Apparently we watch FNL in four-episode blocks
So now I have a ton more thoughts, from 1x09-1x12. By the way, I am actually totally unspoiled for the show, so I appreciate you helping keep me that way. I know I've seen vids to it (hell I put "American Baby" in the Bitchin Party vidshow in 2008, so I've seen that one a LOT of times), but I still don't really know anything specific. It's been kind of funny seeing images I remember from AB showing up in the show, though.
I think I'm going to have to fake bullet point again, because I'm having a lot of thoughts.
- Lyla and Jason are back together! Sort of! I'm actually happy about this because they clearly do actually love each other, though I hope Lyla does not subsume her thoughts/desires to Jason's future again. I appreciate wanting to be there for him since she's thinking long-term (and as someone who did actually end up marrying their high-school boyfriend, I don't want to crap on that part of it since it can work out swimmingly!), but she needs to also have her own dreams and desires outside of Jason, too. Especially since they don't know for sure that it will work out for them. But the "quad porn" idea seemed genuinely really sweet, and I appreciate that the show is showing what seems to be a realistic portrait of the fallout of this type of injury and the different levels of recovery (physical, mental, emotional) that have to occur.
- Speaking of things that are being handled in a realistic manner, AHH is particularly relieved that they didn't go the RAGE DEMON route with Smash's steroid use. He hates that particular trope. Seeing these other things happening - the anxiety, the nose bleeds - is different, realistic, and still adds drama to Smash's bad decisions. SUCH BAD DECISIONS. Smash is charming as hell, but omg I am totally on Waverly's side in that whole thing.
- Can I be Waverly when I grow up? Please?
- Also, I'm convinced the Pastor sent her away somewhere because she was pregnant and she's back now that she's had the baby and is back to "normal." Just the way she talked about the Africa trip at the dinner felt all kinds of off to me.
- Back to Lyla: OUCH "It's Different For Girls" HURT to watch. All of the bullying was just...ugh, and I felt so badly for her. It's seriously SO AGGRAVATING to see Tim getting off relatively easily (except for the offensive linemen beating the crap out of his truck :\) and Lyla being held up as the one who has somehow morally sinned. NOT OKAY, PEOPLE. NOT OKAY.
- And onto Jason again: he's now an outcast in the community because of that lawsuit against Coach Taylor. Which is such a shitty situation to be in, because his family really DOES need the money since our society thinks trying to actually help its citizens is SOCIALISM [further rant redacted]. But man, it was sad/fascinating at the end of "What To DO While You're Waiting" to see Lyla and Jason as the outcasts/loners of Dillon when they used to be at the top of it. The head cheerleader and QB1 are not in very different social circles, and that journey has been so swift for them it must feel very unreal.
- Landry is my LIFE. OMG I love him so much. Crucivictorious is HILARRIBLE. I LOVED him tutoring Tim, and Tim showing up to the gig. AWWWWWWW.
- Tyra and her mom gave me a LOT of feelings in the last episode and I very much hope that Tyra does not turn out to be like her mother. Although I was VERKLEMPT when her mom picked her over the man! SO MANY TEARS YOU GUYS. I might have cried hardest at that of everything so far, which is saying something because I've cried at like 90% of these episodes so far.
- All I want is for Tyra to move to a bigger city and be BFFs with Tim. They're such good friends! They need to not be dating though.
- If Landry is my life then Matt Saracen is my HEART. OH MY BABY. OH MY BABY. I CAN'T EVEN FORM WORDS FOR YOU RIGHT NOW. I just. With his DAD. And his GRANDMA. And JULIE. And EVERYTHING ABOUT HIM. I CAN'T. I CAN'T WITH YOU, MATT SARACEN.
- Matt/Julie OTP. Although again it's weird because it's not like I want to ship them forever and ever, but I don't want them to break up in the show. IDK. A show about high schoolers is weird in that way!
- Tami Taylor may be the greatest person in the history of the world. Just FYI.
- Coach Taylor is a really interesting mix of obnoxious, charming, smart, and clueless. Like I mostly love him? But it's not unconditional. Sometimes he's really just...you know? Heh.
- I...I like Buddy now. WHAT IS HAPPENING WHO AM I???? He was just trying so hard to be a good daddy. He loves his daughter! I have a lot of emotions about father/daughter relationships.
