Q about Will and a the Monster

Why didn't the monster eat Will right away when it took him?

The Duffer brothers explained that the Monster has the habbit of taking his victims first to his net in the Upside Down the same way as a spider takes his victims to his web.

How did Will get away from it after it already captured him?

Jonathan commented once that Will is very good at playing hide and seek. So after the Monster brought him to the Upside Down, he was able to hide at his home.

Does it matter that Will wasn't bleeding when the monster decided to go after him?

There are theories that say that the Monster is not only drawn by blood, but also by lights. So his bike at his lights on when the Monster appeared.

But I think the main reason why the Monster decided to go after Will is that he was probably just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Will happens to live geographically near the Lab.

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Why didn't the monster eat Will right away when it took him?

From what we saw, it didn't eat Barb either and from how that whole scene played out, it looked like it used humans as incubators and whatever came out of them, kills/eats the hosts, i could be wrong, but that's my best guess

How did Will get away from it after it already captured him?

Will had the rifle and is quite small and quick, so it's somewhat believable that he was able to at least startle the monster enough to escape the shed and then hide, it is stated by a few characters, several times that Will is good at hiding, so that's pretty much explained within the series

Does it matter that Will wasn't bleeding when the monster decided to go after him?

The blood theory is brought up by two characters speculating, it is not stated as a fact

Also, many predators can sense blood and use it to track/hunt, but it's not their only method of hunting, Shark's, Lion's, Wolves do not only attack prey that are bleeding for example

So the monster didn't need Will to be bleeding to hunt him

Also, the monster and Will basically stumbled into each other, from what i got from the scene, is that Will was basically in the wrong place, at the wrong time and let's say that Dustin lived where Will did and Will lived where Dustin lived, than it would have been Dustin that was eventually taken, so yeah, i don't believe the Monster was tracking Will at all, or not until they saw each other on that road.

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It didn't take him until long after it took Barb. The monster never eats anything right away, if at all.

No. Blood doesn't matter.

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I think blood does matter, it's just not the creature's only draw. Will was able to escape and hide, just as Nancy hid from it, because he wasn't bleeding. Otherwise the creature could have smelled him. Barb was bleeding however, so no matter how fast she moved the monster would've found her. It eventually discovered Will because he was singing to keep himself awake. Had he not done that, it probably would've walked right by the tent without realizing the kid was in there.

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I'm confused as to how/why Barb died other than it being a plot device. Are you saying that Barb was used as an incubator and later was killed by whatever bugs/animals lived inside her? Or she was eaten by the monster? I get that Will was hiding and would have most likely died if they hadn't found him and pulled that snake out of his mouth and revived him.

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