Anyone still watching Friday Night Lights?

Let me get a few nit picky things out of the way:
-The championship shirts said 2007 champs
-They won at least three games this year on the last play of the game... that needs to stop, although like someone else said Boise St. did make that last play more believable... I have to think the writers may have borrowed that play after seeing it
-Why did the opponents have 26 points? We saw three TDs, so what was there a field goal and a safety? Couldn't they just have gone with 24?
-The announcer could have said "and Johnson runs in the fumble", we don't need to know every character but it seemed unnecessary to just say "he runs it in"
-They might want to bring a WR into the fold next year, so we don't have Smash running go routes and Riggins lining up wide to run 18-yard crossing routes



I know that's a lot of stuff, but like I said I'm just getting the nit picking out of the way. I really do love this show. The dialogue is excellent and believable and the character development is as good as it gets on network TV. The husband and wife dynamic is one of the more realistic I've ever seen on TV. Great scene with Landry and all the women driving to the game. I've always taken TMU to be a lower level D-1 school, but could be wrong.

 

You continue to bring it my man. Didn't enter my mind, but definitely seems like it could have been the case. If so great job by the writers, and by you to pick up on it.

 

I get the sense that TMU is supposed to be a cross between UT and TAMU...

For the record, my HS coach left his job after my senior year to be a defensive backs coach at a small D-I college and four players from my senior class got scholarships and another two walked on... It's not a reach at all... Happens all the time...

 

Who knew that Boise State was scouting Dillon and stole one of their plays? That said I'm glad the produces gave the show a good sendoff (if it was a sendoff). I'm really looking forward to another season. Here are my suggestions.
Coach Taylor's boss (the TMU head coach) gets hired for an NFL job and Taylor has to slunk back to Dillon and regain the trust of the team and the community.
Saracen hits the protein shakes early and often.
Street gets his own place and it becomes the team's "party pad."
Smash feels threatend by a new "stud" on the team who transfers from a suburban school to play for a top team (ala that school in Thousand Oaks, Calif.)
Landry runs for student body president and wins with the help of his bud Tim Riggins.
Layla transfers to a Catholic girls school and joins the swim team.

 

i don't know about this list but the one about him slinking back to dillon is perfectly legit. maybe he even slinks back and is unemployed and the old racist coordinator dude is head coach but he dies of a heart attack the night before opening night. or something like that. it should be no problem for the writers to come up with a good scenario that has taylor back at dillon.

one of the strange complaints i keep reading on this board is that people have a desire to see more of the minor characters. when shows get too many minor characters involved it seems too tempting to take unnecessary diversions. did people forget about the soprano's vito tangent? if FNL comes back next year, i want more smash, saracen, street, riggins, landry, lyla, coach, coach's wife, buddy, etc., and not five new characters who no one gives a shit about.

 

Hey Leo, don't bring up The White Shadow Season 3, sincerely Wardell Stone and that Irish guy who always got into fights.

 

As a huge fan of this show, I have really enjoyed this thread. Lots of good takes and things I have never picked up on or thought about.

I really hope this returns next season. There are so many places they could go with it. I was watching it with my girlfriend last night and we had a discussion about how long it could last with the basic core of characters before they would have to change people.

Personally, I know this show has a football background, but I think it would be entirely feasible to do whole seasons of the show without football games. I know that might sound crazy, but I think it's good enough that they could have a season where the kids are in the postseason and going through the recruiting process and trying to land scholarships and still dealing with the day to day pressure that goes with being a Panther. Anyone else think that would work or would it run the risk of falling into too much ridiculous soap opera storylines?

My favorite moments of the season...
The scene with Riggins, Smash, Saracen and Street in the stadium still gives me chills. That was awesome television. I also really like the interaction between Landry and Saracen. When they were in the barber shop last week, I was dying laughing.

If this show doesn't come back, I might never watch NBC again. I think you could make a good case for about five characters on this show to win Emmys.

 

this could work. i'm sure the spring game is a huge deal in texas. and they would still practice all spring. coach jason street said football is a year-round gig.

 

Couple things.

I, like many of you, have consistently bitched about the football. For a show that gets the essence of the game right and the essence of Texas and high school and all that, why can't they play a game that doesn't include a massive comeback or somebody doing something heroic. Sometimes, 31-0 is 31-0, you know.

To which Mrs. Guy says "watching this show with you is like watching Law & Order with a lawyer or Grey's Anatomy with a doctor."

True. And probably the only time in history sportswriting has been mentioned in the same breath as lawyers and doctors.

Oh, and the Riggins with the 30-year-old was total BS. And can somebody shoot Buddy Garrity?

That being said, the rest of it is great, particularly Landry and Tyra and the Taylors. Totally believable as a married couple.

And I read somewhere that the show gets its feel because they have 3 cameras running on every shot and just cobble it together. I heard a lot of it was ad-libbed too, which is good because it leaves your mostly young (though Saracen is like 26) cast to talk like most young people do.

Oh, and I thought we had a little bit of reverse racism with Saracen and Voodoo. It's not like Dillon was the school in Hoosiers. They have a big time program, I thought portraying him as the little white boy that could was weak.

That being said .... this sets up the rest of the season nicely.

YHS, etc....

 

You don't think there's ever been a stud high school football player who's had sex with a single, good looking single mom in her mid 20s to early 30s? I'd be willing to bet my salary it happens more often than we think ... especially to the Gods otherwise known as Texas High School Football Players.

 

i get the same stuff from mrs. shockey when i grimace over the football stuff... last-second victories, etc. "it's a tv show!" she yells at me. "get over it already!"

love the show anyway, but c'mon....

 

Best acted show on TV, period. In my top 10-15 TV shows of all-time.

If Kyle Chandler and Zach Gilford don't get Emmy nominations, we need a recount. It's like a 45-minute film every week.