A Corner of the Universe

Billy eats ass.

Why would you expect two straight men to write a five season slow burn after they’ve already given us queer rep?

They ticked the box they already have a canon lgbtq ship to even have Will be confirmed gay is lucky.

I think three gays in an 80s show is too much but you can’t be happy with the rep.

If the show was based on realism Robin would have ended up with Steve and Will would have gotten over his sensitivity and get a girlfriend.

Having them be gay is a miracle and you should be grateful.

I'd say the "Seven Sages" idea from Legend of Zelda is in play, too, where the characters need to rally all seven to win the final battle. The show keeps bringing up the number seven, like, a lot. And we're already up to three "sages" that I can identify (El, Will, Kali). Two of them were trapped in a prison: Kali in a literal one, Will in a metaphorical one of fear and shame.

My tentative theory:

Billy and Eddie are two of the sages that will return for the final battle. Both are currently trapped in Vecna's mind-prison, having been absorbed at the moment of their death.

i've seen someone mention the dnd game in season 3 might be foreshadowing and i don't think we talk about it enough.

so it starts off with a town getting attacked; (e.g Hawkins)

and then Will starts off with saying "do you guys here that, it sounds like thunder...but no wait, that's not thunder; that's a hoard of juju zombies"

so the scene shows will planning out a dnd game where they are being attacked by zombies. this sounds really familiar with the plot of season 3, with heather and billy being possessed by the mind flayer and basically acting like mindless zombies.

if billy and heather (and the rest who were 'flayed') are considered zombies and the mind flayer is basically made up of all of them, then it's true that the whole game in season 3 is foreshadowing to the later events (the whole starcourt battle scene)

behind flayed!billy in this scene, we see a lot of other characters here. this very obviously takes place in the upside down

[screenshots from 'Billy gets possessed' by AceWolfBoy on youtube]

and in season 4, nancy says that there isn't anybody in the upside down and then she adds “as far as i understand yeah" but it definitely could be foreshadowing as well.

[screenshots from 'the mind flayer speaks' by Nerd Clips HD on youtube]

he tells el that "i can see you, we all can see you" someone said that this was henry talking through billy and i completely agree. he's referring to the flayed (zombies) as 'we'.

so theory: the mind flayer could possibly come back in season 5 and hoards and hoards of people could be possessed to basically break down hawkins. maybe the return of billy and heather as well

we also get this scene:

[screenshots from 'Mike and Will fight' by Gin Freecs on youtube]

looks like a scene where mike's just making fun of the game. but if the first part of the game was foreshadowing, could this also be?

could we possibly maybe get a scene in season 5 where mike is fighting the mind flayer and loses an arm?

and then this scene right here;

potential sacrificing???

also the whole 'not thunder, but zombies' thing in the dnd game made me think a lot about how in the upside down the only sounds you here other than the creatures themselves is thunder. could be, again, foreshadowing of (possessed) people in the upside down.

Dacre took a break in 2020 and 2021 then had one movie release in 2022, 2 in 2024, and 2 in 2025.

The 2 movies in 2025 (what we hide and dead man's wire) were filmed in 2022/2023 and 2025 respectively.

He has no significant active work listed for 2024.

ST s5 was filmed from January to December 2024.