Stranger Things X Short Circuit

Stranger Things x Short Circuit

After the events in Hawkins, in 1986, Dr. Martin Brenner finds himself in the state of Washington working alongside an intrepid young roboticist named Dr. Newton Crosby on the NOVA Labs S.A.I.N.T. project.

Nothing puts me off to never wanting to watch a television series ever like when people describe a show as "dumb fun". It usually indicates a show with either a) poor writing and direction or b) talks down to the audience.

Brenner & Eleven Theory

Eleven is actually a clone of Dr. Brenner's daughter. Some sort of Dr. Fuji and Ambertwo situation like in Pokemon. Maybe Brenner's daughter died in a horrific accident so Eleven was planted as an experiment as not to create suspicion at the lab. Maybe he's not supposed to be experimenting with gene splicing and cloning. That may explain why he wanted her back so badly, she's a copy of his daughter.

Or Eleven is a clone of Hopper's daughter, thus Hop's attachment to her. Perhaps the dna from his dead daughter used as an experiment to see if telekinesis can be passed from mother to child.

Adding to this theory, when Brenner gives El the flower in that S1 flashback, the flower is an African Violet, a plant that can be spliced and cloned. I still think this is a small subtext that is subtlety telling that us she's a clone.

Spin-Off Movie

I sort of wish that Netflix would make a spin-off movie about Dr. Brenner maybe within the timeline of before the series started or something. I know it won’t happen because he’s such an unpopular character but I wish it would happen because I bet he has a really interesting backstory we’ll never hear.