I’m starting to think I like the trope of “Friends Promising To Meet Again When They’re Young And Fulfilling It When They’re Old”. I mean, I love friendships in general, but I just realized this trope has popped up a couple times in stories I like.
It’s happened at least twice in Odyssey—Agnes and Jo in “The Pact” (which is a very wonderful episode, by the way, that I heard for the first time last month), and Whit and Reginald Duffield in “Operation: Digout”. And of course, it’s often coupled with the trope of “Old Friends Reunited Share The Impact That The Other Had On Their Life”, which is also a great one.