#nick radel

[the-river-rix]

Uhhh screwy bastard??? Uhhhhh —— oughhhhhh

[trekkiehood]

"But if you want perfect, then I know a guy." Is a crazy thing to say about your ex-situationship

[miasmultifandomdump]

Just Like It Was Before from Bandstand is SO GOOD because so much art from that era romanticized the idea of a post war-life and Bandstand takes that and then contrasts it with the gut-wrenching reality that soldiers were coming home from a harrowing and traumatic experience with scars both visible and invisible and with the loss of so many others in the war. It shows how hard everyone's trying but they're just failing because the goal isn't attainable. You can't send boys to battle and expect them to come back the same. It's fair that people just wanted things to go back to normal, but that was never going to happen.

[designsforliving]

Bandstand Headcanon

Johnny loves the movies. It’s one of the few things he can remember stuff about besides music. He knows the names of a bunch of stars and remembers movie quotes. He annoys the band by constantly quoting movies. He also has the biggest crush on Gene Kelly which him and Julia both gush about and see every new movie with him in it together (also Judy Garland because Johnny is an OG friend of Dorothy).

[the-cryptid-finch]

Me trying to explain Bandstand to anyone: A family isn't always your blood. It isn't just a mother and a father. Sometimes a family is a depressed bisexual war veteran, the widow of his best friend, an alcoholic double bass player who likes Shakespeare, a drummer with memory problems, a gay lawyer who likes checkered trousers, a divorced dad of two who has OCD and a trumpet player with anger issues.

Literally anyone else:...what?

[your-blorbos-are-queer]

nick radel from bandstand is gay and demisexual (headcanon)

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[joyfulsoda]

THE EPILOGUE FOR BANDSTAND GOES OVER A SPAN OF AT LEAST FOUR YEARS? HELLO?

The beginning scene takes place a year after the events of the radio contest. We know Act One and the majority of Act Two (everything but the Epilogue) take place in 1945, so that means the Epilogue starts in '46 (see image below).

But we suddenly jump forward FOUR YEARS to not only when The Rainbow Room has opened again, but they've ALREADY PERFORMED THERE?

That's it. That's the post. The band is still together after, like, five+ years. This is fine. This didn't make me almost start crying out of happiness. (<- complete and utter sarcasm.)

The band is so happy together... Oh, they're such a found family...

[northpointedlovers]

I wish the Bandstand explored more about Wayne’s gun. The other members, especially Julia, finding out that Wayne ritualistically cleans his gun and his suicide ideation. I can’t be the only one who thought at least one member of the band would commit, right? They set it up in the first song: “I’ve been to three funerals this month.” “They wanted a way to make it stop.” “No ones care…they came back a while ago.” You know who also is alluded to coming back a while ago? Wayne. Long enough to reenstablish his relationship with his family, develop (bad) coping techniques and for things to be increasingly strained. You know who has frequently been hinted at being suicidal? Wayne!

You know who else doesn’t get a happy ending? WAYNE!

The others get the money, they get the girl, they get the fame – they get what they wanted to be fulfilled. Are you going to tell me any of that matters in comparison to having lost his wife, his children and his home? There’s no indication it gets better for him. He has it all and still has lost so much that might not ever be fixed and it is the one that matters most to him. If anything, I wouldn’t be surprised if looking around and seeing all his band members seemingly content now while he’s still so deep in the mud, made him more suicidal; even if he is much stronger and less likely to act on those thoughts.

But seriously, the members just never learn of it, even when one of them lives with him. I want a scene where Nick walks in seeing him holding a gun and just…thinking. Of course, he would have timed his ritual to be when he knows Nick would be teaching or something, but it could have ended early. I’m not saying take his gun away (although I would rather he not have that), but like… It just feels crazy that he just has a gun and could use it and they’d be like, “I didn’t know he even had a gun!”

We should not know more about his suicidal ideation and his fucking (possibly) loaded gun than the characters meant to be his best friends, brothers and sister!