Now that the first volume of Stranger Things season five is out in the world, fans have more speculation to gnaw on while they ponder its impending endgame. Show creators the Duffer Brothers have gone on the record saying they’ve long known how the story would wrap up, though getting there has required a pinch of retconning. That’s seen most notably in season five’s opening moments , which showed that Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower) was indeed present when li’l Will Byers (Noah Schnapp) was snatched into the Upside Down in season one, despite the big bad not actually appearing in the story proper until season four.

If you think Bower might be the one cast member who had a clue as to where season five was leading when he showed up to film—well, think again. He’d been in that privi

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