#hsmtmts: s3 trailer

[starrrbakerrr]

They got the dance.

[aquariusshadow]

alright i gotta say.....idk how they did it but the writers managed to make rina rootable for me again!!!

i really liked them in s1 but fell off them for reasons listed in my other hsmtmts posts on my blog and when the trailer for s4 aired i was really scared rina would be just an overuse of annoying tropes instead of actual growth and cuteness that you can't help but root for

but happily, i was wrong! i was reminded on why i liked them so much in s1 and why i was rooting for them before i got on the portwell train

speaking of, i will always love portwell, and i will always mourn what couldve been with them, especially in s3 (s3 was really frustrating to watch as a portwell fan...) but im really happy we got some legit closure on that relationship with both gina and ej AND its very clear they still care about each other :)))

so yeah, s4 was honestly a lot better than s3 and i like both rina and portwell now and just ahskjdfhaskldfds i'm gonna miss this show

[multimetaverse]

thoughts on the hsmtmts final season trailer?

Well anon, I think the trailer and the just released synopsis and photos for the first 6 eps look pretty good and I'm cautiously optimistic that the show will maintain the quality of S3 and if we're very lucky it may have some moments that come close to the excellence of S1.

I wish Disney would stick to the status quo and release the final eps weekly but it seems that their MO is now to burn off seasons of shows they've cancelled or have given up on (I wonder if they regret their decision with it likely that the actors and directors strike will last for many months). I'll be away from Meta Manor for a while so I don't know when I'll have time to watch S4; I won't do ep by ep reviews but I may do a season review in a few weeks. That being said, here are the main points I'll be grading S4 on, in no particular order:

Rina: I've never been a Rina shipper but I've long said that Rina's fate is inextricably tied with the show. So I want a great season for them, no pointless breakups, no pointless drama. Now in real life with Ricky graduating they wouldn't last but Tim needs to drop the realism and have a nice unambiguous Rina endgame. I'm hopeful that Gina's acting career plot will allow her to be with Ricky even after he graduates.

Big 3 Cameos: At least one of Zac, Vanessa, or Ashley must appear on screen for at least one scene or else the OG cast plot will be pointless. Especially since in universe they're doing a HSM 4 which Disney would not have green lit without at least one of the Big 3 starring. And I won't accept some too clever by half bullshit like Drew Seely shows up as Troy.

LGBTQ Rep: HSMTMTS has made huge strides with lgbtq rep on disney and I hope they can continue to make history in this final season.

Series Coherence: I think looking back that S2 will be the breaking point for a lot of future viewers who will give up after what turned out to be the longest and the worst season. The show isn't very coherent and I hope that S4 can meaningfully connect with S1 and we have more focus on the epic highs and lows of high school musical theatre. Enjoy the final season everyone. We're in the endgame now, wildcats.

[rinaisloved]

from what i remember every time tim posts something cryptic on his ig whether it be a story or an actual post it means sometbing hsmtmts related is so coming . pretty sure he’s done the whole deleting it after too thing lol. idk if it’ll be the trailer but something is definitely coming !!

Totally forgot about this is the chaos of the new trailer but you were right!! I loved the trailer and I’m honestly so proud that it’s doing so well on YouTube. Surpassing the s2 and s3 trailer and almost about to reach the views of season 1. The cast deserves all the love in the last season!

[27emailsicantsend]

What are your thoughts on when we’ll get a release date or a trailer? I was so convinced they’ll release it in July like last year but now I’m afraid that ship has sailed 😭

Hi Anon! I have a couple other anon requests I’ll get to tomorrow, but I wanted to make sure I got this one answered today BECAUSE I think we are getting info tomorrow.

Last year on the exact same day, Disney+ gave a bunch of announcements for future shows in the series (as a part of National Streaming Day). This included HSMTMTS have Corbin Bleu in s3 and the renewal of s4. Well, guess what day tomorrow is? 😁 and there is a tik toker @abbzbon who will be doing “flows” all day of different shows and what shows to watch on Disney+ if you watch Hulu and vice versa. I think we will get info there and/or on YouTube when they drop the video on show announcements. I don’t see them doing any more than a sneak peek at a scene (my guess is the principal announcing the play will be HSM4) and a release date.

