Team Nancy in Hawkins has a sophisticated four-part scheme to attack Vecna while he’s vulnerable. Like all great Stranger Things finales, our central heroes have a plan to take down the villain threatening them.
As it turns out, he only needs to kill four. Some fans (re: me) were confused as to how Vecna planned to dominate the real world operating at a snail’s pace of killing three people within a decade or so. Vecna’s goal is still the generic “unleash general evil upon an unsuspecting world” thing but the method he’s using to go about doing so is very deliberate.
Now, thanks to another conversation between numbers One and Eleven in episode 9, we have a better idea of what he’s after. Based on his monologue to Eleven at the end of episode 7 it seemed as though he was interested in just the usual general evil things. One thing that no one could quite figure out though was what Vecna’s whole plan was. We even indulged in a few of those theories ourselves. New Stranger Things big bad Vecna was the subject of many theories in the four weeks separating season 4’s first and second volumes. Will’s mythical painting has now been revealed but the conversation about his crush will have to wait for season 5. Mike, beautiful dumbass that he is, has no idea what’s going on. Here Will is obviously referring to his own situation and hoping Mike will pick up on it. He then goes on to assure Mike that Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) still cares for him despite their youthful inability to communicate their feelings. Will carefully points out that Mike’s character is the guy with a heart sigil on his shield because Mike is the heart of their group. Beneath that tableau, however, is a pretty clear subtext. It’s quite a lovely work! It features their whole D&D group as Medieval knights trying to take down a dragon.
Will finally shows Mike his painting early on in episode 8. So one would assume that the painting and the revelation of Will’s crush would be related. It’s also quite clear that Will is struggling with the reality that he’s gay and has a crush on his best friend. We know that Will (Noah Schnapp) has been working on a painting that he wants to show to his buddy Mike (Finn Wolfhard). Before we get into the meat (gross) of the Stranger Things season 4 ending, it’s worth addressing a mystery that the show gets out of the way in episode 8.
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