#delliot

[flygirlcomic]

#3

[gracieblood]

scrolling on ao3 (rare), saw a jamie/dillon fic, not sure how to react-

do i ship it?

do i hate it?

what??

[santiagonex]

Dillon & Elliot in Season 6 of 'Jamie Johnson'

[en-theheights]

Hi hello

WHO THE FREAK WAS GOING TO TELL ME THAT JAMIE JOHNSON WAS BACK ON??!

HELO..????

[loveallthegays]

laquarn - JJ6 👀

[dragonsong27]

been thinking abt my D&D characters.. (most of which never got past a few sessions of game :[ )

At this point stg with all these abandoned/unstarted campaigns Im just hoarding character designs

[allexbasi]

elliots coming back for season 6 omfg

[mcustorm]

Spoilers for Jamie Johnson Season 6

Let’s get the finale twist out of the way first. Truth is, I was not paying attention when Jake and Jamie were having that conversation about their shitty dads. I definitely remember that it happened, but I wasn’t really listening to the dialogue. When Ian popped up, the first thing I thought, which is what I always think when Ian pops up, was “Hey you, where is that other son of yours??” Because every time Ian pops up saying he’s gonna do right by Jamie this time, you just have to ask where the other kid is to see how much he means it (which is to say, not much).

Well we found the fuck out, didn’t we? Turns out that scene I missed probably went heavy on the foreshadowing. And if we needed any. more. proof. that Ian ain’t shit well there it is.

As for Series 6 overall, I was…..whelmed. Barely anything happened. In my opinion, there were only three characters of any real note this season: Mike, Liam, and Freddie.

With Mike, and I speak as someone who has been a caretaker for a family member with dementia: That disease is a bitch. One thing about older people, they do not like having to be taken care of. It’s a pride thing, and I completely understand Mike putting distance between himself and Jamie upon getting his diagnosis. But he comes around at the end. I don’t know what the future holds for Mike, but as he said we’ll just take it moment by moment.

Liam, Liam, Liam. Okay, so last series/season the million dollar question was: Is Liam redeemable? I’m pretty sure my answer to that was a big fat NO. So this year we are retreading old ground. Liam is even more of a dick than he ever has been, and last year he literally outed someone. He was blatantly sexist (feelings that did not get addressed at the end there), he was racist (because he all but condoned those fans’ actions, and even blamed Freddie, so to this black viewer he’s as good as racist) and he was *this close* to being homophobic too.

He was toxic, always trying to turn the team into an us vs. them situation (which the end of Ep. 13 shows he’s not done with that). Not to mention that he was a terrible leader, a worse teammate, manipulative, bullying, aggressive, need I go on? And he barely showed tact in displaying those attributes. He was a blatant dick to just about everyone all season, and I don’t know why everyone was mad at Alba when he quit. 

So then in Episode 12 Liam learns that discrimination is a thing when the Seaside Tigers inadvertently throw shade at Dillon. Call me kooky but I thought it was out of character for him to quit the team then, the character that I saw all season would have just laughed at their homophobic remarks and kept it pushing. He was on the winning team with a bunch of white men, and I don’t see him breaking to go back just because of DIllon, who let’s be clear, Liam is also a dick to.

For me to appreciate his character, there has to be growth OR there has to be change. I’d argue just like I did last year that Liam still hasn’t undergone any of that, so we’re just going through the motions, and I felt it watching all of these episodes back to back. Again, the ending suggests that he’ll be back on his bullshit next year, so hooray for that.

I’m sorry to say that I’m a little iffy on Freddie’s story this year. First things first, I didn’t think what he or Alba did was that bad. Okay, Freddie lied for clout. Everybody does that. Okay, Alba gave Liam a centimeter long cut. I’d say if that’s all he gets for his actions, he got off pretty good. Idk, call me a cynic.

BUT, it was a good thing to show how the love of clout and chasing it on the internet can completely mess up your mental state. That was a good arc for Freddie.

My frustration with the racism storyline is that, as we have seen no shortage of in the last year and a half, a lot of it just felt performative. They took a knee, okay good for them. They raised money for anti-racism, what that specifically means I do not know, and then they all moaned and groaned when racist Liam leaves their team. Oh, and then they welcomed him back with pretty much open arms.

Last year, when Eric was fed the fuck up with Liam, and Alba took Eric to task for it, I literally said “Maybe the cost of winning for Eric isn’t the same as Alba’s” and I feel the same way this time around. Lest we forget our black history, it was Jack, a black woman, who did the groundwork and started Phoenix. The organization should be committed to anti racism and sexism, and anyone who goes against that needs to bounce, permanently.

Liam not only gaslit Freddie, and was blatantly sexist, then he went and joined Freddie’s perceived aggressors, and then Freddie and the team welcomed him back because again, “the most important thing” is that they want to win. 

