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hafitalSo, I haven't been commenting much on TV in the last few weeks (RL, school, too busy, laziness -- take your pick) -- but I have been watching all of my shows, although mostly not live because I haven't been home.
Anywhoo -- Friday Night Lights! I can't get over this show, omg. It makes me cry, laugh, sing, dance around, all in ONE EPISODE. Pretty much every week. And also sometimes within the same SCENE, fer crying out loud. I'm gonna try and put down some comments, but honestly, I'm just flailing over here, incoherently, unable to make pretty sentences.
eta: I just swung by TWOP, out of curiousity, and I had to quote from the FNL recaplet because it so perfectly expresses what I feel when I watch FNL:
So, like, I could write this recaplet IN ALL CAPS BECAUSE THIS EPISODE WAS SO GOOD. Or, I could use...a lot...of...ellipses...because...it...has...left me...speechless. Or I could describe my heart literally, physically thumping in my chest and how I leapt from the couch multiple times during the game. Or I might describe how pretty much for an hour I felt like I wanted to puke, my heart was so full. Is that enough for you Peter Berg? Jason Katims? Jeffrey Reiner? EVERYONE ELSE? The critic PUKING FOR JOY?
Exactly!
I don't know what to say about Coach and Tami that doesn't sound stupid, like, omgIlovethemEEEEE, but that' pretty much how I feel. My love grows and grows. Loved Tami with Tyra, with Tyra's mother. I loved her vulnerable at Planned Parenthood. I loved her holding on to what she wants, to stay in Dillan. I LOVED Coach Taylor trying to sell Austin to Julie - "They have excellent Ballet-ers." HEEEE. I love that he's struggling so hard with this decision, and of course omg he can't leave the Panthers! HE CAN'T, but I understand where he's coming from and how this is his dream - but it's so hard to realize that sometimes you don't really want your dreams.
I cannot express how much Landry makes me insanely happy. Landry with a car full of girls singing Lady Marmelade and eating chocolate. His facial expressions alone have cemented my love for ever and ever. I nearly died when Tyra gets out of the car to convince Lyla to go with them and Grandma Saracen has chocolate all over her mouth. HEE.
Tyra is fast becoming, like, my favorite female character in the history of ever. I'm just saying.
I loved Lyla and wanted to wring her neck. heh. I'm very sympathetic for her. She's not perfect, but she's had a difficult time and we've seen how it's changed her. And the whole thing with Jason was just difficult all around, neither did well, but I can't say that their sins were all that terrible. They're only, like, 17, and have gone through hell in a very short time, and they're changing and figuring out who they are and what it means to be who they are. I could see how they really really really wanted to do it together, wanted to live the dream they had before Jason's accident. They tried so hard, but it wasn't there, in the end.
Speaking of Jason. I think I could write an essay about Jason. How awesome was he in the settlement hearing for his suit against Coach Taylor and the school. OMG. During the first couple of episodes we saw a Jason who was one of those guys who always does the right thing, says what's honorable and right, and gracious. I can never forget that scene in the hospital when Coach Taylor goes to see him and Jason's in traction and Coach Taylor mentions Matt Saracen and how Matt's throwing like a girl, but he'll pull through, and Jason says how he always liked Matt, how he's creative and different because he listens to Dylan, and how Matt's a good guy, and the camera turns to Coach Taylor's face and you see this incredible look on his face, this wonder, and awe, at Jason's strength at that moment, that he could rise above this horrible misfortune and say something so kind and so thoughtful about the guy who's taking his life, essentially, and Coach says, quietly but with such conviction it's still making me cry all these months later, "You're a good man, Jason. You're a good man." And then we see Jason become human, to really really struggle with his fate and his life now as a quadriplegic, and he allows himself to get a little ugly, to show his scars and his hurt and his anger, and not be the perfect QB1 anymore, and THEN, to turn it around AGAIN, to see him take nervous Matt Saracen and *turn* him around, and lift Matt up, and OMG, I could have died a hundred thousand times during that scene at night on the football field when he shows Matt how to be QB1. *pant pant pant* That's what this show does to me, makes me write in runon sentences!
So. Jason/Tim. Back on board! YAY. THEY LOVE EACH OTHER YES THEY DO TEXAS FOREVER EEEEEE.
Also, Tim? I love you. Please come live next to me. I don't have a kid for you to be uber adorable with, but I could probably arrange something. We can make pasta and watch bad 80s movies. Come over. That woman, who's name I'm blanking on, man, you just know what she's thinking - wrongbadwrongHOTOMGwrongwrongwrongEEE. Kadymae! I was thinking of you and your TF&TF crossover, because she was so Mia only with a kid!
