🎶 Happy birthday, Charlie! Happy birthday, Charlie! Happy birthday, dear Charlieeeee!!! Happy birthday to you! 🎶 What an adorable birthday party (despite some spicy drama that we all knew was inevitable). If you loved this episode and can't wait to see how this absolutely ADORABLE series ends, you're in luck! The extended cuts for the WHOLE SERIES (episodes 1-8) are available RIGHT NOW at the $10 tier over on Patreon! Or, if you can't swing that right now, you can also get early access to the RU-vid cut of episode 6 for only $1! And don't forget to tell me about any times you might've said yes to a date you didn't want to go on. I want to hear all your stories!
That communication scene in front of the claw machine is my absolute favorite. I’m so desperate for actual proper communication in media between two lovely people who actually care about each-other
It's been said that Nick's hug at the food counter could mean 2 different things: reassuring Charlie that his affections are sincere and Tao is wrong, or thanking Charlie for not outing Nick to Tao -- which would've clarified everything to Tao but would've broken the promise to keep their relationship a secret. In the graphic novel the bathroom scene is a lot longer and certain expressions & thought-bubbles imply (slightly) that it's the latter. But later (during that same event) Nick very forthrightly tells Charlie he's serious and not there for a laugh. You're right about the way the plot often dances on the brink of (stereotypical) disappointment but then refuses to deliver it. It's one of the most endearing things about the show.
You asked for open, honest communication and Alice delivered. I absolutely love this episode for how it models healthy communication. So many problems can be solved if people just talk openly and honestly with each other. It avoids so much drama and is a really necessary skill that young people need to learn. And yet the show is still phenomenal without a lot of over-the-top drama to spur it on. Not that there's no drama at all, but it's not what you have been conditioned to expect from Teen shows and I love that about it. Because it legitimately surprises you. And I do think that Imogen understood what Nick was telling her even if he didn't come out right and say he was not straight. And by defending him and sticking up for him at the end, she showed that she is, in fact, an ally.
This episode and #6 are my favorite episodes! I do kinda feel for Imogen a bit. You know she was getting ready all day and picking out outfits for her date and Nick cancels at the last minute. She could have been really upset, but she ends up being a true friend! What I love about Alice's writing is that it is kind of a guide to the younger audience of how to be a friend, do the right thing, dealing with disappointment, being accepted, etc.
I felt so bad for her, I can only imagine her disappointment 😢 But you're right, it's a great guide on how to deal with these kinds of situations in a kind and mature way!
I read somewhere that the rugby team was actually doing what they're supposed to when Charlie was injured -- that there's some policy or convention that says you don't touch the person until the supervising and/or medical staff says it's OK. Not sure I understand that (or agree with it), but it was offered as an explanation.
A lot of people seem to read Nick's comments about just doing things because everyone else is as him hinting in veiled terms that he's queer. Obviously that's part of the context, but to me it's something broader, and very much face value. Without spoiling episodes 6-8, if you look at Nick's storyline, it's very much *not* your typical "gay angst" plot: being into Charlie is *only ever* something Nick experiences as good. What he's anxious and insecure about isn't the fact he likes a boy-it's the fact that all his life, he's been labelled by other people's perceptions of him (masculine, straight, attractive, sporty, popular), and now suddenly there's this part of him no one told him about, and if he isn't everything that he's been told, then what and who *is* he? What happens when one of those dominos gets knocked over? The point about fitting in isn't just about not being straight-it's about realising your self-concept is a costume you've been handed, and having to deal with the fact that maybe *it* doesn't fit *you.*
yes. he has so many expectations of how he should be that at some point it was shaping him into who he was becoming, but upon meeting charlie (not just because it helped him realize things about his queerness) he realized that the real, true him was hidden underneath. that he didn't need to be what everyone was expecting of him.
@@shayneoshaughnessy2471 I have a lot of theories about how colour is used throughout the show, including through costume. At Harry’s party in episode 3, Charlie wears dark clothes that mean he fades into the shadows, while Nick wears light clothes that mean the party lights wash him out. In a show about not letting people make you disappear, I think it’s telling that where Charlie disappears into darkness, Nick disappears into what’s projected onto him. When he sees Tara and Darcy emanating the colours of the rainbow flag, he suddenly gets bathed in bisexual lighting-because symbolically, this is Nick’s first glimpse at himself through his own eyes.
yessss. I also think that Imogen said "I get it" not because she realized he was queer but because she also feels like that, she was basically forced by Harry to ask Nick out after the rugby match. I'm not saying she never liked Nick, but maybe most of it was peer pressure too
Nick and his friends, Tara, Darcy and Elle (16 years old) . Tao, Isaac and Charlie (15 years old) :) . I don't know if you realize this but, Charlie suffers depression and eating disorders. You can notice that since the first episose, he is always eating lunch or breakfast but he doesn't really eat
I never noticed the eating disorder part, but I definitely picked up on the depression! Poor Charlie's going through it, but hopefully things get better for him in the next season!
nick and charlie has a speical bond and their connection towards each other and also there chemistry so powerful.and there passion is so magical and the hug that nick gave charlie is for saying iam sorry that u feel u have to keep this a secaret to me nick feel so bad that he ask charlie that but charlie is makeing sure that nick is ok that he will be there though the rough and good and he will support him in verty thing he goes though because they both love each other . and i love how nick was honest to charlie explaning what happen and how he feels and also to Imogen as well it take alot for sameone to press there feelings to people that they care about. and the photo was so beautiful them them in the snow together haveing a speical magic time together
The birthdayparty is 4pm and the date is in the late evening 😉 so nick had time...the communication in this show is so good 👍🏻& it's not only gay or straight, maybe he is Bi 😁 & that's the title friend between Imogen & Nick & you will love Ep 6 🥰
what i saw in this episode when Charlie ask nick that he want to kiss him and when nick said yes charlie was making sure that nick want to and aking nick are u sure because charlie understand how this mean and he want to be there for him and support him though this and he will always be there.
In my senior year in high school I agreed to go on a date but didn’t realize it was a date. Thought my classmate was just asking to hangout (I switched schools that year so I was the new kid and I didn’t really know anyone that well) I didn’t think for a second that anyone would be interested in me romantically but on the date he tried to buy my drink which confused me and read me his poetry and then called me pretty(at which point I started to think “oh wait…is this..?”) Then he walked me home and asked to kiss me and I was like …. “No thank you” and hugged him instead. He was nice I was just really not interested. Such an embarrassing memory. I felt really bad about it at the time. I didn’t tell him the truth bc I didn’t want him to be embarrassed. When he asked me on a second date I told him I’m just not in a place where I’m ready to date yet. (Then he asked to be fwb which hahahahhaa is not my thing so I sad no and we just awkwardly didn’t bring it up anytime we had class together) Then I brought my friends’ sister to prom (not as a date but as a gift to her bc she wanted to go to a prom and her school didn’t have prom) and he assumed I was gay I guess and came up to me to tell me no hard feelings 😅 I never told him the truth.
I've been stood up on a date, I met some guy who asked me out, who went out of his way to talk to me and then never showed up. Otherwise I've only ever met people via dating apps and sites so that's a very different vibe, you're both looking for the same thing, at least, after I filtered out the ones who weren't. :)
It's so weird when someone initiates something and then doesn't show up?! Like, they could very easily have not done that! Sorry that happened, but glad you've had more luck with dating apps!
@@LeightonReacts Yeah, I was like, you didn't have to come on super strong, literally turn around on the street type of deal, and then not show up. Weirdo. I met my spouse on a dating app, and we've been together for 11 years now, married for 5, so you know. :P
