Friday Night Lights Season 3
I'm a long time overdue for a post about Friday Night Lights. It's been increasingly hard to resist making one, though, as season 3 has gone from strength to strength. Even though I haven't been posting myself, I've been pleased to see that acknowledged on my friendslist. I fell a bit behind in my FNL watching these last couple of weeks and sat
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I do wonder, since saw little of him before the accident, if the naivety and fragility is tied to the accident. He had his life planned out. He was going to college, he was going to be a football star, he was going to marry Lyla and he lost all those dreams and didn't know what he would do to replace them. He lived in a bubble as QB1 and when that bubble burst and he had to find a new life plan, he didn't know how to act or react. Like you said, he was so use to success he didn't know how to deal with failure and he didn't realize that, while people look back on his high school football career fondly, the world is what have you done for me lately?
I felt for Matt though--there was noone to reassure him and tell him that they loved him anyway, he just got a lecture with the subtext 'I don't really trust you'. Ouch!
I had a different take on that scene. Matt was obviously fearful of what Eric might do to him and his greatest fear was having Eric not speak to him, to turn his back on him. Matt is smart enough to know that Eric would be upset. Matt was caught in bed with Eric's, in his eyes, little girl. But by talking to him, by telling him to respect her, Matt knew things would eventually be OK. I felt he had a subtle look of relief on his face at the end of the conversation.
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Yeah, absolutely--his bubble might never have burst if he'd not had his accident, or maybe it would have been more of a slow decline until a midlife crisis of meaning or something. But as it is, he tends to go from emotional high to emotional low very fast because he's not really experienced much in between: he's either the golden boy or a total failure. He doesn't have much middle ground and that makes him both interesting and fragile. I think fatherhood will ground him eventually, but he needs to stop expecting himself to move mountains every single time--give himself a break sometimes!
I felt he had a subtle look of relief on his face at the end of the conversation
I think that was the reading the show wanted us to have. *nods* But personally I was just left with a 'boy, do men suck!' feeling from that scene, because it was contrasted with the warm Julie/Tami one. And I know that Matt is not Coach's son, but he doesn't have anyone else who can offer him that warmth... It just left me with a lot of thoughts about the different messages we send boys and girls about sex. And while I understand that Matt wasn't expecting more than this, and that Coach was in some kind of unfathomable male rage about his 'little girl' (?!?!? sorry I don't relate to that at all), I still think it's sad and only perpetuates the gender divide. Actually come to think of it, while Tami had the best of intentions she did give Julie the feeling that her virginity was something she shouldn't have 'thrown away'--when I really don't think that was what she did at all! Julie was completely ready and in charge of the experience. And Matt was just as vulnerable, potentially, as Julie, in this dynamic. Yes, young girls need to be careful, but I kind of think both kids deserve more credit for making a healthy choice.
But then I guess I don't know much about 'normal' families when it comes to teen sex. My own family repressed all discussion of the matter.
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