On top of alladat, one plot thread that got brought up at least twice was that Freddie and Alba have not been in contact with Eric, which I appreciate the show writing in because that is completely consistent with Alba and Freddie’s actions the last two years. Aesha suggested to Freddie multiple times that he should call Eric, and I thought that Freddie would at last talk to Eric because who else could sympathize with his current situation more than his alleged close friend?? Not only did that not happen, but then Eric just wasn’t mentioned again and I have no idea why they wrote those lines in.

So at the end of the day, the show gets the message across: “Racism is bad, support your teammates when the racists come after them.” IMO, it’s still a little hokey.

Best scene of the whole season was when Freddie dances after being chastised by Liam for his decision. That scene was really what it’s all about. Even when racism is trying to pull us down, and keep us down, we still have to uplift ourselves, and we have to have joy. Freddie’s dancing is contrasted with Liam pissed af as “heavy is the head that wears the crown” plays in the background. I thought this was the turning point that would lead to Liam’s growth/change, and ultimately I was wrong but in and of itself that was still a damned good scene (and the song has been promptly added to my playlist).

So other than that? Alba was just there, okay she’s insecure about leadership, again we’ve been there done that. Did she do anything the whole time that wasn’t just being pissed at Liam? No? You know what would’ve been real character development? Last series, she already waived Liam’s terrible actions to get him back on the pitch.

This series, after all of Liam’s fresh bullshit, it would be growth for Alba to say, “I’m sorry for harming you physically. That said, you are kind of a piece of shit. There are girls and minorities on this team who deserve more respect than you have to give. I don’t have to accept you just because I want to win. We will win another way. BOUNCE.” And the team may have even been pissed at her, but she would recognize that at least there would now be harmony, and harmony is necessary for success. And what is that called everybody? LEADERSHIP.

But of course that didn’t happen.

The new mascot girl, Kasia, and Tayo are all just there. They have no arcs, just vibes. Bex and Jake are only marginally more interesting. Jamie Johnson is only here because his name is in the title (though things obviously are looking more interesting for him next series). Jess Christie makes less of an impression than both Molly and Hansard. She’s having a baby and she’s going to work. That’s it. Congratulations. Which was weird and brushed over, btw. The words “maternal leave” or the equivalent never escaped anyone’s lips, or factored into anyone’s thought process.

Elliot is there briefly, and I’m glad that the show used him to relate to Freddie, but also he and Dillon have no scenes together. Dillon, Jack, and Wozza are there for 3 minutes and it’s like a ghost literally pushed them off once time was up. Blink and you’d miss them. 

The first half of the season seemed to be setting Boggy up for something (He mentions to Jamie in the first few minutes how he feels purposeless, he carried the team on his BACK Episode 2 or 3, Tayo and Kasia lean on him for support, Tayo even tells him how important he is) and then the back half kind of just lets him vibe and now he’s leaving too. So….justice? Maybe it is for the best for him to just get the hell out of there. Scratch that, it definitely is. Boggy needs an identity outside of Phoenix.

And that’s about all of my thoughts. Thankfully the show went at a good pace, and it wasn’t boring per se, but moving forward I just want more growth from these characters. Or, in the case of Kasia/Tayo/RecognizableButLinelessExtras, for them to be more rounded characters. As always, I appreciate the show tackling social issues, but if we’re gonna go there, COMMIT. I still think this is one of the better children’s show’s out there, especially the live-action ones. So if you managed to read all of this rambling, thank you and see you next year!

[netflixaddictedd]

Okay but Dillon Simmonds really went from this:

To this:

And in less than 10 episodes, I'm proud of him.

[jamiejohnsontalk]

Jamie Johnson Season 6 Episode 12 Alternate Review

Delliot Confirmed!

[flygirlcomic]

#2

[gracieblood]

hi 3 things because i can’t be bothered to make 3 separate posts again

thing one - i just want people who are new to my blog to know that if you see a fandom you’re in on my intro post then see that i barely talk about it on my blog, don’t think “oh he doesn’t like that very much, he probably doesn’t want to talk about it.” YES I DO!! i rarely post about things like this (eg sophie powers, jamie johnson) because i don’t know many people in the fandom please talk to me about things i don’t post about much!!

thing 2 - omg i wanna change my username again but like idk if i should because i’ve not been @red-in-revenge for that long plus i’m still in my sophie powers fanboy era but like i wanna be @sillon-dimmonds and istg if anyone takes that before i do i’m gonna SCREAAAAAMMMM so like idk should i change my user or not

thing 3 - uhhh what was thing 3?? oh yeah i was gonna make a delliot meme but now i can’t be bothered because that involves finding the og meme, editing it, posting it… okay so it doesn’t involve much but also nobody knows what delliot is 😭

[santiagonex]

those two new Jamie Johnson episodes were a sIay... Delliot confirmed to be dating was just a cherry on top

[en-theheights]

Not the Jamie Johnson tag being full of everything BUT Jamie Johnson 😳

[loveallthegays]

[ashjafari]

JAMIE JOHNSON | 5.08