hiding this from my mom, BTW
So a couple of weeks ago (actually, not even, whatever) I discovered that there is this great High School Musical graphic novel in existence called Lasting Impressions and I decided I had to have it. So tonight, when Jac and I were at the mall, I bought it (how I got it is an interesting story, I may or may not tell you) and you guys, it is so bad that it is awesome. It's actually ridiculously long, so kudos to them for not cheating me of my ten bucks.
At the request of Silvia and Tiffany, I have scanned the BEST parts and have uploaded them for your viewing pleasure.
YOU HAD BETTER ENJOY.
Look at that rad picture of East High you guys and then look at T&G and how they barely resemble their actors. So the story starts off pretty tame, and as usual, Troy and Gabi are cracking out the super-sweet lines. And it's only page one, geez! Zeke is the proud winner of probably the best line in the entire graphic novel and no I am not kidding and Chad decides to continue being a douchebag, throwing the basketball at Troy and hence breaking up his macking on Gabs. They play a silly game because B-Ball is their life, obvs, as everyone else arrives to school. Taylor makes fun of Chad, Sharpay worries about getting her 'drama outfit' dirty while rejecting Zeke at the same time and then they all head over to Darbus' homeroom.
Here she announces that gasp! They are putting on a musical. This one will be called, wait for it, you'll never guess...Twinkle Seine! It's the story of Simone and Jean-Luc and takes place in the romantic Paris of the 1800's, in the time of the impressionists. Yippee, Gabs and T exchange awkward 'will we audition?' glances while Chad and Taylor get detention and are forced to work on the play.
Troy and Gabriella need to talk right now damnit, and so they do. On the roof top. Where they now finish each other's sentences (like their real life counterparts, according to Miss V). Then they sing on the roof.
The next day, it's audition time! Sharpay and Ryan blow the school away (WHY ARE THEY FOREVER TRYING TO OUT PLAY LOVERS? WHY DOES NO ONE IN THE SCHOOL NOT THINK IT'S CREEPY?) and Troy and Gabriella strut on stage basically looking smug and all, bitch, we are the trillest motherfuckers you know. Of course they are AMAZING. LOOK AT THE JOY ON MARTHA'S FACE, WOW.
I actually just thought this was cute because they were crossing their fingers and biting their lips and awww. BUT WHAT IS THIS? SHARPAY WILL BE PLAYING SIMONE! OUTRAGE! Troy says he won't do the play if Gabs is not in it, but she encourages him to, saying he'll have 'wasted the time he spent rehersing.' She then takes the position as assistant director and it turns out that it's a really, really, really really, reallyyyyyy hard job. But one of Darbus' critic friends are coming and this is an opportunity for everyone to showcase all of their skills, so it's a really, really, really, really big deal. Like, really.
Here's the thing though-Troy and Gabi keep having the exact same, really weird dreams. In them, they're at the ski-lodge in Colorado with all the Wildcats in attendance and they are all in their pyjamas, I kid you not and then they party like it's 1995, no alcohol in sight. Both of them end with kisses, but they refuse to tell the other how the dream ends (even though if they had the same dream, which they acknowledge through text message and then later, actual conversation, don't they know that the other already knows how it ends? Kids.) because they are all coy about kissing cause it's T&G.
The musical turns out to be a lot harder than expected. Sharpay is pulling a Francine Frenski and calling it her show, Gabriella basically has to do everything (srsly, Darbus doesn't lift a finger) and Taylor and Chad are in charge of set design. They also never stop fighting about everything. They decide the only way to solve this is through a guys on girls basketball game, OF WHICH I SCANNED THE WHOLE THING BECAUSE HOW COULD I NOT?
Coach Bolton has also been abducted by aliens because he is actually reprimanding them for not putting more into the musical, WTF? He was just referring a basketball game in which all of the kids ditched for theatre, he would be praising T&G for not running after them.
But T&G decide to give it their all, but giving their all means they suddenly have no time for each other. Now they will never get to tell the other how the dream ends, WHAT THE FUCK? THEY SERIOUSLY HAVE NO SPARE TIME NOW, WOE IS THEM, AREN'T YOU GLAD THIS WAS NEVER IN THE MOVIE? Z&V would be ashamed at their relationship abilities.
A bunch of stuff happens next, none of which is actually interesting. Everyone's busy and Chad is hiding from Taylor in a locker and ya da ya da ya da. Gabriella and Troy are super emo, but here is probably the most awesomely ridiculously thing in the book:
Troy has a skateboard (probably so he can teach twisted-flips) from Gabriella. There is a message from her on it, it reads: "For the first song we ever sang together..." I DON'T KNOW WHY SHE WOULD BUY HIM A SKATEBOARD FOR THAT, BUT I'LL ASSUME IT'S A FIVE MONTH ANNIVERSARY GIFT OR SOMETHING.
