#nothingunrealistic

you're so right @nothingunrealistic actually here's more of that scene

(in response to this post) + bonus additional 'like who' moment from arena stage that is both better and worse than the aforementioned

20. part of canon you found tedious or boring

oo very head scratching ones u picked … deh feels like such a Fast show to me w fairly decent pacing tbh there aren’t really any moments that drag (in a boring way at least) Plot wise imo but Depending on who the actors are, i feel like some of the heidi scenes that aren’t pre-gfy or “i don’t think i want you going to jared’s”/“im your MOTHER im your mother” can drag if the energy is slightly off, same with like the murphy parents re: the cynthia/zoe snippet and tbiag. i wouldn’t call the moment before ywbf when evan is on the ground after he dropped his flashcards boring but like. for example the last evan i saw (i cannot remember his name :( he was the most recent tour evan!) and taylor trensch evan made me Very uneasy when they were having their Floor Moment which i guess one might perceive as tedious. tedious in the sense that i took a lot more psychic damage from an emotion that wasn’t empathy or secondhand embarrassment. hopefully any of this makes sense skslfnsmf

21. part of canon you think is overhyped

connor. LOL i by no means hate him but the man does have a lot of people standing behind him for the entire 7 minutes he was on stage as a living character

22. your favorite part of canon that everyone else ignores

What can I say that hasn’t been said already? I love him. He’s my boy, my son, my poor little meow meow. He was progressively more robbed in every iteration of deh. He had so much potential for development to show that he, just like Evan and Alana and Zoe and Connor, also felt alone and disconnected from others. Which would have been SO important and narratively fulfilling to the plot. To show that even the cool, self assured, sarcastic asshole (affectionate) related to the message of the Connor project and even NEEDED it. By the time it got rolling Jared clearly actually cared about it. He was surprised it was resonating with so many people and he was excited by that. He felt the same connection and importance everyone else did. He did it for Evan yeah but he needed that message as much as the rest of them. The musical gave us so many scraps, so many pieces to put together to see some of who Jared is and what he feels but never fully committed to giving him his moment. He lies to his parents constantly. He clearly isn’t just hanging around Evan for car insurance. He gets excited about the Connor project. Which all culminated into his persona cracking in GFY but we didn’t get to see the aftermath. Who Jared becomes as a result. What happens to his friendship with Evan, his only real relationship. The book, despite its faults (*cough* making Jared skinny and glasses-less at the end 😒 *cough*) also gave us a few good pieces. The fact that Evan and Jared have a moment where they acknowledge how important what they’re doing is despite how it started. Jared purposely making backdating sound so confusing so Evan still needs him. Flat out asking to help more with TCP. Evan blatantly stating in the narration that he knows Jared is full of shit. “there’s more bite in the words than the delivery” about the fuck you line are you KIDDING me? The assumption from Evan that Jared disappeared on him because he couldn’t handle facing what they did god damn!!! However overall the book was more interested in giving more character to Connor (which…. I disagree with the necessity of) and Evan than giving anything more to Jared other than a few more jokes. The movie… they massacred my boy. (Although gay rights thanks Nik). They set up SO much and for what!!! To just erase him from the second half? Why acknowledge his hurt feelings and his annoyance at Evan dating Zoe and his involvement in TCP and then just erase him and give him nO FUCKING RESOLUTION. NO APOLOGY SCENE A N D COMPLETELY CUT HIS GFY FIGHT ??? BULLSHIT CUT TO THEM BEING FRIENDS AGAIN AT GRADUATION???? KILLING AND BITING AND VIOLENCE!!!!!!!!!!! He has so much to offer as a character!!! He has deep self confidence issues that he hides pretty poorly behind jokes. He has one friend in the world who he’d do just about anything for. If he’s not in love with Evan (he is) he at least LOVES Evan in some way and so much. It’s glaringly obvious to the audience (plus the fact that literally every Jared actor has made a comment about Jared needing or loving or clinging to Evan) He had so much room for an arc, a story, some minuscule scrap of development and he never got it. I know he wasn’t the main character but god he deserved better than no fulfilling resolution in any adaptation and becoming the fandom throw away meme character. In closing, I love him your honor.