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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

[Poll #1676778]

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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EXCUSE ME, BUT WHERE IS COACH/MRS. COACH? That poll reminded me about how I used to get Lyla and Tyra confused. I mean, I knew who Lyla was and who Tyra was, but jeepers, their names are similar. I ALSO LIKED LYLA AND THAT ONE GUY, THAT ONE GUY WHO BOUGHT HER A BURGER AND THEN LEFT. NO, IT WAS TYRA, DARN IT.

SEE POLL TITLE:

Not including Coach/Mrs. Coach because please, everyone ever ships them.

Their names are weirdly similar, I always thought it was weird that they gave their two main girls such oddly similar names. UM, THE OLDER GUY IN LIKE THE THIRD EPISODE? I'm not sure I remember that.

Oh, whoops.

I always thought it was weird, too. And confusing. Yeah, this guy (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1140666/)? I am not going to lie, I am really excited for his new USA legal drama with Gabriel Macht, a.k.a. that guy I said should be Will's brother, even though I don't actually think it would work.

HE WAS SUCH A TWIT IN FNL THOUGH. Also ugh so over the way imdb doesn't let us direct link to stuff, WHAT IS THIS CLICK INTO THE ADDRESS BAR AND RELOAD SHIT.

I KNOW, I just liked him because (I think) he's cute. :-\ But he was a twit, an what was weird was that IMDb kept listing him as having appeared in another episode? And I'm pretty sure he didn't appear in that episode, although that may have been an episode I never got to? IDK, IDK. I know, it's really annoying!

Ugh when I tried to show the show to my sister we got to that episode and she said something like "why is Tyra such a slut?" and it made me SO MAD that I refused to show her any more of it. That is odd though, it's weird when imdb misses that stuff.

Tyra may sleep with more guys than other female characters on the show do, but she is not a slut. :-\

I know right :(

CLAIRE YOUR USE OF THE WORD JEEPERS COMPLETELY CAPTURES WHY I LOVE YOU

Thank you, ma'am! I do occasionally use it in real life.

Not including Coach/Mrs. Coach because please, everyone ever ships them.

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.

I was going to mention Lyla in that paragraph but it ~didn't go with the flow~, but I agree, she and Tyra were the ones whose lives have most not followed the obvious path. Which is so funny! This is a show about football! And they're the girls! You wouldn't think they would be the ones whose lives would veer off track because of Jason's accident.

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 :(

WHERE IS MY TIM/LYLA/STREET OPTION? Because I wasn't into them separately but that stupid trip to Mexico for the shark stem cells or whatever was Feelings City, Population: ME.

I want them to go to Philly SO BADLY but I also want Coach to be able to take care of all the people he'll leave behind like, can you coach via Skype so Billy and Jess and Vince can still have jobs and a coach and people to look up to? CAN YOU BRING THEM ALL WITH YOU TO PENNSYLVANIA?

I am not going to make it through next week intact. SADNESS HEADACHE FO SHO.

FORGOT ABOUT THAT COMPLETELY, that was def weirdly hot though. It came out of nowhere and went nowhere! Maaaaaan.

UGH THAT IS THE ISSUE, ISN'T IT. I was honestly sitting there all "just move to Philadelphia, Jess!" for a second but no, THAT IS NOT HOW IT WORKS IN REAL LIFE. But that's exactly how it is, ugh ugh it's the best choice for them but the worst choice for a lot of the others, like, god, the number of lives they've changed between the two of them in that town.

Already steeling myself for two straight hours of tears.

I CAN'T EVEN DEAL WITH THIS EPISODE IDK HOW I'M GOING TO MAKE IT THROUGH THE NEXT ONE OH MY GOD.

OH MY GOD.

Forget Texas: TYRA FOREVER ~~Oh but I want her and Landry to be happy somewhere together in the end :(~~

I WAS TOTALLY THINKING ABOUT HOW BACK IN S2/S3 I WANTED TYRA AND LANDRY TO LIKE, GO OFF AND BE MARRIED BECAUSE YEAH I'M THAT LAME, AND HOW APPARENTLY I GREW PAST THAT ALL MATURELY.

but then you had to come in and give me feelings >:(

But no I am happy with however they end that, IT WILL BE OPEN ENOUGH WITH BOTH OF THEM THAT I CAN PRETEND.

OMGGGGGGGG I WANT A MARRIED AU SO HARD. Like, I get really upset when people dismiss S2 because HELLO MY OTP.

I wish I had something constructive to say but ummmm this show has destroyed me.

