Shan

I remember reading somewhere that Carter Covington said Joss Whedon inspired him to write. One thing that I'm forever grateful to Joss for was that every season of Buffy wrapped itself up by the end of the season instead of a cliffhanger carried over to next year. I wish more shows did this. Maybe in this show's case it might have been better if before the season break, they had one more episode (or at least planned episode 8 to be the day after) showing at least some of the fallout and resolution (especially in case they hadn't been renewed).

The character of Jasmine would work for that, there was definitely chemistry and they've even already left the door open for that possibility at the end of the episode she appeared in.

I guess always easier said than done but especially in retrospect, Amy would have been better off saying what she said in episode 8 while on the lawn in episode 7 and Karma said they had to break up. At least at that point, Karma was yet to enter the Cube of Doom. The results would still have presumably still been similar up to a point but it probably would have avoided a lot of the fallout as well as being far away from any alcohol at the time.

A moment where Liam realises what a douche Liam is.

Well, I guess if the show had been cancelled they could always have spent a bit of money to film a short coda for the DVD set which would have been the "supermarket" or "grocery store" ending set years later, which could have been a relatively dark way to end the show with once best friends having fallen out and barely acknowledging each other in a chance encounter in the future.

For me, best line of the episode was Lauren's empathy remark. Everything from the cake and how she was trying to be supportive gives her most valuable player status. I was hoping she'd do something like this in the episode and I wasn't disappointed.

I keep forgetting about Karma for some reason. Good point, she's been pursuing what she wants quite relentlessly without thinking about the effects it could have on anyone else. From her POV until the finale, Amy isn't gay and she's seen the kinds of problems she's been having at home because of it for seemingly no gain (and it could potentially have been much worse but that's not the story they were wanting to tell here) and yet it never really registered much with Karma, did it?

As I posted elsewhere, Liam seems to be easily the least self aware of the characters (contrast to Lauren and Shane who at least realise to varying degrees that they can be terrible) and those few moments of self awareness seem to be quickly snuffed out by him and the fact he hasn't faced any consequences for his actions so far probably don't go down with a lot of people very well at all either.

I think the problem a lot of people have with the character is that's he's quite possibly seen by many as the most terrible person the show. At least Lauren and Shane realise to varying degrees that they can be terrible people (if anything warming up even more to Lauren now). Liam might occasionally have had flashes of insight but more often than not when it happens (esp. ep 7), he consciously snuffed it out. People's antipathy to him also probably comes from the fact that up to now, he really hasn't faced any consequences for it yet either. Also worth wondering how much Shane told him as well, clearly Shane told him about how things were initially but the question is how much did he go into Amy and that she's actually (from his current POV) unambiguously gay (whether that happened or not may make the consequences of the final scene even worse)? Then there's the fact that Shane did actually spark this whole mess off in the first place and whether he's completely taken responsibility for that too. That plus the fact that his ideas and actions are frequently wrong (he just gets lucky that sometimes they end up being right quite by chance).

"He wasn't helping her cheat because Karma said it was an open relationship." General bit of useful advice for a whole variety of situations in future, just because someone says somebody else said something, it might be a good idea to check directly with that person to be sure instead of believing everything you hear second hand. It could avoid all sorts of awkwardness later.

More (any) Lauren and Amy actually being real sisters now and doing fun stuff together. Possible B plot line, Karma and Amy have patched things up somewhat but now Karma's jealous that they have less time to do things like they used to ("Sorry, can't go shopping with you because Lauren and I are already at miniature golf." sort of thing).

Well, my question (which I don't have an answer to) is how much responsibility should a fictional show generally have in how it portrays things? It may be truer to life but on the other hand there are laws which even if rarely enforced, can and have technically landed people in trouble sometimes. Should there be any worries about making sure people watching it are at least aware of real world implications or not, given that it has been known for people to mistake things on TV for what might happen in real life? Neither the age of the characters nor alcohol consumption is the primary focus of the show, it's about something else that they're trying to tell in the universe they've constructed which doesn't completely match real life, the ancillary details and background aren't as important in that context. Just worth thinking about, I guess.

(Sorry about this, for some reason I can only post from the Full Editor and when I do, it deletes the line breaks. Also if I post adjacent posts, it smashes them together. Finally, I can't edit now. Here's my last post that was intended to be separate.) ... and here's the After Ellen recap. http://www.afterellen.com/faking-it-recap-1-8-burnt-toast/06/2014/

I've always accepted (and the creators themselves have said) that the show is an exaggerated version of reality and using that backdrop to highlight things it wants to focus on, illustrate and discuss. I'm not sure how far down the rabbit hole you want to wander with the realism of some of the things with the show. I guess some of it is suspension of disbelief though it is fair to at least speculate about some of the choices.You could start by asking how two teenagers wander into a wedding already in progress and find uniforms to disguise themselves as working for the company and actually do so without noticing. Then like you're saying, there's a lot of underage alcohol consumption all through the show. Finally that leads to the age of consent in Texas is nominally 17 (though thanks to the possible contradiction of Texas penal code 43.25, you're seriously best off avoiding anyone under 18). If anything, a lot of things in this show technically could have ended up involving the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services and the Police.I guess that then leads to the next question as to why things are the way they are presented precisely because they're seen by people in real life. Would it have been better to make all the characters >18? Are they framing it this way because real life is more like this regardless of what the law and the people who set it ideally would like? All questions worth at least asking I guess. ... and here's the After Ellen recap.http://www.afterellen.com/faking-it-recap-1-8-burnt-toast/06/2014/

Autostraddle re Autostraddle review is up (They saw it last week so that's probably why this one is up so quickly).http://www.autostraddle.com/faking-it-episode-108-recap-i-know-you-felt-what-i-felt-240868/?all=1