Just What I do!! (When I Can't Get No Lovin')

“Will you just stop already?! Have you had enough? Will you stop doing things for Jack? No matter what you do, he won’t see your worth.”

ONLY FRIENDS: DREAM ON ; EPISODE 8

BONUS FOR EXTRA HEARTBREAK:

“I like you because you’re good at everything. You get stubborn at times, and sometimes a little sensitive, but you’re a romantic person. When you love someone, you really care for them.”

Raffy watching Rome with leave with someone else

Pete has the most innocent face in the bunch, but again I'm a suspicious B 🙃 the fact that he suddenly can treat his friends when they always split the bill even on his birthdays is enough to make my spidey senses tingly.

ROBBED. AGAIN.

And, man, Boston out here getting the shit beat out of him by everyone, apparently. No kisses, only punches.

I mean it shouldn't be a surprise; we should just let Neo kiss all the boys.

The thing is, when Dean mentioned the whole 'New Dean' bit in the last episode, he probably meant it in a 'morally better' (by societal standards, so no host work and all that outdated jazz) way, but the theme was very much 'become the Dean Jack deserves'.

And now with this – he's delivering exactly what he promised. Jack is getting the Dean his actions deserved.

Best part is, it is absolutely the professional thing to do. You go out and train for the skill your job demands. Here that skill is popularity, so Dean went and got popular however he could.

As far as seperating work and personal life goes, if Jack was looking at this with an exclusively professional lens, he would've been thrilled. Hes pissed precisely because he's not (also that kiss next week? Director kissing the actor as a 'demonstration'? Very unprofessional).

And it's why it's so shocking when Jack tries to kiss Dean...and Dean makes the choice to refuse.

In many ways, this friend group is a foil to the first season. They’re already broken and each aware of one another’s capabilities for manipulation, deception, and hypocrisy. Mew’s self-righteousness doesn’t fly here, and neither do outings or exclusion as punishments for sexual indiscretion, as Raffy’s learned. Whether by some queer solidarity, or for the sake of artistic value (and the sponsors it requires to produce it), or more likely a tangle of all of that, this group doesn’t forsake one another for the strings they have to pull to achieve their ambitions.

We’ll see if that all holds, of course, but for right now, Boston’s presence seems especially poignant. (And holy fuck Neo still knows how to embody every sharp, unholdable edge of this character!) He seems to have made his peace, but what a contrast to OFTS seeing a boyfriend not mad at his partner’s promiscuity (only at his refusal to ask for help) and a group of friends surrounding their friend when he’s outed like a heard of elephants around their children with their tusks out to defend against predators.