- The show uses stereotypes in such a great way to build and enhance their characters though. They know the general character archetypes they're playing with, and use that expectation of the types to continually surprise you while also doing it in a way that it never feels inauthentic to the characters. CHARACTER AUTHENTICITY IS MY DRUG OF CHOICE.
- The use of music in the show is also INCREDIBLE and I need a soundtrack STAT. Such good songs and applied so well to the moment. It's become a much more common thing to do, but they really are perfecting the art of it. They also managed to make their song choices varied enough that they feel real to the town itself.
- Honestly the town dynamics feel intensely real, even though I grew up in a suburb, it all feels really organic and like you're watching a video diary rather than a fictional universe. SO GOOD.
I am not looking for vidsongs. I am not looking for vidsongs. I am not looking for vidsongs. Oh what the fuck I literally JUST GOT ONE BY RANDOMLY LISTENING TO ITUNES. This is where my actual like of country music is going to be beneficial.
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I thought I had another week to decide, but work + finances + exhaustion are all telling me now that I'm not going to make it to VVC this year. Although I bought tickets when they went on sale, I wavered on going for awhile because I wasn't sure I wanted to go (insert long contemplation here about not feeling like part of the vidding community anymore through no one's fault but my own*), and then I decided I DID want to go and started looking up tickets and getting excited. And then, of course, we had all this CRAP happen at work and my carefully planned summer travel/work schedule got all messed up (I couldn't even fly in until laaaaate Friday night/early Sat morning and have to come back Sunday) and then other stuff happened at home that cost money and all together it has put the kibosh on the whole idea. Do I have to tell someone so that I can get my DVDs? I don't know how this works, I've only ever missed one VVC before and I was heavily pregnant that year so I knew I couldn't go and didn't even buy a ticket.
(*I realized the other day that one of the dangers for me in not vidding is that it lets the idea that I'm not a real vidder simmer; that my highly uneven catalog shows the fraud that I am. At least when I'm vidding I can focus on how terrible my current vid is and not all the vids that have come before. I know, I know. If this was one of you saying this, I would be first in line to protest otherwise. So much easier to give advice than to take it to heart!)
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This Dinosaur Comics made my life.
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I think I'm going to have to fake bullet point again, because I'm having a lot of thoughts.
- Lyla and Jason are back together! Sort of! I'm actually happy about this because they clearly do actually love each other, though I hope Lyla does not subsume her thoughts/desires to Jason's future again. I appreciate wanting to be there for him since she's thinking long-term (and as someone who did actually end up marrying their high-school boyfriend, I don't want to crap on that part of it since it can work out swimmingly!), but she needs to also have her own dreams and desires outside of Jason, too. Especially since they don't know for sure that it will work out for them. But the "quad porn" idea seemed genuinely really sweet, and I appreciate that the show is showing what seems to be a realistic portrait of the fallout of this type of injury and the different levels of recovery (physical, mental, emotional) that have to occur.
- Speaking of things that are being handled in a realistic manner, AHH is particularly relieved that they didn't go the RAGE DEMON route with Smash's steroid use. He hates that particular trope. Seeing these other things happening - the anxiety, the nose bleeds - is different, realistic, and still adds drama to Smash's bad decisions. SUCH BAD DECISIONS. Smash is charming as hell, but omg I am totally on Waverly's side in that whole thing.
- Can I be Waverly when I grow up? Please?
- Also, I'm convinced the Pastor sent her away somewhere because she was pregnant and she's back now that she's had the baby and is back to "normal." Just the way she talked about the Africa trip at the dinner felt all kinds of off to me.
- Back to Lyla: OUCH "It's Different For Girls" HURT to watch. All of the bullying was just...ugh, and I felt so badly for her. It's seriously SO AGGRAVATING to see Tim getting off relatively easily (except for the offensive linemen beating the crap out of his truck :\) and Lyla being held up as the one who has somehow morally sinned. NOT OKAY, PEOPLE. NOT OKAY.
- And onto Jason again: he's now an outcast in the community because of that lawsuit against Coach Taylor. Which is such a shitty situation to be in, because his family really DOES need the money since our society thinks trying to actually help its citizens is SOCIALISM [further rant redacted]. But man, it was sad/fascinating at the end of "What To DO While You're Waiting" to see Lyla and Jason as the outcasts/loners of Dillon when they used to be at the top of it. The head cheerleader and QB1 are not in very different social circles, and that journey has been so swift for them it must feel very unreal.
