Stranger Things fans have once again focused on continuity errors – this time in the newly released first volume of the show’s fifth and final season.
Viewers quickly noticed a discrepancy involving Will Byers’ childhood memory in episode 4, wizard.
In the scene, Will (Noah Schnapp) flashes back to a bright, sunny day when he and his brother Jonathan (Charlie Heaton) built Castle Byers. But the moment doesn’t match how Jonathan previously described that day in Season 2’s The Mindflayer.
At the time, Jonathan said, “We stayed up all night building Castle Byers … exactly as you drew it. And it took so long because you were so bad at hammering. You’d miss the nail every time.” He also remembered that it started to rain and that they both got sick but refused to stop.
“We just had to finish it, didn’t we? We just had to.”
Fans pointed out that the two versions of events don’t add up, although some note that the difference can be attributed to the way trauma distorts memory – especially since it happened shortly after their father left.
The flashback isn’t the only continuity slip viewers are caught off guard. In section 6, The Turnbow TrapJoyce (Winona Ryder) says Will was 11 when he was taken into the Upside Down, despite earlier missing posters listing his age as 12.
This mirrors an earlier oversight from Season 4 where the show failed to acknowledge Will’s birthday. At the time, creators Matt and Ross Duffer admitted the mistake and told Black“Obviously it was a mistake and we apologize. We apologize to the fans.”
They joked about possibly doing a “George Lucas” fix in the future, though that hasn’t happened.
Volume 2 of the final season arrives on December 25th.
