Riona (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
rionaleonhart) wrote2012-03-29 09:15 am
rionaleonhart) wrote2012-03-29 09:15 am
Entry tags:
You'll Have To Pay The Toll.
I seem to be posting about every episode in Waterloo Road's current run. I suppose that's what happens when there's a prominent Josh storyline. By the end of the series, you'll feel like you all watched it along with me, although obviously what you're watching is an edited version of Waterloo Road with particular emphasis on Josh and the episode's ratio of hugs required:hugs received. Today we are watching episode 7.26!
Josh has now received hugs in two consecutive Waterloo Road episodes! I strongly approve of this and hope it keeps up. He just needs a lot of hugs.
Although, while I love Lauren for hugging him, I do not love her for subsequently persuading him to make a terrible decision. It's like someone saying to me, 'Well, you seem able to see fine when you're wearing your glasses; why do you bother with the glasses at all?' That's really not how it works, Lauren. Now the trailer for the next episode looks really distressing and it's all your fault. (Well, I suppose it's Josh's fault to some extent for following your terrible advice.)
noooo Josh please be okay :(
Jez has never really interested me - I find him incredibly bland - but I actually cared about him a bit in this episode, which was a surprise. Possibly because he did a Chris Mead by putting himself in a ridiculously compromising position with a pupil out of naïve concern. (Bless Chris. I miss him and his habit of going so far out of his way to help pupils that everyone assumed he was shagging all of them. 'One of the pupils is working as a stripper to make ends meet? Better go to the bar where she's stripping to have a chat with her; I'm almost certain that's within the bounds of appropriate teacher-pupil behaviour.')
I still love Tariq, even though he needs a good whack on the head sometimes. His relationship with Emily is adorable. Although he really needs to drop the 'BETTER MOCK YOU WHEN PEOPLE ARE AROUND SO NOBODY KNOWS I ACTUALLY LIKE YOU' act. Forget the gang stuff, Tariq; just run away with Emily. You can become reporters together. I know you're a good guy at heart.
Finn's little meow when Madi was complaining about Mercedes absolutely cracked me up. Somebody put it on YouTube immediately.
Something from earlier episodes I failed to mention: I find it really interesting that Matt and a friend of his decided to have a child by means of sperm donation and raise it as friends. I've wondered for years why it's not socially acceptable to raise a child with someone you're not romantically involved with.
(If Waterloo Road is to be believed, it's not socially acceptable because of the risk that the mother will fall in love with the doctor who delivered the baby, but that's Waterloo Road for you.)
(THIS PROGRAMME IS RIDICULOUS, WHY DO I LOVE IT SO MUCH)
Josh has now received hugs in two consecutive Waterloo Road episodes! I strongly approve of this and hope it keeps up. He just needs a lot of hugs.
Although, while I love Lauren for hugging him, I do not love her for subsequently persuading him to make a terrible decision. It's like someone saying to me, 'Well, you seem able to see fine when you're wearing your glasses; why do you bother with the glasses at all?' That's really not how it works, Lauren. Now the trailer for the next episode looks really distressing and it's all your fault. (Well, I suppose it's Josh's fault to some extent for following your terrible advice.)
noooo Josh please be okay :(
Jez has never really interested me - I find him incredibly bland - but I actually cared about him a bit in this episode, which was a surprise. Possibly because he did a Chris Mead by putting himself in a ridiculously compromising position with a pupil out of naïve concern. (Bless Chris. I miss him and his habit of going so far out of his way to help pupils that everyone assumed he was shagging all of them. 'One of the pupils is working as a stripper to make ends meet? Better go to the bar where she's stripping to have a chat with her; I'm almost certain that's within the bounds of appropriate teacher-pupil behaviour.')
I still love Tariq, even though he needs a good whack on the head sometimes. His relationship with Emily is adorable. Although he really needs to drop the 'BETTER MOCK YOU WHEN PEOPLE ARE AROUND SO NOBODY KNOWS I ACTUALLY LIKE YOU' act. Forget the gang stuff, Tariq; just run away with Emily. You can become reporters together. I know you're a good guy at heart.
Finn's little meow when Madi was complaining about Mercedes absolutely cracked me up. Somebody put it on YouTube immediately.
Something from earlier episodes I failed to mention: I find it really interesting that Matt and a friend of his decided to have a child by means of sperm donation and raise it as friends. I've wondered for years why it's not socially acceptable to raise a child with someone you're not romantically involved with.
(If Waterloo Road is to be believed, it's not socially acceptable because of the risk that the mother will fall in love with the doctor who delivered the baby, but that's Waterloo Road for you.)
(THIS PROGRAMME IS RIDICULOUS, WHY DO I LOVE IT SO MUCH)
Re: The Waterloo Games - Part Three
And yes. Yes, I love the 'teacher sprint' - Tom so has a teacher sprint :D
next up - My Little Hunger Ponies! ... Ok, maybe not - I don't think I could realistically put those ponies in that situation; it would break my heart too much