About Dr. Brenner, Matt continued, “We always wanted to revisit him, which is why we didn’t show him dying at the end of season 1. We were just waiting for the right time. And what worked for us this year, when we realized that Eleven no longer had her powers, was putting her in this dilemma where she needs her powers in order to save her friends in Hawkins, in order to save Hawkins. And the only person who can provide her or help her rediscover her powers is the person who taught her in the first place, Dr. Brenner. This man she has grown to hate over the years. It felt like a lot of really juicy drama. And then it also allowed us to explore Brenner and, not justifying his behavior, but understanding how he would justify his behavior. That was interesting to us.”
The brothers were also asked how they pulled off the twist of turning Henry into Vecna. “Doing a twist is nerve wracking … We talked about it a lot in the writer’s room and the best twists are ones that you go, ‘Oh, I should have seen that coming.’ As opposed to the twists that go, ‘Oh, well that just came out of nowhere.’ So, ‘Oh, I missed these clues along the way.’ But you get nervous when you’re writing it because you go, ‘Well, to me it seems obvious that Henry, as a young child, doesn’t die. Why does he not die from Vecna?’ And you’re just hoping that those little breadcrumbs that you’re leaving along the way aren’t so obvious that everyone starts to guess it,” Ross said.
“But it’s always hard to know. I think that’s the biggest relief for me, at least, of seeing the reactions of the season is that – well, one, that Vecna is working and then two, that the twists work. Because it’s not like a movie. We don’t test screen this stuff.”
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