I come bearing a post of five thoughts
I'm positive I had more thoughts than this, but they've wafted away on the winds of distraction.
1. I became momentarily obsessed with the idea of a Prison Break AU where it was Alexis Mahone who chased Michael Scofield, and then Michelle Scofield, and then I tried to cast Alexis Mahone and got stuck on Gina Torres until I realized she is not as drug-twitchy as the role needs so then I thought maybe Lucy Liu? And then I thought of Aisha Hinds or Claudia Black, but none of these feel quite right. It's the edginess part I'm struggling to see any of them doing. And I still haven't mentally cast Michelle.
2. I posted this on tumblr, but I'll share it here, too: "We took our son to Day Out With Thomas yesterday. It's basically a Thomas the Tank Engine fan convention. There are long lines to have photos with celebrities (Thomas and Sir Topham Hatt); there's a 'dealer's floor' they call the 'Retail Tent'; attendees show up cosplaying train engineers; and you're surrounded by hundreds of people who all know as many if not more tiny details about this thing you love. Fandom starts early."
3. I have dragged AHH into Friday Night Lights watching with me. \o/ I told him the same thing here's luck told me: just watch the pilot, and if you don't like it, you probably won't like the rest of the show. (Spoken like I'd seen more than just four episodes total, right?) Anyway, he really liked the pilot, of course, because it's spectacularly done. It's one of the best pilots I've ever seen, because not only does it do the things pilot episodes must do (introduce the characters, the setting, the overall theme/atmosphere of the show), but it also gives you the overarching thread for your season, and invests you emotionally in the characters in such a way that I had tears in my eyes. It was the very first episode. That's pretty amazing.
4. There is a tiny little moment that sticks out for me in the pilot that I want to talk about. I noticed it the first time I watched the episode, and it pinged me hard again the second time, too. That moment is right after Jason goes down on the field and the paramedics rush out and start checking on him, they ask him to move his hands and then his feet and of course he can't. And they say, "good job, you're doing great" anyway and he says "thank you" and it just completely breaks my heart because here is this type A guy who has always succeeded at everything he's done (again, just what you gather from how expertly they set him up in the first episode alone) and he's had this terrible injury and the paramedics don't want to freak him out because as put-together and adult as he seems, he's just a kid, really, and he's trying so hard to stay calm and do what they ask and I seriously just want to sit all of them down and feed them soup.
5. Then after we watched the first four (again, for me), we couldn't watch any more again until finally last night when we watched four more episodes in a row. I don't know how to organize my thoughts since so much happened, so I will fake-bullet-point them:
- SMASH WHAT ARE YOU DOING? I was hoping that the pass-around at church would help him see the light and he would use that money to actually buy his SAT prep class and I even remained hopeful when he went in to see the lady, assuming he was going to give her back her steroids and that would be the big misdirection. BUT NO. OH HONEY.
- Matt Saracen seriously makes me feel like I'm his proud mother. He is SO ADORABLE and so MISGUIDED ON WHO TO TRUST SOMETIMES and he wants to do the Right Thing (my kryptonite!) and I'm very proud of him for telling coach about Reyes as well as asking Julie out.
- Julie? You are so freaking awesome, I can't even.
- It helps that your parents are MIRACULOUS. Coach Taylor is swoon-worthy, y'all. That ping pong game conversation with his daughter? AWWWWWW. Tami Taylor is, like...*flaily hands* I don't actually even have WORDS for how much I love Tami.
- Lila, I actually love you quite a lot, and I'm really glad you stopped what you were doing with Tim and I feel for you in the situation with Jason but he's not wrong that you need to stop talking about "when you're better" all the time. I know you're a teenager who believes that the sheer power of your mind can change the world - and I respect that! - but that optimism would get exhausting after awhile. Also, please start thinking about your own future. The fact that you were going to plan everything around where Jason was going to college kind of freaked me out.
- I'm finally starting to see the appeal of Tim Riggins. Not necessarily why women are falling all over themselves for him? But he sure is big into talking about his feelings. Is that why he's so quiet all the time? It's like it's all or nothing for him when he opens his mouth.
- The show pretty much ships Tim/Lila/Jason, right? With Tyra potentially thrown in? Because dang.
- Tyra, I love you and I'm sorry that douche from Los Angeles didn't tell you about his girlfriend, that sucked. That being said: you can do better than Tim, honey.
- Buddy Garrity: still dislike you. A lot. I blame you ENTIRELY for that mess with Voodoo.
- I feel like that one Tyra and Billy working together subplot was so random and then never went anywhere. I hope they come back to it because it felt like the show forgot it was even happening. They made all that money and then in the very next episode they make a big deal about how Billy can't pay for everything at the store? That felt weird to me since they didn't really address what he'd DONE with the money.
