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Originally posted by Kwicko:
Well, TSCC will *not* rule the world, since it's been cancelled...

... but other than that, I'm with ya.

I was in my mid-20s when I saw The Breakfast Club, and I can't really say that it changed my world or anything, but for probably the first time in my life I felt like someone actually GOT where kids were coming from. Thing is, I and everyone I knew in high school was every one of those people in some way, to some degree. We had our own little cliques ("Jets" and "Freaks" at my school) that we stuck with most of the time, but as one of the Freaks, I was also on the tennis team, my best friend was on the swim team, and we smoked pot with football players and cheerleaders, went to keggers with baseball players and that hot girl from the French Club, and ate mushrooms before pep rallies with basketball players and a couple of the girls from Government class.

What's weird is, I watched it again a couple years ago, and there was a part of me that was thinking that the Assistant Principal was right, and these really were a bunch of smart-ass kids. A little part of my younger self died that day...

:(

Mike

Old friend charity
Cruel twisted smile
And the smile signals emptiness
For me
Starless and Bible black

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And by the way, would you see another Firefly movie, show?

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Originally posted by boris:
I was smack in the middle of my teens when I saw the breakfast club...I didn't like it coz I did not relate to it. I was the dorky weird girl at school and I knew for a fact that the dorky weird girl never gets the guy (any guy including the ones that actually like her, because they don't want their non reputations ruined) or a makeover from the popular girls. however the dorky weird girl does get tough and develops endearing lifeskills and compassion for underdogs, as a result of her highschool experience. She never feels the need for or succumbs to any makeover attempts, and ends up having a fuller more satisfying life overall than the popular girls. not to be cynical or anything. I related more to The Outsiders.

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Originally posted by boris:
Okay let me rephrase....this particular dork didn't get the guy at high school so I personally didn't relate to the movie and was cynical about it....however all other dorks may have had more pleasant experiences. most dorks i know have lovely romances. I was speaking from my own experience: in my tortured teenage soul at the time I watched the Breakfast club, the girls like me never got the guys. Later after high school this female proud to be geek/dork was told that many of the guys actually liked her but thought their reputations (such as they were) would be wounded if they asked her out etc.I must highlight the fact that I went to an all girl Catholic high school and the boys we knew were from the boy's catholic high school. I did relate to the song" I learned the truth at Seventeen" I no longer have the impression the dorks don't get the guy or the girl. Geekiness is a gift.

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