Oh Lyla, Lyla, Lyla. I want to love Lyla SO MUCH MORE than I do, and I spent all of S1, excuse the pun, cheerleading her. I found a lot of her stuff in S1 REALLY awesome and here was this girl with her whole future planned out and it got ripped out from under her and she was so. pissed. I think a lot of people missed that, her entire storyline in S1 was about her being SO DAMN MAD at everything and everyone, and everything she did was a direct "FUCK YOU" to that one moment on the field that changed her life.
That's also why I bought the religion storyline in S2, aside from being RIDICULOUSLY well done (I could write you an essay, so I won't) Lyla was trying DESPERATELY to not only find something to hold onto but to find something that would make her feel like herself again, something she could believe in so she could stop being so fucking angry all the time. I don't love Lyla and Tim together, I think that both Lyla and Tim are way too in love with Jason in their own ways to ever be fully in love with each other. Lyla wants to save Tim, Tim wants his perfect ideal of Lyla, it's just not on, basically. But I did love the end of S2 when Lyla was with . . .whats his face and she couldn't do it.
Lyla's entire life so far as been a series of failures in living up to someone else's idea of her. She couldn't be Jason's Lyla anymore because Jason wasn't even Jason anymore. She couldn't be Buddy's Lyla anymore because she fucked Tim Riggins and you can't go back from that once your daddy knows. She couldn't be her own Lyla because she never learned how. She couldn't be God's Lyla anymore because, well, she fucked Tim Riggins and you can't go back from that one Jesus knows. That's why I think so many people love Tim and Lyla, but it's why I can't get behind them. Tim's Lyla and Actual Lyla are two different people, and that's why things can't ever work out for her because she doesn't KNOW who Actual Lyla is, and dammit, show, SO MUCH POTENTIAL. Stop throwing her into storylines that don't so much involve Lyla in relation to Lyla as they do Lyla in relation to Whatever Dude, and let us have some ACTUAL CHARACTER GROWTH.
Also, no fucking WAY is she a senior this year. I mean, let's be honest show, if we're pulling the "people move on, we had no more stories for them" with Smash and Street, um, why is Lyla's ass still around to have one scene a week with Tim Riggins, seriously.
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Date: 2008-11-10 04:26 am (UTC)That's also why I bought the religion storyline in S2, aside from being RIDICULOUSLY well done (I could write you an essay, so I won't) Lyla was trying DESPERATELY to not only find something to hold onto but to find something that would make her feel like herself again, something she could believe in so she could stop being so fucking angry all the time. I don't love Lyla and Tim together, I think that both Lyla and Tim are way too in love with Jason in their own ways to ever be fully in love with each other. Lyla wants to save Tim, Tim wants his perfect ideal of Lyla, it's just not on, basically. But I did love the end of S2 when Lyla was with . . .whats his face and she couldn't do it.
Lyla's entire life so far as been a series of failures in living up to someone else's idea of her. She couldn't be Jason's Lyla anymore because Jason wasn't even Jason anymore. She couldn't be Buddy's Lyla anymore because she fucked Tim Riggins and you can't go back from that once your daddy knows. She couldn't be her own Lyla because she never learned how. She couldn't be God's Lyla anymore because, well, she fucked Tim Riggins and you can't go back from that one Jesus knows. That's why I think so many people love Tim and Lyla, but it's why I can't get behind them. Tim's Lyla and Actual Lyla are two different people, and that's why things can't ever work out for her because she doesn't KNOW who Actual Lyla is, and dammit, show, SO MUCH POTENTIAL. Stop throwing her into storylines that don't so much involve Lyla in relation to Lyla as they do Lyla in relation to Whatever Dude, and let us have some ACTUAL CHARACTER GROWTH.
Also, no fucking WAY is she a senior this year. I mean, let's be honest show, if we're pulling the "people move on, we had no more stories for them" with Smash and Street, um, why is Lyla's ass still around to have one scene a week with Tim Riggins, seriously.