Hawkins Tunnel System

• What Soteria really is

• What happened to the empty, dead vine-filled tunnels

• Whether Kali looked for Eleven again or not

• What happened to the dead Demodog in Joyce's fridge

• Why the Upside Down is stuck in 1983

• What happened to Dr. Owens

• What happened to Yuri and Dmitri

• How much about the Upside Down Murray really knows

• Whether the Soviets have stopped meddling with the Upside Down or not

• What happened to the base underneath Starcourt Mall

• How they covered up all the deaths of the Flayed when people clearly saw many of them at the Independence Day fair, not at Starcourt Mall

• How they're going to explain Hopper's return

• How oblivious Karen Wheeler really is

• Will's connection the Upside Down beyond his abduction and possession

• What happened to all the dead bodies of the Demodogs at Hawkins Lab

• Why Becky Ives didn't search for Eleven in Hawkins after she left

• Dr. Owens joins the main characters in their journey

• The Mind Flayer is the overarching villain, not Vecna

• More Demodogs & multiple Demogorgons

• The return of the 1983 Demogorgon (I don't believe that it's dead, and I also believe that it was special to some extent since it had telekinetic abilities)

• Returning to more old memories (maybe a sequence in a mind version of the Starcourt Mall)

• Visions of Barb, Bob, Billy, and Brenner

• The final fight takes place in the Hawkins Lab

• Jopper, Stancy, and Mileven being endgame (unless Eleven dies, which she won't based on a recent MBB interview)

• Murray, Owens, Hopper, and Joyce survive

• One of the kids dies (preferably Will)

• The 1983 Demogorgon kills one of the main cast members

• Kali returns and helps Eleven train, and maybe uncover some more HNL mystery

• Eleven uses memories of Terry Ives in the final battle

• Something happens to Terry (positive or negative) after the final battle

• Dmitri and his son are shown in the epilogue (maybe even Yuri)

• Kline makes an appearance

• More of the Flayed

• More tunnels (this has been confirmed, I'm so excited)

• Karen joins the fight

So recently I've seen a lot of videos hating on Dr. Owens, and I don't know why. I get that he's kind of forgettable but he doesn't deserve to be, but he really shouldn't be hated on like this when he did so much for the Party & co. when anyone else in his position would never. Idk if anyone remembers, but a couple of months ago I wrote these posts about Stranger Things without certain characters but I got too busy and had to stop them, but I think I need to do this for Dr. Owens.

I'll skip forward to 1984 because before then Dr. Owens had no role in the Stranger Things universe. Firstly, if Dr. Owens didn't exist, someone else from the Department of Energy (if Hawkins Lab is really run by the DOE) would be the Head of Hawkins Lab in 1984, and they would be taking care of Will's now-memories. Based on the rest of the Hawkins Lab staff, I believe they wouldn't care about Will's safety, and they absolutely would not help Hopper investigate the pumpkin patch. But the biggest problem would be when Will is taken to Hawkins Lab after his episode in the pumpkin patch. Without Dr. Owens, the soldiers would burn the Hawkins tunnel system and unfortunately, Will would die. The Mind Flayer fragment would exit its lifeless host and take up refuge at Brimborn Steelworks as we know it did. And without Will, Eleven wouldn't know that she should close the Gate. So she wouldn't. And of course, the Vecna would attack through the Mind Flayer with all of the Upside Down's forces; Demogorgons, Demodogs, Demobats, vines, everything. We know that's what he planned on doing.

I hope this showed the importance of Dr. Sam Owens in Stranger Things.

So like yeah they burned the vines/tendrils and everything else, and the tunnels are burned but they themselves are still there. I mean unless somehow those vines were holding them up, there is still that tunnel system running under Hawkins. It's kinda eerie to think about after all these years.