Episode Discussion - 108 and 109

[jekesta]

I am slightly late, because I am RUBBISH. But I'm willing to bet it is still Monday in some peoples' world. So it's almost like winning \o/.

108 - The Bangover


TV Rage - "A judge puts Franklin and Bash on house arrest due to their courtroom shenanigans. Meanwhile, a visit by Infeld's niece goes up in smoke when she's busted for marijuana possession by a judge; the arrival of Carmen's boyfriend has legal consequences."





Do you hate temps? Do you hate Lily? How much do you miss Hanna? How cute is Jared with police? Would you show Jared what you do in bed? (it would be platonic!) Are you more fascinated by Peter's love life than Damien is? How beautiful is Pindar in court? Also Peter in no clothes. Also Jared in all his clothes? Do you always refer to yourself in the third person? This is one of my least favourite episodes, but there are still lots of bits I love about it.

109 - Bachelor Party


TV Rage - "Janie's fiancé enlists Peter to help him dodge a legal quagmire in the wake of his bachelor party. Meanwhile, Jared revisits his high school when a teacher is accused of having lusty encounters with her student."




Source: BitchyLittleBaracuda on tumblr.

I think I just love every bit of this one! I love Janie, and Nathan, and Jared being jealous and beautiful, and Peter being beautiful and only a little bit torn, and I love the bar tender and the school teacher, and Jared's school, and Rudi, and Quantum Leap. I love that Jared runs away after sex to have pudding with Peter. I love that they hug, I love EVERYTHING ABOUT BRECKIN MEYER'S FACE.

Tell me everything you think.

Comments

[matchsticks-p.livejournal.com]

I love Nathan so, so much. I love him on a writing/narrative level, because instead of taking the easy way out of making the new boyfriend hateful they made him a really great guy. They made him genuinely love Janie, they made Janie love him back, they made their relationship realistically caring and trusting, and yet they still managed to keep some of the Peter/Janie UST. They just managed to do it without bashing Nathan, which was an incredible feat. And I also love him as a character in and of himself--he was funny and adorkable and I LOVE that he and Peter got on so well. It gave us cute jealous!Jared (ahahaha the "giant heads" quote) but it also makes a lot of SENSE for them all to get along. Of course Janie would like someone similar to Peter, of course Peter would get along with a pretty chill and cool guy, and even though Jared protested you could tell he liked Nathan too (because Nathan is like Peter is some senses). I could totally see the three of them hanging out (to Janie's exasperation). Idk what booking guest stars is like but I hope we'll see James van der Beek back in the future.

[odannygirl7.livejournal.com]

I hope he comes back too. I really haven't seen many shows that do the 'new BF of ex' well at all and it was so nice that this show didn't blow it. (F&B surprises me at how well they handle quite a few things)

And I love that Jared's jealousy was really Breckin's jealousy. Like he can't get any more adorable, and then he does.

[jekesta]

Like he can't get any more adorable, and then he does.

lkhjasdhofsdoids. I really really don't think he can get MORE adorable than his jealous complaining and exploding of heads. But I am looking forward to him trying.

[jekesta]

instead of taking the easy way out of making the new boyfriend hateful they made him a really great guy.

I'm so ridiculously impressed with nearly everything they do with secondary/guest characters, but yes! This is one of the best examples of it. I think it's just LOVELY that they made him really likeable, and made Peter actually root for him marrying Janie, and genuinely want to help.

Also he was a really dorky character and they didn't make it a bad thing, and even though Peter and Jared were a bit 'what are you?' about him, they were like that in a really nice way, and I love everything that makes them seem lovely and not knobby.

Janie would be so so so pissed off if she married Nathan and then found Peter and Jared being invited over all the time to hang out and stuff.

[matchsticks-p.livejournal.com]

Janie would be so so so pissed off if she married Nathan and then found Peter and Jared being invited over all the time to hang out and stuff.

Aaaaaaand now I'm concocting elaborate friendship-fic scenarios in which Janie comes home to find Jared and Peter and Nathan hanging out ALL THE TIME. She will wring her hands a lot at first, because she feels like she should disapprove, but over time she will soften towards their adorable bro antics because she's only human. And then one day they'll be having a video game tournament and missing a fourth player and they goad her into grudgingly picking up the controller. \o/?