The Acting Is Even Worse Than I Remember. I Love It.

[rionaleonhart]

So everyone's (or at least my) favourite terrible school drama, Waterloo Road, is back! The first episode of Series Eight wasn't one of its best, but I have to give it credit for compressing an entire series of Waterloo Road into a single hour.

Seriously, it had

- death (well, a death that happened some time ago, but we learnt about it in this

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[rionaleonhart]

A world in which every series of Waterloo Road contains a Josh/Tom hug is a better world than this one. Alas, there was no hugging. Fingers crossed they hug at some point in this series.

And, oh lord, Dangan Rompa ;~~~; That series just sort of broke my heart far too much this past episode.

I KNOW. Dangan Ronpa is so distressing. Although it was great to see Togami's meltdown.

when I saw Josh and Tariq continually being in scenes together, I thought "Riona's gonna love this!". ...Is that sad of me?

I don't know about 'sad', but it's certainly accurate. BE IN ALL THE SCENES TOGETHER, GUYS. Well, all right, Josh can have a few scenes alone with Tom. But BE IN MOST OF THE SCENES TOGETHER.

I don't know exactly what Tariq's situation is, but certainly his behaviour seems to imply it's expected to be a permanent or at least a long-term thing. Come to think of it, I think physical disability is one of the very few Big Issues Waterloo Road hasn't really tackled yet. It'll be interesting to see how it's handled.

(Hey, they should do a

[yumiboo]

I'm very glad you stopped playing to comment, because I always love hearing what you two have to say!

I believe myself and timydamonkey high-fived each other after reading this reply~ ♥

But now that I have caught up with Waterloo Road, I can safely say a few things:

1. Chalky + Janeece. I KNEW this would happen and now I'm not sure whether to be happy or worried that they'll do something stupid, like rob a bank; Waterloo Road is well known for breaking people's hearts!

2. Poor Rose - first Sam, and now Denzil :( I half expect her to have some sort of vedetta against Waterloo Road for some reason

3. Rhiannon is a closeted lesbian with a massive lesbian crush on Scout, and is in total denial about it. It's so obvious or maybe I'm reading into things too much; she's just like Quinn with her massive crush on Rachel ... again, it's possible I'm reading into things too much.

4. the implied beginnings of a love trianglePersonally, I believe it's a love pentagon with Scout, Phoenix, Connor, the Mysterious-girl-who-got-lines-and-looked-like-Emily

[rionaleonhart]

1. reipan and I watched together and kept going 'awww!' when Chalky and Janeece interacted. Rei is worried that she might be using him for his money, though.

2. I know! The first thing I said on learning about Denzil was 'God, the poor Kelly family.' A third Kelly child is in prison because of Waterloo Road-related events, too. (Although I suppose what happened to Sam wasn't anything to do with the school.)

3. I'm wary of such interpretations purely because Emily was never revealed to have a massive lesbian crush on Scott, and she so did. The massivest. I've never been so astounded by one character's failure to kiss another

[suzie_shooter]

what happened to Finn? did he leave? I am so out of touch haha

[rionaleonhart]

I think Finn has left, sadly! I've slightly lost track of who's in what year now, but I suspect Josh is repeating his final year at the moment because he had a mental breakdown in the middle of his exams.

Someone has uploaded the ending of the last series; you may be interested in watching the first four minutes of that video, which contain quite a lot of Josh and Finn being really, really cute.

[captlebubbles]

Aww, that's cute, you're trying to apply logic! I've never even seen this show and I already know that's your first mistake.

[wolfy_writing]

I completely love your love of Waterloo Road.

Waterloo Road/My Little Pony would probably lack murdering.

[rionaleonhart]

Well, er, I'm glad my hopeless addiction to dreadful television can have some sort of positive impact.

Waterloo Road/My Little Pony would probably lack murdering.

This is true! And I've actually thought about it before (possibly not to anyone's surprise); have a couple of relevant conversations.

[wolfy_writing]

I'm pleased, but no, not terribly surprised. That's such a you idea. (And it'd be cute.)

[captlebubbles]

I don't know why your brother was surprised that you'd written MLP/Merlin. Usually when I find out you like two things, I'm more surprised if there isn't a crossover.

[rionaleonhart]

I imagine that was the basis of the making-fun, but he didn't quite pick something outlandish enough for me not to have written. You underestimate me, Joseph!

[captlebubbles]

Better luck next time, I suppose.

[rionaleonhart]

I will be so sad if Tom ever leaves Waterloo Road. The teachers change, the pupils change, even the location of the school changes, but Tom and Grantly are always there and will be until the end of time.