If this is the case, I feel like we can expect the same timeline as last year where we get the first trailer mid-late June and the first episode late July… which I agree kind of sucks.

HOWEVER, we know this season is probably following the pattern of previous seasons (because it’s been revealed there will be a Halloween episode), so I could see them picking up right where season 3 episode 8 left off. Dara said episode 8 is important to rewatch for s4 and we have that screen cap of what looks to be Ricky unpacking on his bed (perhaps a flashback to before the kids watched the trailer?) so I think the SHOW will start mid-late summer, which would line up with when we start to watch it too.

TLDR: one scene and a release date tomorrow, trailer mid-late June, first episode release late July-first week of August

I also genuinely think we are getting a s5 but it won’t be announced tomorrow

My prediction for the first episode (if you care hahaha)

We start off right where episode 8 left. We see rina kiss again and them walking off stage and some sneaky scene where someone (even Corbin if he’s secretly still being a villain) is capturing their audio (the camera turned off, but mic’s very well could have still been on and for Corbin to blatantly say he was turning off the camera feels… sus to me)

We see a time jump of the kids returning from camp and some of the reasons they were dressed/acting the way they were at the trailer premiere (like Kourtney). We see the scene of Ricky unpacking and the photo of gina on his bed.

Then we flash forward to the first day/week back at East high where the kids find out about hsm3 -something Jenn is so proud of- just for the spotlight to kind of be taken by the principal announcing hsm4. (I feel like this will reflect her story arc in a big way. Like she’ll get another chance to be in an HSM movie and/or she is sad about the spotlight of her show getting taken so Mozzarella Stick comforts her and that’s what gets them together [I’m a Mikexjenn stan, but I won’t deny who will probably end up together]).

[underscore-jude]

I loved what you said about kourtney and how you’ll change her plot in s3! do you know what you would like to see for her in s4 + her relationship with jet?

sure, but only if you guys start telling T*m he needs to hire me or that he owes me royalties! I mean, I’ve been saying as much for *quite* some time now. Note those timestamps there 🥰

I fully endorse the harrassment of T*m Federle for whatever reason. Until he can come forward and address and disprove the allegations that have been sitting against him since 2020 (!!!!), I have no problem sending my tiny ass legion of tumblr followers against him. Now, on with the show.

So I'd like to preface this by saying that I do enjoy Kowie. Like, so much that sometime last year I earned myself a special "CEO of Kowie" role in the Wildcats discord. but i think with how much i also love jetney it's just that i love Kourtney Greene and i love when people give her love.

I think a lot of people don't like Roman for whatever reason, I didn't have twitter until far after s2 had finished airing so if there was drama I wasn't present for it. But his IICLH is magical and I do think that Howie genuinely wanted to be with Kourtney- he made mistakes, as a sixteen-year-old boy is wont to do, and he was caught up in the fiery hell of Zacky Roy and Lily Whatsername's Brigade of Evil, and his shadiness in the s2 finale could lend itself to some suspicion on his part.

However, I also really enjoy Jetney. The thing is I also enjoy Jetwen. There is room for all of these things in my perfect HSMTMTS. I just think that brooding, emo Jet is so full of love that he has not let himself share for so long, that when he finally opens up to himself he realizes oopsie, he kinda likes both Ricky and Kourtney! even better, it's right around the time when Ricky and Kourtney have reconciled and become besties again! that's a whole thing with jet. but it bleeds into kourtney's s4 arc, so i thought i'd mention it.

So when we left Kourtney at the end of MY s3, she was full of confusion upon seeing Howie for the first time since she left for camp. I haven't decided yet whether or not the documentary would've been released to the general public yet, but the trailer certainly had, so no matter what she knows that Howie has watched another man profess their love for his girlfriend on national television.

