Ring A Ring O' Roses...

[rionaleonhart]

Thoughts on episode 7.27 of Waterloo Road:

JOOOOOOSH :(

JANEEEEEECE :(

To a lesser extent FINN NO DON'T GET INVOLVED IN THIS :(

There were brief glimpses of loveliness in the seething ocean of heartbreak that was this episode, though. Tariq treating Josh gently and being concerned about him made me clasp my hands over my heart. Tom mouthing 'All right?' to Josh before the exam, awww (and helping him out of the building! and worrying he's been a bad father!). Lauren's concern also touched me. BASICALLY ALL OF MY FAVOURITE MOMENTS IN THIS EPISODE CENTRE ON PEOPLE WORRYING ABOUT JOSH.

That's not strictly true, actually, because I also loved Chalky being the sweetest man in the world. Bless him. Bless Janeece, too, for keeping her head held high after that nightmare.

Looks like there's not going to be any Josh in next week's episode, to my sorrow. Still, perhaps I need a break from all the weekly nooo nooooo stop making horrible things happen to him look at his little tragic face distressed keening. When he comes back, I sort of want him and Tariq to become friends. Except I don't, because then Finn would kill someone.


I'm trying to write nice fanfiction in which Josh and Matt form a friendship, but of course because it's Waterloo Road they would inevitably end up being accused of having an affair, and I don't want that to happen. Very much a staple plot of Waterloo Road, 'teacher wrongly (occasionally correctly) suspected of having affair with pupil'. The other staple plot is, of course, 'pregnancy!', and I don't particularly want to write about Josh getting pregnant either.

Do you know how many Waterloo Road characters have been pregnant? Thirteen. Those are just the ones I can think of right now; there may well be more. That's almost two pregnancies per series. (Number of those pregnancies that were actually planned, incidentally: maybe two. The most common source of income in Rochdale must be legal action against condom companies.)

Comments

[yumiboo.livejournal.com]

I guess it's one of those lessons in life that TV likes to teach people - never come off your meds without medical supervision!

Tariq definitely needs to write a few letters to Princess Celestia.
You have no idea how badly I would want to see this :> This would be amazing, although how would he write? Would he be extremely formal, or would he write like he speaks (I.E: with all of his youth slang?) I'd like to think that Fluttershy might be Josh's MLP friend, because, with the exception of maybe Applejack, I'd think the others might be a bit too full on and intense for him, whereas Fluttershy would be all like 'let's go and sit quietly in a field' AND THEN THEY'D SIT IN A FIELD AND MAKE, IDK, DAISYCHAINS OR SOMETHING. I think I've thought about this too much...

I love Chalky and Janeece as friends because he is SUCH a good friend. But Chalky deserves a break from all the heartache - I mean, first there was Janeece, and then there was the crazy lady...

[rionaleonhart]

I imagine Tariq would try to write at least semi-formally but pepper his letter with slang regardless, because he doesn't have a great understanding of formal registers. Then again, he has Trudi as a sister, so I may be wrong. Maybe he gets Trudi to check his Celestia letters over for him.

I think Josh needs Twilight Sparkle as a pony friend, actually; she seems the pony best suited to teach him to stand up for himself and resist peer pressure. The problem is that Josh is drawn to full-on and intense characters; canonically, he befriends the Rainbow Dashes of the world and then comes to regret it.

I now really want to read about a Josh-Twilight friendship, to be honest.

[yumiboo.livejournal.com]

Trudi would be his spell checker. Or, she would send his letter, and then send a translation and an apology for her brother's use of slang.

Oh, that would be so much better! Twilight Sparkle leading Josh away from Rainbow Dash, and teaching him lots of things~! :D That would be so lovely~