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WCDT strips 4281 to 4285 (8th to 12th June 2020)

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Mr Intrepid:
Bring mom up to meet Bubbles.  Pass pintsize off as their adopted son.

BenRG:
It's panel 3 that makes me laugh. Bubbles was fine with this decision as a hypothetical aspiration. To actually introduce her to Mrs Whittaker? Now?!? Time for a minor panic attack and a frantic trawl through everything she knows about human aesthetics in an attempt to look 'presentable'! Remember, in her own way, Bubbles is as insecure as Faye is; this might turn out to be somewhat painful.


--- Quote from: Mr Intrepid on 07 Jun 2020, 22:32 ---Bring mom up to meet Bubbles.  Pass pintsize off as their adopted son.
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Yeah, no. They want to convince Mrs W that Faye knows what she's doing, not that she's had a complete mental breakdown!

Cornelius:
Heh, that reminds me of my wife on our first video call to my parents, when I'd just proposed to her.  :-D It got worse, when they didn't answer, and so we went to get supper. When they called back, she was just midway into a bite of chicken.

sitnspin:
My wife's parents already knew me, we were in high school together. This did not work in our favour when we told them about us.

BenRG:
With regard to the poll, the rule of thumb is always that a sequel is 1/n the quality of the first movie in the franchise where 'n' is the number of the sequel. Most people agree that The Empire Strikes Back is the exception that proves the rule whilst the Police Academy franchise is practically a case study in why this rule is true.

Applying this to the Back to the Future franchise, like a lot of others, I feel that BttF part II was a very awkward-feeling picture. The writers had to include some aspect of the 'something has to be done about your kids' hook from the original movie in the story but it's clear that their heart wasn't really into it. They were really focussed on Marty's coming-of-age storyline, focussed more on controlling his pride and understanding the risks inherent in reacting too quickly and too violently to accusations of cowardice. Because of that, the story with Marty Jnr in BttF part II has always had the feeling of something tacked onto the main plot about Biff's temporal meddling as very much a minor B-plot.

Part III is basically just a fairly standard 'kid from the sticks learns the real meaning of courage' cowboy story with the time travel aspect tacked on. That doesn't make it bad, it just doesn't really feel like a part of the Back to the Future franchise at all, beyond the Chekhov's Gun in Part II. If the Delorean Time Machine had been destroyed upon arrival in 1885 and Doc had then revealed that he was already about 95% of the way to finishing the Jules Verne machine with one or two more time leaps in the film, then it would have felt more part of the continuing story arc.

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