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What is a scene from a tv series that lives rent free in your head?

Me:

you guys think we could try that hug thing one more time?

Ao3 version that lets you open the 'director's cut' where I, the author, explain every detail in excruciating detail to you and what it is in reference to.

I hadn't listened to the jatp soundtrack in a long while so I decided to put it on shuffle while studying. The last song that came on was Wake Up which made me emotional because it really was the moment I realized that this show wasn't just going to be a casual watch for me - Like I remember watching the first episode for the first time, I was looking at something on my phone and Julie sat down to sing Wake Up and I had to put my phone down because I was kind of speechless? I knew she was going to have a good voice but I was still not expecting how good she was? It's been four years since then but oh my god I still so clearly remember that moment thinking, this show is gonna stay with me for a while

ME TOO OMG (is this like a canon event for every fantom 💀 like wake up is when you realize it’s not just gonna be a casual watch)

I think bc they open so strong with now or never and how good that one is, you watch it with the assumption “okay the songs in this show are going to be this quality of good with these characters at least”

And then they show you how Julie’s mom passed, she’s had a hard time with music ever since, ya know they give that lead in and you can tell how hard is it for Julie but also everyone around Julie too like you can just feel how this girl wants to do music (like how she had the courage to go the piano in class but just stopped herself moments before she had her fingers on the keys bc she felt like she couldn’t) but she is having a hard time.

But then when Wake Up happens, bc that is a very important moment for this character (bc of what they have set up), we just met and yet we have already become so attached to her, we see her have that courage to actually play music when she hasn’t been able to before this point.

I remember being nervous for Wake Up bc “omg Now or Never was so good I really hope this girl is just as good” and being so captivated and so moved by the performance like oh my god, like I watched Jatp for “background noise” and Wake Up made me put down my assignment I was working on bc I was so taken aback and was so invested at what else this show had in store.

I think another thing too that made me realize this show was going to be so much more to me is how many times it broke my expectations. Like just with how the cliches are in other media you just have these expectations going into it.

I remember seeing how there are three main guys and one main girl and thinking “A love triangle is going to be in here somewhere” bc when you see that set up bc of what other shows do it makes you think that and for Jatp to not have that at all in the slightest was so refreshing and so different.

I remember just assuming (bc I went into Jatp knowing Alex is gay) “They have a gay character and that’s going to be his only thing.” BUT NO once again that is not done at all in the slightest way which again was so nice and refreshing to see.

When I saw Carrie and her character I just automatically thought “oh mean girl is mean to main character bc she’s mean girl” BUT when Nick says “You two used to be friends” it adds so much, it adds an entire new layer to the characters, there is this history to them that we haven’t seen before bc that happened before we got introduced to them and their lives, that line just makes them feel like actual real people, like I believe I am watching these two high school girls who probably used to be such good friends have this interesting new dynamic now that they’re not bc of something that happened in their friendship in the past.

Seeing how Flynn is the best friend to Julie I automatically thought “Julie’s not gonna tell Flynn about the boys and this is going to drawn out through the whole show. 🙄” and for them to not do that is so different bc they could have easily have done that.

I thought too when Flynn is mentioning Julie’s crush on Luke I fully thought “this is gonna be drawn out to where Julie’s in denial about it and she tries so hard to not like him even though it’s very obvious to us that she does like him.” And I also thought when Nick asks out Julie, “oh no they’re gonna have her say yes and have this be drama here with the two guys she had a thing for” for them to again, not go that route was so sincere that it makes me believe that I am watching genuine realistic characters here. Just two girls talking about the other’s crush, just this guy trying to ask out this girl who he hopes he didn’t wait too long to ask her out

It's always so funny to me how so many people (me included) started this show because we were looking for something for background noise.

Netflix was like - oh here watch this brand new show and I figured okay kids/teen show, fantasy, music, (I recognized Booboo and Owen from Disney/Nickelodeon) seems like something I would watch. And I had just had such a miserable month and the next two months were going to be some of the worst for me and I remember rewatching the little ghost show that was actually so good and so comforting and exactly as you said- the characters were so real and actually acted their age and there were lighthearted moments and serious ones and it was just so good all around.

And then discovering so many good fics too - I thought okay it's supposed to be a kids show, there probably won't be much content out there and I've honestly read some of the best most profound stuff about these characters - Not to mention that a show with 9, 30minute episodes that started and ended 4 years ago has nearly 10,000 works on ao3 - I really don't think it remained background noise for anyone

Agatha All Along Follow Me My Friend / To Glory at the End | 1.08

Something I think is very funny about Luke's "book club" comments in Bright, is not only that presumably his mom invited her son's band to play for a book club of middle age women, which is just not the target demographic Sunset Curve was probably vying for, but that they also probably had them stay and discuss the book.

(Also, I'm making an assumption that it was Emily, or at least ONE of the boys parents. I cannot imagine they had access to book clubs otherwise.)

(Also very funny to think, with no basis in canon, that Luke probably wanted a gig so so so so bad and his mom was like you can come to our book club but you have to join us is just. very funny to me. i almost want to write it. also that everyone else agreed to listen to Emily's son's little band.)

Oh you had to to STAY and SIT. And they gave you snacks! They taught you about metaphors! Or that Luke loves them and can't stop on those and they had to be like. Enough. Did he read the book? Did he like it? Clearly he had something to say about it. No gigs but we did discuss literary devices.

1k celebration ★ top 10 tv shows (as voted by my followers):

⟶ 5. Julie and the Phantoms

luke: girl, are you today’s date? cause you’re 10/10

julie: ..

reggie: she’s thursday?

alex: no reg she’s-

reggie: JULIE IS YOUR BIRTHDAY THE 10TH OF OCTOBER?

random julie and the phantoms gifs 01/∞

do you ever become obsessed with a character and you just go "of fucking course its that one" at yourself because you are so incredibly predictable

Do you sometimes read a fic writer’s work, and just… thank all the gods this person managed to get obsessed with the same fictional people you did?