Even the dumb rugby ball is blue and yellow.
They honestly send a poor production designer out there, telling them they needs to get their hands on everything blue and red they can find
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As someone who’s seen heartstopper, more times than probably deemed healthy by the fda, I have longstanding beef with the subtitles of the show.
During the beach scene right after the photo booth when Nick and Charlie are looking at the pictures, the subtitles are written as if Nick says “you’re such a dweeb” which is all cute or whatever but I will defend with my dying breathe that he IN FACT says “that’s actually really really cute”. Please for the love of god go watch this scene and tELL ME IM WRONG.
Anyways, I’m definitely being too dramatic about this and it’s not at all that deep lmao but it bothers me every time I see a gif set with that subtitle
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The corridor scene is very possibly my favorite in season 1. I’ll get a bit of analysis out of the way, then lose my whole s*** for a sec about how evocative and satisfying it is 😭
The conversation returns to this idea that Charlie is complicating Nick’s life by leading to him ending his barely-worthy-of-the-word excuses for friendships and fighting Harry. But it’s like… Charlie’s impact was to help Nick realize that he’s at odds with his social circle and behave more in line with his own values, not to put them at odds; though even that might’ve been worth it, just as any actual downsides were a price worth paying for Nick’s positive development. He stopped being friends with those people and got into that fight because he became less willing to tolerate bullying, and that’s for the best!
But also, Charlie frames Nick ending his friendships as something he does for Charlie (“I don’t expect you to dump your friends for me”), and Nick does the same (“getting into fights or pissing off my mates or anything like that. It’s all worth it to be with you”); this is also not really true. Even if Nick and Charlie weren’t seeing each other, Nick has already changed — he wouldn’t go along with bullying because it’s not the right thing to do, and he wouldn’t be friends with the rugby lads because he doesn’t want to, all independently of Charlie. Charlie helped Nick to grow in that direction, but Nick isn’t choosing Charlie’s well-being or their relationship over anything else. He’s choosing himself, one could say 😌
Anyway, fun stuff now! I often think of this scene in pair with the one in Charlie’s room early in 1x04, which I can also easily name as a favorite — more on it in this post. They’re similar to me in the characters’ uncommon and relatable care and its expression, and how the dialogues sort of mirror each other. The first starts out with Charlie criticizing himself and his perceived wrongdoings towards Nick, as Nick repeatedly addresses him by name to disagree with him. In the second, Nick compliments Charlie and his tremendous positive presence in Nick’s life, with Charlie calling out to Nick because, thankfully, he’s convinced 🥺 It’s almost the same conversation with opposite roles.
In one of my uni acting courses, we learned about something called a driving line: a statement of the character’s objective in the whole scene, starting with “I.” When directing, our instructor sometimes had us start by saying a driving line and repeat it after every line of our text. I immediately thought of driving lines with Nick’s “I need you to believe me.”
I KNOW!!! I keep saying “I do, apparently!” at the same time 😅
Even the very fact that Charlie thinks Nick is saying this because he feels obligated to— 🙁 One day (today) I'll write something about how "you don't have to" is nearly Charlie's catchphrase.
AAAAAAAAH 😭😭😭
It’s sooo relatable of Nick to want Charlie to understand that he really cares about him, to the point of, like, despair, and to cherish Charlie and their relationship instead of taking what they share for granted! I, too, would be upset if one of the most important people in my life undervalued themself, would have a wave of affection pour out of me and wouldn’t calm down until I got through to them 🥺
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Absolutely the fuck not LMAO 🫢
I love this whole exchange 😅 The way the student says this mostly in confusion, and Mr. Ajayi leans over slightly like they're a duo. "I'm good"! 😆 They way he looks a little pleased — Charlie was trying to get over Nick, then Nick was waiting for him in the art block, plus Charlie was down earlier that day... Looks like everything's gonna work out great 😊
Psst! 👉 Post about how wonderful Mr. Ajayi is.
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