NO ONE EVER WRITES SAPPY STUFF ABOUT THEM, APPARENTLY TYRA/ANYONE BUT LANDRY IS LIKE, EDGIER OR SOMETHING. I am the same way though, I get SO POUTY when people are like THE TERRIBLE TYRA/LANDRY PLOTLINE IN S2, because okay the murder thing was so dumb but then so many feelings came out of it :(

YOU AND ME AND ALL OF US, I think.

OH GODDDDDDDDDD THIS SHOWWWWWW. I haven't watched this week's yet but my eye happened to fall on the paragraph about Tyra and fsldkrjlskdfjl THIS IS WHAT I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR ALL SEASON.

My poll choices are really basic especially because I'm going to say that I really only ship Tim/Julie in sort of the same way I ship Tim/Becky, which is that it's more of a protective older brother thing and I just want 5000 episodes of them spending time together. ALSO: I did like Tyra/Landry at the time but now I'm kind of over it, not a huge deal.

I KNOW RIGHT I HAVE MISSED HER SO MUCHHHH

Tim and Julie were adorbssssssss together in the big brosef way but for a lot of people it turned into a legit ship and it was NOT like that for me. BUT I WOULD NOT BE AT ALL OPPOSED TO 5000 EPISODES OF THAT. But yeah I was an intenser version of that: I LOVED THEM SO MUCH, for a bit there, but now that time has passed it's more like I loved them then, less like they were ~*meant to be*~ or whatever. The time has passed and that's fine.

but now that time has passed it's more like I loved them then, less like they were ~*meant to be*~ or whatever. The time has passed and that's fine.
Yeeeeessssss that's a good way of saying it!! They were wonderful together but it was never a forever thing, which I think is a much more realistic way to approach a relationship anyway. I'm content with what they had without needing them for be together forever.

it's just funny because AT THE TIME of the Tyra/Landry feelings explosion, I was not rational about it at all! Usually I hate when teenage 'ships try to act all TOGETHER FOREVERY, but I def had feelings of that sort about them at the time. But now I can barely remember it. Weird how that works!

This poll does not include my FNL OTP, TIM/JACKIE!!!!! IN MY HEART IT NEVER DIES.

Edited 2011-02-03 23:22 (UTC)

UGH I ALWAYS FORGET SOMETHING LIKE THAT, sorry. They were pretty great :(

Lol no I'm totally kidding they would have been a ridiculously obscure choice for the poll! I just loved them so much and still think about them sometimes.

Oh I know I just wish I had thought of it or the Lyla/Jason/Street threesome thing, THOSE ARE REAL FEELINGS and I love the like, random landscape of FNL ships back in the day. Like the way some people were REALLY INTENSELY into Tim/Tyra and Jason/Tyra even though canon was alllllll about them with Lyla.

I answered this poll before I watched the two most recent episodes and I can say that whatever Tim/Tyra feelings I had they have returned, I love love love that they were one of the first ones to break up and them getting back together kind of feels like the show coming full circle? (I basically ship everyone casually but no-one super intensely though? Excluding Matt/Julie and of course Eric/Tami.)

Also I was dying during the Eric/Tami scenes, I really wanted to immediately talk to you and be like "this is the first time in five seasons that I have ever actually been concerned for them!!!!!!!" I just, ugh. Tami's face was breaking my heart, I just wanted to shout at coach CAN'T YOU SEE HOW MUCH THIS MEANS TO HER, when she said "I'm going to say to you what you haven't had the grace to say to me: congratulations Eric" because HOW COULD HE NOT HAVE SAID THAT. No matter how he feels personally about Philadelphia he should be so proud of her, I know I am!

JESS MY LOVE JESS, I think she is my favourite newbie and I just, she wants to be a high school football coach! I think that is the greatest thing ever. I love her and coach's interactions so much. Luke, I love the idea of him just accepting that high school football is as far as he's going to go and that he should move on. I think that's so interesting, and I love the way he's dealing with it.

I AM SO NERVOUS/EXCITED FOR NEXT WEEK I COULD CRY. I CANNOT ACTUALLY BELIEVE THIS IS THE END.

Tim/Tyra was (obviously) the motivation for that but it's so interesting and funny to me that it like... I don't know. They only had a couple of episodes, a couple of real scenes and yet a lot of people feel really intensely about them, that has always interested me. But you're right about it coming full-circle, that is true and interesting AND i HADN'T THOUGHT OF IT.

i know i know I KNOWWWWWW, that fucking line, it was too amazing, SHE WAS SO RIGHT AND HE KNOW IT

MY RESPONSE TO THAT PARAGRAPH IS BASICALLY: I LOVE EVERYONE IN THIS BAR.

But I knowwwwwwwwwwww I can't believe it's gone on this long but I also can't believe it won't be here forever?

