(also to be posted to the current discussion thread for 507-510 in milady-milord.)

I struggle with that idea because in doing the series rewatch, I've discovered that while Jeff is very likeable, he does and displayed a lot of shitty behaviours and attitudes. Is he a good friend? A good man? A good person? I will be the first person to admit ( Read more... )

So, when rewatching S1, it's fairly obvious that Jeff is totally reliant on speeches and "using words to get things" to the point that he's characterised as eloquent, witty, and manipulative ( Read more... )

The first chords of "Greendale of Where I Belong" play during Annie and Jeff's conversation where she asks him to do her a favour and help Pierce with his stepdaughter in Basic Genealogy!

Oooh, it happens during both of their conversations! I never caught this on my previous viewings of the episode! Musical foreshadowing for how important ( Read more... )

Character Development:

• Jeff chooses to fight for his friends over his last shot at returning to his old law firm, even though Shirley told him that it was okay for him to choose his job over her, and upon Alan revealing that he was the one who sold Jeff out to the state bar, Jeff merely thanks him for it. Also, after years of trying to ignore him, ( Read more... )

Rewatching Introduction to Finality and hearing Jeff’s speech again, it’s all so wonderfully conveyed, since Shirley makes a selfless choice, and Jeff makes a selfless choice (to throw the case because he doesn’t want to screw her over because he loves Shirley as a friend, even though the easy thing would’ve been to take Alan’s offer and make a ( Read more... )

Little thing I noticed when rewatching Urban Matrimony: Jeff says, “I’m sorry, I just don’t believe in marriage” to Annie, and it sounds like he’s apologising to her for his failure to do so. He’s clearly quite upset in that scene, and I noticed it’s because of several elements. One, he knows that Annie is the type of person who believes in ( Read more... )

(Admission: This post is copy-pasted from my post about it on Tumblr)

Anyone who knows me or has followed me for a long time on Tumblr knows of my love for the meanings behind names and how they symbolically might mean something in the context of characters/plot and I've been thinking about how this applies to Jeff and Annie.

Jeff/Jeffrey means ( Read more... )