Questions remain about the fate of Eleven, and talk of a secret 9th episode on Jan. 7 has bubbled up on social media.

With the Stranger Things Season 5 finale, Netflix has wrapped up its biggest show that spanned an entire decade.

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"I did feel there was a little bit left unsaid with [episode 7]," Schnapp told PEOPLE. "And I did actually speak to the Duffers, and they included a scene in the finale that wasn't originally there to kind of close that story properly."

So instead, upon seeing that Ted is alive and well, one only has to assume that his grief was entirely focused on Eleven, which then allows for his optimistic outlook to have peak impact. If he'd been too much of an emotional wreck during graduation day, it might have made his D&D-tethered theory sound far more desperate and nutty than idealistic.

Stranger Things has come to an end and it was satisfying for many characters in different ways, a few in particular getting the best ending possible.

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Conformity Gate comes as " Stranger Things " released its final episode on Dec. 31. The finale left some fans disappointed and wanting more. And Conformity Gate believers think that an additional episode will show the current finale was just a fake-out and that the beloved main characters didn't defeat Vecna after all.

The "Stranger Things" series finale failed to deliver the bloodbath that many fans expected. Instead, the show played it way too safe.

The most controversial thing about the Stranger Things series finale is that the final fate of Eleven is left to the viewer. Later, Mike realizes that she couldn’t have used her powers and shares a theory that Eleven managed to escape and that her demise was just a mental illusion created by Kali.