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This post contains spoilers for season 4 ofStranger Things.
OneStranger Thingscharacter got lucky in season 4.
The Duffer Brotherssaid they initially planned to kill one of the Russian fugitives that made his debut in the latest season.
“In terms of who makes it, who lives or dies … I think there was a version where Dimitri, aka Enzo, didn’t make it,” Ross Duffer toldCollider.
Enzo (Game of Thrones’sTom Wlaschiha) is the corrupt prison guard who bonds with Jim Hopper (David Harbour) while Hopper is incarcerated at a Russian camp. Enzo is later found to be a mole and becomes a prisoner beside Hopper.
“[Enzo] ended up making it,” added Ross. “But that’s [the most] radical of a departure from the original idea versus what we ended up with.”
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The Duffers noted that their initial ideas for the season rarely change significantly because they’re always keeping their eyes on the endgame for that batch of episodes.
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“So when we’re breaking a season, that is one of the first things we’re talking about is,Where do we want this story to end up?” explained Ross. “So the ending is always that goal post. Even as we’re breaking episode 1, we know exactly where we’re going. I don’t think we’ve deviated truly in any season for the finale, we’ve always stuck to it. I believe the case is the same here.”
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And even though Enzo survived season 4, Dr. Martin Brenner (Matthew Modine) and Eddie Munson (Joseph Quinn) weren’t so lucky.
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Stranger Thingsseasons 1–4 are now streaming on Netflix.
source: people.com
