(This article contains SPOILERS for ‘STRANGER THINGS’ 5×07)
Episodes from volume 2 of the last season of Stranger Things has already reached Netflix generate a first cascade of reactions. In this last three-episode service before the final bite (which will arrive on the streaming platform on January 1), the problem is finally solved one of the series’ most enduring mysteries, which has sparked speculation and theories since it began airing almost ten years ago.
What is the reverse? This strange place that seems identical to our reality but is darker, colder and covered in plant branches under an atmosphere full of floating spores. Well, and I also got the Demogorgons there dancing.
Inside season 5 episode 6 The series gives us the most detailed explanation yet about What is the upside down world? Strange things. In fact, it’s his Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo) who gives the details to his companions in an exposition sequence at the Hawkins Laboratory, recounting what he discovered in the previous episode while going through the old journals of the Dr. Brenner (Matthieu Modine).
The other side, explained
In Stranger things, The Upside Down is a wormhole that functions as an interdimensional bridge. It connects our world and the one that Dustin solemnly calls the Abyss (what we called Dimension Or Vecna He’s been there this whole time and he had the Hawkins children kidnapped. Henry Creel (Jamie Campbell Bower) found himself in the Abyss when he was defeated by Once in 1979; It was there that his body was twisted into Vecna.
In fact, the emergence of the Upside Down is rooted in November 6, 1983 because it was the day of its creation When Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) She used her telekinetic powers to contact a demogorgon, encouraged by Dr. Brenner, who hoped to find Henry. This connection created the bridge, which remains standing thanks to instability exotic material which floats above the laboratory.
The Upside Down is therefore neither a parallel universe nor a mirror dimension, but a link between worlds. The Mind Bane, demogorgons and other monsters They are not creatures belonging to the Upside Down World, but they entered it from the Abyss/Dimension X.
The series itself anticipated the wormhole theory in the first episode of season 5, when Professor Scott Clarke (Randy Havens) explain in class Erica Sinclair (Priah Ferguson) what is a wormhole. But the Duffer brothers had conceived this plan long before.
Why an hourglass?
The diagram Dustin draws on the board to explain to his classmates how the Upside Down works is practically the same one that brothers Matt and Ross Duffer drew in their time for the team of Stranger things, more than a year before season 5 began filming.
Shawn Levy director and producer of the series, explains it in an interview for Weekly Entertainment where he reveals the ultimate importance of this drawing, beyond helping them visualize such a complicated concept in a relatively simple way. “This rudimentary hourglass-shaped diagram determined everything that followed,” The director assures that this season he is directing episode 6 and co-directing episode 7 with the Duffers.
“Having this basis, Steve (Joe Keery) can explain another concept using a spring and a flashlight. As seen in episode 7, but especially in episode 8, we apply these visual concepts to production design more and more as we get closer to the end of the series,” he explains.
Ross Duffer gives more details on the final depiction of the wormhole in Deadline: “I think ultimately “We wanted it to have this hourglass shape because we thought it was the easiest way to communicate such a big idea to the audience.” At the end of episode 5, when Nancy (Natalia Dyer) pulls and opens a tear in the exotic matter holding everything together, zooming out allows us to see the shape of the wormhole for the first time.
“I don’t remember how many kilometers distance did they create visual effects so that we can show the full shape, but we had to go very far,” recalls Duffer.
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