Btw did you see the fandom march madness schedule has gone up? It's amazing how quickly seeing that sent me back into TEAM SCULLY mode, already mentally cataloguing who is on "our side", lol my life.

I JUST SAW THAT THIS MORNING. Every year I'm like "this will be her year, who could vote otherwise?" and then all the obnoxious Supernatural fans come out of the woodwork and I remember. I saw someone do this meme the other day and it was like "list your 20 favourite characters" or something and god THEY ARE ALL GIRLS EXCLUDING LIKE, TWO AND EVEN THEN I WAS UNDECIDED/TORN. I just don't understand how it isn't the same for everyone!! Fandom baffles me.

We just have to plot, Emma. Collect gifs, start thinking about it, PLAN OUR ATTACK. Also yeah I don't get that eeeeeeeeither, I ACTUALLY HAVE A RANT ABOUT THIS I MIGHT POST SOON, except it was spurred by a show you don't watch, so.

THIS SOUNDS LIKE A VERY GOOD IDEA. I have so few XF gifs saved, I will have to start hunting them down. ALSO PLEASE MAKE THE RANT, I don't care what show it is about because I am sure I will still identify!

NO ONE MAKES THEM, IT'S AWFUL!!! This is legitimately the only one (that I have saved):

AND IT'S NOT EVEN JUST SCULLY

Lol I have to give it a week or two so no one on my flist feels ~targeted~

Edited 2011-02-06 03:10 (UTC)

HAHA THAT IS SO CUTE THOUGH, delightful human beings. My entire collection:

WHY DOES THIS FANDOM FAIL AT GIF MAKING, GOD

I will be keep an eye out for it then, I'll probably be even more fired up about it because every week I seem to get more angry about how female characters are treated by fandom.

Edited 2011-02-06 03:22 (UTC)

I DON'T KNOW, i remember that forgethetime girl from FMM last year though! UGH WATERMARKED GIFS, LEAST FAVORITE. It's too bad none of the gifmakers on my flist are XF fans because this is legit tragic :( BUT YES, THIS IS GOOD, WE'VE GOT A MONTH TO PREPARE

(lol how seriously i take team scully, my life omg)

It NEVER ENDS. Ever.

Who watermarks a gif anyway? Most annoying, as well as people that add borders/effects. I AM SURE WE WILL BE ABLE TO FIND MORE IN THE NEXT MONTH THOUGH, I WILL LITERALLY SEARCH THE INTERNET.

ALEX I JUST SAW THE PROMO FOR NEXT WEEKS FNL AND LOST MY SHIT, HAVE YOU SEEN IT?!

I KNEW I COULD COUNT ON YOU, HELPS TO HAVE FRIENDS WITH TUMBLR FU SOMETIMES!!!

Omg no I haven't, link me!!

UGH SORRY I HAD TO GO GROCERY SHOPPING. IT'S HERE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5h6OZO15czw&feature=player_embedded) ASFHGKHDFGHK

O M G

TAMI ;__________;

HER SOBBING FUCK MY LIFE

I AM FINDING SOME GOOD GIFS AND I KIND OF FEEL THAT THIS POST SHOULD BE THE COLLECTION POST FOR THEM NOW?!

If I post them all though it will probably freeze everyone's computers though so I might just link to the rest? I'll try and describe them though so we can quickly ~sort~ if necessary.

nicknames -- arcadia (http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lg46j1yyHZ1qahz2no1_500.gif)
please? just ... for me? -- rush (http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lc8h1lIJ9N1qzhfrho1_500.gif)
cranky faces -- post modern prometheus (http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lboww4UQGO1qzhfrho1_500.gif)
david & gillian dancing -- bloopers (http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6by0k1KFh1qa0pv3o1_500.gif)
scully catching can -- gender bender (http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6hjxr7VLs1qzhfrho1_500.gif)
don't think, just pick up the phone and make it happen! -- ftf (http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lfszb60zVU1qbre1ao1_500.gif) (her badassery, I cannot)
because they don't exist? -- bad blood (http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lfsiyziXaU1qzg3vso1_500.gif)
skeptical -- bad blood (http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lezgpqBPYQ1qeqiwko1_500.gif)
bb scully! in glasses! -- pilot (http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ld8qbyVIP91qb2xivo1_500.gif)

WHEN I FIND MORE I WILL COME BACK AND ADD THEM! God it is such a mission though I do not understaaaaaaaaaand

Edited 2011-02-06 14:15 (UTC)

AHHHHHHHH YOU ARE AMAZING

omg did not expect the Pilot one to be the (one of the?) best one(s), THAT IS SO CUTE, I CAN'T EVEN.

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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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