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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

[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.