The show Stranger Things will be coming to an end soon. It is a show that, like Game of Thrones, I feel as if I should have watched, but never did. And I doubt that I will ever have the time, energy, or self-discipline to watch it.
Perhaps the biggest reason that I feel that I should have watched it is that I am roughly the same age as the main characters. I was a kid in the Eighties. And that makes me think about how the same amount of time has passed between 2025 and when I was in middle school in the Eighties as had passed between 1985 and the end of World War II. And that makes me feel really old and sad.
I assume that the ending will be considered deeply disappointing, because the endings of iconic television shows (Seinfeld, The Sopranos, Lost, etc.) are always considered deeply disappointing. (Well, okay, maybe not the Newhart finale . . . from the Eighties . . . )
Beyond that, though, I do not have any observations on Stranger Things itself, as I have never watched it, but I do have observations on the names of some of the actors:
Millie Bobby Brown—It took me years to come to terms with the fact that someone named “Millie Bobby Brown” is in no way related to Whitney Houston
Finn Wolfhard—Is that really his name, or just something that he made up when he was twelve because it sounded cool?
Sadie Skink Sink—I know that her name is “Sink”, but I can’t helping thinking “Skink”, and I can’t help wondering how many reptile aficionados over the last few years have been naming their skinks “Sadie”.
