He can strangle bad guys with it, so that's a plus, haha.
"Well," says AL, "really Doc doesn't have a canon birthday, right? Most writers generally just use Chris' birthday for the ease of it, though we know of one that picked July. I don't think they were thinking of it when they wrote the story...remember, John Lithgow was originally supposed to be Doc." She pauses and thinks. "Come to think of it...his birthday's in October, too. The 19th. But, again, I don't think that was in their minds at the time. They didn't have Google back then to say 'Okay, they go to the future on October 22nd, is that anywhere near a birthday?' "
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24/10/15 22:53 (UTC)"Well," says AL, "really Doc doesn't have a canon birthday, right? Most writers generally just use Chris' birthday for the ease of it, though we know of one that picked July. I don't think they were thinking of it when they wrote the story...remember, John Lithgow was originally supposed to be Doc." She pauses and thinks. "Come to think of it...his birthday's in October, too. The 19th. But, again, I don't think that was in their minds at the time. They didn't have Google back then to say 'Okay, they go to the future on October 22nd, is that anywhere near a birthday?' "