Something incredible happens in the five-minute preview of the “Stranger Things” finale season — maybe not by the standards of modern technology, granted, but watch and you’ll notice right away what I’m referring to.

The clip rewinds to Nov. 12, 1983, six days after Will Byers (Noah Schnapp) went missing — the series’ inciting incident. We’ve only seen Will’s vanishing from the perspective of our world. Now, the Duffer Brothers are at last showing what happened to Will while he was trapped in the Upside Down, the phantasmic shadow realm ruled by a man-made demon lord.

Will battles the monster he and his friends eventually name Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower) as best as he can, but inevitably, he loses because, and this is the part that doesn’t escape notice, Will is once again a small, skin

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