Breaking: Background Characters Actually the Protagonist from Their Perspectives

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://thecrookedwheel.com/2022/09/06/breaking-background-characters-actually-the-protagonist-from-their-perspectives/ NEW YORK, NY—Breaking news this morning revealed that background characters, in fact, believe themselves to be the protagonists of their own lives, from their own perspectives. “After extensive research and interviews with dozens of background characters from TV shows and movies, we have determined that they all perceive themselves as the main character in their own story,” said lead researcher Dr. Richard Lyle of Columbia University’s Department of Media Studies, adding that the findings were backed up by a recent study of a woman in a restaurant who was eating alone until a man sitting at the bar asked her to join him for dinner. “While the woman herself may have only been a minor player in this scene and may not have even been seen by the audience at all, she believed herself to be the star of her own narrative. In fact, we found that every single person in any scene—no matter how large or small or how much or how little they were actually on screen—believes themselves to be the main character of their own lives.” At press time, Lyle added that he himself was just an extra in this article and had no actual role in its creation.