methodwriter85

Chapter 49 -When Travis powers through the worse of his withdrawal symptoms. "Knocking on Heaven's Door" by Bob Dylan -When Will gets into bed with Travis- this time to just comfort him after the worst of his withdrawal. "Wild Horses" by the Rolling Stones

It's wild to think that used to be mockable. Meanwhile I had my first frappe when I was 11 years old in 1997.

Hmm. That explains why you don't see the Millennial characters inhaling ice coffee beverages like they normally would be.

If they are, I think Mark has done a good job of enmeshing Travis into the family so that he doesn't just slink off.

My head cannon for Kendo is that he's from New York/New Jersey from some shady Irish and/or Italian crime family who kicked him out for being gay. He started tricking to survive, and eventually landed into the entertainment field through "connections" (the casting couch) he made through MTV in New York City. He started hosting MTV game shows, maybe made some reality show appearances, and that eventually got him a gig on various teen dramas.

I remember reading about him a couple of years ago. He legitimately had a really gorgeous face before the drugs started wrecking his looks, which I think was ultimately unfortunate for him. I think the boy likely got devoured in the modeling industry. You would think being from a rich family would better help the nepos avoid the predators but I guess not. As a random more superficial note, Kaia Gerber is actually my fancast for young adult Maddy Graves. I pictured her having Jeanine's Italian beauty but Cody's tall height. Poor Kaia. I was watching the Shards recently, too. To bring it back to the story, I think Mark has generally set a pretty clear line that Brad and his line aren't genetically susceptible to drug addiction. (I don't think his biological father was, either?) It's why Will can live the hedonism he lives but manages to avoid a lot of the pitfalls that can come with it. Drug addiction/mental health issues seem more with the Hayes family line, although so far Matt Carrswold has avoided that.

In that alternate universe timeline, Private Tim and Matthew are hipsters in some gentrifying Los Angeles neighborhood who met at a Gore rally and their son Tommy looks like Michael Cimino from Love, Victor.

Eh, the timeline has actually picked up somewhat. It kind of has to, because of how long it takes for a t.v. show to get put together and then aired. I also don't think Mark wanted to dwell too much on Travis's drug use ramping up. I do think at this point we've gotten enough runway that we could skip ahead a few years and Mark would still have plenty of storyline left.

At this point I'm speculating on where Mark's going to send Riley Danfield to college at. I'm hoping it's Duke or UVA. We've never really done a Southern college atmosphere. Of course I realize it's going to be a looooonnnngggg time before we get there, but I figure Mark will probably add in some new young people to serve as bridge characters between the established Millennial characters and the nascent Zoomers (largely Riley, Maddy, Bobby, and Freddie) while we wait for the Zoomers to get old enough.

Gee guys, what will happen if Travis doesn't consent to Will's plans for rehab? I sure do hope that Will manages to respect that and doesn't force Travis into anything he doesn't want to do. Well, we know that this wasn't Ken's first time to the rodeo and we also know that he really doesn't seem to have anyone protecting him. I imagine there's a lot of enemies. He also doesn't seem to have Cathy Ames's shrewd ability to collect blackmail.

Honestly, Austen is probably better off getting a clean break from Will.

You've seriously never heard of 60's icon Lesley Gore? "You Don't Own Me" is like a Baby Boomer anthem.

I was actually saving "My Humps" for Kendo's big reveal. It's just too perfect. Lol

Chapter 44 -When Travis wakes up and realizes that Will knows and he's very, very mad. "Cocaine" by Eric Clapton -When Travis is given some pills and goes back to sleep into sleepyland where everything is just one big fluffy cloud of fluffballs. "Sunshine, Lollipops, and Raindrops" by Lesley Gore -When Kendo thinks to himself what a great job he did at getting Travis hooked to drugs, and what a catch he is. "My Humps" by the Black Eyed Peas I've always thought of this song and video as doing a great job of representing pop culture music during the Dubya era. I guess we could call this Pre-Recession? -When Kendo drags Travis around Inglewood to keep him from withdrawal, and pawns Travis's beloved watch from Will. "Welcome to the Jungle" by Guns n Roses

There's this extremely weird disappearance case from "your era", so to speak, of a UCLA freshman boy who walked out of his dorm at 4:00 a.m. in the morning in December of 1999 and was never seen again. His name was Michael Negrete. The main theory in the case is that he went on an acid trip, voluntarily left his dorm, and then got wandered around Los Angeles incapacitated for a bit until someone abducted him. Honestly, I got the impression that he was likely meeting up with some guy for a hook-up and wanted to do it while his roommate was asleep and he met with the wrong dude. Witnesses who lived in Dykstra Hall (where it happened) said they saw a 35-year old guy randomly walking around the dorm at the about the same time Michael disappeared. I mean, this would have been the time where you were making up hookup plans on like bulletin message boards. But yeah, I mean, if a A-honor roll student from a nice family could get swallowed up like that, it's hard to imagine what happens to the boys who aren't from the types of families that can send their kids to UCLA.