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I KIND OF REGRET NOT GOING TO CLASS TODAY, but w/e i am sick and that walk is long when it's snowing
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I fucking love the contrast between Vince and Luke and the way they set up a parallel (sort of if you stretch it) to Jason and Tim this week with the Luke-Tim conversation. I cried when Vince went to see the superintendent with Jess and said that football had saved his life, had given him everything. But for Luke it's like: for the two years we've known him, things have changed him and he has grown but the Lions didn't open any windows for him. His only offer is a nowhere school he can't see himself at. Before the Lions he was the Panthers' star runningback (...or whatever he is), a commodity. He might very well be picking his favorite scholarship if he had stayed with them. All his concerns in the beginning of s4 have come true. Even though the Lions have succeeded, he is not going to reap the benefits of that the way Vince is. He's no one's golden boy.
The returns of the oldbies have got me thinking about the pilot, and the trajectories these characters were on then. It's funny because what the pilot does is rip that out from under them, but in the end: did it really? Jason was paralyzed, but he is in New York now, living the dream, working as a sports agent with his wife and his little boy. Smash got his scholarship and made himself a star. Matty played football, but he left it behind after high school and went to art school. Landry is probably just being a nerd at Rice. And Tim... is a deadbeat who peaked in high school. Obstacles and opportunities came up along the way, but they are essentially exactly where you might have guessed they'd end up after watching 30 minutes of the pilot episode (with the exception of maybe Tyra: but that was Tami, not the Panthers). Football giveth and football taketh away but maybe it only changes people so much.
UGH I REALLY CAN'T DECIDE IF I WANT LUKE TO GET A GOOD OFFER, actually, like I want him to be happy but at the same time the lack of one is such an interesting place for that story to go?
I love, so fucking much, the Coach/Tami storyline. This is the most difficult story we've been told of them as a married couple and it is so fucking good. There was a scary undertone to the scene where Tami told Julie that she and Eric loved each other much, and you could see that Julie felt it too (ughhhhhh Aimee Teegarden I hope you go far after this ugh HOW IS IT OVER). I love that they threw us that red herring earlier in the season, with that Florida school that wanted Coach when this is the real threat. And I love that Coach is wrong here: SO WRONG, but his pigheadedness suits his character so well. There's this underlying determination to Tami and like, IDK YOU CAN SENSE THAT SHE KIND OF WANTS THIS JOB MORE THAN SHE WANTS ANYTHING, right now, anything, and god it feels weird to say this but I am almost afraid of this next episode. BUT GUYS THEY'RE NOT GOING TO BREAK UP MR. AND MRS. COACH IN THE LAST EPISODE AFTER ALL THIS, ARE THEY?! They can't. Coach said he can't go back to the Panthers!! Even if he is clearly kind of considering it!
I want them to go to Philadelphia but the truth is there will be losses if they do. Ugh JESS, she has just gotten everything she wants and it'll probably (definitely) be ripped out from under her if Coach isn't there next season. She could find another way, but she couldn't. (HOW GOOD WERE THE JESS/VINCE SCENES?!?! Augh they are SO GOOD I CAN'T.)
TYRA COLLETTE!! I have been waiting for her return for TWO YEARS. Adrianne Palicki said we would be surprised by her, that she was so different, but the only thing different was her hair color, she was so Tyra. So the Tyra you knew she'd be after time away in Austin. I loved how out of place she looked in the fray of Angela/Billy/Mindy/Becky/baby. And her scene with Julie was adorable. I had read something about her and Tim but I legit didn't think they would hook up! WEIRD. I was okay with it, though, it made more sense than you would think.
TIM RIGGINS I JUST DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH YOU
Also god I love Becky forever, she is so dumb teenage girl and so mature at the same time.
HOW ARE THEY GOING TO TOP THIS NEXT WEEK, is what I want to know, but I guess we will find out next week since there's no way they won't.
I fucking love the contrast between Vince and Luke and the way they set up a parallel (sort of if you stretch it) to Jason and Tim this week with the Luke-Tim conversation. I cried when Vince went to see the superintendent with Jess and said that football had saved his life, had given him everything. But for Luke it's like: for the two years we've known him, things have changed him and he has grown but the Lions didn't open any windows for him. His only offer is a nowhere school he can't see himself at. Before the Lions he was the Panthers' star runningback (...or whatever he is), a commodity. He might very well be picking his favorite scholarship if he had stayed with them. All his concerns in the beginning of s4 have come true. Even though the Lions have succeeded, he is not going to reap the benefits of that the way Vince is. He's no one's golden boy.
The returns of the oldbies have got me thinking about the pilot, and the trajectories these characters were on then. It's funny because what the pilot does is rip that out from under them, but in the end: did it really? Jason was paralyzed, but he is in New York now, living the dream, working as a sports agent with his wife and his little boy. Smash got his scholarship and made himself a star. Matty played football, but he left it behind after high school and went to art school. Landry is probably just being a nerd at Rice. And Tim... is a deadbeat who peaked in high school. Obstacles and opportunities came up along the way, but they are essentially exactly where you might have guessed they'd end up after watching 30 minutes of the pilot episode (with the exception of maybe Tyra: but that was Tami, not the Panthers). Football giveth and football taketh away but maybe it only changes people so much.
