Let’s all hope the AMPTP settles (fairly, of course) with the SAG-AFTRA actors’ union soon, or the monsters we see on Stranger Things might be more than we can handle.

The writing team for the Netflix hit are back at work writing the show’s fifth and final season following the agreement reached between the WGA, the screenwriters’ union, and the Academy of Motion Pictures and Television Producers. SAG-AFTRA has yet to do the same, however, so even though writers are now writing again, there is no one to speak their words into a mic or in front of a camera.

On Twitter (aka X) late last week, the writing crew had a bit of fun teasing the impending season, but replacing at least one cast member with a computer-generated character. The team posted this monstrosity.

“Hope the studios make a fair deal with SAG soon or else season 5 is looking like this,” read the post.

In a follow-up post, the writers added, “FYI this is pre-vis for a scene in ep 1. So technically your first look at season 5. We told Joe he has to perform it EXACTLY like this.”

According to the post’s author, a  “pre-vis” is a “rough animation of a scene” that they do “involving lots of VFX or complex action.”

The end of the actors’ strike, which began on July 14th of this year, may be soon; talks between SAG-AFTRA and the studios are scheduled to resume on Monday. The writers’ strike began in early May and lasted for 148 days, ending last week.

No new filming date has been set as of now due to the continued actors’ strike, of course, and the show’s writers anticipate that they will still be working on scripts when filming finally begins.