further classics of the cinema

Over the last few days I watched the first two Back to the Future movies with my kid. They were favorites of mine when I was his age, so it's nice to see that they held up pretty well, though it did bear some repeated explaining that the movies were made a long time ago (*sob*), and that's why they thought we'd have hoverboards by 2015, and why even when they're in the "present" their clothes are still weird, and what exactly is this Walkman you speak of?

I may have mentioned at some point here that Back to the Future was the first thing I can remember writing fic for, when I was knee high to a grasshopper. But of course, since it's me, I didn't write about Doc and Marty going on another adventure, no. Instead I wrote a whole story about Jennifer, a character who is barely in the first movie, and is unconscious for 90% of the second. Who cares about this character? Apparently not the writers, and probably hardly anybody else who saw the movies, but I did. I didn't want her to get knocked unconscious the second she starts to do anything, I wanted her to have an adventure too!

I think being drawn to side characters is just inherent to my personality. Maybe it's a rooting for the underdog thing, or a desire to see a larger picture of the world, or plain contrariness, I don't know. It's just how my mind works, and apparently always has.

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