friday night lights finale

[silentassasin]

Okay, well lets look at this last season and see exactly what I am pushing.

I can tell you that I agree that yes the second season got too soap opera like with the whole murder thing. But let us just look at the main characters on the show this season.

Riggins, star football player and total drunk and a kid who laughingly through the first three years prided himself on having girls do all his work for him. Not to mention how he is now living with his girlfriend in his home with his other drunk of a loser brother who can't ever hold down a job. Not to mention all the times throughout the last three seasons he goes to bars and strip clubs underage. NOt to mention how he basically told the freshman starting QB this year that he was a wuss for not "getting" with the girl who was flirting with him.

Lyla, the on again off again Christian good girl girlfriend who dumped Riggins and then got back with him and moved in.

Lyla's dad Buddy, head of the booster club who had an affair on his wife and in one of the last shows was arrested for getting into a fight with an "invester" in the Landing Strip strip club, the same place Riggins has been known to frequent in earlier seasons. Buddy is also a man who is a liar and a cheat who promises kids and families things to get them to play in Dillon. Real upstanding family man.

Matt, one of the only really admirable characters as far as the kids go. But still ended up having premarital sex with the head coaches daughter as well as his maid/caregiver for his grandmother. But he does take good care of the alzheimer's stricken old woman and has had the stereotypical crappy life of the hero of the show.

I could go on but I made my point. It is not a show for kids. You read the shows information and ratings and it tells you as much. There are a lot of things that we all know go on in the real world and while I like the show and watch it quite often it is also something that I would not and do not let my kids watch. I had to explain what a stripper was to my daughter last week because another little girl in her class told everyone that she was going to grow up and become one. So I am aware that kids today are being exposed to more than they need to be. My main point is to air on the side of conservative values when it comes to our kids.

[thetragichippy]

Okay, well lets look at this last season and see exactly what I am pushing.

I can tell you that I agree that yes the second season got too soap opera like with the whole murder thing. But let us just look at the main characters on the show this season.

Riggins, star football player and total drunk and a kid who laughingly through the first three years prided himself on having girls do all his work for him. Not to mention how he is now living with his girlfriend in his home with his other drunk of a loser brother who can't ever hold down a job. Not to mention all the times throughout the last three seasons he goes to bars and strip clubs underage. NOt to mention how he basically told the freshman starting QB this year that he was a wuss for not "getting" with the girl who was flirting with him.

Lyla, the on again off again Christian good girl girlfriend who dumped Riggins and then got back with him and moved in.

Lyla's dad Buddy, head of the booster club who had an affair on his wife and in one of the last shows was arrested for getting into a fight with an "invester" in the Landing Strip strip club, the same place Riggins has been known to frequent in earlier seasons. Buddy is also a man who is a liar and a cheat who promises kids and families things to get them to play in Dillon. Real upstanding family man.

Matt, one of the only really admirable characters as far as the kids go. But still ended up having premarital sex with the head coaches daughter as well as his maid/caregiver for his grandmother. But he does take good care of the alzheimer's stricken old woman and has had the stereotypical crappy life of the hero of the show.

I could go on but I made my point. It is not a show for kids. You read the shows information and ratings and it tells you as much. There are a lot of things that we all know go on in the real world and while I like the show and watch it quite often it is also something that I would not and do not let my kids watch. I had to explain what a stripper was to my daughter last week because another little girl in her class told everyone that she was going to grow up and become one. So I am aware that kids today are being exposed to more than they need to be. My main point is to air on the side of conservative values when it comes to our kids.

Wow....thanks for all the input. I will check it out myself. To be honest, I try to keep it real with my kid. I want him to know certain things so I can explain why they are stupid or inappropriate.  My thought process is to get him all the knowledge he can. But from some of these post, I don't want him to think that a strip club is in his future for High School. Hell, when I was in school, we went to the Pelican Club in Louisiana, never a strip bar.  :'( 

[silentassasin]

Did a little research and the content ratings for FNL is TV-14, usually with the D,S, L and V attachments along with it for suggestive dialogue, sexuality, language and violence.

My point is that I know that TV-14 means that a child under 14 should not watch it without a parent or guardian present, but why would I want to expose a kid who is younger than the rating system suggestions to stuff that I have to explain to them about why it is stupid. I have to do that enough as it is. Let our kids stay kids as long as they can, because once they lose their innocence it can never be replaced.

I also don't want to mislead anyone, I was not an angel growing up. My parents let me see some things that they did not think was that big of a deal and they had their own defined limits of what I could and could not go to see in a theater or on TV. I did sneak into movies like we all do and stuff like that. I am just saying that I am not a fan of exposing kids too early to things.

[thetragichippy]

Did a little research and the content ratings for FNL is TV-14, usually with the D,S, L and V attachments along with it for suggestive dialogue, sexuality, language and violence.

My point is that I know that TV-14 means that a child under 14 should not watch it without a parent or guardian present, but why would I want to expose a kid who is younger than the rating system suggestions to stuff that I have to explain to them about why it is stupid. I have to do that enough as it is. Let our kids stay kids as long as they can, because once they lose their innocence it can never be replaced.

I also don't want to mislead anyone, I was not an angel growing up. My parents let me see some things that they did not think was that big of a deal and they had their own defined limits of what I could and could not go to see in a theater or on TV. I did sneak into movies like we all do and stuff like that. I am just saying that I am not a fan of exposing kids too early to things.

I agree with you 100%. He will grow up fast enough......heck, he's 8 and I can't get a hug before I drop him off for school.  :'(

[RETIREDFAN1]

Bought and watched all 3 seasons on DVD this past week....It's a pretty good show, but not very accurate in terms of how things are at the vast majority of Texas high schools......

[RETIREDFAN1]

.....oh and by the way: GO EAST DILLON......

[silentassasin]

Yeah, go Lions!!

But like I said, as far as feeling bad about the coach getting shafted on his job he did it to the guy that replaced him when he left for Texas State.

But I can't wait for season 4, but I have read that Matt and Riggins both are coming back again for season 4 even though both have graduated and I thought were off to college. Should be interesting to see how they write that one into the script.

[RETIREDFAN1]

They will probably go into the life of a HS hero AFTER graduation......That opens up a lot more story lines and a lot more drama.....

[silentassasin]

Riggins was headed to San Antonio but I though Saracen was going to some school in Illinois for art or something.

[rapayne]

Riggins will go, but apparently San Antonio si pretty close  I guess and Saracen will stay in town!

[RETIREDFAN1]

Saracen told his grandma that she was the only one who never left him, so he wasn't going to leave her....I guess he'll go to Dillon Tech.....