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Last year I did a picspam of Friday Night Lights season three both in preparation for season four and to entice everyone who had stopped watching to catch back up. I have since given up on that quest, if you stopped watching you stopped watching and there is nothing I can do about that except say that I am really sorry about your life, because I am. But I actually loved making that, which is weird because usually the idea of picspams without words is abhorrent to me. Finding caps for an entire season at once gives me a chance to revisit the season without fully commiting to a rewatch, I guess? So I have it all in mind once again once I watch the new stuff. Anyway a couple of months ago I decided I'd do another one for season 4, but... ended up putting it off. Naturally. Let's pretend it is still a couple of hours ago though and this is just under the wire than just a little bit too late to beat season 5 (whatever, most of us won't watch it until tomorrow anyway). Anyway this is (obviously) really image heavy, steer cleer if your modem is lily-livered.


I weirdly love the graininess of this show, I don't know. Also newfound respect for those of you who throw out picspams with any kind of regularly, I always forget how effing tedious it is.






























I lied though, two things:
- I was so ambivalent on both Jess/Landry and Jess/Vince for most of the season -- but oh my goooooood, did something ever happen in those last three episodes, SUDDENLY I HAD REALLY INTENSE JESS/VINCE FEELINGS. I don't know that I can explain it because I still don't know what happened there, but those scenes surrounding his friend's funeral -- jeeeeesus christ did that ever make Jess/Landry look shallow in comparison. I love that that was acknowledged and she went straight to Landry and broke up with him though: JESS IS SUCH A STRAIGHT-TALKER, god damn she's great.
- It's so much less stressful to watch Tim/Becky scenes when you know that he is going to knock her down every time, oh my god I LOVE THAT HE INHERITS A BABY SISTER FOR HIMSELF. And of course she's in love with him, she's 16 (or whatever, you know handwavey FNL ages) and he's Tim Riggins, but I love that he has the maturity to say no over and over again. Because he totally loves her, but in this entirely unromantic way. IT IS THE MOST DELIGHTFUL THING.

Comments

[balcarin.livejournal.com]

THING OF BEAUTY. I love how grainy FNL is too. And that it usually has such a warm, yellow quality to the lighting. And those random soft focused moments and the fuck yeah lens flares and EVERYTHING. THIS SHOW.

Tim Riggins: Big Brother is one of my faaaavortie things about FNL.

[elapses.livejournal.com]

Ugh it just has its' own unique LOOK to it, there is nothing else that quite matches FNL visually. It's funny to me how many people say it jarred them when they first watched it though, the whole thing comes off weirdly natural to me.

I KNOW RIGHT. He is just so gruffly loving. AND I DON'T EVEN KNOW, HE JUST LOVED BECKY SO MUCH, oh my god the scene where she tells him she's pregnant and he gives her a hug and takes her straight to Tami. Because Tim knows Tami is magical.

[balcarin.livejournal.com]

ALSO YOU ARE MAKING ME WANT TO MAKE A FNL PICSPAM.

i don't have intense feelings about this at all

[elapses.livejournal.com]

Re: i don't have intense feelings about this at all

[balcarin.livejournal.com]

HAHA OKAY. Though I guess after that I should start working on my FNL retrospective NOW for the s5 finale.

Re: i don't have intense feelings about this at all

[elapses.livejournal.com]

Ugh oh god DON'T REMIND ME IT'S ALMOST OVER. I don't think I've ever cried at a post before but just the idea of a full FNL retrospective... MY HEART.

[cambridge.livejournal.com]

omg even looking at this picspam, you can see how poignant the show is. :( to all the caps of everyone crying. I'm not sure what's going on but now I feel sad looking at it. I like how organic your picspam is, PRETTY.

ONE OF THESE DAYS I WILL CATCH UP. I WILL!!

p.s. you went offline again but it's late so I'm off to bed. GOOD NIGHT!

[elapses.livejournal.com]

UM TO BE HONEST I CRIED LIKE, FOUR TIMES THIS AFTERNOON MAKING THIS, and I had seen everything already/wasn't even watching full scenes. That is just how FNL is.

YEAH YEAH.

Hahah oh god sorry my internet sucks so hard, night!

[ambiguousreason.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD THIS IS AMAZING. I just want to take every cap of Julie and put them in a box and label it 'MY HEART,' I love love love that girl. SO WONDERFUL.

Completely agreed on both of your points, btw, I didn't like Jess/Landry much in the first place but I was like whatever until those last few episodes, wow.

[elapses.livejournal.com]

She is so wonderful and HER FACE IS PERFECT, I kept having to stop myself from taking extra caps of her because there was a tipping point where it felt like I was making a JULIE TAYLOR PICSPAM. Not that that would have been a huge tragedy, but you know.

