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Hi, we are Enrique, Sofia, Jimena, Candela, and Luna. 00:00:00

And today we are going to present our podcast about the theories of the ending of Stranger Things. 00:00:15

Stranger Things is a science fiction show about a group of friends in Hawkins, Indiana. 00:00:25

In 1983, a boy named Will disappears into a strange world called the Upside Down. 00:00:31

His friends find a girl with powers called Eleven. 00:00:37

Together, they fight monsters and evil forces for many years. 00:00:40

To our podcast about the Stranger Things in Season 5. 00:00:44

After 10 years, the show has ended, but fans are still discussing what really happened. 00:00:48

Season 5 was the final battle against Bekna, the main villain. 00:00:55

and the season was released in two parts first in november then on christmas day and the last 00:00:59

episode shocked millions of viewers the end the ending showed characters living happy normal lives 00:01:07

after 18 months time jump but the biggest mystery is about 11 she appeared to die saving everyone 00:01:14

in the upside down. However, her fate is unclear. In the final scene, Mike tells a story suggesting 00:01:23

Eleven might be alive somewhere far away. The creators made this ending intentionally unclear. 00:01:33

They wanted viewers to decide for themselves what happened, like an open ending, and this created 00:01:40

massive discussion online today we will explore five popular theories from youtube tiktok and 00:01:47

instagram about what really happened 31 11 is alive this theory says 11 didn't really die 00:01:54

she's fake her dead her sister's kelly used illusion powers to to create a fake 11 while 00:02:01

everyone watched the fake 11 die the real 11 skype invisibly because the military would never stop 00:02:08

looking for her, baiting her death. Eleven could finally live a normal life. Fans found a lot of 00:02:15

clouds, and Eleven didn't have the Eleven tattoo in the bed, and her nose didn't bleed when using 00:02:22

her power, which always happens. At the end, Mike tells a story about Eleven living a part of you 00:02:30

in a small town with a waterfall. That is real or just a happy story? I don't know. 00:02:38

so i don't think the theory that eleven is dead is true i bet if she's alive and i think 00:02:45

her sister kylie used her powers to create an illusion that eleven was there in that moment 00:02:55

because we don't see the eleven tattoo and she's floating but when eleven uses her powers 00:03:04

blood comes out of her nose and we don't see that so i think 11 was hiding and at that moment 00:03:12

escape to like create a new life to be more comfortable and safe 00:03:23

in my opinion i think this theory is true because there are many two 00:03:34

close and they are make senses and mike says we have to choose to believe it or not and i 00:03:38

just believe it because 11 is alive there are many clouds and there are many senses 00:03:44

i think 11 isn't alive because when mike finished telling the supposed open ending 00:03:51

i didn't seem very logical to me and besides it's possible that despite the kryptonite 11 made one 00:03:57

last effort to talk with Mike one last time. It doesn't make any sense to keep 00:04:06

saying Eleven is alive in the end of the 5th season. The story clearly tells us 00:04:14

that her sacrifice is permanent and her powers owe her a ghost and this 00:04:20

time that ghost is the end of her life and there are not really clues 00:04:28

about her survival and it doesn't make any sense that she is lost. 00:04:35

The theory number two is the theory of the secret ninth episode. 00:04:41

This theory claimed episode was eight wasn't the real ending. 00:04:47

A secret ninth episode would be released on January the seventh of 2036. 00:04:52

Why people believe this? 00:04:59

this the number seven appeared many times in the season and january 7th is the orthodox christmas 00:05:01

and all season 5 episodes were released on holidays mysterious social media posts seemed 00:05:10

to hint at something on that date however netflix confirmed there is no secret episode 00:05:18

and January 7th passed with nothing new. The theory was false, but fans still talk about it. 00:05:26

The theory of 9th episode actually makes a lot of sense, more than the theory that says that 00:05:35

11 is alive, because Stranger Things has changed its format before, especially for Big's endings, 00:05:42

