{"id":2534,"date":"2013-07-02T13:00:38","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T20:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/?p=2534"},"modified":"2013-06-30T23:42:38","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T06:42:38","slug":"mark-predicts-friday-night-lights-season-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/2013\/07\/mark-predicts-friday-night-lights-season-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Predicts &#8216;Friday Night Lights&#8217;: Season 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, this is going to be\u00c2\u00a0<em>fun<\/em>. The Writer&#8217;s Strike made this SO MUCH MORE INTERESTING. Let&#8217;s do this!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>We interrupt this post to bring you this important message.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>We just wanted to post a friendly reminder about the handy Report button that shows up on all the comments. If someone accidentally posts a spoiler or a slur, please use the Report button to notify the mods. 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So whether it&#8217;s a well-known commenter using a slur, a mod triggering you, or Tamora Pierce spoiling her own book, let us know so we can fix it.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>We now return you to your regularly scheduled post, already in progress.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>I can already tell that not only did I get a lot wrong, but I can carry over some predictions for season 3! Let&#8217;s go over my season 2 predictions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>So, there wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t a sign in the finale of season one that Coach Taylor was going to turn down TMU\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s position for him, so we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll see him in Austin in the season two premiere.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Oh god,\u00c2\u00a0<em>so much drama<\/em>. 1\/1<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>We will also see the apartment he is living in, as I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m guessing he isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t going to drive from Dillon every day.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>I&#8217;M DOING SO WELL. 2\/2<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Tami will give birth to a daughter! Who will be named\u00c2\u00a0<em>Princess Unicorn.<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0Okay, that part doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t count as a prediction.\u00c2\u00a0<em>Or does it?<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0<strong>IT DOESN&#8217;T OR ELSE I&#8217;D LOSE. How exciting! 3\/3<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Buddy will reconcile his relationship with his wife, but Lyla won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want anything to do with it.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>HAHAHAHAHAHA I WAS SO CLOSE BUT NOPE. 3\/4<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Landry and Tyra will go on an honest-to-gods date. For real.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Laughing to keep from crying. 4\/5<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Most of season two will deal with the pending graduation of a number of Dillon players, including Tim and Smash.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Yeah, Tim isn&#8217;t graduating yet, is he? I don&#8217;t understand the players&#8217; ages. And the season ended before the end of the year! 4\/6<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Smash will pursue scholarship options after making the list of top 100 players.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>I won&#8217;t count this because that list never showed up. 4\/7<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Julie and Matt will have sex.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Oh god, HOW COULD I HAVE KNOWN? 4\/8<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Jason Street will get promoted during his time as assistant coach.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>WOW I&#8217;M STARTING TO BOMB. 4\/9<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Unfortunately, I think he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll have to deal with bullying\/bigotry when a parent\/citizen believes that Jason can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be a good coach because he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s disabled.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>OH MY GOD NO, BUT IT DOES APPLY TO THE DEALERSHIP JOB. 4\/10<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>We will not see Matt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s father once in season two.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Now I&#8217;m sad I got this right. 5\/11<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Angela will have a serious relationship with someone who doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t treat her terribly.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>GODDAMN IT. 5\/12<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Tami will begin work on the mayor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s campaign.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Whoops, what happened to that? 5\/13<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Coach Taylor will realize that coaching college football is a million times more difficult and stressful than high school football.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>EASY ONE. 6\/14<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll also have to deal with far more issues of bribery or outside influences because there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s more money to be made in college ball.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Technically? There was that whole plot in the early part of the season. Right? 7\/15<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s get to some big predictions: Coach Taylor will quit TMU by the end of season one.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>HALLELUJAH. 8\/16<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Julie and Matt will not last as a couple for the whole season.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Sad times. \ud83d\ude41 9\/17<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Neither will Landry and Tyra. (I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll get together, but even if they do, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see it lasting.)\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Okay, technically, I&#8217;m right AND wrong. They didn&#8217;t last, but then got back together? what. 9\/18<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Tyra will graduate, as will Smash and Tim. (I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m aware that I may have gotten their classes wrong, but I believe these three are all going to be seniors this season.)\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Good lord. 9\/19<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Matt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s grandmother will get worse. <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Maybe? No? I&#8217;ll count this since she got bad enough to need Carlotta. 10\/20<\/b><\/span><\/li>\n<li>Tyra will confront the man who tried to rape her.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>HA.\u00c2\u00a0<em>HA<\/em>. 11\/21<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>And the Dillon Panthers will not win state.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Oh shit, we don&#8217;t even know! I shall predict again! 11\/22<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>50%. That&#8217;s&#8230; pretty abysmal. So let&#8217;s go with season 3!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 16px;\">The Dillon Panthers will not win state.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Tyra and Smash will graduate.<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;ll get an episode focusing on Smash&#8217;s time at Whitmore.<\/li>\n<li>Tim will find someone else to pursue\u00c2\u00a0<em>instead<\/em> of Lyla.<\/li>\n<li>However, Lyla and Chris won&#8217;t last the season.<\/li>\n<li>Santiago will leave the team and leave the show this season.<\/li>\n<li>Jason will move in with Erin.<\/li>\n<li>Matt will face competition from a new quarterback on the team who is just as good as he is.<\/li>\n<li>Landry and Tyra will break up. Again.<\/li>\n<li>Buddy Garrity will face a scandal in the community.<\/li>\n<li>Billy will get a girlfriend.<\/li>\n<li>Tami will work on the Mayor&#8217;s campaign? I&#8217;d really like to see that storyline brought back up again.<\/li>\n<li>There will be at least three new players on the team who get lines.<\/li>\n<li>Coach Taylor will clash with a new coach on the team.<\/li>\n<li>But he will lead the Panthers to a win at state in the FOLLOWING season.<\/li>\n<li>Tim, Tyra, Matt, and Landry will all graduate high school by the end of season 3.<\/li>\n<li>Julie will get a steady boyfriend this season, and that boyfriend will be Matt. I FEEL LIKE THIS COULD HAPPEN AGAIN.<\/li>\n<li>I am unprepared.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Seriously! The abrupt end to season 2 made this pretty difficult. Oh, well. 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