I didn't like Jess/Landry either! I was honestly equally super ambivalent about both Jess ships, which was funny because I AM SO INTO JESS, SHE'S GREAT, but then at the end there: SUDDEN INTENSE FEELINGS OUT OF NOWHERE.

[http://users.livejournal.com/spyglass_/]

I like the grainy feel of FNL. It looks different than any other show because it IS different.

I'm a bad fan. I totally forgot it was coming back until yesterday. I wanted to rewatch all of S4 before S5 started, and I didn't have time. ALAS.

I'm just going to sit here and stare at this for a while. *sigh*

[elapses.livejournal.com]

It's so hard to be a ~good~ fan though because it's not on regular person TV!! My grandfather has been asking me when it's coming back/when he can watch it (I'm pretty sure he's in 5x02) and I keep starting to explain the DirectTV thing and then going ".......IT'S JUST COMPLICATED. I'LL FIND A WAY TO GET IT TO YOU."

But ugh yeah pre new-season rewatches, I NEVER SEEM TO FIND THE TIME.

[sometimescrazy.livejournal.com]

Season 4 was good, but looking back at your picspam, Season 3 is probably my fave season! :)

Great job! :)

[aliice.livejournal.com]

Jess is so unbelievably beautiful inside out. I love her sfm can't wait for tomorrow so I can dl it..

[elapses.livejournal.com]

Ugh I know right, I ended up liking all the new kids but she was the best one hands down. What a girl!

[afrocurl.livejournal.com]

This show is so so pretty. Great selection of caps and moments for the season.

[elapses.livejournal.com]

Ugh it SO IS. Thank you, I tried!

[beyondtheworld.livejournal.com]

Aww, this is so, so pretty. I love how grainy the show is! :)

[blackember.livejournal.com]

It's a massively beautiful show - and it's great to have a little reminder of this every now and then!! :D And I've also realised how much missed I've missed Coach and Mrs Coach....

[squirrelgirl28.livejournal.com]

THE IS AMAZING! I'm so excited for the new season and this makes me want to rewatch season 4 now. My favourite show ever and an utterly gorgeous picspam (totally in time for me cause I don't get to watch it till tonight :))

[stepliana.livejournal.com]

Ahhh dude, oh my god, so many feelings just LOOKING at this. I swear, the things this show does to my emotions, it is not even funny. Also, this is supremeeeely gorgeous, I agree that the graininess of the shot actually adds something where in most shows it would detract. And Jess/Vince FOREVER, the scenes where all they could do was sit and cry and cling to each other? My heart, breaking. Going into this season I had worried that I wouldn't ~connect~ with the new characters like I did the original Panthers, but in true FNL style, they hooked me. I am literally counting the minutes until I can come home tonight and watch the premiere.

[elapses.livejournal.com]

It still amazes me how effortlessly FNL can move me to tears. ONCE AN EPISODE! At least! And I don't think of myself as a more-than-average crier... but yes omg, ALL THAT CLINGING. After that I couldn't believe I didn't love them before. But it was a change in tone I guess -- in a lot of their earlier scenes it seemed like he was still into her but she was done with him, but those bits changed everything.

[irishmizzy.livejournal.com]

YUP, TOTALLY TEARED UP SCROLLING THROUGH THIS. It's so gorgeous and you chose such awesome caps. I love the graininess, too, and how the cameras always lingers on random moments, and the extreme close-ups, and basically everything about this show.

WORD ON JESS/VINCE FEELINGS EXPLOSION IN THE END, THERE. I was so ambivalent about that triangle and then it was like I got hit in the face with a frying pan full of emotions. I really love her character. (God, I'm continually impressed by how they brought in a whole new crop of characters and weaved them into the cast so that I ended up loving them all. YES, EVEN YOU, BECKY.)

[elapses.livejournal.com]

Thank you!!! I definitely get a joy out of capping this show that I don't with like... anything else, I don't know what it is.

But yes oh my god, I did not care at all. And it's weird how that change kind of accompanied the change in Jess -- she seemed kind of tentatively 'meh' about both halves of her triangle for most of the season -- but when she felt something I felt something. It makes me wonder if the whole thing wasn't intentional... I mean, proooobably not, it was most likely just a (really) nice save, but I wonder.

[callarose.livejournal.com]

Oh my goodness, this picspam is so freaking gorgeous, it's almost unreal. :) The coloring in your picspam is so simple and gorgeous. I really loved this season, it was nothing but great writing and fantastic acting. I will always be in awe of this series! Love the introduction of the new characters and the setting of Easy Dillon, which is such a great risk the writers took. And of course, they managed to pull it off so well.

