Warning: This text comprises spoilers from Stranger Issues collection finale "The Rightside Up."

A brand new Netflix documentary in regards to the making of Stranger Things season 5 takes viewers contained in the writers' room and the controversy in regards to the destiny of Millie Bobby Brown's Eleven.

Sequence finale "The Rightside Up" premiered on New 12 months's Eve, and ever since followers have been debating what actually occurred to the waffle-loving telekinetic. Did she die and go down with the ship, because it appeared when the Upside Down collapsed? Did she secretly get away and go off on her personal, as Mike (Finn Wolfhard) fantasized about?

One Final Journey: The Making of Stranger Issues 5, launched on Netflix Monday, confirmed creators Matt and Ross Duffer debating the matter with collection writers Paul Dichter, Kate Trefry, and Caitlin Schneiderhan.

"The entire episode needs to be constructing in direction of 'Eleven goes to kill herself,'" Ross started within the footage, which exhibits their Los Angeles workplace house.

"I believe that it's like, Is she nonetheless deciding? Has she already determined?" Dichter put forth.

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Ross advocated to "hold toying with the viewers" alongside the best way, noting, "It's what everybody's gonna hold anticipating." Nevertheless, Matt identified the issue with that strategy, which was, "We expect she's made the selection to reside. Simply kidding, she hasn't. Simply kidding, she has."

"I don't know if we have now to play it like that…. We hold it ambiguous," Ross mentioned.

One Final Journey chronicled the massive race to complete the script for the collection finale, which wasn't absolutely accomplished till after the crew began filming the episode. A sequence that takes place in a while within the documentary involving the writers confirmed Matt explaining the shortage of character deaths to be able to keep the spirit of enjoyable in Stranger Issues.

"I at all times thought that she represents magic, and so she has to depart," Matt mentioned of Eleven. "She needs to be gone to ensure that them to maneuver on."

"The door to Narnia closes for you, after which another youngsters are gonna discover one other door to Narnia later, however you're by no means going again," Dichter added.

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It nonetheless doesn't reply the elemental query by some means, however that's the purpose. As Matt detailed to Entertainment Weekly in a collection finale interview, "We spent in all probability extra time speaking about Eleven's destiny than the rest as we have been engaged on season 5. Numerous the dialogue you hear within the finale displays the sort of debates that we have been having within the writers' room. Hopper's [David Harbour] speech to her, he's expressing what a whole lot of us have been expressing within the room, however then there was the flip aspect of that argument, which is what Kali [Linnea Berthelsen] was saying."

The brothers haven't mentioned in the event that they'd ever definitively reply this lingering query. "Our aim, our hope is to depart it as much as the followers, in the end, and the viewers by way of what they consider, simply as we go away it as much as our characters in that basement to resolve what they consider or not," Ross advised EW.

One Final Journey: The Making of Stranger Issues 5, directed by Martina Radwan, is now accessible to stream on Netflix.

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