Watching the relationships between the young characters on Stranger Things is one of the bright spots in the 2017 TV year, capturing a sense of innocence and curiosity that’s absent in not only sci-fi series, but TV series as a whole. The creators of the shows broke the news yesterday, revealing that there will be a need for a time jump between the Season 2 finale and Season 3 premiere.
“It will have to be somewhat of a time gap because the kids are, I mean, they already look so much older,” co-creator Ross Duffer explained to Yahoo. “No matter what we want to do, I remember when we were originally talking about Season 2, we wanted to just start it in Christmas and just go from there, but then we realized the kids are just too old, so we had to jump forward. Even the latest trailer, we had to loop a line with [Caleb McLaughlin, who plays Lucas]. He sounds like a man now. It creeps me out. He’s going to be driving to set next year.
“It seems very wrong,” co-creator Matt Duffer added. “The minute I see Caleb drive up, I’m probably going to pass out.”
Ross also confessed that they “have an end goal; we know where we want to go. “We’re not quite sure how long it will take to get there, but we do have a plan. And some of it, it’s just because Season 2, we just came into it with so many ideas, and so many of them have been kicked further down the road. So we’re gonna use some of those. In [our Season 2 brainstorm], we figured out what that ending is, but it’ll take more than one year to get there.”
It’s great to see that there is an endgame in sight for one of the best shows on not just Netflix but any provider.
