The world is aligned against me
Feb. 26th, 2007 10:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
How is it that with every episode of Friday Night Lights, I fall more in love? *shakes fist*
Okay, so besides the fact that this was the stupidest title in the history of forever, wow.
I haven't ever been a parent. I'm not planning on it, at least not anytime soon. But the hopeless frustration, the anguish, the I need this kid to be okay just one more day, just one more day is something I've been dealing with ever since I started teaching, and it hits home every time.
Love the awkward not!sex and how Julie doesn't realize it's okay not to have sex until Matt mentions it. (And love how he needs her not to touch him for a minute afterward. Aww, little boy. *snuggles*)
Love how much Tyra cares about Tim, and how desperately Tim wants his family to work out, no matter how fractured it is. How he's never quite going to realize how much Tyra and his brother (why can't I remember his name? gah) love him. Tim and Dean, seriously. Need to form a support group. They could wear flannel and have a competition over who can cry single tears most prettily.
Love how the show now trusts us to care about the characters enough to feature them in an episode with no real football-plot development.
And love how the writers can yank me around with Buddy, make me like him in one episode and hate him in the next, make me want to strangle him and make me feel for him in the same goddamn forty minutes.
So, to recap, during this episode, I literally: laughed, cried, put hands over my eyes, made a small meep! sound, flailed at the computer screen, forgot to breathe until my chest started to hurt, and wanted to hug everyone so badly it sort of scared me.
This show is so emotionally draining sometimes, all I want to do is sit in a room with some candles and the cat and watch the snow.
Okay, so besides the fact that this was the stupidest title in the history of forever, wow.
I haven't ever been a parent. I'm not planning on it, at least not anytime soon. But the hopeless frustration, the anguish, the I need this kid to be okay just one more day, just one more day is something I've been dealing with ever since I started teaching, and it hits home every time.
Love the awkward not!sex and how Julie doesn't realize it's okay not to have sex until Matt mentions it. (And love how he needs her not to touch him for a minute afterward. Aww, little boy. *snuggles*)
Love how much Tyra cares about Tim, and how desperately Tim wants his family to work out, no matter how fractured it is. How he's never quite going to realize how much Tyra and his brother (why can't I remember his name? gah) love him. Tim and Dean, seriously. Need to form a support group. They could wear flannel and have a competition over who can cry single tears most prettily.
Love how the show now trusts us to care about the characters enough to feature them in an episode with no real football-plot development.
And love how the writers can yank me around with Buddy, make me like him in one episode and hate him in the next, make me want to strangle him and make me feel for him in the same goddamn forty minutes.
So, to recap, during this episode, I literally: laughed, cried, put hands over my eyes, made a small meep! sound, flailed at the computer screen, forgot to breathe until my chest started to hurt, and wanted to hug everyone so badly it sort of scared me.
This show is so emotionally draining sometimes, all I want to do is sit in a room with some candles and the cat and watch the snow.
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Date: 2007-02-27 02:34 pm (UTC)I believe Billy is Tim's older brother? >_o That would explain why that name is stuck in my head. I didn't expect to like Tim's older brother because when we first see him he has this weird vibe with Tyra but now I'm so totally sold.
Buddy amuses me. I don't always like him but I like his devotion to Lyla and I have to say Buddy coming at Coach with suggestions or hovering for gossip definitely amuses me far too much.
Man, I would say more about this show but every time I talk about it always feels like I'm rehashing the same points over and over again and still can't express why the show owns so hard.
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Date: 2007-02-27 11:07 pm (UTC)Yeah, Billy. Couldn't remember his name for the life of me last night. I like this little twist that sort of sets him up with Tyra as Tim's caregivers, which is an interesting position for the three of them.
Buddy amuses me too, sometimes, and the totally awkward way he broached the subject of his affair in the Applebee's when Coach is all NO! I DON'T WANT TO HEAR THIS, GAH notlisteningnotlisteningnotlistening is just adorable. But he can be amazingly insensitive too, which is what has me all turned around about him.
I know exactly what you mean. It just makes you care, you know? In ways that don't even seem possible when you first think them through, because football? Small towns? Fucking Texas? These are things that I was sort of brought up to look down on, but in a lot of ways, this show is expanding my viewpoints, exposing places where I've been unconsciously prejudiced, and then ripping those prejudices to shreds. Which is why, in a lot of ways, the recent storyline with Mac and the black players has been hitting almost uncomfortably close to home. Hmm. I may have to
TMImeta about this later.