Meme: December 13 (oops again)
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next_to_normalLOL so I think the next few posts of this meme are all going to be bumped back a day or so? I cannot be confined by your puny schedules! (Or I'm just a flake who can't keep track of days... oh by the way I still have not started my Christmas shopping, so that'll be fun.)
Yesterday's topic comes fromchaila:
chaila asked for: Your favorite female characters on FNL and why.
MRS. COOOOOOOACH. Tami Taylor will always and forever be my #1 lady on that show. Why?
1. Connie Britton is a goddess, basically. I covet her hair and her freckles and her acting talent.
2. The Taylors are one of the best portrayals of marriage on television. It shows that you can still have conflict in a long-term, loving relationship without ever threatening to break them up or making them jealous or having them cheat on each other. (Remember that episode where Tami's coworker kissed her? And she told Eric about it and he just LAUGHED? That was the best.) Marriage is hard work, and family is hard work, and there is no shortage of good drama to be found. I also love that, even though a lot of the show is about Tami making sacrifices for her husband's career, it ultimately ends with her saying "It's my turn" and getting the opportunity to pursue her dreams. It would be easy to just make her the "supportive wife" character - I mean, look at how little she got to do in the FNL movie - but at the end of the day, this is an equal partnership and she pushes back against Eric in so many ways, big and small, throughout the series.
3. She is an amazing mom. Sometimes I wish she was my mom. (If they ever did a movie of my life, Connie Britton could play my mom when she was younger?) Her talks with Julie - especially the ones about sex, THIS SCEEEEENE OMG - make me cry SO HARD. She is so good at conveying the "I know this hurts and you hate it, but it's because I love you" kind of parenting, which makes me appreciate all the times when my mom said or did things for my own good, but I totally felt like she was being unfair and just trying to ruin my life, haha.
4. Her encouragement of the younger female characters in the show is a great mirror to Coach's mentoring the football players. I love her relationship with Tyra, and how she convinces Tyra to believe in herself and helps her turn things around academically so she has a real future and can get out of Dillon. I also love the arc with Becky and the consequences for counseling her, and I am still somewhat impressed that the show even did that arc, given the near total absence of abortion in TV/movie plots.
5. I want to be her when I grow up. Seriously, if I could handle bad situations with even a tenth of the grace and wit that she does, I would be happy.
Honorable mentions: Tyra Collette, obviously, for the above mentioned arc, and for how fierce she is, in general. I LOVE when she turns that ferocity toward making something for herself instead of just angrily lashing out at the world. Unexpectedly, Mindy Collette was a breakout character in the later seasons, and she had such an interesting relationship with Becky.
Yesterday's topic comes from
chaila: chaila asked for: Your favorite female characters on FNL and why.MRS. COOOOOOOACH. Tami Taylor will always and forever be my #1 lady on that show. Why?
1. Connie Britton is a goddess, basically. I covet her hair and her freckles and her acting talent.
2. The Taylors are one of the best portrayals of marriage on television. It shows that you can still have conflict in a long-term, loving relationship without ever threatening to break them up or making them jealous or having them cheat on each other. (Remember that episode where Tami's coworker kissed her? And she told Eric about it and he just LAUGHED? That was the best.) Marriage is hard work, and family is hard work, and there is no shortage of good drama to be found. I also love that, even though a lot of the show is about Tami making sacrifices for her husband's career, it ultimately ends with her saying "It's my turn" and getting the opportunity to pursue her dreams. It would be easy to just make her the "supportive wife" character - I mean, look at how little she got to do in the FNL movie - but at the end of the day, this is an equal partnership and she pushes back against Eric in so many ways, big and small, throughout the series.
3. She is an amazing mom. Sometimes I wish she was my mom. (If they ever did a movie of my life, Connie Britton could play my mom when she was younger?) Her talks with Julie - especially the ones about sex, THIS SCEEEEENE OMG - make me cry SO HARD. She is so good at conveying the "I know this hurts and you hate it, but it's because I love you" kind of parenting, which makes me appreciate all the times when my mom said or did things for my own good, but I totally felt like she was being unfair and just trying to ruin my life, haha.
4. Her encouragement of the younger female characters in the show is a great mirror to Coach's mentoring the football players. I love her relationship with Tyra, and how she convinces Tyra to believe in herself and helps her turn things around academically so she has a real future and can get out of Dillon. I also love the arc with Becky and the consequences for counseling her, and I am still somewhat impressed that the show even did that arc, given the near total absence of abortion in TV/movie plots.
5. I want to be her when I grow up. Seriously, if I could handle bad situations with even a tenth of the grace and wit that she does, I would be happy.
Honorable mentions: Tyra Collette, obviously, for the above mentioned arc, and for how fierce she is, in general. I LOVE when she turns that ferocity toward making something for herself instead of just angrily lashing out at the world. Unexpectedly, Mindy Collette was a breakout character in the later seasons, and she had such an interesting relationship with Becky.
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Date: Dec. 15th, 2013 01:31 pm (UTC)Did you ever read my Tyra and/or Tami stories? (In my own assessment: the Tyra one is good and the Tami one is merely okay.)
-J
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Date: Dec. 16th, 2013 03:42 pm (UTC)(Also, LOL, your icon wins "best use of gecko.")