UGH I REALLY CAN'T DECIDE IF I WANT LUKE TO GET A GOOD OFFER, actually, like I want him to be happy but at the same time the lack of one is such an interesting place for that story to go?
I love, so fucking much, the Coach/Tami storyline. This is the most difficult story we've been told of them as a married couple and it is so fucking good. There was a scary undertone to the scene where Tami told Julie that she and Eric loved each other much, and you could see that Julie felt it too (ughhhhhh Aimee Teegarden I hope you go far after this ugh HOW IS IT OVER). I love that they threw us that red herring earlier in the season, with that Florida school that wanted Coach when this is the real threat. And I love that Coach is wrong here: SO WRONG, but his pigheadedness suits his character so well. There's this underlying determination to Tami and like, IDK YOU CAN SENSE THAT SHE KIND OF WANTS THIS JOB MORE THAN SHE WANTS ANYTHING, right now, anything, and god it feels weird to say this but I am almost afraid of this next episode. BUT GUYS THEY'RE NOT GOING TO BREAK UP MR. AND MRS. COACH IN THE LAST EPISODE AFTER ALL THIS, ARE THEY?! They can't. Coach said he can't go back to the Panthers!! Even if he is clearly kind of considering it!
I want them to go to Philadelphia but the truth is there will be losses if they do. Ugh JESS, she has just gotten everything she wants and it'll probably (definitely) be ripped out from under her if Coach isn't there next season. She could find another way, but she couldn't. (HOW GOOD WERE THE JESS/VINCE SCENES?!?! Augh they are SO GOOD I CAN'T.)
TYRA COLLETTE!! I have been waiting for her return for TWO YEARS. Adrianne Palicki said we would be surprised by her, that she was so different, but the only thing different was her hair color, she was so Tyra. So the Tyra you knew she'd be after time away in Austin. I loved how out of place she looked in the fray of Angela/Billy/Mindy/Becky/baby. And her scene with Julie was adorable. I had read something about her and Tim but I legit didn't think they would hook up! WEIRD. I was okay with it, though, it made more sense than you would think.
TIM RIGGINS I JUST DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH YOU
Also god I love Becky forever, she is so dumb teenage girl and so mature at the same time.
HOW ARE THEY GOING TO TOP THIS NEXT WEEK, is what I want to know, but I guess we will find out next week since there's no way they won't.
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Basically this. Always.
I am still trying to wrap my head around just ONE MORE EPISODE. I am all caught up and ready, and I have SO MANY FEELINGS. I want to go back to the beginning and watch the whole show all over again.
I was actually thinking about the oldbies and how things could have/maybe would have been different if Jason hadn't been injured in the pilot. I think you're probably right that not much changed in terms of where they went, but in some cases, they did change in terms of who they were. I guess I'm mostly thinking of Lyla, though. I feel like she changed a lot because of Jason's injury, although I guess there were certainly other things in her life that changed her. That just seems like the first big blow to what was an almost perfect world when we first saw her.
Ugh, I love this Eric/Tami thing so much. I will not love it so much if they, you know, decide to divorce next week, but for now I am just ALL OVER the flawlessness of these two people who love each other so much and have to make this really difficult decision that, if you take a step back, really SHOULDN'T be that difficult. Except it is.
Tim/Tyra hooking up didn't bother me as much as I though it would. I don't know what to make of that. I don't want a lot of it, but I'm okay with the way it happened here.
You know who I love? GRANDMA SARACEN. Also, Julie. I am going to miss Aimee Teegarden and Connie Britton having scenes together. HOW ARE THEY SO GOOD?
Also, how has this show not won a million awards? There is no justice in the world.
... I will probably be back later with more. I am just so full of everything about this show right now. This is going to be a bit of an All-FNL-All-The-Time Week for me. I can feel it.
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ME TOO, GOOD LORD. I mean I don't think they will exactly but god damn, the scary thing is you can tell this opportunity is worth that much to Tami and Eric is pretty stubborn. THEY CAN'T GO THERE but I like being afraid that they might, I don't know.
Yeah I remember you not being into that! I legit didn't think that they would! I never liked them that much and when it was about to happen I was like "yuck Tyra just don't", but when she gave in it I was suddenly... fine about it. It made sense. He needed it, and Tyra isn't as selfish as she likes to pretend to be. Plus at this point Tim is probably pretty good in bed, you know how it goes.
That scene was so saaaaaaaaaad, but so sweet and good. AND GOD I AM TOO. Ugh, what is life going to be without the Taylor family.
I DON'T KNOW IT IS LEGIT SO CLOSE TO PERFECT, the fact that it is never even really considered is just proof that that shit is rigged.
I KNOW I KNOW I KNOW Grace oh my god how it is almost over I don't understand :(