I’m trying, all right? I’m trying.
It’s just harder than I expected to re-balance the sexuality rations…and I still think this strip is a step in the right direction. Just perhaps not as big a step as it could have been if Biff and Megumi had gone to the cinema on their own. Unfortunately, I kinda accidentally assigned two different romantic interests to Megumi, giving her a scene with Biff, then forgetting all about that and giving her a lesbian crush on Akemi. I blame the rewriting. >_>
I guess I could have retconned one of those two scenes, or just conveniently forgotten about one of them again…but I felt it would be more honest to pay them both off. So Biff, Megumi and Akemi are now all officially bi and on a triple date, so there. No contradictions to prior plot elements, everyone happy.
Just not as straight a dating scene as it could possibly have been, but I promise the next one will be 100% heterosexual again.
And, yeah…the movie reference is incredibly dated. But I really haven’t watched a lot of teen movies after I stopped being a teen, and it would have felt wrong to use a newer movie I haven’t even watched. Let’s just say the local cinema had some sort of eighties revival going on…
More on Thursday.
“…the local cinema had some sort of eighties revival going on”
Have you seen? Most of what’s in cinema these days is a remake, rehash, sequel, prequel, “re-imagining”, or whatever other cliché for colon-quality recycling of proven properties for THE MODERN AUDIENCE. And they pretty much all blow chunks because they’re bad plagiarism by low-talent hacks with big budgets.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFz_00sC7mo7Zu5GSSj9hqJ8G3faYyhLK
I’m no longer following the movies very intensely, but I’ve noticed the trend. I don’t thing it’s going to change, though, as long as it works out financially…not all of the derivative movies work out, but they still flop less frequently than original material. The accountants at the movie studios will see it simply as a way to reduce risks.