Friday Night Lights Season 3
I'm a long time overdue for a post about Friday Night Lights. It's been increasingly hard to resist making one, though, as season 3 has gone from strength to strength. Even though I haven't been posting myself, I've been pleased to see that acknowledged on my friendslist. I fell a bit behind in my FNL watching these last couple of weeks and sat
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I just got into this show and am very close to being done with S1, so I'm not reading this because I don't want to spoil myself. But I felt the urge to chime in anyway. ;P
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I do wonder, since saw little of him before the accident, if the naivety and fragility is tied to the accident. He had his life planned out. He was going to college, he was going to be a football star, he was going to marry Lyla and he lost all those dreams and didn't know what he would do to replace them. He lived in a bubble as QB1 and when that bubble burst and he had to find a new life plan, he didn't know how to act or react. Like you said, he was so use to success he didn't know how to deal with failure and he didn't realize that, while people look back on his high school football career fondly, the world is what have you done for me lately?
I felt for Matt though--there was noone to reassure him and tell him that they loved him anyway, he just got a lecture with the subtext 'I don't really trust you'. Ouch!I had a different take on that scene. Matt was obviously fearful of what ( ... )
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Yeah, absolutely--his bubble might never have burst if he'd not had his accident, or maybe it would have been more of a slow decline until a midlife crisis of meaning or something. But as it is, he tends to go from emotional high to emotional low very fast because he's not really experienced much in between: he's either the golden boy or a total failure. He doesn't have much middle ground and that makes him both interesting and fragile. I think fatherhood will ground him eventually, but he needs to stop expecting himself to move mountains every single time--give himself a break sometimes!
I felt he had a subtle look of relief on his face at the end of the conversationI think that was the reading the show wanted us to have. *nods* But personally I was just left with a 'boy, do men suck!' feeling from that scene, because it was ( ... )
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I know! So heartbreaky! It was a great contrast to her earlier bemused/baffled expressions at Mindy and the girls' enjoyments.
I don't expect FNL to break that mold, you know? That's not what it does.
You're right, absolutely. For that reason it sometimes leads me to reflect on these norms--but I thought the scenes were pitch-perfect for the show.
I do think it was bittersweet for Tami, because she knows Julie was ready and made a good choice, but it's always a little sad to have your kids grows up.Do you also get a sense from Tami that she wants Julie's adolescence to be what hers was not? I know that's been explored before when she talked about having gone through a rebellious period, but I get the sense that Tami had some rough times with guys--she's so vulnerable when she talks to Julie about saying yes once not meaning you have to say yes always... I mean I don't know, maybe all parents would be that worried, but it seems personal as well maybe? I know I'd want to protect my ( ... )
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