Troy asks Ms. Darbus to recast Gabriella as Simone because he doesn't like singing with anyone else but her. Instead of seeing this as a romantic gesture (and an act of desperation), Gabriella gets angry at him and they fight!!! Then they break up, symbolized by a ripped photograph.
This results in the only Taylor/Troy interaction EVER.
Sharpay then whines about everything and anything, there's this really boring, awkward scene with Kelsi, Ryan and Martha at an art museum and then Martha takes Ryan to see her hip hop friends and honestly, IDEK. BUT THEN THE REAL DRAMA HAPPENS:
THE CEILING ABOVE THE STAGE HAS COLLAPSED BECAUSE OF A LEAK!!!!
EVERYTHING IS RUINED, THE PLAY IS OFF, EVERYONE'S LIVES ARE OVER, THE CRITIC WON'T COME. BUT WAIT, GABRIELLA REFUSES TO LET THIS HAPPEN, EVERYONE HAS WORKED SO HARD. So she proposes that they have a lock in to save the day and everyone seems to like this idea, so they go for it.
Coach Bolton redeems himself for his earlier encouragement towards the arts by insisting that Troy take a basketball with him to the lock in. THERE'S GOOD OLD COACH DAD. But the lock in is kind of boring, but T&G both pen these really elaborate text messages to each other, both essentially saying that all they can think about is the other.
But Chad and Taylor are sick of this, like, fierce, so they lock them on the rooftop, resulting in:
DRAMATIC TENSION!!!!
T&G can't talk face to face (...whatever) so Troy calls her on his phone. I don't know why he thinks this will work and Gabs is right, this is the dumbest idea ever, but it seems to work out okay, so I guess he knows his relationship better than I do. They then make up and he holds her fingers, which Zef does to Van IRL, so props to the artist for mirroring that. Still, they refuse to tell the other how the dream ended-I don't understand these two, everyone is always interrupting them, but they seem to cockblock themselves just as much.
The musical goes off without a hitch, of course, and mostly because Troy was envisioning singing with Gabriella instead of Sharpay the whole time. Go figure.
THEN THEY SNEAK OFF AND GO MAKE OUT, DID YOU NOT SEE THAT ONE COMING?
THE END.
At the request of Silvia and Tiffany, I have scanned the BEST parts and have uploaded them for your viewing pleasure.
YOU HAD BETTER ENJOY.
Look at that rad picture of East High you guys and then look at T&G and how they barely resemble their actors. So the story starts off pretty tame, and as usual, Troy and Gabi are cracking out the super-sweet lines. And it's only page one, geez! Zeke is the proud winner of probably the best line in the entire graphic novel and no I am not kidding and Chad decides to continue being a douchebag, throwing the basketball at Troy and hence breaking up his macking on Gabs. They play a silly game because B-Ball is their life, obvs, as everyone else arrives to school. Taylor makes fun of Chad, Sharpay worries about getting her 'drama outfit' dirty while rejecting Zeke at the same time and then they all head over to Darbus' homeroom.
Here she announces that gasp! They are putting on a musical. This one will be called, wait for it, you'll never guess...Twinkle Seine! It's the story of Simone and Jean-Luc and takes place in the romantic Paris of the 1800's, in the time of the impressionists. Yippee, Gabs and T exchange awkward 'will we audition?' glances while Chad and Taylor get detention and are forced to work on the play.
Troy and Gabriella need to talk right now damnit, and so they do. On the roof top. Where they now finish each other's sentences (like their real life counterparts, according to Miss V). Then they sing on the roof.
The next day, it's audition time! Sharpay and Ryan blow the school away (WHY ARE THEY FOREVER TRYING TO OUT PLAY LOVERS? WHY DOES NO ONE IN THE SCHOOL NOT THINK IT'S CREEPY?) and Troy and Gabriella strut on stage basically looking smug and all, bitch, we are the trillest motherfuckers you know. Of course they are AMAZING. LOOK AT THE JOY ON MARTHA'S FACE, WOW.
I actually just thought this was cute because they were crossing their fingers and biting their lips and awww. BUT WHAT IS THIS? SHARPAY WILL BE PLAYING SIMONE! OUTRAGE! Troy says he won't do the play if Gabs is not in it, but she encourages him to, saying he'll have 'wasted the time he spent rehersing.' She then takes the position as assistant director and it turns out that it's a really, really, really really, reallyyyyyy hard job. But one of Darbus' critic friends are coming and this is an opportunity for everyone to showcase all of their skills, so it's a really, really, really, really big deal. Like, really.
