RISE OF THE PINK LADIES EPISODE 10 SPOILERS
my thoughts on the ‘coming out’ scene
I NEED TO KNOW WHAT THEY WROTE ON THAT GODDAMN PIECE OF PAPER but I’m hoping it went something like this ;
Cynthia : I have a crush on / kissed Lydia
Nancy : rate the kiss 1/10 ?
BECAUSE LIKE CMON ITS SUPPORTIVE BUT FUNNY and it’s just Nancy.
And while we are on the topic of our queen let me just bring up one thing
ICONIC …
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i was rewatching episode 5 for edit purposes and i realised something.
here lydia is talking about the kiss, but it has a deeper meaning.
i can’t get out of my mind the fact that yes, she found cynthia annoying from the start, but it was the endearing kind of annoying. (or maybe that’s just my ship goggles.) because if you look back at episode 3, the first time they meet, and pay close attention to the expressions lydia makes in the background when the drama teacher is telling cynthia that she’s now a martian, there's no trace of hate or disgust.
like, hello?? that’s flirting. (or maybe i would just swoon if someone looked at me like that.) and what about their rivarly?
does this look like she’s angry at cynthia? to me, she seems mildly annoyed, but also interested. no one’s ever questioned her, and now this butch comes along and proves her wrong. but lydia doesn’t really understand how she feels about cynthia yet. she tries to re-establish her power in episode 4, but cynthia once again overthrows her.
and now yes, she is angry, and confused. ever since cynthia’s joined drama club she has brought nothing but chaos in the established hierarchy, and in lydia’s mind: why can’t she stop thinking about her?
is it hate, mere superficial attraction (see the “flirting” above), or something more?
she has to get it over with, quickly. “the quicker you get something over with, the less of a deal it becomes in your mind”. she needs to put a stop to these thoughts: what’s the quickest way to?
stage kisses are meaningless. she obviously isn’t crushing on cynthia, just like she felt nothing for all the people she kissed on stage. thus the straightforward scientific experiment: she’ll kiss cynthia, she’ll be sure she feels nothing, and all will go back to normal. she’ll stop obsessing over cynthia. right?
rehearsing romeo and juliet is the best excuse ever. because no one can convince me she didn’t follow cynthia in an empty room (where guests shouldn’t enter) to test her theory, and then jumped at the opportunity. (like why else would she follow them? if not to flirt? which to her means bullying them, because she’s a mean lesbian.)
but her plan backfired. and now she knows she’s got an actual crush. on cynthia.
while cynthia, sweet cynthia, thinks they just love acting.
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Spoilers for Ep 10…….. sorta
Watching the 10th episode, I think Nancy steals a stuffed elephant from a child and I think it’s hilarious!
Notice in the background of the scene where Nancy sends off Cynthia into the mirror maze. Child with a stuffed animal that looks a lot like what she was holding after Cynthia’s beautiful song!
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okay but what the hell is Lydia’s last name why haven’t we as a fandom solved this yet
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Damn It! Damn It! Damn It! Damn It! Damn It!
Okay so I just started watching Grease Rise of the Pink Ladies and now I see this shit! Okay it may be removed from the Paramount plus platform, but I’m still wondering if it the season will be on the Paramount plus network channel on TV. Most of their other shows are, like Yellowstone, Yellowjackets, Your Honor, etc. Also Those shows have DVD releases, what about this one? Also it’s been mentioned that the show will probably be sold off to another platform but I don’t know. I’m sick of this shit.
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CYNTHIA X LYDIA ship names
Cynthlyd
Beep boops (boop flips off)
Tech Theater(bc like cynthia is into cars n shit, and lydia is a theater kid)
Jack and Kathrine (i had to newsie refrence i sorry)
@saveourpinks
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possibly my favourite thing about the rotpl finale is getting confirmation that lydia already knew she was gay. cynthia was going through such a time, and we finally know that lydia was actively protecting herself and in control of the whole situation. the rehearsal kisses? she instigated that with the knowledge that it wasn’t two straight girls, because she clocked cynthia from the get-go and still offered to kiss her for the play, because it was no commitment. she couldn’t be abandoned because the play already had a strict deadline. when cynthia ran away after the pre-play kiss, and avoided her at the dance, she knew she’d gone too far, and that she’d have to pull away and not talk to cynthia so that she could maintain the boundaries that would protect her from heartbreak again. the whole situation gains a whole extra layer because while cynthia might not have had the words to express who she was, lydia did, and the words were deviant and invert and sick, so of course the poor girl, this seventeen (maybe sixteen?) year old girl knew that the world wasn’t safe for her. despite all this, cynthia pulled it back. everywhere lydia hid behind behind femininity and long hair and theatricality, cynthia stuck out like a sore thumb, short haired and feisty and so butch without even knowing what it was, that overtness represented that hope, that the bit of lydia that was hiding could be a little freer. the glances that we see when the teacher suggests more rehearsals can turn into the active looking for each other that we see in the finale because that’s where the balance is, and it shows lydia that cynthia will never deny her. she will see her in public, around her friends, and will say she loves her to nancy, and that is what lydia needs. she spends so much time acting as these characters that she is virtually never herself, and in the hall of mirrors, surrounded by her own reflection, she gets to see that being who she is, a young lesbian in love, might be worth it. that the girl in the mirror, kissing cynthia, can exist and be happy.
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#The way they physically cannot get close enough as they kiss even though there is literally no space between them already and how Lydia stands on her tiptoes even though she’s already taller than Cynthia and how she wraps her whole arm around Cynthia’s neck to try to get as close to her as possible
(And yes I felt obligated to gif all three angles because they're all amazing and I couldnt settle for just one)
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