And Howie is... weirdly not bothered by it. He says it scared him a little at first, but he trusts her- and reality TV is all too keen to force things and feed actors lines, so he's not really worried. Kourtney, however, is, because as much as she'd like to agree that it was all for the cameras, there's a very real part of her that does like Jet, and as much as she wants to get rid of it she can't.

So another thing- Nini doesn't move to California. I know this was done in the show because Olivia's schedule didn't work for her to keep being main cast, but this is my perfect fantasy world and I get to keep my ninikins, okay? She left camp early due to her growing lesbianism to record some demos with Jamie in LA, and as s4 starts she's back in Salt Lake waiting for something to come of them.

Sometime in the first episode, Nini and Kourtney are hanging out and Nini reveals that she's written a song inspired by the whole documentary situation, mainly about how she knows her friends hearts despite the editing making them look like entirely different people. They sing it as a duet. Kourtney talks about her Boy ProblemsTM. There's a funny comment about how this time last year the roles were completely reversed. Nini insists that there's lots of other things to worry about and at least Howie is at North and Jet is all the way in Texas, so she won't have to worry about them during their Best Senior Year Ever.

Cut to the first day of school, and Kourtney, Nini, Ricky, and Big Red are all united as a front, and guess who's sitting in Miss Jenn's sixth period Drama II class? Our good buddy, Jet Lastname (i gave them the last name Grey). Kourtney and Ricky are both red in the face all throughout class. Nini and Big Red find this hilarious.

So in my world, HSMTMTS lasts five seasons, ending with the older four graduating. And with that, I want to save HSM3 for the last season. So, s4 will be The Little Mermaid! I really wanted them to be building up to Kourtney and Carlos as Ariel and Eric with Kourtney having her TLM playbill and Carlos wanting to play a human character and if this is my hsmtmts, that means i get what i want, and what i want is Carlos and Kourtney front and center like they deserve. i also want to include songs that didn’t get used from the other shows they’ve done. I feel like I deserve that.

I think that Jet would meet Howie randomly when he and Maddox go to Slices or something, and eventually realizes that he's Kourtney's boyfriend and has a moment.

the Kowie breakup would hurt me unless it was completely amicable. a few episodes into the season, they realize that they're just not working as a romantic couple and would prefer to just be friends. I can't handle a angsty kowie breakup that would devastate Kourtney or destroy Howie's character, I'm sorry. Maybe Howie can get with Big Red idk if i want to keep redlyn or go with madlyn or not!!!

So there's not really a Jet-Kourtney-Ricky love triangle because there's not anger or people being really aware of it- in fact, Jet's a little bit clueless, but Ricky and Kourtney both think that the other likes Jet so they're like "ok i'll keep quiet cause I don't want to make the other person angry" and then eventually they're acting so weird around each other that the four seniors are all in big red's basement late at night and they're super high loopy from lack of sleep and they admit to each other what they've been doing and they all laugh about it and Nini and Big Red are like "wow you guys are not very smart".

The east high friend group is very fruity

But over the course of the season I think Ricky would get over Jet or decide to be single for a considerable amount of time or whatever and actively encourage Kourtney to go after Jet as a contrast to like. Pained helping others to ignore his own problems like he's done before, y'know? Carlos is like "ricky is this another in a heartbeat" but it's not, it's genuine growth and finding happiness in himself before trying to get it from a partner. Ricky and Kourtney also become therapy buddies btw

And if Jetney gets together in s4 it would be closer to the end. I envision Gina (who is Sebastian) leading the kids in a dream sequence-esque performance of "Kiss the Girl" and everyone is like, goading them together, but they decide to take things on their own terms without any meddling from their friends.

So beyond the Jetney of it all, Kourtney tells her mom that she wants a proper therapist and we see her actually getting that in s4, talking about her anxieties and why she always situates herself behind her friends rather than letting herself come into her own. Someone asks her if she's seen all of the support she's been getting online since the doc came out, and she hasn't because she's forced herself to not go on Twitter. Her Youtube channel has blown up and people are wanting to see more and more stuff, but she's too afraid of hate that she doesn't want to risk it at all. She eventually starts uploading more casual makeup videos, and building more confidence in herself.

