Idylls of Tim Riggins

[k4writer02]

Title: Idylls of Tim Riggins

Author: k4writer02, Kate

Fandom: Friday Night Lights

Rating: PG-13

Disclaimer: I disclaim.

Characters: Tim Riggins, Julie Taylor, ensemble mentions

Summary: Tim hates English; all the books have morals. Tim thinks about Arthur, Lancelot, and Guinevere and spends time with Julie.

Tim Riggins hates English

Comments

[devilc]

I've been really busy for the past few days, but I finally made time to sit down and read this from stem to stern.

First off, bits and pieces of your depiction of Tim don't quite jybe with my take on the character, but I'm not saying I'm right and you're wrong ... just that his voice is a skoosh "off" to me in a few places.

But you are dead on that he's actually smarter than most people give him credit for.

I found that thing with Lois not even registering on his radar LOL funny, and that line about how Lois was looking at him like Ferret Guy completely creepy -- in the good way.

But what makes this story really work is that, in a way, it apes the first season in the way that all these things happen to Tim and then episode #11, Nevermind, happens. You bring us into Tim's world at school and pull in other threads from this season and then pull out Idylls and show quite deftly how well the themes in it relate to what's been going on in Tim's life ... and then to have Tim come to realize it in his own way. Well done

[k4writer02]

Thanks so much for coming back to read the story, and for reading it all the way through. I can't tell you how much I appreciate it