I was sure Steve was dead in ye ol' Upside Down after the whole cheesecake/Nancywantsthedong shots. Then I assumed ms. voyeur Nance would be snacks while she watched, well, everything. One of the two, probably both, is dead in the July episodes.
Dustin and Robin are still the best characters by a lot.
What fucking Christian/Tolkien universe does Dusty Bun's girlfriend live in? Utterly dumb fucking writing, editors do your job next time and save the viewers some of the march to inevitable retardation. For real, those scenes were incredibly stupid.
The way they handled Hopper/Joyce/Russian impersonator was also so, so bad. I'm guessing Hopper and Joyce are both going to play heavily into defeating 001 and/or whoever shows up in 5, but jeeesh, that was a bad way to get there. Dumb.
Finally... okay, I like the idea overall. 011 isn't Eleven, she's 1-Prime, and she's the only thing that can beat the former. Steve's gonna die, Nancy's gonna die, one (or more!) or the younger group is going to die, but... man, way to drag that shit out.
001 seems like a deserving final boss-type guy, I'm hoping he squishes most of the crew in July and then leaves, I dunno, 011, Dustin, Max, Robin, Eddie, and (totes obvs) Erika to fight him in the final season.
edit: I'm assuming 011 somehow created the Upside Down and that 001 then got there and started fucking shit up soon after? That's one plot thread that the Duffers have done a solid job of not spoiling.
edit 2, FO REAL this time... 'kay, this is what I think is really going to happen. The reference to time travel is key here that I think it was Nancy made when her guns were gone, means time travel can happen between real world and upside down (why am I putting so much thought into this someone kindly commit me). I think that 001 has started a chain of events that lead to the end of the world, in general, but also that somehow the intrepid team of Modine/Reiser have gotten a splinter of it off at one point and managed to try to get other versions of the timeline to work. 001 kills everyone, every time, unless they can get to 011, re-train her, and get her and Scooby Gang to kill 001. Sort of like Avengers Endgame yet with a somehow even longer prelude. Upside Down is where they can exit and/or re-enter time.