another reason jere and chrisās relationship is written well (see always: itās not that hard!! ugh!!! super simple things to do but no we have to have a zillion horribly-handled empty guy/girl relationships!! why not) is just that likeā¦..it doesnāt do that exasperating thing where the girl who is being crushed upon just needs to Notice the guy in the last 10 minutes and it will be likeĀ āwow yeah weāre dating nowā like the only way to have a positive relationship at all is to be like well iām your girlfriend now
but like, jeremy and christine actually have A Relationship Development over the entire course of the musical And there are strong suggestions that they have a very parallel experience in terms of how they Like each other, despite jeremy being the one who starts out with a crush while we donāt have reason to think christine has a crush on him at the start of things, but it sure seems like she does start to have this genuine interest in jeremy the whole time even if she isnāt necessarily thinking of it in that way the entire time
like ilpr is a solid and genuine foundation showing that christine can be herself in jeremyās presence, not even independently of his feedback either, i.e. if he hadnāt responded as positively as he had she probably wouldnāt have been as genuine and open as she was. and we get to see that jeremy experiences this and totally enjoys it, that Reaction when she gets super worked up with the punches and voice all I!! LOVE!! PLAY! REHEARSAL!! is golden thank you williamā¦.and like!! theyāre kindred spirits!! christine isnāt ~too good~ for him b/c sheās Popular (since she isnāt even officially in the popular group, not even later on when sheās dating jake and considering Jeremy to be popular), itās that jeremy thinks Absolutely Everyone is too good for him b/c he thinks heās fundamentally deficient/inferior just As A Person somehowā¦ālike iām some Normal handsome guyā is really a hell of a verseā¦.anyways the point is that jeremy is in his heart a christine-esque person in terms of the way christine is So Passionate and weird and dramatic and loud!! but jeremy isnāt really aware of this at the time and trying super hard to repress everything abt himself and in being drawn to christine he is recognizing that Quintessential part of himself w/o realizing it
ANYWAYS and at the end of the rehearsal scene jeremy feels put out like once again thereās been a takedown / i just wanna know that christine is aware iām aliveā¦.but she IS aware heās alive and he HAS made a positive impression on her, he just like, looks at jake as the Epitome Of Popular super appealing guy, (see: jake/jeremyā¦), and sees himself as the total opposite end of that spectrum, how could anyone like him when jakeās around, and being in such a negative / failure-expecting / self-loathing place that his perspective is skewed and he canāt see that it Wasnāt a total failure in terms of getting christineās attention
and then! a guy that iād kinda be into is all likeĀ āoh look hereās this love song between christine and jeremyā but then itās likeĀ āsyke!! it was christine and jakeā but itās not Really a psykhe because itās a love song within a love song with theĀ āi guess a part of me etcā section. and jeremy definitely Feels that in the moment but then again gets such whiplash and the whole thing in his mind is eclipsed by once again having it confirmed for him that sheās into jake. but like, of course itās easy to see why her relationship with jeremy is developing at the same time as sheās interested in jake, b/c thereās no reason for that to be impossible and yknow, once again christine feels like she can be genuine around jeremy and share her real thoughts with him and she Wants and Likes to talk with him.Ā
and yknow it doesnt help that the squip steps in and is likeĀ āits hopeless christine will never like you unless you totally remake yourselfā and such, but still, itās actually going along okay, and jeremy hasnāt even needed the squip to do it. yeah the one incident of him kinda cheating by getting the squipās help is saying him having a whole Thing at the mall was performance art, but then really itās all just cancelled out when the squip has jeremy say that he has no reason to join the drama club save his thespianism, and christine is evidently a bit put out by thatĀ āwhy ELSE would i be hereā
and then yknow seeing christine liking jake, the center of the whole popular group, and with the squip telling him he needs to be more like those Most Socially Successful people, natch jeremy believes he needs to figure out how to cut it as a ~popular guy~ and then goes off and does that for the rest of act 1 while christine and jake do their own thing
but then Oh The Couch Sceneā¦ā¦ā¦.itās so beautiful. and the squip is off and jeremy feels like heās Messed Up when his impulse is silly and weirdā¦.but thatās what heās really like!! and christine vibes with it and it becomes most obvious that that part of him, the actual Genuine Jeremy part of him, is whatās led him to have whatās arguably his most successful connection with her, just based on sitting down and talking for a second and making each other laughā¦ā¦like, it Sure Is Something that jeremy learns that christine already thinks of him as popular but just seems to think this divides him from herā¦ā¦this subversion in which now christine thinks of jeremy, whoās supposed to be the loser geek whatever with the unattainable crush, as the out-of-reach Popular Guyā¦ā¦and i like that christine thinks jeremyās been getting it on with everyone but it just turns into them laughing about her pun. b/c whether he had or hadnāt itās nice to know christine would not take real issue with that lmaoā¦ā¦itās a great time for someone to express some respect for jeremyās autonomy. and well anyways!! they have their heartmelting reprise and like. itās not that christine tells jeremy she doesnāt actually like him and at that point iām fairly sure that sheās more Aware of possibly maybe liking him. but like!! similar to him sheās been trying out a slightly different version of herself, and itās just now hitting this roadblock b/c jake in his element here hosting a party w/ all the other popular kids has to be more like his ~Usual~ self than hisĀ āiām also trying new thingsā self that led to him dating christineā¦..and, yknow, itās a lot at once when sheās conflicted abt her and jake and her own sense of identity in general and like, regardless of how she feels about him, right in that moment still at the party of course sheās not gonna feel confident that yes letās immediately jump into this new relationship. but that doesnāt mean she Doesnāt like him on her own b/c. yknow, their relationship is slowly developing in the background for her even as she focuses on these other things. b/c thatās how it goes sometimes!!
