Originally appeared on E! Online
One “Stranger Things” storyline detail is turning fans upside down.
Indeed, eagle-eyed fans spotted that a flashback scene in volume one of the Netflix series’ fifth and final season does not align with an earlier telling of the same memory from season one.
In the season five look-back, Will Byers (played by Noah Schnapp) and his older brother Jonathan (Charlie Heaton) build a fort in the woods named Castle Byers, a pivotal location in the debut season. During the flashback, the Byers brothers construct the fort in the sunshine during the day, which noticeably differed from Jonathan’s recollection of the events as told in season one.
“Do you remember the day Dad left? We stayed up all night, building Castle Byers, just the way you drew it,” Jonathan said to Will in the 2016 episode. “And it took so long, because you were so bad at hammering. You’d miss the nail every time.”
He continued, “And then it started raining, but we stayed out there anyway. We were both sick for like a week after that. But we just had to finish it, didn’t we? We just had to.”
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One “Stranger Things” viewer also made note of how the brothers’ cheery demeanor in the season five flashback conflicted with Jonathan’s previous account.
“It also makes no sense for them to act so normal,” the fan wrote on X (formerly Twitter), “when it’s literally the day their father left the house.”
But this was not the first flub viewers have noticed on the Matt Duffer and Ross Duffer series. As another pointed out on X, “They literally forgot will’s birthday last season fans had to remind them.”
And even “Stranger Things” writers have acknowledged the gaffe.
“Some friends forget to play dnd and some forget birthdays,” the writers’ room’s official X account shared in 2020. “It happens.”
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