Eventually, Nini asks if Kourtney wants to do a duet with her on her EP, and Kourtney nearly dies. On one hand, yes she does, but it's after the initial viral boom of the doc has worn off and things are returning more to normal and she doesn't know if she wants to be quite as nerve-wracked as she was before. I think later, sometime in s5, Nini makes a second record and Kourtney happily agrees to do a song with her.

Nini, Big Red, and Ricky are super supportive, and she also allows herself to get closer to Carlos, Gina, Seb, and Ashlyn, and eventually the drama club is on it's way to being a big loving support system.

Plus, not to mention, I cast Kourtney as Ariel in the musical. I wonder if there's a version of If Only that's just an Ariel and Eric duet, cause that would fit Carlos and Kourtney much better than the quartet. Looking dramatically offstage at Seb and Jet during rehearsal and whatnot. She'd be nervous about playing Ariel, sure, but it's about more than that. There's something more innocent, with more ingenuity about Ariel than there is about Elsa, and that's what scares her the most. Performance-wise, she definitely does Beyond My Wildest Dreams as part of the performance and impresses the hell out of everyone. If Only, like I said, would be in rehearsal, and I think Part of Your World too, I think it could parallel the Monster scene I envisioned for s3, where it shows that she's having issues cause the performance is just Too Real, so her friends support her after the fact, just that this time Big Red and Nini are there as well as Ricky and all of the other kids are making it very clear that they're there to support her through it all.

As for her college-related anxieties, well... i suppose i'll just have to write up my ideal season 5 :shrug:

[achingly-shy]

the real question is do i even bother to watch the trailer for s4 of hsmtmts after s3 basically ruined the show for me…….

[rinisbowen]

screentime focused (roughly), in the season 3 trailer per character:

as a note, this is just for the 8 series regulars, val, nini, and miss jenn. this includes shots of multiple characters, but not like- the super wide shots with a whole bunch of them in it. it’s just when they’re more or less the focus of the shot. also- to be extra clear, this is the american disney plus version of the trailer from youtube. 

idk if this is useful to anyone else but i thought it would be interesting to find out and- it was. if you want to use this feel free- you don’t need to link back to me but if you do feel free to @ me i’d love to see your interpretation of the information!

carlos: 25.3 seconds

gina: 23.5 seconds

kourtney: 21.8 seconds

ej: 18.9 seconds 

ashlyn: 16.2 seconds (fun fact her audition clip is the longest, the others are .5 seconds, hers is .7)

ricky: 7.8 seconds

nini: 4.5 seconds

maddox: 4.3 seconds 

val: 2.8 seconds

miss jenn: 1.3 seconds

jet: 0.9 seconds

[rinisbowen]

i can provide you with background seb/seblos if you squint- 

idk how to image id this but it’s the shot at camp prom with maddox, saylor bell’s character, dancing with madison, jojo siwa’s character, with seb, carlos, and a third character singing in the background. 

So, no Seb?

OR Big Red?

[image IDs: two screenshots from the “So, no head?” vine. The first is an image of a person aggressively throwing their cell phone on the ground. The second is the same person stomping on their skateboard to break it.]

[ginaporterr]

RICKY & GINA — in Season 3 of High School Musical: The Musical: The Series

[cantshinebrighterthanyou]

It's so nice to see Ricky and Gina smiling at each other again! It's been so long since they've just had fun spending time together without being weighed down by unspoken things. Of course, we can still expect a bunch of complicated feelings and rina's trademark deeper understanding, which naturally means they'll have some heavier conversations. But for now it feels so good to see them start to be friends again!

[strawberryshortcakegirl]

Songs in Season 3

This is what I got from pausing every .5 seconds with the trailer:

What Time is It? (in the car on the way to camp)

Start the Party (possibly a mashup with What Time is It? Gina is leading the song)

Audition song (Gina is gonna go "all out." I think she'll have a costume change during the audition like Nini did in Season 1 and she'll suddenly be singing in a professional setting wearing all gold)

Basketball song (Corbin Bleu and Gina will be dancing)

Ricky song (where he's looking out to the city and playing an invisible guitar...)

