stranger things Fans have once again focused on continuity errors, this time in the newly released first volume of the show’s fifth and final season.
Viewers were quick to notice a discrepancy involving Will Byers’ childhood memory in episode 4. Sorcerer.
In the scene, Will (Noah Schnapp) remembers a bright, sunny day when he and his brother Jonathan (Charlie Heaton) built Castle Byers. But the timing doesn’t match the way Jonathan previously described that day in Season 2. The mind flayer.
At that point, Jonathan said, “We stayed up all night building Castle Byers… just the way you drew it. And it took a long time because you were so bad at hammering. You always missed the nail.” He also remembered that it started to rain and they both got sick but refused to stop.
“We just had to finish it, right? We just had to do it.”
Fans pointed out that the two versions of events do not match, although some point out that the difference could be attributed to the way trauma distorts memory, especially since it occurred shortly after his father left.
The flashback isn’t the only continuity lapse that viewers caught. In episode 6, The Spinning Bow TrapJoyce (Winona Ryder) says that Will was 11 years old when he was taken to the Upside Down, despite previous signs stating his age as 12 being missing.
This echoes an earlier oversight from Season 4, when the show didn’t acknowledge Will’s birthday. At the time, creators Matt and Ross Duffer admitted the mistake and said Variety“It was obviously a mistake and we are sorry. We apologize to the fans.”
They joked about the possibility of doing a “George Lucas” solution in the future, although it hasn’t happened.
Volume 2 of the final season arrives on December 25.