Here's the thing though-Troy and Gabi keep having the exact same, really weird dreams. In them, they're at the ski-lodge in Colorado with all the Wildcats in attendance and they are all in their pyjamas, I kid you not and then they party like it's 1995, no alcohol in sight. Both of them end with kisses, but they refuse to tell the other how the dream ends (even though if they had the same dream, which they acknowledge through text message and then later, actual conversation, don't they know that the other already knows how it ends? Kids.) because they are all coy about kissing cause it's T&G.
The musical turns out to be a lot harder than expected. Sharpay is pulling a Francine Frenski and calling it her show, Gabriella basically has to do everything (srsly, Darbus doesn't lift a finger) and Taylor and Chad are in charge of set design. They also never stop fighting about everything. They decide the only way to solve this is through a guys on girls basketball game, OF WHICH I SCANNED THE WHOLE THING BECAUSE HOW COULD I NOT?
Coach Bolton has also been abducted by aliens because he is actually reprimanding them for not putting more into the musical, WTF? He was just referring a basketball game in which all of the kids ditched for theatre, he would be praising T&G for not running after them.
But T&G decide to give it their all, but giving their all means they suddenly have no time for each other. Now they will never get to tell the other how the dream ends, WHAT THE FUCK? THEY SERIOUSLY HAVE NO SPARE TIME NOW, WOE IS THEM, AREN'T YOU GLAD THIS WAS NEVER IN THE MOVIE? Z&V would be ashamed at their relationship abilities.
A bunch of stuff happens next, none of which is actually interesting. Everyone's busy and Chad is hiding from Taylor in a locker and ya da ya da ya da. Gabriella and Troy are super emo, but here is probably the most awesomely ridiculously thing in the book:
Troy has a skateboard (probably so he can teach twisted-flips) from Gabriella. There is a message from her on it, it reads: "For the first song we ever sang together..." I DON'T KNOW WHY SHE WOULD BUY HIM A SKATEBOARD FOR THAT, BUT I'LL ASSUME IT'S A FIVE MONTH ANNIVERSARY GIFT OR SOMETHING.
Troy asks Ms. Darbus to recast Gabriella as Simone because he doesn't like singing with anyone else but her. Instead of seeing this as a romantic gesture (and an act of desperation), Gabriella gets angry at him and they fight!!! Then they break up, symbolized by a ripped photograph.
This results in the only Taylor/Troy interaction EVER.
Sharpay then whines about everything and anything, there's this really boring, awkward scene with Kelsi, Ryan and Martha at an art museum and then Martha takes Ryan to see her hip hop friends and honestly, IDEK. BUT THEN THE REAL DRAMA HAPPENS:
THE CEILING ABOVE THE STAGE HAS COLLAPSED BECAUSE OF A LEAK!!!!
EVERYTHING IS RUINED, THE PLAY IS OFF, EVERYONE'S LIVES ARE OVER, THE CRITIC WON'T COME. BUT WAIT, GABRIELLA REFUSES TO LET THIS HAPPEN, EVERYONE HAS WORKED SO HARD. So she proposes that they have a lock in to save the day and everyone seems to like this idea, so they go for it.
Coach Bolton redeems himself for his earlier encouragement towards the arts by insisting that Troy take a basketball with him to the lock in. THERE'S GOOD OLD COACH DAD. But the lock in is kind of boring, but T&G both pen these really elaborate text messages to each other, both essentially saying that all they can think about is the other.
But Chad and Taylor are sick of this, like, fierce, so they lock them on the rooftop, resulting in:
DRAMATIC TENSION!!!!
T&G can't talk face to face (...whatever) so Troy calls her on his phone. I don't know why he thinks this will work and Gabs is right, this is the dumbest idea ever, but it seems to work out okay, so I guess he knows his relationship better than I do. They then make up and he holds her fingers, which Zef does to Van IRL, so props to the artist for mirroring that. Still, they refuse to tell the other how the dream ended-I don't understand these two, everyone is always interrupting them, but they seem to cockblock themselves just as much.
The musical goes off without a hitch, of course, and mostly because Troy was envisioning singing with Gabriella instead of Sharpay the whole time. Go figure.
THEN THEY SNEAK OFF AND GO MAKE OUT, DID YOU NOT SEE THAT ONE COMING?
THE END.