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** For the 17-year gap between 1987 and 2004 the changes were mostly political stuff that might not matter to the daily life of a 13-year-old girl. Eg social media was still in its infancy and hadn't taken over daily life yet, myspace was only a year old at that point. Had jenna skipped, say, the years between 1999 and 2016 or 2003 and 2020 she would have had a lot more practical change to deal with ...

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** For the 17-year gap between 1987 and 2004 the changes were mostly political stuff that might not matter to the daily life of a 13-year-old girl. Eg social media was still in its infancy and hadn't taken over daily life yet, myspace was only a year old at that point. Had jenna skipped, say, the years between 1999 and 2016 or 2003 and 2020 2020, or even 2007 and 2024, she would have had a lot more practical change to deal with ...
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** yeah, production on the movie was in 2003, just before the second molestation case came out, when it was too late for them to change the script, presumably. That said, while Jackson was already a controversial figure for the "Blanket" thing, my recollection is that in the pre-metoo era the treatment of that subject was different than it would be today, and most people assumed he was innocent. I don't recall anyone at the time objecting to the reference to jackson in the movie, and if moviegoers had no objection it's plausible the characters wouldn't either.

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** yeah, production on the movie was in 2003, just before the second molestation case came out, when it was too late for them to change the script, presumably. That said, while Jackson was already a controversial figure for the "Blanket" thing, my recollection is that in the pre-metoo era the treatment of that subject was different than it would be today, and most people assumed he was innocent. I don't recall anyone at the time objecting to the reference to jackson in the movie, and if moviegoers had no objection it's plausible the characters wouldn't either.either.

* Evidently all the development in character she had wasn't about outward appearances, as she evidently got the same nose job she had gotten in the original timeline.
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** For the 17-year gap between 1987 and 2004 the changes were mostly political stuff that might not matter to the daily life of a 13-year-old girl. Eg social media was still in its infancy and hadn't taken over daily life yet, myspace was only a year old at that point. Had jenna skipped, say, the years between 1999 and 2016 or 2003 and 2020 she would have had a lot more practical change to deal with ...
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* This is more of a thing for societal attitudes of the time the film came out, in 2004 liking Michael Jackson was nowhere near as cool as it was in the 80s due to the second wave of accusations of child molestation he was going through at the time, so it does stretch believability a bit that nobody at the party has an issue with Jenna playing his music.

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* This is more of a thing for societal attitudes of the time the film came out, in 2004 liking Michael Jackson was nowhere near as cool as it was in the 80s due to the second wave of accusations of child molestation he was going through at the time, so it does stretch believability a bit that nobody at the party has an issue with Jenna playing his music.music.
** yeah, production on the movie was in 2003, just before the second molestation case came out, when it was too late for them to change the script, presumably. That said, while Jackson was already a controversial figure for the "Blanket" thing, my recollection is that in the pre-metoo era the treatment of that subject was different than it would be today, and most people assumed he was innocent. I don't recall anyone at the time objecting to the reference to jackson in the movie, and if moviegoers had no objection it's plausible the characters wouldn't either.
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** Perhaps VirtueIsWeakness in the battleground of middle school popularity and Jenna was more ruthlessly able to attain her goals once she became TheUnfettered.

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