Ring A Ring O' Roses...
Thoughts on episode 7.27 of Waterloo Road:
JOOOOOOSH :(
JANEEEEEECE :(
To a lesser extent FINN NO DON'T GET INVOLVED IN THIS :(
There were brief glimpses of loveliness in the seething ocean of heartbreak that was this episode, though. Tariq treating Josh gently and being concerned about him made me clasp my hands over my heart. Tom mouthing 'All right?' to Josh before the exam, awww (and helping him out of the building! and worrying he's been a bad father!). Lauren's concern also touched me. BASICALLY ALL OF MY FAVOURITE MOMENTS IN THIS EPISODE CENTRE ON PEOPLE WORRYING ABOUT JOSH.
That's not strictly true, actually, because I also loved Chalky being the sweetest man in the world. Bless him. Bless Janeece, too, for keeping her head held high after that nightmare.
Looks like there's not going to be any Josh in next week's episode, to my sorrow. Still, perhaps I need a break from all the weekly nooo nooooo stop making horrible things happen to him look at his little tragic face distressed keening. When he comes back, I sort of want him and Tariq to become friends. Except I don't, because then Finn would kill someone.
I'm trying to write nice fanfiction in which Josh and Matt form a friendship, but of course because it's Waterloo Road they would inevitably end up being accused of having an affair, and I don't want that to happen. Very much a staple plot of Waterloo Road, 'teacher wrongly (occasionally correctly) suspected of having affair with pupil'. The other staple plot is, of course, 'pregnancy!', and I don't particularly want to write about Josh getting pregnant either.
Do you know how many Waterloo Road characters have been pregnant? Thirteen. Those are just the ones I can think of right now; there may well be more. That's almost two pregnancies per series. (Number of those pregnancies that were actually planned, incidentally: maybe two. The most common source of income in Rochdale must be legal action against condom companies.)
JOOOOOOSH :(
JANEEEEEECE :(
To a lesser extent FINN NO DON'T GET INVOLVED IN THIS :(
There were brief glimpses of loveliness in the seething ocean of heartbreak that was this episode, though. Tariq treating Josh gently and being concerned about him made me clasp my hands over my heart. Tom mouthing 'All right?' to Josh before the exam, awww (and helping him out of the building! and worrying he's been a bad father!). Lauren's concern also touched me. BASICALLY ALL OF MY FAVOURITE MOMENTS IN THIS EPISODE CENTRE ON PEOPLE WORRYING ABOUT JOSH.
That's not strictly true, actually, because I also loved Chalky being the sweetest man in the world. Bless him. Bless Janeece, too, for keeping her head held high after that nightmare.
Looks like there's not going to be any Josh in next week's episode, to my sorrow. Still, perhaps I need a break from all the weekly nooo nooooo stop making horrible things happen to him look at his little tragic face distressed keening. When he comes back, I sort of want him and Tariq to become friends. Except I don't, because then Finn would kill someone.
I'm trying to write nice fanfiction in which Josh and Matt form a friendship, but of course because it's Waterloo Road they would inevitably end up being accused of having an affair, and I don't want that to happen. Very much a staple plot of Waterloo Road, 'teacher wrongly (occasionally correctly) suspected of having affair with pupil'. The other staple plot is, of course, 'pregnancy!', and I don't particularly want to write about Josh getting pregnant either.
Do you know how many Waterloo Road characters have been pregnant? Thirteen. Those are just the ones I can think of right now; there may well be more. That's almost two pregnancies per series. (Number of those pregnancies that were actually planned, incidentally: maybe two. The most common source of income in Rochdale must be legal action against condom companies.)