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

[teh-bug.livejournal.com]

It is still Monday in the US! :D ...still very muchly Monday...ohgosh...still...Monday...

So you still win! We are focused on the positive here!

I MISS HANNA! I am also slightly concerned that a half-naked Peter has a guitar in the bedroom with him while he is half-naked (or more likely all naked)....I cannot see any situation where that ends well....I feel like the guitar would just get....yeah....

The Bug periodically refers to herself in third person...but not usually online...because that's not so much fun when you can't see her dorky faces and overdramatic handflailing....

Also, I kinda hated Lily, not gonna lie... And the whole treatment of her....how old is she? Over 20, right? Like prolly in her 30s? She's kinda a grown-woman....

Also, I kinda disliked the whole Carmen subplot... she's just not my fave... sorry, hon.

Q! I loved Q! He should be brought back more often! Also, I kinda liked how FnB keeps stealing all the old Star Trek actors... If they get Kate Mulgrew in an episode, I might die... Or Garrett Wang... that would possibly be dangerous...

Also, I'm confused about the ending of this... So Janie is done? She's not coming back? Who will FnB have for a love interest? ...unless... Unless the writers choose to focus their writerly romancenenergy on the loveliness that is Damien and Hanna and a deliciously overdramatic baby subplot with sneaky kisses and holding hands! I would be okay with that!

[jekesta]

And I'm replying to my own post because I keep scrolling past that .gif and OH MY GOD I HAVE ALL THE ~FEELINGS.

I love everything about it, I love that they gave it to us - I am so judgey sometimes on tv for pandering to fandom, like sometimes I think they do it at the expense of their show (and I'm just an incredibly judgey person, sorry, I think a lot of the best slash is written when the writers are not purposefully writing slash, they might be purposefully writing a really intense, loving relationship, but not a tongue in cheek, oh well, this will keep the fangirls happy kind of slash). But I find nothing to judge here, because they've sold me entirely on Peter and Jared having the kind of relationship where they might easily hug in a diner just to cheer themselves up. It's just so *RIGHT*. And Jared refusing it at first and then being like 'NO! Obviously I will hug you now.' And Peter having just hugged Dawson and feeling all 'MUST TOUCH JARED'. I love his slight smile like it's a joke, but how QUICKLY he is okay with it not being a joke.

And most of all OH MY GOD BRECKIN MEYER'S WRIST HELLO. HOW DID YOU EVER GROW SO BEAUTIFUL? DUDE.

I love that Peter is going to hug him with both of his arms on the outside, sort of like just *holding* him, but Jared stops him and sneaks his (beautiful insanely beautiful) arm over Peter's shoulder, and then he HUGS HIM SO WELL and like Peter kind of does a manly patting thing, but Jared just SQUEEZES HIM TIGHT and I just love them. I love that they hugged. I love Jared's face afterwards. I have literally NO IDEA what Peter does after their hug because even when I try to look I just look at Jared being THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THING ON THE PLANET.

Sorry. I will go away and attempt sleep. I'm not very good at sleep.

[bee-n-a.livejournal.com]

I liked the temp in The Bangover. I didn't think she was annoying just very eager to please. She seemed young to me, I don't know I think I just like people who want to do a good job but sort of end up bumbling and it makes me feel for them :)

And I liked the Carmen story because I like learning about histories and I sort of want to meet her family because it sounds like it'd be a big ol' mess, idk...

And, I liked all the clothing in the episode it all looked comfortable and good and that is all ^^

[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.

[vic-amy-z.livejournal.com]

It was so hard to go through everyone else's comments and just say 'Yes! This!! I love it too!' because there's so much to love in these two episodes. However, I will attempt to have coherent thoughts...

The Bangover
~ Love the lightsaber fight!
~ Love the idea of them being confined to the house together - the hardship.
~ Love Infeld in this episode - everything about him is just awesome!
~ Love the casual clothes - they rock the suits but Jared in a hoodie is just adorable.
~ Love Jared silently asking for permission to be Carmen's lawyer.
~ Love seeing Peter semi-naked, especially with his guitar.
~ Love Jared's obvious jealousy.
~ Love the way they are both petrified of Dante.
~ Love Jared waving his ankle tag out of the car window!
~ Love Jared telling Peter that he wants to know what the plan is too.
~ HATE Lily and everything about her...

Batchelor Party
~ Love Nathan - I would definitely want to see more of this character.
~ Love Jared's obvious jealousy - again (and especially because we know that Breckin was jealous too!)
~ Love the way that the Janie/Nathan/Peter relationship is handled.
~ Love seeing Jared's old school, even if it does crap all over everyone's back story - again!
~ Love the way that Peter and Jared have separate cases but still manage to work them together.
~ Love the flirty relationship between Jared and Emily.
~ Love Jared's "let the cool kids have High School..." speech.
~ Love the fact that Jared tells Peter about their 'date' but somehow he's still with Peter and not her.
~ Love Jared's comment about being "that insecure, punk kid..." (because it totally plays into my back story!)
~ LOVE THE HUG! DUDE...

Okay, that was quite coherent for me, especially considering that there was hugging. It could have ended up being one giant flail! Go me... [g]