Continuity
With the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike cutting the second season in half, there is a longer story gap between the end of season two and the beginning of season three than occurred between the other seasons of Friday Night Lights. Some plots are quickly summarized, others are never again mentioned. Lyla's relationship with Chris and her devout Christianity are absent from Season 3. She is now living with her father and in a relationship with Tim Riggins. Santiago, the street kid who was taken in by Lyla's father is evidently no longer living there and is not seen or mentioned. Landry and Tyra have dated and are now broken up. Smash Williams was seriously injured in a playoff game the preceding season and as a consequence has lost his college football scholarship. He is now a manager at the Alamo freeze fast food restaurant. Playing without him, the Dillon football team fell apart and failed to win the state championship. Jason Street was last seen in Season 2 trying to convince Erin, a girl with whom he had had a one-night stand, not to get an abortion. We see that Erin has had the child, but the couple is not living together. Tami Taylor is now the Dillon High School principal.
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Famous quotes containing the word continuity:
“Every generation rewrites the past. In easy times history is more or less of an ornamental art, but in times of danger we are driven to the written record by a pressing need to find answers to the riddles of today.... In times of change and danger when there is a quicksand of fear under men’s reasoning, a sense of continuity with generations gone before can stretch like a lifeline across the scary present and get us past that idiot delusion of the exceptional Now that blocks good thinking.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
“Continuous eloquence wearies.... Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
“The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people. To “see the light” too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)