Friday Night Lights

[e_juliana]

Thoughts, in no particular chronological order:

Buddy Garrity can still burn in hell.

Tyra's mom is in a hell of her own devising. I wonder how long it'll be before she wakes up to it?

Julie rocks my socks for calling her mom. I wonder, though - where's Landry's parents?

Landry at the party. BLESS.

Tami - damn. I love her so much. She is seriously who I want to be when I grow up. Not only does she own her own words and actions, but she owns them without having to go through the defensive phase, and she owns them, makes it as right as she can, and then drops it. I wish I could do half of that.

Not much of Coach, but he still rocks.

Riggins & Beau were ADORABLE together.

Lyla is a spoiled, smug little princess. That said, I totally sympathize with what she's going through. And with what Street is going through. They're both staring down a lot of changes.

The last shot of Waverly in the corner of her kitchen, and then Smash coming to sit down beside her... Guh. It just killed me. Because damn, have I been there. Both sides, but more often as the one in the corner, and they all just nailed it, they got that visceral feeling.

Poor Smash. All he knows is strong women - his mom and his sisters and Waverly when she first came back - he has no idea how to deal with a broken woman. I have faith that he'll come through. Perhaps not gracefully, but he's a good man. He'll come through.


I'm trying very hard not to look hard at the meta of FNL not taking much of a break and ending the season in April. There was a feeling of moving toward closure tonight, but there are still a lot of open ends. So. We'll see. I'll take any and all Friday Night Lights I can get.

Comments

[mfnlaw.livejournal.com]

This show broke me, again. It's 2 am my time, and I'm doing a rewatch right now.

Hell yes, to all of it. That last scene with Waverly and Smash made me bawl. I *know*--everything hurts and you're sinking so far down you can't see the light anymore. I know.

This show is so real. Coach and Mrs. Coach have the kind of marriage I would love to have with DH. They're not perfect, but they love each other and their daughter silly, and they're not afraid to admit their mistakes. They work on it. It's not an expectation that a solid marriage will fall into their laps. Still, Tami does not put up with Eric's shit and maintains her own sense of self.

I can't adequately put it into words. My love and admiration for this show is elemental. I cannot think about what the early end to the season may mean; it's out of my hands. If one season of FNL is all we get, then I will wear out the DVDs that much faster.

IF the show is cancelled, it's going to be a gut punch that'll be worse than the beating I took over AtS.

[smonsterbite.livejournal.com]

It'll be interesting to see how they handle Waverly's bipolarity. As soon as she went all sexy on him, I kinda figured what was up. Yeah, I've been on both sides of that, too.

Dear Lyla - not wise of you to impugn the badassness of quad rugby when you are a CHEERLEADER. ijs.

Tami is totally my hero. Tyra was justified (I won't say right) in calling her out, and Tami handled it beautifully. I'm so glad that Tyra is not so hard that she couldn't appreciate Tami's efforts.

Buddy, you soulless shithead. Coach is completely right. He doesn't have a life, he has Panthers football.

I hope they get the dvds out quickly and rerun it during the summer, give it a chance to bring people in for a second season.