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I love how I've become completely addicted to Back to the Future fanfic, even though I'm not all that crazy about the movies. I also love how George/Marty is way more popular than you might think. There's even a fanlisting, for heaven's sake.

I need to just give in and buy the trilogy on DVD so that I don't have to rent the tapes at Movie Gallery anymore, as they are ancient and worn from being viewed hundreds of times.

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Oh, I have so much to learn about BttF lore!

Oh, indeed you have! Yes, Eric Stoltz was the original Marty McFly, as these stills (http://www.bttf.com/cgi-bin/ImageFolio3/imageFolio.cgi?direct=Eric_Stoltz_as_Marty_McFly) prove. Crispin had filmed many of his scenes with Stolz, as had many of the other actors, when Zemekis decided it wasn't working out. He felt (apparently) that Stoltz was playing Marty too seriously and petitioned to get his original choice, Michael J. Fox, for Marty. Michael had originally not been given the part because the studio execs thought Stoltz was better for the part and, of course, Michael was already filming Family Ties episodes during the day. But Stoltz was dismissed as per Zemekis' wishes and the scenes were refilmed--often at night when Michael could make it and occasionally without Michael at all.

Crispin has said in interviews that he thought Stoltz was a better actor.

Was it really as awful as I remember it, or was it just a disappointment following two good flicks that might have been okay standing on its own?

... I'm not sure. It wasn't terrible, I guess, but it wasn't all that interesting. I don't really want to rewatch it myself. :D

Said compulsiveness will not allow me to fast forward to the end, either. Dammit.

Woo, I know that feeling...

I should start writing them down.

Yes, you should. :D Please. I so want to make a little Marty/George archive site (just a little one that will never get updated, like most of the sites I make) and... you know... content is always good.

Bottom line is that I was surfing through BttF fanfiction sites and they make me want to enact backlash very badly. Possibly because I know those people blame me for the downfall of civilization. (http://www.mj-holmes.com/Editorials/fanficedit) And I can be bitter about that.

And if we came back to the McFly home in a couple of weeks, he'd remember.

*nod* Yes, yes. And the eyes playing tricks. Yes. But I always think that someday he'll just look up and it will all click together.

And then it's all a matter of what happens afterward.

I wonder how he might take it if Marty decided to tell him the truth for whatever reason.

Indeed. I have a fic that's been in production for ages that sort of hinges on that. But it's not too serious... I mean, it's mostly me trying to see whether I can actually write George/Marty sex. The explanation has been easy, the sex is hard. What can I say?

Sometimes I type too much.

I almost always type too much.

is it just me or is Doc's interfering in the course of the McFly family's downfall a little out of character?

Yeeee-eeees... but if he didn't, they would have had to think of a more plausible sequel? I'm not sure. But, yes, Doc is acting especially mad and hypocritical in the second movie.

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Crispin has said in interviews that he thought Stoltz was a better actor.


Bwahahaha! Sigh.

... I'm not sure. It wasn't terrible, I guess, but it wasn't all that interesting. I don't really want to rewatch it myself. :D


Love Interest. I'm telling you. You know they're scraping the bottom of the barrel there. Also, it's pretty funny how Clara falls for Doc, like, instantly, but Christopher Lloyd looks cadaverous practically to the point of illness through most of the flick. I guess true love really can see beyond the exteriour. Especially in the movies. [/superficial cattiness]

Said compulsiveness will not allow me to fast forward to the end, either. Dammit.

Woo, I know that feeling...



Yeah, I was so proud of myself last night when I threw caution to the wind and fast forwarded through the whole dramatic "could more shit possibly go wrong?" scene to get to the end. (By the way, what's up with all the extra stuff they threw in there? As if being at precisely the correct speed and making contact with the wire at the right microsecond with all that wind and rain buffeting the car and slicking up the street isn't difficult enough? Yeah, I know, I know, Hollywood blah, but honestly, with a little effort they could have made it just as dramatic without all that other stuff.)

Yes, you should. :D Please. I so want to make a little Marty/George archive site (just a little one that will never get updated, like most of the sites I make) and... you know... content is always good.


Yeah, there is that whole content thing. Though a couple of my drabble ideas have nothing to do with George/Marty. One has Biff thinking about why he accepts the McFlys as auto-detailing clients when he could just tell them to push off, and another has Marty noticing his new friend the Doc's obsession with time. I also want to do something with post-trilogy Marty realizing, as things settle down, that he doesn't know his own family anymore.

Bottom line is that I was surfing through BttF fanfiction sites and they make me want to enact backlash very badly. Possibly because I know those people blame me for the downfall of civilization. And I can be bitter about that.



Man, I knew what link was before I even hovered the arrow over it to check the URL. I started to read that, got as far as the part about how slashers are diseased and delusional human beings (or however she put it) and got so angry that I had to leave the site immediately. I'm still angry whenever I think about it, and I'm too angry to go in and pull out an actual quote. Somehow, I've always managed to avoid being seriously, severely flamed (how I did this when I used to post Harry Potter slash on ff.net, I still don't know), so I've never had a chance to develop any kind of immunity to shit like that. I know in theory that a lot of people in fandom really, really hate us, but seeing it in practice was quite a shock.

The explanation has been easy, the sex is hard. What can I say?

From what I've heard, that's basically the story of life in general. Not that I would know. Yet.

Yeeee-eeees... but if he didn't, they would have had to think of a more plausible sequel? I'm not sure. But, yes, Doc is acting especially mad and hypocritical in the second movie.


Thought so. I tend to overthink things a little, so I just wanted to double-check.

I have this theory that the McFlys are destined to be a line of losers anyway, and Doc's machinations only temporarily circumvent that. They'll revert back to type eventually.