and then yknow the house burns down and everyoneās even more conflicted about everything and jeremy telling christine abt being squipped just freaks her out b/c like, surprise, and b/c yknow, now all these interactions between them which felt very genuine (and were!! the squip doesnāt really direct jeremy at all even if part of the time knowing that it was there gave him this confidence he wouldntve otherwise had, but ilpr / the couch bit was a wholly unsquipt affair) seems like maybe jeremy was just parroting the squips instructions the whole time, and itās easy to see how that feels like a betrayal, have i said this exact thing before? idk. and then, yknow, her kind of being likeĀ ājeremy wtfā is a moment of calibration for him but oh no the squipās going rogue!! etc. but the fact that it upsets her means her interactions with jeremy held real value to her
and then yknow The Playā¦ā¦first of all? jeremy having the squip for a while means that itās glitching him up, screwing with his voice and movement, but its still not capable of entirely overriding jeremyās own commands. thus, presumably, itās not possible that christineās 30-second-old squip would be able to force her to do or say something she didnāt want to at all, despite the fact that like, clearly itās not natural, i really doubt itās just like the squip mecha-piloting christineās body and voice. itās all a bit fuzzy b/c yknow, jeremyās squip is at the center of the network and everyoneās is being synced to his, and so it seems like jeremyās squip could tell other pplās squip what to do maybe, but itās hard to say how it truly operates b/c a) chaos and b) jeremyās squip, a Known Liar, c) is now lying more than ever to try to drag jeremy past the finish line of its plan
but anyways my point is that like. obviously without everyone being squipped, christine at that point would not have just suddenly declared her love for jeremy, and jeremy always Reacts to the weirdness of this and that it doesnāt seem right. but! a)! totally think christine does have her own crush on jeremy at that point. and!! wildly relevantly!! b) the squip just beamed lore from richās head (his locker combo) right into jeremyās via their link, so? if the goal of jeremyās and christineās squips was to convince christine asap that Being With Jeremy Would Be Ideal?? why NOT give christine access to jeremyās real actual feelings for her. she would need convincing anyways, clearly she was just mad at him 3 seconds ago, clearly she was questioning whether any of what she might have thought jeremy felt for her was real!! so it would only work in their favor to let her Know what jeremyās actual thoughts and feelings are. and then, yknow, if sheās got THAT issue of thinking he wasnāt genuine resolved, and if having her own squip has her like, immediately able to understand why jeremy wanted to have/keep one, and if sheād already had her own Real Feelings for jeremy in the works, and with how sheād probably be questioning her own judgment extra hard anyways thanks to the stress and confusion of the whole Fire problem on top of the vulnerable place sheād already been in re questioning her relationship which she got into while questioning herselfā¦..not super wild to see how she could be convinced vs the squip must totally be forcing her and doing a total system override
but anyways even if, yknow, it IS all of christineās real feelings at that point like the squip assures him it is in some versions, jeremy recognizes that he doesnāt think it Should be happening this way even if it is supposedly working out in his favor. and then he proves that heās not gonna let christine stay caught up in his mess and that he prioritizes her like, being allowed to be her own person vs them getting to Be Together, and just icing on the cake that heās willing to sacrifice himself in a very real way to do that, b/c natch he doesnāt know that the chain reaction thing will happenā¦ā¦ā¦and well then anyways vimh very obvious and even though itās The Next Scene jeremyās been legit comatose for however long and christineās had some time to reflect on events w/o even having the pressure of it being possible to interact with jeremy and been able to make up her collective mindā¦ā¦and anyways the point is that in a lesser piece of media itād be likeĀ āwow thanks for helping me out jeremy, iāve truly never noticed you but now iām like cool nice letās kissā, but instead itās that the play and the moment of truth between them and the aftermath is all possible b/c of the way their relationships been developing and the way their individual journeys and their feelings for each other have been awfully parallel in many ways and itās fitting b/c of that kindred spirits thing and whatās the point of this post? idk. itās me saying imo christine lowkey has a crush on jeremy already and that this is a way better story than doing theĀ āi didnāt even consider us friends but One Thing happens in the last 20 min to make me goĀ ājerry??ā and yeah letās date nowā
whatās my conclusionā¦ā¦.uhhhā¦ā¦.theyāre Valid
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