In other words, I love this show. It has a possible pick up for 6 more episodes, thank goodness. CLEAR EYES, FULL HEARTS, CAN'T LOSE.
Anywhoo -- Friday Night Lights! I can't get over this show, omg. It makes me cry, laugh, sing, dance around, all in ONE EPISODE. Pretty much every week. And also sometimes within the same SCENE, fer crying out loud. I'm gonna try and put down some comments, but honestly, I'm just flailing over here, incoherently, unable to make pretty sentences.
eta: I just swung by TWOP, out of curiousity, and I had to quote from the FNL recaplet because it so perfectly expresses what I feel when I watch FNL:
So, like, I could write this recaplet IN ALL CAPS BECAUSE THIS EPISODE WAS SO GOOD. Or, I could use...a lot...of...ellipses...because...it...has...left me...speechless. Or I could describe my heart literally, physically thumping in my chest and how I leapt from the couch multiple times during the game. Or I might describe how pretty much for an hour I felt like I wanted to puke, my heart was so full. Is that enough for you Peter Berg? Jason Katims? Jeffrey Reiner? EVERYONE ELSE? The critic PUKING FOR JOY?
Exactly!
I don't know what to say about Coach and Tami that doesn't sound stupid, like, omgIlovethemEEEEE, but that' pretty much how I feel. My love grows and grows. Loved Tami with Tyra, with Tyra's mother. I loved her vulnerable at Planned Parenthood. I loved her holding on to what she wants, to stay in Dillan. I LOVED Coach Taylor trying to sell Austin to Julie - "They have excellent Ballet-ers." HEEEE. I love that he's struggling so hard with this decision, and of course omg he can't leave the Panthers! HE CAN'T, but I understand where he's coming from and how this is his dream - but it's so hard to realize that sometimes you don't really want your dreams.
I cannot express how much Landry makes me insanely happy. Landry with a car full of girls singing Lady Marmelade and eating chocolate. His facial expressions alone have cemented my love for ever and ever. I nearly died when Tyra gets out of the car to convince Lyla to go with them and Grandma Saracen has chocolate all over her mouth. HEE.
Tyra is fast becoming, like, my favorite female character in the history of ever. I'm just saying.
I loved Lyla and wanted to wring her neck. heh. I'm very sympathetic for her. She's not perfect, but she's had a difficult time and we've seen how it's changed her. And the whole thing with Jason was just difficult all around, neither did well, but I can't say that their sins were all that terrible. They're only, like, 17, and have gone through hell in a very short time, and they're changing and figuring out who they are and what it means to be who they are. I could see how they really really really wanted to do it together, wanted to live the dream they had before Jason's accident. They tried so hard, but it wasn't there, in the end.
Speaking of Jason. I think I could write an essay about Jason. How awesome was he in the settlement hearing for his suit against Coach Taylor and the school. OMG. During the first couple of episodes we saw a Jason who was one of those guys who always does the right thing, says what's honorable and right, and gracious. I can never forget that scene in the hospital when Coach Taylor goes to see him and Jason's in traction and Coach Taylor mentions Matt Saracen and how Matt's throwing like a girl, but he'll pull through, and Jason says how he always liked Matt, how he's creative and different because he listens to Dylan, and how Matt's a good guy, and the camera turns to Coach Taylor's face and you see this incredible look on his face, this wonder, and awe, at Jason's strength at that moment, that he could rise above this horrible misfortune and say something so kind and so thoughtful about the guy who's taking his life, essentially, and Coach says, quietly but with such conviction it's still making me cry all these months later, "You're a good man, Jason. You're a good man." And then we see Jason become human, to really really struggle with his fate and his life now as a quadriplegic, and he allows himself to get a little ugly, to show his scars and his hurt and his anger, and not be the perfect QB1 anymore, and THEN, to turn it around AGAIN, to see him take nervous Matt Saracen and *turn* him around, and lift Matt up, and OMG, I could have died a hundred thousand times during that scene at night on the football field when he shows Matt how to be QB1. *pant pant pant* That's what this show does to me, makes me write in runon sentences!
So. Jason/Tim. Back on board! YAY. THEY LOVE EACH OTHER YES THEY DO TEXAS FOREVER EEEEEE.
Also, Tim? I love you. Please come live next to me. I don't have a kid for you to be uber adorable with, but I could probably arrange something. We can make pasta and watch bad 80s movies. Come over. That woman, who's name I'm blanking on, man, you just know what she's thinking - wrongbadwrongHOTOMGwrongwrongwrongEEE. Kadymae! I was thinking of you and your TF&TF crossover, because she was so Mia only with a kid!
In other words, I love this show. It has a possible pick up for 6 more episodes, thank goodness. CLEAR EYES, FULL HEARTS, CAN'T LOSE.
