But the timing of Hopper's survival and capture is confusing, and just makes the season three finale more frustratingly opaque in retrospect.ĭavid Harbour plays Hopper in "Stranger Things." They were running for their lives, trying to escape the Russian soldiers still in the underground bunker. Within the show's logic, it makes sense that Joyce and Murray didn't have time to go look for him. He was just lying there, unconscious, where anyone could have looked down and seen him. His survival had nothing to do with the Gate or the Upside Down, or any secret tunnels. The Russians knocked him out, and then transported him to their country and imprisoned him. But when he came to, and tried to climb back up to the walkway where Joyce had last seen him alive, Hopper was met by a group of Russian soldiers. He was shrouded in smoke, and unconscious. "Stranger Things" season four, episode two, shows that Hopper merely jumped off the platform where the big laser machine was, and landed on a different platform below the jet of light. Hopper gave Joyce one final look before disappearing.īut no. Maybe he had jumped into the Upside Down through the Gate the Russians had opened, protecting him from the explosion's blast while also sealing him away from the real world? Or maybe he had found a secret escape route that led right into a Russian trap for prisoners? That would have explained why Joyce and Murray couldn't see any sign of him before they fled, and why the US government employees who entered the underground facility also failed to find Hopper alive. However, the details of how Hopper survived were still a mystery. Then Netflix decided to go ahead and reveal that Hopper was alive in the earliest teasers for season four, validating the evidence. There were over a dozen compelling clues that indicated he had survived the explosion in the Russian's underground lab. Many people (us included) didn't believe Hopper was truly dead. "Stranger Things" season four, part one not only shows what Hopper's been doing while trapped inside a Russian prison since the season three finale, but explains how he got there after being presumed dead by all the characters in the show.
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