Jason's capacity for determination and leadership shone through, but they also showed his naivety and his fragility when things didn't go so well.
I do wonder, since saw little of him before the accident, if the naivety and fragility is tied to the accident. He had his life planned out. He was going to college, he was going to be a football star, he was going to marry Lyla and he lost all those dreams and didn't know what he would do to replace them. He lived in a bubble as QB1 and when that bubble burst and he had to find a new life plan, he didn't know how to act or react. Like you said, he was so use to success he didn't know how to deal with failure and he didn't realize that, while people look back on his high school football career fondly, the world is what have you done for me lately?
I felt for Matt though--there was noone to reassure him and tell him that they loved him anyway, he just got a lecture with the subtext 'I don't really trust you'. Ouch!
I had a different take on that scene. Matt was obviously fearful of what Eric might do to him and his greatest fear was having Eric not speak to him, to turn his back on him. Matt is smart enough to know that Eric would be upset. Matt was caught in bed with Eric's, in his eyes, little girl. But by talking to him, by telling him to respect her, Matt knew things would eventually be OK. I felt he had a subtle look of relief on his face at the end of the conversation.
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Date: 2008-12-19 02:08 pm (UTC)I do wonder, since saw little of him before the accident, if the naivety and fragility is tied to the accident. He had his life planned out. He was going to college, he was going to be a football star, he was going to marry Lyla and he lost all those dreams and didn't know what he would do to replace them. He lived in a bubble as QB1 and when that bubble burst and he had to find a new life plan, he didn't know how to act or react. Like you said, he was so use to success he didn't know how to deal with failure and he didn't realize that, while people look back on his high school football career fondly, the world is what have you done for me lately?
I felt for Matt though--there was noone to reassure him and tell him that they loved him anyway, he just got a lecture with the subtext 'I don't really trust you'. Ouch!
I had a different take on that scene. Matt was obviously fearful of what Eric might do to him and his greatest fear was having Eric not speak to him, to turn his back on him. Matt is smart enough to know that Eric would be upset. Matt was caught in bed with Eric's, in his eyes, little girl. But by talking to him, by telling him to respect her, Matt knew things would eventually be OK. I felt he had a subtle look of relief on his face at the end of the conversation.