Color wars song (between yellow and blue. No one asked but here are the teams: yellow team - Maddox, Jet, Kourtney, Carlos. Blue team - EJ, Ashlyn, Gina, Ricky. Meg is probably running the event as she is holding a microphone and singing)

I'm not sure about this one, but at 1:03 in the trailer we see Kourtney and EJ singing and dancing in their episode 1 clothes. This could be Start the Party.

EJ song where he's playing guitar! (about time we get an EJ guitar song)

Jet singing, could be part of the audition song but I hope he gets his own song

Nini song where she's also playing guitar

Camp prom song, I see Carlos and Seb singing in the background. Might be karaoke.

In another version of the Season 3 trailer, we see Ashlyn singing while playing the piano!!

This wasn't in the trailer at all, but Gina and EJ should definitely sing Can I Have This Dance?

What song is everyone most excited for? For me it's probably Ashlyn singing the piano ballad :)

[redmeanslove]

Hello Wildcats!!

this is your headsup that I will from now on be reblogging/posting about s3 and using the tags #hsmtmts s3 and #hsmtmts spoilers so if you don't want any spoilers you might want to block those tags in advance :))

[litrallytyrus]

gina and ej both looking so gorgeous this season is going to give me heart palpitations

literally like i’m not a portwell stan but holy shit what an attractive lovely couple . like jesus

[organic-guacamole]

SEASON 3 TRAILER!!!

Live reaction because I haven't seen it yet!

EJ 's hair I think I love it

also, why is he so funny....wildcats!

ah yes, the no fone zone. where they lock children in the woods with no connection to the outside world ...looks like a set up for a horror movie where they are unaware of the impending doom(zombie apocalypse, duh) that will meet them back at home .

I'm not gonna talk about all the cameos and stuff but, they are ...there

Gina is my actual beloved.

"my first boyfriend" the dormant portwell cell in my heart just revived itself.

the lead? so elsa or anna? my girl better get all the leads cuz she deserves it😙

"shake your money maker, Caswell" add that to the list of weird EJ and Carlos interactions. (see also: episode 108)

AH YES THIS IS ALL I WANT. CARLOS AND RICKY FRIENDSHIP.

Also Ricky is an idiot.

My idiot💞✨🤍💞✨🕺🏽🤍🔥🥰😍😍💞🤍

I make myself cringe too dw

Carlos I love you.

oh so the modern family guy is gonna encourage Nini, sorry, Nina during her moment of "omg can I do this??????" cool.

is JoJo playing herself or an actual character? anyways maddox seems cool too. they didn't show much about Jett (or is it Jax? idk).

"nothing is gonna ruin our perfect summer together" dummy now you've jinxed it.

also Richard HOLD ON A DAMN MINUTE.

really we know he's gonna be stupid as usual and end up with EJ mad at him and Gina and Gina mad at EJ and then Ricky's like "...Gary?"

Miss Jenn is in this show still?? she also hasn't said anything so I'm scared.

Looking forward to some Ashlyn, Kourtney and Gina bonding. As long as it's better than 1,2,3 I want a song from them again

the lighting and shooting style and overall vibe seems so vastly different to the previous seasons, and I look forward to seeing changes that they made, but also fear them.

[insomniactalks]

I think the reason we haven’t gotten a trailer yet is because the season is so short and so much is happening according to those leaks that there isn’t much they could include in a trailer that wouldn’t spoil big things happening this season

Considering those "leaks" came from unreliable sources, I wouldn't worry too much about that being the reason why we haven't gotten the trailer yet. I'm honestly predicting we're going to get a trailer either this Thursday or Friday, considering those are usually the days when content is released (since it's the end of the week). Honestly, dropping the season 3 trailer on a Tuesday would seem a bit odd LOL 😂 I would expect official content to be dropped either at the end or beginning of the week (so Sundays, Thursdays, or Fridays). 🤷🏽‍♀️