'There's Not Going to Be a Red Wedding Situation' — Stranger Things Creators Insist Season 5 Won't Do a Game of Thrones as Fans Wonder Who Will Die in the Finale

Stranger Things is astir over, with the Season 5 finale acceptable to bring an extremity to the long-running Netflix amusement and yet corroborate the destiny of its much-loved characters.

Who volition dice by the clip the amusement is done and dusted has been the large Stranger Things question for years now. There are galore theories, which we’ll concisely tally done below.

Warning! Spoilers for Stranger Things Season 5 follow:

Steve, played by Joe Keery, often comes up successful conversations astir imaginable Stranger Things quality deaths. But determination are besides concerns for Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown), who immoderate judge volition extremity up sacrificing herself to destruct Vecna, frankincense allowing the remainder of the Stranger Things unit to survive, and Jim Hopper (David Harbour), who has already revealed himself to beryllium connected thing of a termination ngo this season.

Meanwhile, immoderate judge Will (Noah Schnapp) volition wound the dust, utilizing his caller powerfulness to yet bring Vecna’s tyranny to an extremity but sidesplitting himself successful the process. But according to IGN's canvass connected the matter, below, Jonathan Byers, played by Charlie Heaton, is the astir fashionable prime for Season 5 death, with 22.4% of the vote.

We won’t cognize until the bid finale airs astatine 5pm PT connected New Year’s Eve, of course, but caller comments from the Duffer Brothers person hinted that fans shouldn’t expect a bloodbath erstwhile it comes to quality deaths. That is to say, Stranger Things is not similar Game of Thrones, and there’s nary Red Wedding equivalent scene.

For the uninitiated, the Red Wedding is possibly the astir celebrated infinitesimal successful the full Game of Thrones saga. It sees much-loved characters, galore of whom had been cardinal to the communicative up to that point, murdered successful graphic detail, shocking readers and viewers alike.

In an interrogation with The Hollywood Reporter, Matt Duffer insisted the bid finale shouldn’t beryllium compared to Game of Thrones, and jokingly singled retired Steve arsenic the astir discussed quality erstwhile it comes to being killed off.

“It’s not Game of Thrones. We’re not successful Westeros,” helium said. “I emotion Game of Thrones, but it’s conscionable a precise antithetic benignant of amusement than that. There’s not going to beryllium a Red Wedding situation. I deliberation immoderate things hap successful the finale that are precise surprising, but we’re not trying to daze oregon upset anyone. I anticipation by the clip radical get to the extremity of the finale that it conscionable feels similar there’s thing inevitable astir what happens, and that it doesn’t consciousness achy but feels satisfying. We’ll see. But arsenic for Steve’s fate. I don’t know. I can’t say. It would beryllium the adjacent logical step. He keeps getting beaten up much and more. The lone mode we could instrumentality it further is death. (Laughs.)”

The Stranger Things Season 5 finale, Episode 8, is called The Rightside Up, and has an authoritative runtime of 2 hours 8 minutes. It volition beryllium screened successful theaters nationwide astatine the aforesaid clip it is shown connected Netflix. Ross Duffer has told fans they should lone spot it successful theaters if they’re chill with crying successful a crowded room.

"The finale. Theaters. New Year’s Eve," Duffer wrote successful a societal media station alongside a photograph of the drafting Lucas and Max utilized to inquire each different connected a day successful Season 4. "This is thing my member and I person dreamed astir for years. If you don’t caput crying successful beforehand of strangers, GO. And if you’re successful LA… possibly we’ll spot you there."

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