A Wrinkle in Time<\/em> references<\/a> in Volume 2 come from, and what fans should be bracing themselves for as Stranger Things heads toward its finale on New Year\u2019s Eve.<\/p>\n\nWhen Will Byers is first taken in Season 1, there\u2019s long been speculation about whether it was Eleven or Vecna behind it. Can you finally confirm who actually kidnapped Will?<\/strong><\/p>\nMatt Duffer: <\/strong>It was Vecna. Why do they think it was Eleven?<\/p>\nI believe the confusion came from when Eleven sees the picture of Will. When it shown, [some fans believe] it<\/strong> seems like she knows who he is.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\nMatt Duffer:<\/strong> Yeah, yeah, yeah\u2026OK. Well, she didn\u2019t have anything to do with his kidnapping. She\u2019s innocent, she\u2019s innocent. When it comes to creating the Upside Down, more guilty. I\u2019m glad we resolved this for you.\u00a0<\/p>\nThere are a lot of A Wrinkle in Time<\/em> references this season, especially in how Vecna operates. When you were shaping him, did you see Vecna as drawing from that same idea of a larger, cosmic force, almost in the image of that story\u2019s big bad?<\/strong><\/p>\nRoss Duffer:<\/strong> So, Vecna was from different references. That was those \u201980s horror monsters, like, you know, Pennywise or Pinhead. Those were more of the references for Vecna. A Wrinkle in Time came about just because we had a new group of young children, and it was very convenient. These kids didn\u2019t play D&D like our core characters, but we needed something that they could reference these big sci-fi concepts with one another.<\/p>\nI will say when it comes to A Wrinkle in Time<\/em> or even D&D<\/em>, we\u2019re not pulling references from those in particular. We look for something that the kids can use to talk about effectively, talk about those concepts that we\u2019ve come up with for the show.<\/p>\nBecause the Upside Down is said to be created by exotic matter, it suggests something man-made rather than purely organic or supernatural. Are we meant to think that Vecna, the Mind Flayer, or some other force had a direct hand in creating it, or is that still an open mystery for how this world came to exist?<\/strong><\/p>\nMatt Duffer: <\/strong>You\u2019re going to learn more. I don\u2019t want to say too much. Because, you see that moment, that brief moment when young Henry\u2019s about to open that briefcase. We\u2019ve really only seen half of that core memory. And what Henry\u2019s connection is with The Abyss and with the Mind Flayer. So all of that is going to be revealed in the finale, so you\u2019re gonna have to wait until New Year\u2019s Eve to find out.\u00a0<\/p>\nThe Stanger Things <\/em>finale airs on New Year\u2019s Eve. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n