White Russian Wednesday!

[ruyu.livejournal.com]

IT'S WEDNESDAY!

Franklin and Bash miss us and we miss them.


Let's relive some of the glory days of Franklin & Bash: Season One: The Drama, the Bromance, the Romance?

This post is open to discussions of any kind, any episode, any other shows (SUITS PERHAPS?). How are you guys dealing with the aftermath of the season finale? What are your thoughts of the whole Peter/Janie issue? Yay or nay?

Talk to us!

Remember to drop by jekesta's poll for the rewatch parties she's planning. HERE if you missed it.

And don't give up on the KINK MEME

REMEMBER: THIS POST IS ACTIVE UNTIL NEXT WEDNESDAY'S POST! HAVE FUN!!

Comments

[jekesta]

Hello! I am dealing *badly* with the season having ended, because all other television has paled in comparison with Franklin and Bash and I'm not even joking and I don't know why that happened to me.

I'm dealing with it by watching everything else Breckin and MPG have ever been in, which is great because you get to look at Breckin Meyer some more, but also slightly soul destroying because he was nearly entirely just WASTED until they made him Jared. I'm so grateful they made him Jared.

My thoughts on the Peter/Janie thing is basically that I like it if it stays dead. I know it's a bit cliché slash fan of me, but I love that Jared won, I love that he has custody of Peter, I never want that to change. I really really like the female characters in Franklin and Bash but I still don't believe they have the ability to write either of them into a relationship without making it rubbish and awful. I love how often the actors say they hope that doesn't happen too.

[ruyu.livejournal.com]

Have you watched SUITS? You need to watch it. WATCH IT.

If they ever do get back together, it would totally ruin the playful tension between them and a lot of the tension in other parts of the show. Sure it would piss Jared off, but what would the writers of the show really let him do about it. Really? It would makes Peter and Jared awkward/frustrated around each other - IT WOULD RUIN THE DAMN SHOW. Peter/Jared FOREVER BB.

[jekesta]

I have watched Suits! I wasn't going to comment on it, because I find it tricky and I know people love it a lot. I do sort of love it, I just have this awful blank spot where it comes to Mike, because I went from just not caring about him to finding him actively annoying. And I'm not sure they've decided on a character for him, and . . . I don't know. I have been boring people all over the internet trying to work out my feelings about Mike and I just can't really.

But! OH MY GOD HARVEY. HARVEY IS INCREDIBLE. And I love him with Donna. When he held that basketball in front of him, and she said he should just betray his mentor and he was holding a ball and he looked incredible and I LOVE THEM QUITE A LOT. Because Donna could be so annoying and she's a bit IN YOUR FACE AMAZING, but I just love her. Also Jessica is fabulous, and I love her relationship with Harvey as well. And although I don't exactly want het, I do just want the three of them to run a small law firm somewhere hot and dusty and to ditch Mike. (I actually find Mike slightly more likeable when he's with . .. his friend, I'm blanking on his name. The baddy who makes him do drugs. Harvey/Mike is sort of a relationship pandering to everything I love most, but it's missing me by a mile.)

[matchsticks-p.livejournal.com]

Butting in here to say that I love Suits but do not give a shit about Harvey/Mike at all, either. I think Harvey is entertaining to watch, and Donna and Jessica are amazing, and my favourite is Louis Litt. But Mike by himself is incredibly boring. I enjoy the show because it's so self-consciously about people who are assholes and know it, but I find that in a lot of Harvey/Mike fics people write them as a lot more likeable and soft and squishy than they actually are. The friend you're blanking on is Trevor, and I adore him, haha. I love how every time he gets in on the shenanigans he and Mike and Harvey basically act out a gangster movie, with kidnappings and extortions and baseball bats. I like watching Harvey/Mike banter on the show just fine, but I'm uninterested in fanfic, which sucks because that's obviously 90% of the pairing. Luckily I can hang with my 10-percenters, writing fic about Louis and Trevor. XD

[jekesta]

Oh, I do love Louis. He's one of those characters that I worry they will over do, but they actually keep him really good.

people write them as a lot more likeable and soft and squishy than they actually are

Yes. I had to stop reading fic even when I still liked Harvey/Mike in canon, because of just that sort of thing.

I wish they hadn't given Mike such an incredibly boring romantic triangles plot, he was boring enough even without that, but I think I'll be able to cope with him better in season 2 if they get rid of that. They made Rachel seem completely crazy by the end, and Jenny was okay but every thing about her storyline was dull. It was a real shame.

[odannygirl7.livejournal.com]

I really really like the female characters in Franklin and Bash but I still don't believe they have the ability to write either of them into a relationship without making it rubbish and awful.

This. Somehow them managed to make the female characters pretty much not props for the men... just keep going in that direction writers!

[jekesta]

It's bizarre how good they are at female characters, I do just keep my fingers crossed that it wasn't just a fluke thing that's going to go out of the window next year. If they ruin Hanna I'll cry. Or Ellen. Or Carmen. And I do hope we get Ellen for a few more episodes next season because I love her SO MUCH it isn't entirely containable.

[vic-amy-z.livejournal.com]

I agree with... all of this! I appear to be dealing in a very similar way, although I still have much MPG to catch up on because my love for Breckin has eclipsed everything else!

Peter and Janie works for me in the way that the back story gives them something to spark off, but I don't want to see it back on screen. Both Peter and Jared seem to work better having casual relationships with women and then always coming back to each other. Also, I kinda like the fiance - I think the fact that Jared's jealous of Peter and Nathan even more than he is of Peter and Janie is hilarious. I want more Van Der Beek in season 2!

[jekesta]

I love your love for Breckin:):):):):)

MPG is weird to catch up with because a lot more of his career is in tv, so you get whole seasons of stuff. It's nice, but more of a commitment. And there's the same thing as with Breckin where some of his stuff has just vanished entirely and I don't know why that was allowed to happen.

I love that Dawson made Jared so sad, and VDB made Breckin sad, so it's win win, really.

I'd quite almost like an episode where Peter seemed to be getting serious about someone new, just for the BEAUTIFUL JARED ANGST we could have, but I absolutely do not want it to actually go anywhere.