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rionaleonhart) wrote2010-10-07 11:15 am
rionaleonhart) wrote2010-10-07 11:15 am
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Don't Think We Didn't Notice You'd Changed The Letter.
I said in my last entry that Finn of Waterloo Road was dead inside, but of course that's not strictly true, because he craves love. He's been deprived of love in the past, and so he's obsessed with making the people who care about him prove that they love him. If he sets up flaming hoops and you refuse to jump through them for him, he assumes that you're a fraud. If you really love him, why won't you perform a huge, dangerous symbolic gesture? Any failure to do exactly what he wants is a betrayal in his eyes, proof that he was an idiot to think you cared. He is an incredibly tragic character. But, Finn, that's no excuse for being a massive git.
I still want the fic in which Finn and Josh do get into a relationship and it leaves Josh completely broken down and miserable. And then Tom comes to his rescue and SURPRISE, IT WASN'T ACTUALLY ABOUT THE SLASH, THIS IS A FIC ABOUT JOSH'S RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS FATHER. And then they freaking hug.
(I do feel that Josh's storyline in Waterloo Road could eventually come down to a choice between his malinfluential* friendship with Finn and his relationship with his dad. I hope that doesn't happen. I don't want to lose either relationship, but if he chooses Finn over Tom I shall cry until my ankles are damp.)
* I don't think this is technically a word, but I think there's a space in the English language for an adjective meaning 'badly influencing', so let's make it a word.
I've now seen the first episode of the second series, and I just have to say:
'Brian Nolan? Janet Seymour? And Chlo Grainger.'
What sort of register order is that? In my entire educational experience, it's been 'alphabetical order by surname', not 'the most plot-significant name is read out last, damn the alphabet'.
Also, if you show a character apparently committing suicide and then have her show up perfectly well, some part of my mind is going to be convinced that she's a ghost. Waterloo Road, you are a school-based drama that attempts to be at least fairly realistic. You're not Supernatural. (She's a really cute, heartbreaking ghost, though. I hope she doesn't turn into a vengeful spirit. Finn, being a bit of a Dean Winchestery figure in some ways, might be able to handle her, but he doesn't show up for another three series, and I think he'd be around eleven years old at this point in the timeline, which is perhaps a touch too young to be fighting the paranormal.)
Watching the present series of Waterloo Road alongside the early series is quite a weird experience, because I love Current Tom, whereas Early Tom needs to be whacked over the head with a hardback copy of Lord of the Rings. I'm quite interested in seeing how his character makes the transition from 'selfish, cowardly git' to 'someone who may not always get things right, but tries so hard to'.
I still want the fic in which Finn and Josh do get into a relationship and it leaves Josh completely broken down and miserable. And then Tom comes to his rescue and SURPRISE, IT WASN'T ACTUALLY ABOUT THE SLASH, THIS IS A FIC ABOUT JOSH'S RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS FATHER. And then they freaking hug.
(I do feel that Josh's storyline in Waterloo Road could eventually come down to a choice between his malinfluential* friendship with Finn and his relationship with his dad. I hope that doesn't happen. I don't want to lose either relationship, but if he chooses Finn over Tom I shall cry until my ankles are damp.)
* I don't think this is technically a word, but I think there's a space in the English language for an adjective meaning 'badly influencing', so let's make it a word.
I've now seen the first episode of the second series, and I just have to say:
'Brian Nolan? Janet Seymour? And Chlo Grainger.'
What sort of register order is that? In my entire educational experience, it's been 'alphabetical order by surname', not 'the most plot-significant name is read out last, damn the alphabet'.
Also, if you show a character apparently committing suicide and then have her show up perfectly well, some part of my mind is going to be convinced that she's a ghost. Waterloo Road, you are a school-based drama that attempts to be at least fairly realistic. You're not Supernatural. (She's a really cute, heartbreaking ghost, though. I hope she doesn't turn into a vengeful spirit. Finn, being a bit of a Dean Winchestery figure in some ways, might be able to handle her, but he doesn't show up for another three series, and I think he'd be around eleven years old at this point in the timeline, which is perhaps a touch too young to be fighting the paranormal.)
Watching the present series of Waterloo Road alongside the early series is quite a weird experience, because I love Current Tom, whereas Early Tom needs to be whacked over the head with a hardback copy of Lord of the Rings. I'm quite interested in seeing how his character makes the transition from 'selfish, cowardly git' to 'someone who may not always get things right, but tries so hard to'.