I knowww, they really set up so many open threads. Definitely hoping we get another season to at least wrap them up. Including April and Sterling, definitely, and yes, I don’t really expect the writers to let her stay closeted the whole season but I hope she’s not like, outed against her will or something.
And another anon:
Teenage Bounty Hunters re: “wildly different interpretations” about the junior high incident reminds me of a passage from a book I’m reading. “Do you think it’s possible to ever see the past as it actually was?….I see the past as it actually was.” “But we overlay the present onto the past. We look back through the lens of what we know now, so we’re not seeing it as the people we were, we’re seeing it as the people we are, and that means the past has been radically altered.”
Whoa, anon, getting so deep! But you’re probably not wrong, each is looking back with all these other interpretations and layers since, April continuing to process and learn things about herself, Sterling thinking of herself as the victim of April’s supposedly irrational attacks. Neither is probably fully right or fully wrong.
And another anon:
(1 of 2) Ok, finally finished the season, and I think the next ep, when April says when she crushes, she crushes hard lends credence to the different interpretations of the situation. I think April took the “she’s in your group now” way too personally, and compared it to the situation like the one she had with her friend in 2nd grade, that she did something that freaked Sterling out and now Sterling was pushing her away. I really want this to be renewed now to see this further play out. (cont’d)
(2 of 2) Like I’d love to read an angsty fic showing what was going on in Sterling’s head during the lock-in when she saw April with Luke. I mean, maybe she was thinking April was scared and trying too hard to look straight, but given their enemy status before, she could also be thinking, was this all one big cruel joke? It was actually only a couple days that passed, so was she wondering if April had played some sort of twisted mind game on her until they talked it out later?
Oh, that’s possible, Sterling being one of her Adeles, and thus putting a whole different and very personal spin on what seemed like a rejection. And for real, it’s interesting how something they both seem to now have gotten over still has blown up to these mythological proportions in the fandom and we want a s2 followup. Who’s right, what happened? It’s a mystery they set up and then were like, oh well!
Oooof, I didn’t even think about THAT. That would be the CRUELEST joke and I think given their convo outside that’s not where she landed on, but it’s possible, it’s certainly possible, she was confused as hell and that could have been one of the options that flew through her mind. She’s SO new to this, she has no idea how to handle any of it, or what’s normal or at least common.
And another anon:
I took the 5th grade moment differently. I think Sterling repressed what she did because maybe she did have feeling for April even then. It’s the same year that she began to date Luke, who made her feel “normal”. April obviously couldn’t control her crushes even as far back as 2nd grade. Maybe Spencer felt that. I’m hoping this comes up again in season 2. Love your analysis.
Hmmmmmm, interesting, that’s also possible. I think they’re gonna land on Sterling being bi but they’ve also pretty explicitly highlighted how much it is April and just April that, at least for right now, gets to her in a certain, uh, way. Possibly this crush DID exist earlier and she tamped it down, maybe. It’s hard to say any which way but I’m not sure if they will continue it if they get a s2, we seem to be making more of it than they did.
And thanks!