i think “game of thrones” ruined us.
every time a show is about to end or a season finale:

we are hoping characters die horrible deaths so we can find an excuse to cry.

that is kinda weird,
ain’t it?
instead of cheering on characters surviving to show us we can survive through uncertainty,
we are excited and looking forward to see people die in horrible ways.
not even deaths that make sense to the story either.

just killing characters off for the sake of our inner little (or big) psychopaths

it kinda explains why some of these folks voted for this new reality of chaos.
like sansa stark in “game of thrones”,
i was hoping no i liked died in this “stranger things” finale.
if they did die,
i hoped it was properly tied into the story like when eddie died.
anyhoo,
“stranger things” came to an end last night with the final episode.
i ended up watching it at around 2am and well…

it ended pretty safe.

it didn’t end horribly like the same “game of thrones” or “insecure”,
but it ended in a way that kinda made sense for the story.
i felt like some stuff felt really rushed,
and i HATE when shows introduce random characters in final seasons.
that is a whole new character with an arc that is left unexplained.

like,
i get the holly and kids story lines but then what?

sidebar: those kids were acting their asses off like the “it: welcome to derry” kids.
the future of acting isn’t all that bad it seems.

so and:

MASSIVE SPOILER

i’m okay with eleven dying.
we needed a sacrificial death and she was up.
i like the idea of her dying because it closes the story line since it started with her.
i have a friend who plays “dungeons and dragons” and how i took the ending was:

d&d is a game where,
from my understanding,
is you role play.
when mike was telling the story of what he thinks happened to eleven,
like in d&d,
he chose to use that ending of her surviving and escaping to cope with his grief.
eleven is dead as a door nail because AIN’T NO WAY she survived that.
how could mike even know her sister could do invisibility powers?
and how could she do it when she was far away in the upside down place?
she got shot in the stomach so lets be real here.
anyhoo,
when they all put their folders of their d&d files on the shelves,
that was mike coming to terms with ending the game and letting go of eleven.

not only that:

how TF would eleven even get to that mountain top?
she ain’t got no money.

i mean,
this is how i choose to see it.

anyhoo,
without all the yapping the season had,
i think it ended on a anticlimactic note.

i didn’t have high expectations,
especially after how “game of thrones” ended,
so it met me at the level i set for it.

i do enjoy reading people crying about it online tho.
some make sense; others were expecting too much.

lowkey: as long as my steve harrington and dustin survived,
i’m good.