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.