{"id":23578,"date":"2022-10-11T16:52:21","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T14:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1720293"},"modified":"2022-10-11T17:26:15","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T15:26:15","slug":"stranger-things-writers-reveal-eleven-mercy-kill-storyline-which-almost-happened","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/stranger-things-writers-reveal-eleven-mercy-kill-storyline-which-almost-happened\/","title":{"rendered":"Stranger Things writers reveal Eleven \u201cmercy kill\u201d storyline which almost happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Lidia Molina-Whyte\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Tuesday, 11 October 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Season 5 of <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/sci-fi\/stranger-things-season-5-release-date\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Stranger Things<\/a> may be a long while away yet, but the show\u2019s writers\u2019 room Twitter account is here to keep you entertained while you wait.<\/p>\n<p>Known for sharing behind-the-scenes titbits, scripts for previous episodes and titles for upcoming ones, and the occasional cryptic spoiler, the <a href=\"\/\/twitter.com\/strangerwriters&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">stranger writers<\/a> account has recently been tweeting about plot lines that weren\u2019t ultimately pursued.<\/p>\n<p>The latest reveal involves Millie Bobby Brown\u2019s Eleven and her birth mother.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn season 2, Eleven was going to mercy kill her mother,\u201d they <a href=\"\/\/twitter.com\/strangerwriters\/status\/1579543965615149056&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, Eleven didn\u2019t kill Teresa \u2018Terry\u2019 Ives (Aimee Mullins), but she did travel to meet her and the pair even managed to communicate (sort of), despite Terry being in a permanent state of catatonia due to forceful electroshock therapy.<\/p>\n<div class=\"&quot;image-handler__container\" image-handler__container--full=\"\" style=\"&quot;padding-bottom:\" calc=\"\"> <picture><source media=\"&quot;(max-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2022\/10\/stranger-things-terry-ives-aimee-mullins-8bdd5fd.jpg?webp=true&amp;quality=90&amp;resize=300%2C200,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/webp&quot;\"><source media=\"&quot;(max-width:\" 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data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2022\/10\/stranger-things-terry-ives-aimee-mullins-8bdd5fd.jpg?quality=90&amp;resize=556%2C371,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;\"><img class=\"&quot;wp-image-1720431\" align=\"\" size-full=\"\" image-handler__image=\"\" image-handler__image--full=\"\" no-wrap=\"\" js-lazyload=\"\" data-src=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2022\/10\/stranger-things-terry-ives-aimee-mullins-8bdd5fd.jpg?quality=90&amp;resize=620%2C413&quot;\" width=\"&quot;2123&quot;\" height=\"&quot;1415&quot;\" alt=\"&quot;&quot;\" title=\"&quot;&quot;\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div><div class=\"&quot;caption-hold&quot;\"><figcaption class=\"&quot;wp-caption-text&quot;\"><span class=\"&quot;caption-copy&quot;\"><i class=\"&quot;icon-arrow\" icon-camera-circle=\"\"\/> Aimee Mullins as Terry Ives in Stranger Things.<\/span><\/figcaption><span class=\"&quot;im-image-caption&quot;\"> <i>Netflix<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<p>The account also revealed another of the Stranger Things cast\u2019s most traumatised characters was meant to be further emotionally scarred.<\/p>\n<p>Noah Schnapp\u2019s Will Byers was also set for murder in season 2, with the stranger writers <a href=\"\/\/twitter.com\/strangerwriters\/status\/1577763069731561473&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">revealing<\/a> he was supposed to murder Bob (Sean Astin) while possessed by the mind flayer.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, neither ended up mercy or accidentally killing their parental figures. 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