im still sitting here thinking about bill and ted face the music and how utterly, brilliantly perfect it is. bill and ted has always been about KINDNESS, DOING THE WORK, and FORGING CONNECTION.

The first movie is all about Bill & Ted trying to skirt the work on their final presentation for history class, only to emerge from the other side as people who understand that their future only happens when they decide to make it.

In the second movie, they're frustrated that things haven't panned out yet. They know they have to make their own futures, but can't seem to make the connection between the things they do and the things they get.

The movie teaches them how to knuckle down and *try*.

In the third movie, they've spent thirty years *doing the work*, only too recognize the work is not, and has never been, only about them -- because music is at its heart something collaborative and community building, and a song cant change the world by itself.

At every step of the way, you see how their fundamental kindness, openness to others, and ability to adapt are what make them great -- *not* their music.

They're able to forge friendships with Socrates, Genghis Khan, and Joan of Arc -- despite not speaking any of their languages. They're *able* to build a band that encompasses aliens, robots, time-displaced princess, and literally the Grim Reaper (love you, @Wm_Sadler!).

In doing so, they're able to forge connections across wildly different human (and nonhuman!) experiences in the service of a single goal: the give the world something beautiful.

Anyway, i've been trying to avoid spoilers but the new movie really ties all of that together in a bigger way than I thought possible. It's not about them. It's *never* been about them.

It's been about *us* the whole time.

It's right there in the most triumphant closing song of Bogus Journey: "God gave rock and roll to you, to everyone he gave a song to be sung"

It's not their destiny alone. It belongs to all of us. God gave rock and roll to everyone.