Honestly I think you’re putting too much into this.
Like others have mentioned they decided to stick around and finish the fight. I think they said Vecna only had 12hp left. Dustin rolled and missed. Lucas’ sister rolled and hit a natural 20. And they win.
But honestly I think if Dustin scored a hit, or Lucas’ sister scored a regular hit they probably could have done 12hp of damage against Vecna. I guess we don’t know what character class Dustin was (or what level) and I think Lucas’ sister was a rogue, can’t recall what level.
And again we don’t know what weapons they were using or what type of attack. Could either hit conceivably do more than 12hp damage?
I think in the moment you’re supposed to assume it was some kind of infection/poisoning from the Mind Flayer, but Brenner seems to suggest it’s more of a psychological block.
I hope not, because, imo, that’s fucking stupid. Ruins the mythos of an ancient Lovecraftian evil (didn’t they even say that in the episode? That it could have been around for a million years?). Why would the protagonist, an innocent little girl, basically create hell?
Given that Upside-Down Nancy’s diary entries stopped on the same day El opened the gate, the Upside Down appears to be a copy of our world as it existed up to that moment, so it’s at least possible that El (and One, who was basically an overcharged battery of stolen psychic energy) brought it into being.
I took that as a sign that it had existed for a long time, but El physically connected the two worlds for the first time, thus somehow severing the link that kept them matching. That is, they had existed separately but linked somehow in physical form, so a change in our world also changes in the Upside Down… but once they were physically linked by El, those changes no longer matched.
I don’t think it required a lucky roll. I think it required a lucky roll GIVEN that they already were doing very badly. They fought, were losing, and decided on a hail mary. Some basketball games are won by just chucking the ball up at the end of the game, but that doesn’t mean that’s what the game is about.
My wife figured out Venca = 001 before the last episode. When Eleven had the first memory about the orderly sitting down on the floor and talking to Eleven about how 001 used to struggle and then something about using her anger and sadness to build her powers my wife put 2 and 2 together right then. Plus the focus on the orderly more than Brenner or Owen made me think he was going to be more significant to the storyline than just being a memory. But I never did identify him as 001 before the reveal.
I thought the orderly was going to molest her or something, triggering her to massacre everyone in a fit of rage. (It isn’t like we haven’t seen her killing people in anger before.)
I finished watching the episodes from Season 4 and I really liked it…except for the whole Russia subplot. Whenever they switched to that story, it brought things to a screeching halt for me.
My radar pinged when Robert Englund said his son was “sensitive” and my hypothesis about the fate of his son turned out to be correct.
If there is a snack-sized gate at every place where Vecna killed someone, then Fred’s gate would be in the middle of the road (which has got to weird out the local travelers). Anybody else see Argyle’s hippy van driving through it at high speed later on? Probably trailing a stream of smoke from those super-safe plants he likes.
Yeah… that subplot really kills the vibe for me. It’s like it’s a different show, and a worse one.
I’m also curious… but, is Robin a completely different character? Maybe I just misremember, but I don’t recall her being this “can’t stop talking” goofball in Season 3.
I learned something today. It looks like this is related to Emmy eligibility. I think it makes it so they can win Emmy’s for both part one and part two.
From the article:
The move means that like the final seasons of “Better Call Saul” and “Ozark,” the fourth season of the blockbuster science-fiction series will straddle the 2022 and 2023 Emmy Award eligibility windows. (The 2022 Emmys deadline is May 31.)
I know I am over thinking, but the time line is not making sense after watching episode 7. If the kid hadn’t been banished to the in between until he was older, then why were the mom, dad, and daughter (or at least the father) all pulled into the in between when they were killed (well the dad escaped using music…) ? It seemed like prior to that he was just killing animals using telekinesis.