“Stranger Things” released the long-awaited film series finale on New Year's Eveand people can't stop talking about what happened to Eleven?
Sadie Sink, who plays Max, was asked about the fate of Millie Bobby Brown's supernatural character during an interview on The Hill. “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.”
“I think she's dead,” Sink told Jimmy Fallon as the crowd reacted loudly. “Yeah. Is this like a hot take or something?”
In the eighth and final episode of the fifth season, Hawkins' ragtag group of teenagers, along with Joyce Byers and Hopper, among others, helped defeat Vecna once and for all.
However, to ensure that the destructive underworld of the Upside Down was destroyed forever, Eleven sacrificed herself.
However, in one of the final scenes, the teenagers are playing Dungeons when Mike (Finn Wolfhard) shares his theory about what happened to Eleven. He believes that his friend Eleven and her sister Kali used their powers to hide Eleven and create the illusion that she was killed by the bomb that exploded, destroying the Upside Down World.
Mike says that “no one will ever know” where Eleven went, but he “would like to imagine she was in a beautiful country.”
Viewers then see a fresh-faced Eleven traveling through a lush mountain landscape and looking at waterfalls.
When Mike's friends wonder if it's true, he says he chooses to believe it. He thinks that Eleven is alive, but he will never tell anyone about it, for fear of risking his entire life.
“I think Mike's story is just one last story and then… then they say goodbye to childhood,” Sink told Fallon of her theory. “But it's just one last story, that's all.”
Adding, “I think it’s just a way of coping.”
Sink said she thinks this theory makes the ending “stronger.”
Before the finale, the creators Matt and Ross Duffer told TODAY.com that there will be a death, calling it the “emotional ending to the show.”
“I want people to get ready for the ending,” said Ross Duffer, promising it's not “a Red Wedding situation like in Game of Thrones.” We're not going to kill eight of our characters.”
Matt Duffer added that any deaths that occur would not be “shocking.”
However, the brothers admitted that they do know what happened to Eleven, but they will never tell.
IN interview with Josh Horowitz On January 4, they stated that they left the ending “ambiguous for some reason.”
“Ross and I know about it and we just talked to Millie about it,” Matt Duffer said. “But I think if you tell people what you were thinking when you wrote the ending, it takes away the power of it.”
He shared that Brown knows what happened to her character, but “she won't tell you either. Don't waste your time.”
Matt Duffer added: “Millie is sworn to secrecy.”
