It’s not as miraculous as you might’ve thought.
Warning: This article contains spoilers forStranger Thingsseason 4.
The first seven-episode volume ofStranger Thingsseason 4 is chock full of information.
David Harbour’s Jim Hopper is carted through a Russian prison in ‘Stranger Things’ season 4.Netflix
We get answers to questions like: Is there any truth to Hawkins being cursed?
What’s going on with Eleven’s powers (or lack thereof)?
What is the deal with the new big bad?
But no body also means there’s no confirmation of death.
What happened in between?
How did he survive?
The answer isn’t as dramatic as you might’ve thought.
He also wasn’t blown up and then surgically stitched back together by the Mother Land.
The beginning of season 4’s second episode reveals that he just fell down on a lower platform.
Instead of falling to his death, there was another platform underneath him.
Did nobody else realize there was another platform, or, like, look down?
Someone should’ve looked!
Russian operatives were there to greet him.
“He’s in a brutal environment.
He’s going through brutal external things and also brutal internal things.
So, Hopper is just in a very stark environment.
It’s a lot of white and this dark, dark blue.
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