Outlander is gone now

I might have been the only person in the world who thought of an old poster for Outlander (2008) as a genuine cultural institution, so I'm almost definitely the only person who was sad to see it go, and I'm sure it's my fault.

I think I fucked up by pointing out that there were still posters for these films in a story I wrote for work about the state of the Majestic Theatre in Timaru. They were the last signs of the video rental store that used to live on the bottom floor of the theatre, put up and forgotten for more than 15 years.

I always liked to check if those posters were still there every time I went back home, because both the cinema and the video store were Very Important parts of my life at some points, and while the faded posters might look like neglect, the fact that they stayed up for years and years was always gently reassuring.

Then I only had to go and bloody point this out, and the last time I went home for a family wedding, they were gone. There's just a flyer for a beer festival down the bay now.

Nothing else has changed, there is no sign of any actual restoration of the theatre, but there are just blank windows instead of faded cinematic dreams. 

In this fucked up world, it's a stupid thing to care about, but I really did, and I'm sorry they were cleared away.