And there are still many storylines that aren't finished, and one more episode would give time to close them properly. 00:05:51

A ninth episode wouldn't feel unnecessary, it would feel planned, it would help give the story and the characters the ending that they deserve. 00:06:01

I think there could be a ninth episode because nothing about the ending seems to add up. 00:06:11

they haven't finished explaining everything and several things didn't make sense in light of what 00:06:18

we have seen in the previous 40 seasons i don't think this theory holds up it's more likely that 00:06:25

the missing tattoo was just a filming mistake rather than a hiding clue also streaming platforms 00:06:32

usually announce all episodes in advance for marketing so keeping a whole not episode secret 00:06:39

until january 7 seems really on the list well honestly i think there won't be another episode 00:06:46

because in the end the ending feel like real ending we don't give any hint that there will 00:06:52

be another episode mostly because everyone has um like a happy ending except 11 that dead 00:07:00

um so i don't think there will be another episode because basically they give a the series a final 00:07:13

ending and i think there won't be another episode theory is the false ending that is a 00:07:21

illusion this theory claims that the happy ending was fake it was created by beckner to trick 00:07:31

everyone. Begna actually won, and everything we saw was an illusion. Believers say the ending was 00:07:38

too perfect. After five seasons fighting, suddenly everyone had normal, comfortable lives. This felt 00:07:44

wrong. Evidence? Students at graduation stood like Begna victims. The graduation gowns were orange, 00:07:52

representing imprisonment. Some props changed the colors between scenes, showing the breaks 00:08:00

in the illusion. The theory says that Begna created this social reality so people will 00:08:06

stop fighting but the creators confirm this is not true and the ending we saw was real. 00:08:13

Oh my gosh, this theory is crazy but that makes sense. The girls insult her head and 00:08:20

they use a lot of clothes like her costumes and her graduation outfits. This theory is very true 00:08:27

too and have that lot of clothes to go with it makes sense to me because the attitudes 00:08:34

of many characters don't match how they've been throughout the series not their appearance 00:08:40

or anything else so in my opinion it could be a fake ending and everything is an illusion 00:08:47

created by the vain million called venus i cannot buy this theory because it will make 00:08:54

entire journey feel pointless if everything was just an illusion all the characters growth and 00:09:03

sacrifices wouldn't matter anymore also um the creators explicitly confirm that the ending we 00:09:09

saw is real meaning beckner didn't actually people's ending theory doesn't really work 00:09:17

because stranger things usually give us clear endings and not state one with not solid clues 00:09:23

clues if everything were just an illusion by pegma it would feel like a cheap trick 00:09:31

it would erase the meaning of the battles and the losses we already saw and a final should 00:09:38

give answers not take everything back making it all an illusion would confuse the story 00:09:44

instead of making it stronger so it doesn't make really sense 34 00:09:51

the theory says the upside down is not another dimension but a war home like a bridge that 00:09:57

connects two places in space and time this hole connects hawkins to the abyss 00:10:08

where the mind flyer and the monster slide the upside down got stuck on november 6 00:10:17

1983, when the day of 11 made the wormhole and that's why Hawkins looks frozen in the time. 00:10:26

I think there's really nothing beyond the wormhole because they would have tried to explain it. 00:10:40

It could be a space with nothing but the wormhole or maybe it's a space 00:10:47

with thousands and millions of wormholes. I don't know what it could be but it would have been an 00:10:55

interesting topic to explore in the series. I'm not convinced by this theory because it feels 00:11:04

like a repetitive plot point. We've already seen Will connect to the Heath Mine for seasons and 00:11:11

And suddenly giving him Eleven-like powers feels like a shortcut rather than natural character development. 00:11:18

And it would be more impactful if Will defeated Begner using his own courage and knowledge of the Upside Down instead of just copying Eleven's powers. 00:11:25

Thank you so much for your listening and we hope you found it interesting. Bye! 00:11:39

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