Post by shawnturner on Jan 9, 2018 12:12:26 GMT
Hi,
I've binge watched the entire show this weekend (easy at just 8 episodes) and I've not been able to find much meaningful discussion online analyzing the ending. It seems to me that the Demagorgon was ultimately a projection of Eleven's subconscious. The first time she encounters it she is in a deep psychic state which seems reasonable to assume that she would have unintentional access to her own brain. In her first meeting, the "Upside Down" doesn't seem exist; it's simply black nothingness. Once she reaches out and makes contact, acknowledging her own fears, they're made manifest. This is implied midway through the season when she says that she's the monster (clearly she was being metaphorical but I think it served as a sort of double entendre). Also, the creatures area of operations is based around her general area in a physical sense. My last bit of "evidence" is that the monster physically mirrors her when she has it pinned against the wall at the end. She dies because to destroy the monster she has to destroy herself.
Clearly there are some things I haven't thought through or that don't add up exactly, but I was hoping to at least get the ball rolling and hear how other people had interpreted the ending.
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I've binge watched the entire show this weekend (easy at just 8 episodes) and I've not been able to find much meaningful discussion online analyzing the ending. It seems to me that the Demagorgon was ultimately a projection of Eleven's subconscious. The first time she encounters it she is in a deep psychic state which seems reasonable to assume that she would have unintentional access to her own brain. In her first meeting, the "Upside Down" doesn't seem exist; it's simply black nothingness. Once she reaches out and makes contact, acknowledging her own fears, they're made manifest. This is implied midway through the season when she says that she's the monster (clearly she was being metaphorical but I think it served as a sort of double entendre). Also, the creatures area of operations is based around her general area in a physical sense. My last bit of "evidence" is that the monster physically mirrors her when she has it pinned against the wall at the end. She dies because to destroy the monster she has to destroy herself.
Clearly there are some things I haven't thought through or that don't add up exactly, but I was hoping to at least get the ball rolling and hear how other people had interpreted the ending.
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