hugealienpie:61below:hugealienpie:dragonscrawl:hugealienpie:THOUGHTS ON A REREAD: Episode 5, Bad Bob

hugealienpie:61below:hugealienpie:dragonscrawl:hugealienpie:THOUGHTS ON A REREAD: Episode 5, Bad Bob ZimmermannBitty not knowing who Bad Bob is here makes his reaction to Bad Bob during family weekend even funnier to me. I mean, obviously by that point he’s done some research, so he knows that Bob’s a big deal. But there’s this sort of… remove, I guess? I mean, it’s not like he’s meeting Beyoncé (actually I think Bitty meeting Beyoncé would be way calmer than anyone imagines). I think Bitty at family weekend is legitimately more nervous about meeting Mr. Jack’s Dad who is, well, Jack’s dad than he is about meeting hockey legend Bad Bob Zimmermann.A thought I’ve had about this scene: Does Jack ever learn that Bitty didn’t really know who exactly Jack is in relation to the greater hockey world?  Because it interests me, the possibility that Jack, who has had to face the expectations for living up to his father’s hockey legacy, could discover that with Bitty, there’s no such expectation going in because Bitty has no idea who Bad Bob is.And, uh, this does happen before the checking practices start.I’ve been thinking about this. I’m betting someone tells him. Shitty, probably. As a sort of… idk. Joke-but-not-joke. “Hey, Jackabelle, Bits’d never heard of your dad!”I think at first it pisses Jack off something fierce. Like, OK, the other guys on the team weren’t basically born on hockey skates like he was, but they’ve all been playing a long time, and now there’s suddenly this… this figure skater! in their midst! who doesn’t. even. know. who. bad bob. is. Who Jack is.Then it hits him. Slowly. Like a sunrise. Bittle doesn’t know who Bad Bob is. Bittle doesn’t know who Jack is. Bittle only knows that Jack is a grumpy history major who glares a lot and tells him to eat more protein. Bittle has no expectations except that Jack be a good captain. That’s it.It’s baffling, it’s liberating, and it’s terrifying. Because as much as Jack resents being constantly defined in relationship to his father, by this point it’s so ingrained that a lot of the time, especially when it comes to hockey, he doesn’t know how to be any other way. But now he’s going to get his chance, because of Eric Bittle, the first hockey player Jack’s ever met for whom the name “Bad Bob Zimmermann” means nothing. It’s one of the first gifts Bitty ever gives Jack, and he’s not even around to know about it.(Shitty just grins, because that moment? That was his intention all along.)The next question is… Does Jack ever tell his dad that this figure skater from Georgia had no clue who he was? Please. Please please please. Let me cling to the idea of Alicia chirping the heck out of Bob because Bitty lost his shit when he found out that Jack’s MOM is THE Alicia Zimmermann god, yes. Only… he doesn’t realize that right away, either. I mean, other than the eyes, Jack doesn’t look much like Alicia, and Alicia’s American, and “Zimmermann” isn’t that uncommon a name… right? And maybe Bitty’s glanced at Alicia’s IMDb profile a time or two, but he just has a vague recollection that she’s married to… some sports guy.And then… Bitty has a bad day. I feel like this is… near the end of his freshman year, pre-concussion, when there’s been a slight lessening of Bitty-Jack hostilities but they aren’t really close yet. And Bitty has this day when classes go poorly, and some douchey lax bro makes a snide comment at him, and that last cookie from the batch Bitty made for his floormates yesterday is still there, and Bitty is just done. So he takes his softest hoodie and his DVD of The Grass Was Greener and THE LAST COOKIE DAMN IT, and he goes to the Haus to sniffle in peace and watch his movie.And the thing is, The Grass Was Greener isn’t a great movie. it’s not even really a good one. It’s just this quiet, kind of ridiculous film about a small town that saves its park from a real estate developer. But the scenery is beautiful, and everyone in the town just loves and supports each other so much, and you will never convince Bitty that there isn’t a subplot about the two guys who work in the mayor’s office falling in love. It’s been his go-to pick-me-up movie since he was 14.So he watches the movie and makes more cookies and the rest of the guys kind of float in and out. Jack comes back in the middle of all this and… stalls out.JACK: Why are you watching this?BITTY: You leave me be, Jack. I know it’s not great cinema, but it makes me smile, and lord do I need that today.JACK: But it’s–BITTY: I mean, look at this scene. The mayor’s been pacing and yelling for 5 minutes, and she’s just been moving between her desk and that potted plant the whole danged time. I don’t know if it’s art, but it sure is funny.JACK: …She was 7 months pregnant with me when they shot that scene. They had to hide the bump.BITTY: …7 months… with… you? :quietly implodes:JACK: You didn’t know she was pregnant when she made this?BITTY: I didn’t know she was your mom until just this minute.Bitty bombards Jack with questions about Alicia’s film career and what it was like growing up with her as a mom. He holds forth at great length about his favorite of her roles and is deeply disappointed by how unenthused Jack is about The Great Alicia Zimmermann Oeuvre. Ransom and Holster cackle for years.Jack doesn’t tell his parents the whole sordid story until he tells them that he and Bitty are dating. Alicia is beside herself with glee. Bob changes his twitter display name to “some sports guy” for a week. Bitty is mortified, but Bob and Alicia assure him that they find it absolutely charming. Alicia rousts up one of the movie’s posters from somewhere, signs it, and gives it to Bitty as a birthday gift his senior year. -- source link

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