- The football stuff is very interesting, too! Heh. But I'm waiting to see how the season plays out. Yay for Matt starting as QB1. (♥MATT♥)
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1. I became momentarily obsessed with the idea of a Prison Break AU where it was Alexis Mahone who chased Michael Scofield, and then Michelle Scofield, and then I tried to cast Alexis Mahone and got stuck on Gina Torres until I realized she is not as drug-twitchy as the role needs so then I thought maybe Lucy Liu? And then I thought of Aisha Hinds or Claudia Black, but none of these feel quite right. It's the edginess part I'm struggling to see any of them doing. And I still haven't mentally cast Michelle.
2. I posted this on tumblr, but I'll share it here, too: "We took our son to Day Out With Thomas yesterday. It's basically a Thomas the Tank Engine fan convention. There are long lines to have photos with celebrities (Thomas and Sir Topham Hatt); there's a 'dealer's floor' they call the 'Retail Tent'; attendees show up cosplaying train engineers; and you're surrounded by hundreds of people who all know as many if not more tiny details about this thing you love. Fandom starts early."
3. I have dragged AHH into Friday Night Lights watching with me. \o/ I told him the same thing here's luck told me: just watch the pilot, and if you don't like it, you probably won't like the rest of the show. (Spoken like I'd seen more than just four episodes total, right?) Anyway, he really liked the pilot, of course, because it's spectacularly done. It's one of the best pilots I've ever seen, because not only does it do the things pilot episodes must do (introduce the characters, the setting, the overall theme/atmosphere of the show), but it also gives you the overarching thread for your season, and invests you emotionally in the characters in such a way that I had tears in my eyes. It was the very first episode. That's pretty amazing.
4. There is a tiny little moment that sticks out for me in the pilot that I want to talk about. I noticed it the first time I watched the episode, and it pinged me hard again the second time, too. That moment is right after Jason goes down on the field and the paramedics rush out and start checking on him, they ask him to move his hands and then his feet and of course he can't. And they say, "good job, you're doing great" anyway and he says "thank you" and it just completely breaks my heart because here is this type A guy who has always succeeded at everything he's done (again, just what you gather from how expertly they set him up in the first episode alone) and he's had this terrible injury and the paramedics don't want to freak him out because as put-together and adult as he seems, he's just a kid, really, and he's trying so hard to stay calm and do what they ask and I seriously just want to sit all of them down and feed them soup.
5. Then after we watched the first four (again, for me), we couldn't watch any more again until finally last night when we watched four more episodes in a row. I don't know how to organize my thoughts since so much happened, so I will fake-bullet-point them:
- SMASH WHAT ARE YOU DOING? I was hoping that the pass-around at church would help him see the light and he would use that money to actually buy his SAT prep class and I even remained hopeful when he went in to see the lady, assuming he was going to give her back her steroids and that would be the big misdirection. BUT NO. OH HONEY.
- Matt Saracen seriously makes me feel like I'm his proud mother. He is SO ADORABLE and so MISGUIDED ON WHO TO TRUST SOMETIMES and he wants to do the Right Thing (my kryptonite!) and I'm very proud of him for telling coach about Reyes as well as asking Julie out.
- Julie? You are so freaking awesome, I can't even.
- It helps that your parents are MIRACULOUS. Coach Taylor is swoon-worthy, y'all. That ping pong game conversation with his daughter? AWWWWWW. Tami Taylor is, like...*flaily hands* I don't actually even have WORDS for how much I love Tami.
- Lila, I actually love you quite a lot, and I'm really glad you stopped what you were doing with Tim and I feel for you in the situation with Jason but he's not wrong that you need to stop talking about "when you're better" all the time. I know you're a teenager who believes that the sheer power of your mind can change the world - and I respect that! - but that optimism would get exhausting after awhile. Also, please start thinking about your own future. The fact that you were going to plan everything around where Jason was going to college kind of freaked me out.
- I'm finally starting to see the appeal of Tim Riggins. Not necessarily why women are falling all over themselves for him? But he sure is big into talking about his feelings. Is that why he's so quiet all the time? It's like it's all or nothing for him when he opens his mouth.
- The show pretty much ships Tim/Lila/Jason, right? With Tyra potentially thrown in? Because dang.
- Tyra, I love you and I'm sorry that douche from Los Angeles didn't tell you about his girlfriend, that sucked. That being said: you can do better than Tim, honey.
- Buddy Garrity: still dislike you. A lot. I blame you ENTIRELY for that mess with Voodoo.
- I feel like that one Tyra and Billy working together subplot was so random and then never went anywhere. I hope they come back to it because it felt like the show forgot it was even happening. They made all that money and then in the very next episode they make a big deal about how Billy can't pay for everything at the store? That felt weird to me since they didn't really address what he'd DONE with the money.
- The football stuff is very interesting, too! Heh. But I'm waiting to see how the season plays out. Yay for Matt starting as QB1. (♥MATT♥)
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