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I just finished the complete series a little while ago...
Just some thoughts on what I saw...
- Really, really, really hated the last minute of the series. Lindsay just runs off with some people she doesn't know at all, completely deceiving her parents. It just didn't feel right. I felt that was a horrible way to end the series.
- The saddest thing in the history of television may be when Nick and Lindsay talk for the last time in the series. He is so hurt.
- Following up on Nick, his entire character arc is heart breaking, and some little things seem to make Lindsay either a bitch or someone who just doesn't care enough to notice if she's hurting someone's feelings.
Let's take a look at some things, in a jumbled order, just to get a clearer picture of Nick.
Nick's Dad takes away his drum set late in the series.
Nick tells Lindsay in the first episode that he loves drumming. That it's who he is and that's his one and only passion. Encouraging Lindsay to find her "Giant drum set" so she can find herself as a person.
So when Nick's Dad gives him the stern talking in the band episode, and when he takes away his drums, you see that Nick probably feels like his Dad's disapproval of his drums is disapproval of him as a person. As a human being, since he said that's all he was, was what he played through his drums.
That's one heart breaking fact.
Think back to when Nick tells Lindsay "My relationship with Heidi left me really vulnerable and scared of getting close to girls" or something close to that. Now, with those comments in mind, him talking about how hurt he's been in the past and how easily he could be hurt again, let's look at some things Lindsay did.
- The entire time after they broke up she was cold towards him. When he stayed the night, and he told her he was really happy and grateful they were letting him stay, she just completely blew it off and told him to go away. Someone just kicked out of their house, losing who he said he was, and just wanting to say thank you to the girl that he is absolutely crazy about, and then she just gives him short, emotionally distant answers and tells him to go away.
- The disco scene where he knows and she knows he's not happy is so sad. She perpetuates this lie to himself by trying to tell him he's happier now. He says he is, but as soon as he says it, they both give this look explaining that they know it's not true. And in a masked, desperate last attempt to get her to love him, he tells her he hasn't smoked in forever and that he gave it up. That he doesn't even really want it anymore.
Lindsay's whole attitude towards Nick, his emotional problems considered, is really mean in my eyes. Not only that, but she refuses to even remember that Nick was the single most accepting person when she joined her new friends and was trying to find herself. The only person in her life who was trying to help her figure out who she was, and helped her when she felt like things were becoming too much.
Some may say Millie was the same way, but Millie didn't want Lindsay to find herself. She just wanted her to be the same way she was before.
Nick was the only one who 100% encouraged Lindsay to be exactly who she wanted and needed to be, and the last half of the season (last three episodes in particular) she just completely blew him off and I think that's really sad.
(Loved the show, BTW)
Just some thoughts on what I saw...
- Really, really, really hated the last minute of the series. Lindsay just runs off with some people she doesn't know at all, completely deceiving her parents. It just didn't feel right. I felt that was a horrible way to end the series.
- The saddest thing in the history of television may be when Nick and Lindsay talk for the last time in the series. He is so hurt.
- Following up on Nick, his entire character arc is heart breaking, and some little things seem to make Lindsay either a bitch or someone who just doesn't care enough to notice if she's hurting someone's feelings.
Let's take a look at some things, in a jumbled order, just to get a clearer picture of Nick.
Nick's Dad takes away his drum set late in the series.
Nick tells Lindsay in the first episode that he loves drumming. That it's who he is and that's his one and only passion. Encouraging Lindsay to find her "Giant drum set" so she can find herself as a person.
So when Nick's Dad gives him the stern talking in the band episode, and when he takes away his drums, you see that Nick probably feels like his Dad's disapproval of his drums is disapproval of him as a person. As a human being, since he said that's all he was, was what he played through his drums.
That's one heart breaking fact.
Think back to when Nick tells Lindsay "My relationship with Heidi left me really vulnerable and scared of getting close to girls" or something close to that. Now, with those comments in mind, him talking about how hurt he's been in the past and how easily he could be hurt again, let's look at some things Lindsay did.
- The entire time after they broke up she was cold towards him. When he stayed the night, and he told her he was really happy and grateful they were letting him stay, she just completely blew it off and told him to go away. Someone just kicked out of their house, losing who he said he was, and just wanting to say thank you to the girl that he is absolutely crazy about, and then she just gives him short, emotionally distant answers and tells him to go away.
- The disco scene where he knows and she knows he's not happy is so sad. She perpetuates this lie to himself by trying to tell him he's happier now. He says he is, but as soon as he says it, they both give this look explaining that they know it's not true. And in a masked, desperate last attempt to get her to love him, he tells her he hasn't smoked in forever and that he gave it up. That he doesn't even really want it anymore.
Lindsay's whole attitude towards Nick, his emotional problems considered, is really mean in my eyes. Not only that, but she refuses to even remember that Nick was the single most accepting person when she joined her new friends and was trying to find herself. The only person in her life who was trying to help her figure out who she was, and helped her when she felt like things were becoming too much.
Some may say Millie was the same way, but Millie didn't want Lindsay to find herself. She just wanted her to be the same way she was before.
Nick was the only one who 100% encouraged Lindsay to be exactly who she wanted and needed to be, and the last half of the season (last three episodes in particular) she just completely blew him off and I think that's really sad.
(Loved the show, BTW)
