"Stranger Things" fans are closer to getting their questions answered about the Upside Down and Vecna.
Following Vol. 1's climactic ending with Will Byers (Noah Schnapp) tapping into his connection with Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower) to help save his friends from an army of Demogorgons, the plot deepens in Vol. 2 with Will figuring out how to use his powers.
In an interview with "Good Morning America," Schnapp said his strength not only lies in his newfound superpowers, it's in his vulnerability.
"That's everything, that's all his strength," he said. "That's where he derives it from, is finally allowing himself to be truly vulnerable with his friends and open up and be truthful with his struggles and when he fully embraces that, that's when he harnesses his superpower."
Ross Duffer and Matt Duffer said focusing back on Will's storyline and letting Schnapp loose in season five was "really fun."
"It felt really interesting from a character perspective and then also from a plot perspective in the sense that really exploring what his connection with Vecna would look like and can he use that in order to help battle and defeat Vecna?" Matt Duffer said.
He went on, "Will is where everything started. The whole story started with his disappearance so it always felt right that we were gonna orient this fifth season in so many ways around him."
"He still had a lot of growing up to do," Matt Duffer added. "He's been through the ringer. So he has a lot of things that he has to wrestle with and get over."
In exploring Will's story, Schnapp highlighted the "parallels" between Will and Vecna.
"You come to understand Vecna a little more through the finale," Schnapp said.
Bower added, "Will's powers extend beyond what we've already seen in episode four and if they were a minor vexation to Vecna in that first chapter become a greater cause of pain in this volume for sure."
Ross Duffer further explained Will's powers and said the following final episodes will see if Will can "siphon Vecna's powers and use them for himself? So it is sort of trying to sort of wrestle control of this. So the stronger Will gets -- and he was chosen by Vecna because Vecna saw him as weak -- the more competitive he is with Vecna."
"So that's a battle that you're gonna see continue throughout the rest of the episodes," he added.
Bower said working with Schnapp during some of the critical Will/Vecna scenes this season was "really beautiful."
"Noah's bringing it this season in a really beautiful way and it's lovely to work with somebody who's bringing it, too, because it just makes you wanna keep at it, just keep going," he said.
Schnapp added that it was "fun" to work with Bower and "be face-to-face" with him as Vecna.
"He's so talented," Schnapp said about Bower.
When asked about what they hope audiences walk away with after seeing the conclusion of "Stranger Things," Schnapp said, "I just hope they're satisfied and content and ready to say goodbye to these characters and these stories. I hope they love the final episode as much as we did reading it."
Ross Duffer added, "I hope that it feels that the ending to everyone feels right and inevitable in a way even if it is hopefully also surprises them."
He went on, "I hope they feel a little bit of how we in the cast felt when we were wrapping it up, which was that it was very bittersweet in that it was sad to let go, but also there was a joy in remembering the adventure that we've all had together."
"So if the audience could feel that as well, that would be truly incredible," he added.
"Stranger Things 5" Vol. 2 is streaming now on Netflix. The final episode will arrive on New Year's Eve.
