Stranger Things season 4 has been available on Netflix for a month now and the release of the second part of season 4 is fast approaching. Many Questions are still open after the final. We can already answer one. Because since the episodes have been available on Netflix, a supposed one has been circulating on the Internet Elfie logic hole.
This is the supposed Elfie bug in Stranger Things season 4
Basically, as you may remember, Elfie (Millie Bobby Brown) is in Season 1 as good as mute, which, however, has psychological causes. She escapes her crushing confinement in Dr. Brenner (Matthew Modine) and then appears extremely scared. She only communicates with Hopper (David Harbour) through body language.
Only Mike (Finn Wolfhard) brings the traumatized girl rudimentary language skills that will continue to develop in the coming seasons.
This is how Stranger Things continues in Season 4, Part 2
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In season 4 Eleven returns to the place of horror that Hawkins Lab, back and we travel with her to the past where we see a younger Elfie along with other “disciples” of Brenner. Elfie is shy here too, but can form relatively complex sentences. At first glance, this doesn’t seem to match the picture from Season 1. Did the authors forget that they robbed the younger Elfie of her ability to speak? (More: New Stranger Things pictures reveal one of the most burning questions after the finale)
Of the “logic hole” is a frequent guest in error lists and many articles have tried to explain it. Fans on Twitter were also surprised by this Elfie decision. The error is not an error at all. There is a very good explanation for Elfie’s apparently magical language development.
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Stranger Things Season 4: The official explanation for Elfie’s speech development
She comes from the Duffer brothers, the showrunners and masterminds of the series, who alleged Elfie bug didn’t want to leave it like that. They spoke to TVLine about Eflie back in early June. What do you have to say?
In fact, the writing team considered having Elfie speak the same way we knew from Season 1. Ross Duffer:
[…] when we wrote the flashbacks, the goal was to recreate their language with its fractions, limited vocabulary…
But they took the audience’s irritation into account to draw a more complex story of Elfie’s trauma evolution. Then “the trauma [des Massakers, das wir in Folge 1 und 7 sehen] definitely influenced her”.
But she is surrounded by other children in the lab is. She is part of a society. She then falls into a coma for a period of time, wakes up and is completely taken over by Dr. Burner isolated. This is Elfie’s story.
According to this explanation, the trauma acts like a caesura, separating Elfie from her old self. she has no Memories of the brutal incidents and is then all alone again, so has no opportunity to rebuild her language. The other Duffer brother, Matt, also supports this with other clear examples.
On Elfie’s trauma:
When we meet her she will be 9. Then she will black out. She has no memory of any of this, which is why she has to relive it.
And about Elfie’s isolation:
The flashbacks in season 1[ins Labor] take place after the massacre, there she is locked in a cell all alone, without other children. […] No interaction apart from her dialogues with dad. That was the thinking behind it.
summaryMission: You simply have to separate Elfie into “Before the Massacre” and “After the Massacre”. Then the differences in their language skills make perfect sense. In fact, it would have been more irritating if Elfie hadn’t developed language skills among all the other children.
When is Stranger Things season 4 part 2 and season 5 coming to Netflix?
Part 2 of Season 4 Stranger Things is supposed to on July 1, 2022 appear. There is no date for Season 5 yet. With a bit of luck, it will be published in the summer of 2023.
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