Mothergate

This is Part 2 of the series of posts in which there is Stranger Things without a particular character.

Part 2: Mike Wheeler

In 1983, four years after test subject Eleven banished Henry Creel from Hawkins National Laboratory to another dimension known as the Upside Down, Dr. Martin Brenner commands Eleven to touch a creature she stumbles upon while spying upon Soviet spies in her mental space. Upon creating contact, a gate to the Upside Down is created at the lab, through which the creature, the Demogorgon, breaks into the lab. In the confusion, Eleven manages to escape the lab through a pipe, a way revealed to her by Henry. Eleven runs into Mirkwood, and eventually finds Benny's Burgers. Benny, however, is killed by Brenner's agent Connie Frazier and Eleven once again runs into the woods.

She stays there for a couple hours, wandering helplessly, until a group of people calling out "Will Byers!" stumbles upon her. They find her and take her to the Hawkins Police Department, who then transport her to the Hawkins Memorial Hospital. Eleven is incredibly confused. Finally, Dr. Brenner and his agents arrive at the hospital and take Eleven back to the lab. Dr. Brenner continues running tests on Eleven. Meanwhile, the Demogorgon rampages the town of Hawkins, killing Barbara Holland. The Demogorgon creates several gates all over Hawkins to get in and out of the Upside Down. Using these gates, Henry, now in control of the entire Upside Down, sends an army of other Demogorgons and adolescent versions of them, Demodogs, to destroy the town and kill all the civilians. Using the shadow-like leader of the Upside Down, the Mind Flayer, he possesses and melts all the military who arrive at Hawkins, who are unable to kill the Mind Flayer with their weapons. The flesh and blood of the military and other civilians become a proxy body for the Mind Flayer, and eventually, Henry reaches his goal of reshaping the world, with an incomprehensibly gargantuan Mind Flayer made of the flesh and blood of the world and an army of Demogorgons & Demodogs by his side.

DEATHS:

• Everyone except Vecna & the Upside Down-ians

im sorry abt the pumpkins theyre ew

The chandelier lights are flickering, but the Party's torch lights aren't.

In s1 Mr Clarke explained how a rift in space time would disrupt the electromagnetic fields in the environment and we saw that in effect.

But as we see in this clip the torch lights are not flickering, so maybe the reason for that is because the rift is above them and therefore only affecting the lights closest it, that being the chandelier?

Also the rhythmic pulsing of the chandelier lights are unlike the usual strobing light flashes, like when the demogorgon would approach or open a portal or when the Mind Flayer activated a host or flayed. So it's like whatever is causing this is dormant or sleeping and connected to the house through the house's Upside Down counterpart.

In the next shot Steve was leading the others, appearing to follow something in his hand. If you look closely the red object matches the red head of his torch, which is held in his left hand because his right hand is palm side up and appears to be clasping something small. He looks down at his hand before looking upwards and checks his hand again after that.

So based on all of that we can assume he is using a compass, like the Party did in s1 to locate the lab rift. The final shot reveals the grandfather clock in the attic, leading us to believe it is the source the compass is point to.

Eleven opened a rift after making contact with the first demogorgon, but seeing as how much the rift grew and how it required Eleven's abilities to close it, the assumption would be that another rift was temporarily opened in March 1959, but like the lab rift it hadn't fully healed.

The lab started experimenting on subjects in the 50s, so the timing fits that a test subject was responsible for opening a rift at the Creel House and unbeknownst to the lab, and now the barrier between the two worlds is breaking for some unknown reason.

If the gate opens and they close it again I will be so mad. That’s what they did in 1 and 2, and 3. It’s just repetitive moneymaking if they do that again tbh. If you disagree change my mind, I’m not that dead set on this opinion.

How did the Russians keep the demodog in the normal world (at the end of season 3) if all the other demodogs died when eleven closed the gate (in season 2)

ps. Excuse me if my English isn't the best (I'm from Italy)

I'm curious as to what a live demogorgon might imply. As far as I can tell, demogorgons can only live in our dimension and travel to it while there is a gate open between the worlds. We saw this with the demogorgon in season one, and the demodogs in season two, as the first only dimension hopped while the gate was open, and the gate closing in season two killed the dogs.

So what do you think the Russians having a live demogorgon could mean? Is there still a gate open? Did they find some other way to keep it alive? Why hasn't it made a portal to escape like the first demogorgon did? Tell me your thoughts!

If every scandal seems to end in “-gate” and this scandal actually involved a gate, does that mean this is....

Gategate? 😆