AND YES I LOVED WHAT YOU SAID ABOUT JESS/VINCE. I didn't like them initially either, but they definitely grew on me. I'm shipping it like crazy already. Hell yes to Tim/Becky as well. It's so nice to see him growing up and taking care of her. (So glad they didn't take the romantic route with this.)

ALL IN ALL, I LOVE THIS FREAKING POST. YOU WIN AT LIFE SO HARD.

[elapses.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much!!! And I agree, so few other shows can throw in new characters that measure up to a previous cast, but they handled the transition here naturally and wonderfully. I am constantly impressed by powers behind FNL.

I'm not even sure I would say "grew on me" though -- that's what was so weird! It was like I went from ambivalence to FULL ON EYEHEARTING IN THE SPAN OF A COUPLE OF SECONDS. I got whiplash. And I know, if they had taken Tim/Becky to a romantic level it would have completely ruined the whole thing but as it is-- omg what a great way to show how much he's grown up.

[myr-soleil.livejournal.com]

Wow, this is really pretty. I really love the cap of Becky engulfed in Luke's arms, how she's all tiny and he seems so comfy in his sweatshirt. (I have kind of a crush on Luke, in case you can't tell.) You really picked meaningful caps - wow, Tami sitting on the doorstep waiting for Eric... break my heart why don't you. Also for some reason Becky seems prettier here than in the show, not sure what that's about.

BEAUTIFUL PICSPAM, A+.

[myr-soleil.livejournal.com]

Oh and also, YES to Jess being so awesome. I've been watching Jurnee's new shoe, The Defenders, and it's kind of fun but also largely terrible but every time she shows up on screen I'm like HI THERE JESS I LOVE YOU SO MUCH <3333 even if her character is way less awesome.

[elapses.livejournal.com]

THAT IS TIM! But I can see why you would make that mistake with the way I arranged the caps, oops. And I am glad you said that because I tried-- but that is the advantage of capping these things yourself, I guess, it's a lot easier to pick the moments that touch you the most. LIKE ALL THE STUFF WITH JULIE GOING TO HER PARENTS FOR EMOTIONAL SUPPORT, it was so frequent this season! Also it's weird that you felt like that about Becky, I think she is so pretty always. When she first showed up people were accusing her of being Tyra part 2 and saying she looked like her, and you can't look like Tyra without being lovely.

(ACK I LOVE YOUR ICON BY THE WAY)

THANK YOU!

[bubblewrap812.livejournal.com]

SUDDENLY I HAD REALLY INTENSE JESS/VINCE FEELINGS

THIS! At first I was kinda meh about it- but like you those episodes toward the end of the season changed my mind so much! I really loved season 4- more than I thought actually. I'm just kinda sad that season 5 is the end :( I'm going to miss these characters so much!

[whitter78.livejournal.com]

Dude... SO. BEAUTIFUL! I love this picspam even though it makes me cry like a little girl! I don't know how I'm going to let this show go in 12 episodes! Favorite show EVER!

Thanks for the beauty!

[elapses.livejournal.com]

Ugh I do not know either, I AM HEARTBROKEN JUST THINKING ABOUT IT. And thank you!!

[echofades.livejournal.com]

Britta directed me here and OH MY GOD. THANK YOU FOR THIS. I LOVE ALL OF IT! Becky is one of my favorites - she's like, tied with Luke, probably, in terms of last season - and it seems like EVERYONE hates her (either that or they are indifferent), but I love what you said about her thing with Tim! THAT'S EXACTLY IT! It's so great. Also, I am really in love with the top left cap here (http://pics.livejournal.com/elapses/pic/0017gk97). I can't even handle that scene!

[elapses.livejournal.com]

Omg I know right, it seems like most people are ambivalent towards her or just kind of tolerate her... BUT MOST PEOPLE ARE USUALLY WRONG ABOUT THESE THINGS, I mean god forbid a teenage girl have a crush the first guy who shows her much affection, right? Especially if he looks like Tim Riggins? HOW ANNOYING OF HER. But whatever, she is adorbs. I will never be over the fact that Tim loves a girl enough to actively encourage her to keep looking at evening gowns even though he would never, ever go to a romantic/sexual place with her. I can't wait to see what they do with their bffship after that HUGE Tim bomb at the end of last season.

[passtheshampoo.livejournal.com]

Tim & Becky's (mostly friendly) relationship was one of the highlights of season 4 to me. Everybody seems to dislike - or tolerate at the very least - Becky, but she's also one of my favorites.

[on-the-ground.livejournal.com]

AWESOME JOB <3

[torigates.livejournal.com]

AMAZING!! I am so excited to watch the new season. This picspam gave me all kinds of feelings!!!!

[thatlldopig.livejournal.com]

OMG that's gorgeous. I'm working on a picspam myself and yessir, it's a Jess/Vince one. :D