i love seeing people analyze clark and mary and them as characters as well as their relationship between each other, and completely disregard Bobby and Kat. Like i’m sorry, i just think they have no substance.
their entire purpose for the film is to be bait, essentially. Bobby gets dragged down by pirate clark, kat goes after him and supposedly dies by Clark’s hand after he has a mental breakdown from being stuck in the backrooms for what must feel like weeks, which are probably a few days max.
As much as I think their roles were interesting, they’re one dimensional for a reason. They fuel Clark’s desperation and his aim to figure out what the backrooms is, and it’s disheartening seeing people write fanfic specifically geared toward Bobby.
He was a one off character.
People writing things about him being an entity, or a life form, or this “better bobby”, it really irks me because why can’t we get fanfiction in that same vain with clark, or even about mary and an encounter between her still life of some sort? We should be expanding on the fully fleshed out main characters. Why does it have to be the white stoner boy who’s already established to have a girlfriend that dies within 10 minutes of being on screen in the second half of the movie?
Oh, oh it’s because he’s hot? It’s because he’s vaguely twinkish? His actor has other medias he’s in. Go see him in those medias instead. Focus on the fleshed out characters rather than the one off, one dimensional, bait characters for once. The Backrooms movie is one of the best horror movies I’ve personally seen, and its exploration in trauma and the inability to move on even long after events happened is something that should be praised and discussed.
The characters that had minimum 20 minutes of screentime then died should not.
