Well I have never considered myself a treasure, on this forum or anywhere else. I am just a guy who is trying to navigate life and found myself entrenched in the strange land known as Hollywood. I'm sure you guys know it was once called Hollywoodland. In case you don't, now you do.




Let us get back to Stranger Things.

I'm glad my claims about the release date came fairly close. What I was most proud of is the fact that I said it would "air in 2025 and then be done". The announced season 5 schedule is as follows:

Episodes 1-4: 11/26/25
Episodes 5-7: 12/25/25
Series finale: 12/31/25

There you have it. What I heard turned out to be true. They really did have a strict plan to completely release it by the end of 2025, and the 12/31 finale date is no accident. Note that it was not posted anywhere else online last year that they would completely finish the release by the end of the year.

Enough tooting my own horn though. I am nobody special, I just hear things. I guess I get some pride in delivering information to all of you before other spots on the web present it.

Another thing I heard has been confirmed.

 

Will Byers will come out as gay in Season 5.

This is why Stranger Things was so stupid to ruin Maya Hawke's interesting Robin character with a lesbian storyline. Everyone loved her with Steve, and then it just hit audience in the face with a stupid plot twist that Robin was gay. If you recall, they came up with this idea after the prior episodes had been written, so Season 3 ended up so disjointed that way, where there was clear romantic tension between Robin and Steve, and then bam, Robin is gay. Last season they tried to introduce a love interest for her. Of course it's a character nobody knew nor cared about, and of course both girls are feminine and pretty, because heaven forbid they show a realistic looking lesbian couple on TV.

They did all of this because the audience was getting impatient with the Will-being-gay story, which the Duffers had always wanted to wait until the very end to reveal, even though they had hinted at it since Season 1. Sometimes you need to just tell your woke audience to stuff it, and tell the story the way you want.

As the link above shows, it's going to be shown that Will is gay, and that he's been in love with Mike, and also resentful about Mike's romance with Eleven. Then he's going to get a boyfriend and live happily ever after. I'm hearing rumors that his being originally pulled into the upside down is going to tie into his internal angst about being gay.

Noah Schnapp, the actor who plays Will, is also gay.



I am feeling fairly confident that most of my plot predictions will come true, as everything I've been told so far by my Netflix source has turned out to be correct.

Glad they put the series to bed before all of the kids turned 40.