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rionaleonhart) wrote2012-10-04 09:56 pm
rionaleonhart) wrote2012-10-04 09:56 pm
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In Which I Am Overly Invested In The Off-Screen Future Of A Fictional Character.
OH MY GOD, JOSH, PERHAPS THE REASON EVERYONE FRUSTRATES YOU BY TRYING TO MAKE DECISIONS FOR YOU IS THAT YOU MAKE TERRIBLE DECISIONS.
By which I mean Waterloo Road has just had what I'm fairly sure was my favourite character's send-off, and has sent him off in a way that made me shout 'WHAT ARE YOU DOING' at the screen. At the beginning of the episode, the headmaster suggested that Josh might be Oxbridge material; at the end of the episode, Josh went 'YAY I'M GOING TO FOREGO UNIVERSITY AND GO OFF TO WORK IN A MANCHESTER CALL CENTRE'.
JOSH.
JOSH.
I mean, I'm not going to stop you from working in a call centre if that's your dream, but - but Waterloo Road doesn't produce good university material very often! A lot of people start out with no qualifications and don't become millionaires; I can't help feeling that Lorraine has given you a skewed perspective. Still, I suppose you could theoretically gain some experience now and go back into education later. (Did you just run off in the middle of your final year without any A Levels? SERIOUSLY, JOSH, I THINK YOU SHOULD RETHINK THIS.)
There were things I liked about this episode. Tom being unable to cope with the prospect of Josh leaving broke my heart a bit. And... well, really, most of the things I liked about this episode were just Josh and his dad. Their relationship has always been my favourite thing about Waterloo Road; it's a rocky one, but it's built around a core of real love. And now Josh is leaving! (They didn't hug in this episode, sadly. I'm glad they hugged at least once in Josh's three-and-a-bit series.)
AND JOSH AND TARIQ NEVER MADE OUT, THIS IS TERRIBLE (although there was a tiny bit of flirting in this episode). Maybe I should write that Josh/Tariq His Dark Materials crossover that's dimly floating around in the back of my head. Then again, does anyone really need two His Dark Materials/Waterloo Road crossovers under their belt?
I can't believe Josh has left! I wrote twenty-five thousand words of fanfiction about that kid, even though hardly anyone reads Waterloo Road fanfiction. I'll miss you, Josh. Good luck with your inexplicable life decisions. Meet a nice boy. Hug your dad.
Completely unrelatedly: there is a part of me that sort of wants to read terrible porn about Franziska von Karma and Phoenix Wright.
I'm just saying.
By which I mean Waterloo Road has just had what I'm fairly sure was my favourite character's send-off, and has sent him off in a way that made me shout 'WHAT ARE YOU DOING' at the screen. At the beginning of the episode, the headmaster suggested that Josh might be Oxbridge material; at the end of the episode, Josh went 'YAY I'M GOING TO FOREGO UNIVERSITY AND GO OFF TO WORK IN A MANCHESTER CALL CENTRE'.
JOSH.
JOSH.
I mean, I'm not going to stop you from working in a call centre if that's your dream, but - but Waterloo Road doesn't produce good university material very often! A lot of people start out with no qualifications and don't become millionaires; I can't help feeling that Lorraine has given you a skewed perspective. Still, I suppose you could theoretically gain some experience now and go back into education later. (Did you just run off in the middle of your final year without any A Levels? SERIOUSLY, JOSH, I THINK YOU SHOULD RETHINK THIS.)
There were things I liked about this episode. Tom being unable to cope with the prospect of Josh leaving broke my heart a bit. And... well, really, most of the things I liked about this episode were just Josh and his dad. Their relationship has always been my favourite thing about Waterloo Road; it's a rocky one, but it's built around a core of real love. And now Josh is leaving! (They didn't hug in this episode, sadly. I'm glad they hugged at least once in Josh's three-and-a-bit series.)
AND JOSH AND TARIQ NEVER MADE OUT, THIS IS TERRIBLE (although there was a tiny bit of flirting in this episode). Maybe I should write that Josh/Tariq His Dark Materials crossover that's dimly floating around in the back of my head. Then again, does anyone really need two His Dark Materials/Waterloo Road crossovers under their belt?
I can't believe Josh has left! I wrote twenty-five thousand words of fanfiction about that kid, even though hardly anyone reads Waterloo Road fanfiction. I'll miss you, Josh. Good luck with your inexplicable life decisions. Meet a nice boy. Hug your dad.
Completely unrelatedly: there is a part of me that sort of wants to read terrible porn about Franziska von Karma and Phoenix Wright.
I'm just saying.
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(I worked a temporary part-time call center job during my university years, and it is not nice work.)