Is Will transforming into the monster?
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zane_ibrahim — 9 years ago(October 08, 2016 03:59 PM)
Is Will transforming into the monster?
When he was found by Hopper and his mother, he was deeply unconscious, virtually comatose.. with that large slug like organism within him..
Later we see him in the bathroom coughing up a slug and glimpsing the 'upside down' dimension.
If the monster had snatched him to eat him, it would've done so.
I think he was either being transformed or used as a host.
The monster could've been previously human, having gone through the same change. -
Mattuk123 — 9 years ago(October 08, 2016 05:53 PM)
I think he was used as a host, but he wasn't there long enough for it to kill him, from how the other bodies were that we saw, i believe that they were used as hosts, but as they weren't rescued they died as a result
So i think Will while obviously infested to some degree with the slugs/creatures, i think it's not enough to kill him, he just coughs them up, which isn't exactly ideal and has to have some serious consequences that we will discover in season 2
I hope he doesn't turn evil though, i think it would make more sense that he has the ability to enter the Upside Down and they use that to find and bring El back, who is trapped inside the Upside Down
However, the slugs/creatures he is coughing up, leave many possibilities and whatever they decide to do with that, because they have to lead to something, otherwise it was pointless showing him coughing them up -
rufusrawls — 9 years ago(October 09, 2016 09:15 AM)
This show has allot of reverences to 80's movies. I believe the slug part is the same as how the aliens in Alien reproduce. They use a host body that then produces a new alien. So I'm thinking the slug will turn into a new monster. Seeing it went down the drain it will probably make the sewer or something its new lair and turn that area into a new upside down.
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DrAndreiSmyslov — 9 years ago(October 09, 2016 10:25 AM)
I believe the slug part is the same as how the aliens in Alien reproduce. They use a host body that then produces a new alien.
It does seem to be heading that way, but personally I would prefer they deviate a bit from that theme rather than just straight out copying Alien 79 Xenomorph's characteristics.
I would like too see that the slugs keep the monster's food "preserved." Their own version of a refrigerator. The victims are not hosts for new monsters, the slug system keeps the victims fresh - feeding the comatose body oxygen and nutrients, to keep it edible over a longer period of time.
But that doesn't account for the egg, so sadly it looks they are going to straight out copy the Xenomorph's pattern.One of these days I'm going to cut you into little pieces.
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chrisjdel — 9 years ago(October 09, 2016 01:59 PM)
It's always possible Joyce and Hopper were too late. The boy they rescued isn't Will but a duplicate that nearly died when they "disconnected" it prematurely. It may have all of Will's memories and so believes itself to
be
him - which in a sense it is. Perhaps his body is producing those slugs one at a time, and any which come in contact with another host will burrow into them, kill them, and grow into an exact copy. This is more
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
than
Alien
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pieman-barker — 9 years ago(October 10, 2016 07:07 AM)
The egg was a snack for the monster, it's what it was eating in the first scene. The concept artist said it was something the monster ate but Millie confirmed (NYCC) it was what it was eating when she touched it in the first scene we get a visual on the monster.
For me I thought it was just an Alien reference, like our monsters gonna eat your monsters eggs.