the dialogue makes no sense? IT’S A CODE

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How fanfic and Power Rangers made me enjoy movies more, a four paragraph essay by me:

Power Rangers generally has to fit all its character development into just a few minutes in each episode, so they use tons of shortcuts. ‘These characters are best friends, you can tell because they sat next to each other.’ Or ‘these characters are dating, you can tell because they’re wearing each other’s colors.’ Which really teaches you to read into those things.

Fanfic takes this to an entirely new level. Two characters once stood next to each other? Here’s a 100,000 word story describing their epic friendship. (::cough:: Inception ::cough::) And thanks to AUs of all kinds, even the wildest explanations for things seem potentially plausible. Characters exchanged an unusually long look? Are they psychic? Soul-bonded? Share a secret past? Body-swapped? Do they have amnesia? Did they just arrive from a different universe where they work in a coffeeshop together?

So now I feel like when I watch movies, I’m not actually watching the movie that was filmed. I’m watching the other movie, the better movie, that’s sort of running parallel to the one on screen, but in my head it keeps veering off on tangents like ‘if this had all been planned ahead of time as a ruse, the whole thing would be A) more awesome, and B) HILARIOUS.’

In conclusion: most movies that I watch make more sense and are more fun when I fanfic them in my head as I go along. (I do have to remind myself to be careful about saying things like, ‘yeah, I loved that movie!’ when what I really mean is, ‘I loved the version of that movie that I made up in my head while I was watching it!’)

Mirrored from The Marci Rating System.