Tony and Sid and “I always loved you best, Sid,” and hugging and crying and FAVORITE BROMANCE.
I am posting this gif again, because:
I BAWL at this scene. I BAWL. And btw, Nick Hoult is THE BEST CRIER. The LOOK ON HIS FACE, after Sid has really left, and he's looking at that empty doorway, I just, I can't. Because I really believe Tony when he says that he loved Sid, and I really believe that he loves Michelle, and Effy, and all of them, but he has wasted so much time trying (almost successfully) to prove that they have no power over him, and it only really hits him, how much they are his whole world, and it's too late. And I know how your heart breaks for Sid, and my heart breaks for him too, but I have this really unpopular opinion in that my heart breaks for Tony too?? I feel like he is this boy who is adored and lauded by everyone in his life but he actually kind of really hates himself a lot because he can't have an equal relationship with anyone, he doesn't know how, it's control-or-be-controlled to him. So he watches Sid walk away and it's like, a revelation, this experience of saying goodbye to his best friend, and actually caring, it's the pain he never trusted himself to be able to withstand.
Tony Stonem stan. What up.
Although I’m kind of in love with Effy in the first two series, and my perpetual wavering between watching and not watching the next generation is swinging towards not watching right now because I hear they kind of ruin her character?
Haha, I am actually the only person in existence who does not think that? And I am a really big Effy fan, I actually do relate with her a lot even though she is not very relatable at all. I think the way they handle her in gen. 2 is quite messy at times, but I really like this arc/idea they have about how she destroys everything she touches. It actually gives the various obnoxious romantic entanglements a lot of meaning and poignancy. But I am the only person in existence who thinks these things, as previously mentioned, so I don't know what course of action you should take. If you don't want to take the risk of maybe hating everything and raging, you should probably stay away.
Aaaaand I basically agree with everything else you say. Especially the Michelle love. WHY IS SHE HATED THOUGH? I DON'T FOLLOW.
part two
I am posting this gif again, because:
I BAWL at this scene. I BAWL. And btw, Nick Hoult is THE BEST CRIER. The LOOK ON HIS FACE, after Sid has really left, and he's looking at that empty doorway, I just, I can't. Because I really believe Tony when he says that he loved Sid, and I really believe that he loves Michelle, and Effy, and all of them, but he has wasted so much time trying (almost successfully) to prove that they have no power over him, and it only really hits him, how much they are his whole world, and it's too late. And I know how your heart breaks for Sid, and my heart breaks for him too, but I have this really unpopular opinion in that my heart breaks for Tony too?? I feel like he is this boy who is adored and lauded by everyone in his life but he actually kind of really hates himself a lot because he can't have an equal relationship with anyone, he doesn't know how, it's control-or-be-controlled to him. So he watches Sid walk away and it's like, a revelation, this experience of saying goodbye to his best friend, and actually caring, it's the pain he never trusted himself to be able to withstand.
Tony Stonem stan. What up.
Although I’m kind of in love with Effy in the first two series, and my perpetual wavering between watching and not watching the next generation is swinging towards not watching right now because I hear they kind of ruin her character?
Haha, I am actually the only person in existence who does not think that? And I am a really big Effy fan, I actually do relate with her a lot even though she is not very relatable at all. I think the way they handle her in gen. 2 is quite messy at times, but I really like this arc/idea they have about how she destroys everything she touches. It actually gives the various obnoxious romantic entanglements a lot of meaning and poignancy. But I am the only person in existence who thinks these things, as previously mentioned, so I don't know what course of action you should take. If you don't want to take the risk of maybe hating everything and raging, you should probably stay away.
Aaaaand I basically agree with everything else you say. Especially the Michelle love. WHY IS SHE HATED THOUGH? I DON'T FOLLOW.