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Fan theories about movies and TV shows are just the best. I swear, I don’t know what people did before the internet. Did they just *gulp* dial a phone and call their friends and relatives anytime they had an idea of what they thought was going to happen next on their favorite show or in the sequel to their favorite movie?
Then again, back in those days they didn’t have anything like Game of Thrones, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Stranger Things, True Detective, or the dozens upon dozens of other shows and movies like we have now. Though they did have Nickelodeon.
Speaking of Stranger Things… have you finished watching season three yet? Because…
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Now then, if you have finished season three of Stranger Things, then you know there will be at least some portion of season four taking place in the mid-1980s Soviet Union.
Season three of the series took place in the summer of 1985. The Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster happened in April of 1986. You see where this is heading, right?
Kamchatka, the place in Russia where “the American” is being held is nowhere near Chernobyl, but let’s not get caught up in semantics here. It’s possible that Eleven and “the American” get chased across Russia and end up in Chernobyl, okay?! She could have gotten there through the magic of the Upside Down. Don’t fight me on this.
(Also of note: Kamchatka recently suffered a 6.4 magnitude earthquake. Coincidence? I think not.)
Anyhoo, this new fan theory about Eleven and Chernobyl in season four goes a little something like this…
As one person on Reddit pointed out, Doctor Owens said that they use something familiar to convince the public to not look any further into the strange things taking place around their work.
So, the theory is that everything we know and think we know about the Chernobyl nuclear disaster was nothing more than a slick cover-up for the epic series-ending big boss battle that will take place between Eleven, The Mind Flayer, and/or the Russians.
Tell me you don’t want to see this happen.
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Fair enough.