Friday Night Lights

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Oh my god, so I just got finished -- like, I am still blinking through tears here -- watching the first season of Friday Night Lights and it is unbelievable, I mean, I cannot think of another show, especially a teen melodrama, especially a sports thing, that comes by its emotion so honestly, and shit, it piles it on, I am about 30% water these days from watching this show, but I cannot get enough, it is so fucking awesome, even with the storylines you've seen a hundred times before, even with the twenty-nine year old teenagers, it ain't Deadwood or The Wire but shit it is good, it does that exact same thing as those two shows where you are so completely in the world these amazing actors -- and I mean amazing, Connie Britton and Kyle Chandler, I am looking at you -- and production team create where you come away consumed by it and talking (sometimes, embarrassingly, out loud) like Al Swearengen and Kima Greggs and Tami Taylor and just, I never expected to go beyond the first episode and perhaps you're kinda eying it doubtfully but boys and girls, make room in your download limit for this one.

But seriously, where is all the good fic hiding? And why are there not more Supernatural crossovers?

Also, Taylor Kitsch and Adrianne Palicki are freaking HOT, and I would put like five hundred extra Ts on the end of that but seeing as it's a universal truth it would be kind of redundant.

Also, American football is CON. FUS. ING.

Comments

[stickylatex.livejournal.com]

I'm not a sports fan, but I have always noticed that American football (maybe all sports?) is harder to follow in movies/TV than in real life. Is there something in particular that confused you? Don't know if I can help, but I can try. (Think back to high school. THINK!) ;-)

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Okay, you are awesome! Cause the thing that's burning in my mind is, why does half the team, like the most impotant members, why do they sometimes just sit on the sidelines? WTF? Did I see that wrong?

[stickylatex.livejournal.com]

Probably they were on offense, and their team was playing defense, or vice versa. They tend to "specialize," so that a quarterback or a wide receiver wouldn't be playing if his team didn't have possession
of the ball, and a linebacker may not be playing if his team DID have possession of the ball. I think.

Does that make any sense in the context you were asking about?

[stickylatex.livejournal.com]

I just realized I forgot to say that not only am I an American, I'm also a Texan! So I can give you that particular angle, too. (Although I haven't really been in "those" circles in about 20 years!)

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Okay, what is a Booster? In the show there's this Buddy Garrity character who in his school days was a member of the team and now he's old and he just seems to give them money all the time, and go to practice and manage everything.

Also, what's the difference between a pep girl and a rally girl? Is that just for football? I am just so confused!

[stickylatex.livejournal.com]

The Booster Club is just what you describe. They are different from the cheerleaders or the pep squad or the band or whatever, in that they aren't students or teachers, but community members who support the school team.

Pep girl and rally girl? Don't know. In my school we had "pep rallies," done by the "cheerleaders." They were at school, before the game (usually the day of), and designed to get everyone all fired up and excited. Ours were during the regularly scheduled class, and everyone was required to go I read books during, since we were required to go (though.

[ecce-homosexual.livejournal.com]

The disabled should not be portrayed on television, it's patronising.

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brush it under the carpet, that's what I say.