Friday Night Lights - Finale
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thelakeFriday Night Lights was my show so I kind of feel obligated to write about the finale.
I started watching FNL right when it first started airing on NBC. Fall of 2006. I don't even know why I picked up this show, because the way they promoted it was just not my style, or so I thought. I think I had nothing better to do, don't know, don't care.
I remember crying so much during the first episode, so crushed, so hopeless and shocked at how their lives had changed that night and those people were so real, so very well portrayed by their respective actors, it hurt in real life. From then on I never considered FNL as a TV show. They were real people and they were living their lives. All I did was to watch a very realistic summary, a 45 minute documentary of that life. That's how invested and in love I was with this show.
Colors, angles, silent moments, sad moments, happy moments, they were all at the peak of their perfection. Really, there's nothing like this show on TV and I'm pretty sure never will be. Those people acted their hearts out for this and if there ever will be a show like FNL, I promise I'll watch it until my eyes bleed. I'll follow the works of these actors, writers and directors like they're from my own family.
If you want consistency, you have it. If you want heartbreaks and real apologies or painful distance, you have it. If you want family, marriage, real problems and real happy endings, you have it. Name it, you have it.
Yes it is slow paced, yes the cinematography is out of the ordinary and yes sometimes it just rips your heart out of its cage and tear it to pieces, but overall, Friday Night Lights was, is and will always be one of the wonderful TV classics.
It's the little show that could.
I am extremely happy and grateful that NBC made that agreement with Directv and didn't let FNL die. Watching this very well constructed and beautifully written finale was the best gift they could give us. And I think this was the second actual finale I watched since Buffy the Vampire Slayer. All of my other shows are either cancelled or I lost interest before they ended. (I'm not counting Lost, it was too much of a universal event to be called my show)
Okay, on with the actual episode...
I don't know about you guys, but I cried happy tears when Matt took out that ring! Oh god, I was almost hyperventilating! No lie! I even said "yes" before Julie did, I'm such a sucker. THEY'RE ONLY 18 AND 19 FOR GOD'S SAKE, WHAT AM I THINKING!? But, but, BUT THEY WILL MAKE IT. ♥ Eric and Tammy are Julie's inspiration after all. I'm pretty sure they're everyone's inspiration when it comes to marriage and love. They are that flawed, yet perfect.
Eric gave up his super team and gave Tami's job a chance AND FELLAS, I CRIED HAPPY TEARS ONCE AGAIN. I was so afraid Eric would let Tami turn down the job, but no, my show wouldn't do that. My show knew it was Tami's turn and they gave her the right to be awesome, they gave her the chance of a lifetime. Oh how proud I was when she was walking around in that campus! Dean of Admissions Tami Taylor ♥
Tim! Tim!! Tim Tim Tim! Tim Riggins, your life could have been a lot better than this and I still mourn for your loss youth, but you are happy now and that's all I care about. In my head, his and Tyra's dreams actually merged together at some point and now they are as perfect a couple as the Taylors. After all, Tyra's been in love with him since 5 years old. Texas forever, guys. Forever ♥
That flashforward trick could have gone so wrong, SOOO WRONG, but it didn't. NOTHING GOES WRONG WITH FNL! I was actually yearning for it. I wanted to know how everything turned out for them and it was blissfully amazing. Tim's house, Eric's new team, Tami's new job, Matt & Julie, Jess and her new coach, everything every single thing was happy and very well deserved.
I was hoping to see Lyla or Jason at some point, alas they weren't in the episode.
Finally, Vince and Coach Taylor's moment in the dressing room.
"You may never know how proud I am of you."
"You changed my life, Coach."
Friday Night Lights changed my whole perspective on TV shows and storytelling. If you haven't seen even a single episode of this amazing thing, go ahead and watch it. You won't regret it and you'll be one of the elite viewers and a member of the legacy FNL left behind.
