vaznetti | television seen and unseen (Reply)

I don't know if you're reading this,

aceofkittens, but the Old 97s were mentioned, so of course I thought of you!

There's just so much to love in this show that I don't know where to start. OK, I do, because Julie and Tyra bonding is just about the best thing ever, so long as Julie doesn't get sucked into a life of crime, at least. I loved the little party at Matt's grandmother's house, and Tyra is just so wonderful, even though she makes Julie look like a midget. I like how they seem to have nothing in common, but actually complement each other really, really well.

It made perfect sense to me that Matt would lie. I mean, it was a stupid thing to do, but Matt's just a kid, and it's a dumb kid thing to do, to lie about something because you know it'll just upset the other person, even though you know they'll find out and be even more upset. And I like Matt, he's a nice kid, but it's really interesting to look at the social pressures on him, and the way they're shaping him into something he doesn't necessarily want to be.

You know, this thing with Smash is going to come back and bite everyone on the ass, right? Of course it will. But this is something I've wondered about -- I mean, there are plenty of reasons that it makes good sense for Smash to be the kid with the steroids storyline but part of me is just, does it have to be the black guy who ends up with the drug problem?

The thing with Tim and his father... actually could have been a lot worse. It was kind of low-key and realistic, I thought: that there was no huge dark secret there, just a father who was kind of a crap father, and who was trying not to be quite so bad at it, but in a one-step-up-two-steps-back kind of way.

I am not much interested in Jason and Lyla right now.

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The more I think about it, the more convinced I am that John home-schooled the boys for significant portions of their childhood. Not the whole time, certainly, but a lot of it. Especially if they were moving more than once a year and John wasn't holding down a steady job. I suspect that they both attended high school, but before that I think home schooling really makes the most sense.

Unless you assume that John was a distant, uncaring father, which I don't think is the case.

And I was also thinking about bringing John back on the show, and obviously how much I would like that. And this is my dream version of the scenario, that it actually happens pretty much without warning, just like it did in Season 1: that Sam and Dean walk into a room, and John steps out of the shadows with a gravelly "Hello, boys," or something near it. And then Dean steps forward and punches him in the jaw.

My happiness would be immeasurable if it happened like that. Immeasurable. Obviously, I'd be thrilled if it happened at all, but I am a sucker for that kind of parallelism.