- Landry is my LIFE. OMG I love him so much. Crucivictorious is HILARRIBLE. I LOVED him tutoring Tim, and Tim showing up to the gig. AWWWWWWW.
- Tyra and her mom gave me a LOT of feelings in the last episode and I very much hope that Tyra does not turn out to be like her mother. Although I was VERKLEMPT when her mom picked her over the man! SO MANY TEARS YOU GUYS. I might have cried hardest at that of everything so far, which is saying something because I've cried at like 90% of these episodes so far.
- All I want is for Tyra to move to a bigger city and be BFFs with Tim. They're such good friends! They need to not be dating though.
- If Landry is my life then Matt Saracen is my HEART. OH MY BABY. OH MY BABY. I CAN'T EVEN FORM WORDS FOR YOU RIGHT NOW. I just. With his DAD. And his GRANDMA. And JULIE. And EVERYTHING ABOUT HIM. I CAN'T. I CAN'T WITH YOU, MATT SARACEN.
- Matt/Julie OTP. Although again it's weird because it's not like I want to ship them forever and ever, but I don't want them to break up in the show. IDK. A show about high schoolers is weird in that way!
- Tami Taylor may be the greatest person in the history of the world. Just FYI.
- Coach Taylor is a really interesting mix of obnoxious, charming, smart, and clueless. Like I mostly love him? But it's not unconditional. Sometimes he's really just...you know? Heh.
- I...I like Buddy now. WHAT IS HAPPENING WHO AM I???? He was just trying so hard to be a good daddy. He loves his daughter! I have a lot of emotions about father/daughter relationships.
- The show uses stereotypes in such a great way to build and enhance their characters though. They know the general character archetypes they're playing with, and use that expectation of the types to continually surprise you while also doing it in a way that it never feels inauthentic to the characters. CHARACTER AUTHENTICITY IS MY DRUG OF CHOICE.
- The use of music in the show is also INCREDIBLE and I need a soundtrack STAT. Such good songs and applied so well to the moment. It's become a much more common thing to do, but they really are perfecting the art of it. They also managed to make their song choices varied enough that they feel real to the town itself.
- Honestly the town dynamics feel intensely real, even though I grew up in a suburb, it all feels really organic and like you're watching a video diary rather than a fictional universe. SO GOOD.
I am not looking for vidsongs. I am not looking for vidsongs. I am not looking for vidsongs. Oh what the fuck I literally JUST GOT ONE BY RANDOMLY LISTENING TO ITUNES. This is where my actual like of country music is going to be beneficial.
***************
I thought I had another week to decide, but work + finances + exhaustion are all telling me now that I'm not going to make it to VVC this year. Although I bought tickets when they went on sale, I wavered on going for awhile because I wasn't sure I wanted to go (insert long contemplation here about not feeling like part of the vidding community anymore through no one's fault but my own*), and then I decided I DID want to go and started looking up tickets and getting excited. And then, of course, we had all this CRAP happen at work and my carefully planned summer travel/work schedule got all messed up (I couldn't even fly in until laaaaate Friday night/early Sat morning and have to come back Sunday) and then other stuff happened at home that cost money and all together it has put the kibosh on the whole idea. Do I have to tell someone so that I can get my DVDs? I don't know how this works, I've only ever missed one VVC before and I was heavily pregnant that year so I knew I couldn't go and didn't even buy a ticket.
(*I realized the other day that one of the dangers for me in not vidding is that it lets the idea that I'm not a real vidder simmer; that my highly uneven catalog shows the fraud that I am. At least when I'm vidding I can focus on how terrible my current vid is and not all the vids that have come before. I know, I know. If this was one of you saying this, I would be first in line to protest otherwise. So much easier to give advice than to take it to heart!)
***************
This Dinosaur Comics made my life.
Serious rootkit virus spreading in LJ comments (safe link with more information). Let me put on my Security Mom Hat and remind you to never click links that you're not expecting/don't have a personalized, specific message attached to them, even if they're from someone you know. If you're not sure, email or comment back to the person and ask them if it's legit first. It's a simple step but often very helpful!
This entry was cross-posted at my Dreamwidth account. Please comment here or there. (
comments at DW)