Last but not least, if they don't make a special DVD box set for this, I'm going to cut a bitch. That's all.
I started watching FNL right when it first started airing on NBC. Fall of 2006. I don't even know why I picked up this show, because the way they promoted it was just not my style, or so I thought. I think I had nothing better to do, don't know, don't care.
I remember crying so much during the first episode, so crushed, so hopeless and shocked at how their lives had changed that night and those people were so real, so very well portrayed by their respective actors, it hurt in real life. From then on I never considered FNL as a TV show. They were real people and they were living their lives. All I did was to watch a very realistic summary, a 45 minute documentary of that life. That's how invested and in love I was with this show.
Colors, angles, silent moments, sad moments, happy moments, they were all at the peak of their perfection. Really, there's nothing like this show on TV and I'm pretty sure never will be. Those people acted their hearts out for this and if there ever will be a show like FNL, I promise I'll watch it until my eyes bleed. I'll follow the works of these actors, writers and directors like they're from my own family.
If you want consistency, you have it. If you want heartbreaks and real apologies or painful distance, you have it. If you want family, marriage, real problems and real happy endings, you have it. Name it, you have it.
Yes it is slow paced, yes the cinematography is out of the ordinary and yes sometimes it just rips your heart out of its cage and tear it to pieces, but overall, Friday Night Lights was, is and will always be one of the wonderful TV classics.
It's the little show that could.
I am extremely happy and grateful that NBC made that agreement with Directv and didn't let FNL die. Watching this very well constructed and beautifully written finale was the best gift they could give us. And I think this was the second actual finale I watched since Buffy the Vampire Slayer. All of my other shows are either cancelled or I lost interest before they ended. (I'm not counting Lost, it was too much of a universal event to be called my show)
Okay, on with the actual episode...
I don't know about you guys, but I cried happy tears when Matt took out that ring! Oh god, I was almost hyperventilating! No lie! I even said "yes" before Julie did, I'm such a sucker. THEY'RE ONLY 18 AND 19 FOR GOD'S SAKE, WHAT AM I THINKING!? But, but, BUT THEY WILL MAKE IT. ♥ Eric and Tammy are Julie's inspiration after all. I'm pretty sure they're everyone's inspiration when it comes to marriage and love. They are that flawed, yet perfect.
Eric gave up his super team and gave Tami's job a chance AND FELLAS, I CRIED HAPPY TEARS ONCE AGAIN. I was so afraid Eric would let Tami turn down the job, but no, my show wouldn't do that. My show knew it was Tami's turn and they gave her the right to be awesome, they gave her the chance of a lifetime. Oh how proud I was when she was walking around in that campus! Dean of Admissions Tami Taylor ♥
Tim! Tim!! Tim Tim Tim! Tim Riggins, your life could have been a lot better than this and I still mourn for your loss youth, but you are happy now and that's all I care about. In my head, his and Tyra's dreams actually merged together at some point and now they are as perfect a couple as the Taylors. After all, Tyra's been in love with him since 5 years old. Texas forever, guys. Forever ♥
That flashforward trick could have gone so wrong, SOOO WRONG, but it didn't. NOTHING GOES WRONG WITH FNL! I was actually yearning for it. I wanted to know how everything turned out for them and it was blissfully amazing. Tim's house, Eric's new team, Tami's new job, Matt & Julie, Jess and her new coach, everything every single thing was happy and very well deserved.
I was hoping to see Lyla or Jason at some point, alas they weren't in the episode.
Finally, Vince and Coach Taylor's moment in the dressing room.
"You may never know how proud I am of you."
"You changed my life, Coach."
Friday Night Lights changed my whole perspective on TV shows and storytelling. If you haven't seen even a single episode of this amazing thing, go ahead and watch it. You won't regret it and you'll be one of the elite viewers and a member of the legacy FNL left behind.
Last but not least, if they don't make a special DVD box set for this, I'm going to cut a bitch. That's all.
