Stranger Things: Season 2: be prepared.

Before I've seen it.

I recently wrote several  articles about the upcoming IT-movie. One of the things I wrote was the little known fact that children have a tendency to grow up. So if -in the sequel (coming in 2019) about  the grown up versions of the surviving kids- a flashback is required it’s best to shoot those scenes while shooting the first movie.

For Stranger Things season 2 I noticed a similar thing going on. In the trailer little Eleven climbs out of the upside-down through a wall while rocking her trademark short hair.

Then on the posters she currently has a Ellen Ripley sort of hairdo. Hair doesn’t grow that fast.

Of course there are tricks to be pulled like wigs, editing and whatnot.

But I rather like the idea of the Duffer brothers shooting her escape scene last season and inserting it in this next one. That way Millie doesn’t have to shave her head all over again.

It’s starting to look like Stranger Things is going for Ripley’s hairdo from the first three Alien-movies in reverse.

In the same vein the role of Will. In the first season Will was taken to the 'other side' in the very first episode and never seen again until the final. Not a great deal of acting chops required.

Now, ever since the final episode aired I sincerely wondered about the Duffer brothers. I wondered how they could not  have known they had a hit show on their hands? And continuing on this train of thought I reasoned that they picked their Will with a bigger agenda in mind.

This is obviously a child so, for a child-who-fantasizes-about-becoming-an-actor, there are no small parts. But my argument states that he was picked for the long run.

This long run shows in the season two trailer. All the signs are pointing at the actor Noah Schnapp having a bigger meatier part as Will in the second season. He's crying, conflicted, jumping back and forth between the otherworld and his own. And, all, that to me sounds awesome.

Especially since I have little Will picked as the final nemesis versus Eleven. How awesome would that be?

So my argument is that Schnapp/Will was cast with the (long con) the next season -already- in mind.

And I like it when movies or TV-shows do this sort of thing. Planning ahead.

Just think about Lost and the ‘tall Walt’-issue.

Read about it online, it’s hilarious.

Or even, though morbid, the dilemma the next Star Wars movie is in with the death of Carrie Fisher.

Once all the lights and cameras are set shooting an additional scene (especially with digital cameras) is far easier than having to recreate it again later on.