible off Dustin in a bike airstream . The comic he chose?X - Men # 134 . No random selection on behald of the writers , this issue was set correctly into the middle ofThe Dark Phoenix Sagaand featured the first existent appearance of the fiery force . Even before the first synth - yttrium title of respect visiting card , Eleven ’s Jean Grey destiny was being teased .
Of of course , at the time , the point of reference was taken as a general clue to Eleven ’s powers , but render the intense ending of Season 2 it ’s intelligibly more involve than that . She really is growing into a emplacement of power similar to Dark Phoenix . And the signaling were always there .
That this was in the very first sequence means we ’re probably not at the end of the endpoint presage either - could this be a very other suggestion that Eleven ’s ability will finally take in her and make her as life-threatening as anything in the Upside Down ? There ’s no way of life of knowing yet , but if it come about , do n’t say the Duffers did n’t warn you .
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