Stranger Things Season 5 At Par With Battle Of The Bastards? Here's Why Duffer Bros Are Sure It'll Evoke Game Of Thrones Feeling

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Things Season 5 is just round the corner. And while Stranger Things and Game Of Thrones might belong to stark opposite universes, but the Duffer Brothers (Matt and Ross Duffer) believe audience will shockingly get reminded of GoT's one of the most epic episodes, Battle Of The Bastards, when they watch the season finale of their Netflix megahit. As the Stranger Things team, creators and fans gear up for its final battle between Hawkins and Vecna in the upcoming Season 5, a lot about the show's ending is at stake. And now with a reference to Battle Of The Bastards, one can only assume how big the web show is set to get.

Scale of Stranger Things Season 5

During a recent interview with Empire, brothers Matt and Ross Duffer said, "Now we’re in the final season, we don’t have to hold anything back. We didn’t want to tie everything into a perfect bow, but I think we answer most questions and resolve every arc."Stranger Things Season 5 brings back actors Finn Wolfhard, Millie Bobby Brown, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Sadie Sink, and others. It is set 18 months after the events of Season 4, and will show the big battle between the main heros of the show, out to save their hometown, the fictional Hawkins from the clutches of its supervillain, Vecna. We saw a glimpse of Vecna's mayhem in the previous season, and if the makers are to be believed, the audience is in for massive battles.

About Battle Of The Bastards

For the unversed, Battle Of The Bastards is the ninth and penultimate episode of Game of Thrones Season 6. It focusses on the eponymous battle at Winterfell between the combined forces of House Bolton, Umber and Karstark, led by Ramsay Bolton, and the combined forces of the free folk and the loyal houses of the North (Mormont, Mazin, Hornwood, and others), led by Jon Snow.

Duffer Bros compare Stranger Things finale with GoT

Meanwhile, the Duffer duo also shared, "It was our intention to write a definitive ending to this story." Commenting on the mega scale that's already being touted at a cinematic level, the creators remarked on the 8-episode season, and how one can expect it to be at par with Game Of Thrones.Matt Duffer shared, "When we pitched it to Netflix, we genuinely thought the scale was going to be about on par with Season 4. But, uh… that turned out to be a lie," He teased massive battles that will "evoke the same feeling" as Battle Of The Bastards from Game Of Thrones. "Episode 4 and Episode 8 are just monsters,"The brothers called the fourth episode instalment "Sorcerer," and "the most logistically insane shoot of our lives."ALSO READ: Stranger Things Season 5 BIG REVEAL? Duffer Bros' To Show 'Demo-Vision' - Fight Scenes From Demogorgon Perspective; Deets Inside

More about Stranger Things Season 5

The final season of Stranger Things is set 18 months after the events of Season 4. It is split into three parts. After the first part premieres on the Thanksgiving holiday, the next three episodes of Part 2 will release on Christmas, and the finale will be released on New Year’s Eve, December 31.