#ranch meta

[jacquelineshyde]

Finished all episodes of "The Ranch" that are currently available and I love Rooster's character much more in the end of "season 2" than the rest of the show. They finally shown some depth to him, cause before that the whole pervert thing was creeping me out. I wanted to discuss)

The Ranch is one of those shows that has keep me going “alright, i’ll long enough to know what will happen to these characters”, so I kinda have it in a especial place lol. Also, it’s fun to find the some times obvious and other times, not-so-obvious t70s connections.

Rooster is my favorite character and, like you, I like his development better during half B of season 1 (the show is divided in part 1 and 2, but these two parts form season 1. Part 1 of season 2 will be relased in june 16 this year). And what I like the most about it, it’s that we actually could had seen it coming if we hadn’t been distracted by Colt’s constant drama during half A.

Because we are told and shown since the beginning that the one trying to make everyone around him happy is Rooster. He keeps trying to get everyone together and then makes a joke about it to not let anyone know his real feelings, which makes sense looking at who his father is and the fact that we are lowkey told Beau has old fashioned way of do things, so of course he would take his older son to be the one keeping things in the family and the younger one would be the one that gets out.

As a rancher myself, seeing all this gender dynamics displayed and put into an extreme (Beau not understanding Maggie’s desire of being more, yet loving her enough to understand he has to let her go and being able to cry even in front of hi son; Rooster being the one they wanted to carry everything in his shoulders, included not being as perfect as his brother; the way Mary and Joanne are seen as some how modern, even when their strenght had to be form out of bad situations with life AND men), it’s very interesting.

Rooster doesn’t truly hold a grudge to his brother and ultimately wants him to succeed and be happy, and I think that’s something that happens to a lot of older siblings who fuctioned as their parents’ experiments of making the perfect kid and had to endure their little sibling being spoiled and given more chances.

When we are told Rooster gave up on his own goals to help Beau and later gave all his money to help Colt, I sobbed the rest of the episode with my own little brother. It touches too close to home, and that’s cool to be seen in a show.

My hopes are that in this half A of season 2 the development of his and everyone’s characters keep going the same way it didn during half B of season 1. His pervyness has been reduced ever since he started dating Mary and hopefully i’ll stay that way, because it allows more interesting dynamics to be shown and stories to be told.

PS: I’m glad you watched the show :D 

[jacquelineshyde]

What are your predictions for the new season of the ranch?

LET’S TALK FAN THEORIES NOW.

Okay, so where we left the show, it was a damn cliché cliffhanger I hope they try and threat correctly. Heather is pregnant from the last time she had sex with Colt, but he left her again to go and try something with Abby, to who he wanted to propose as shown seconds before Heather reveled to Colt she’s expecting.

Meanwhile, Rooster rejected Beau’s atempt to fix their relationship in a very crude, very Beau way. He says it’s nice his father gave him his grandfather’s knife but he can’t accept it since Beau has never accepted him, nor took in account his work with him, and he didn’t support him when he most needed it.

And then, in the first pictures we got a few weeks ago, we can see Colt and Abby in what seems and feels like a friendly moment:

Like #yikes, because I don’t ship them and I’m mad at Colt if he doesn’t help and interact more with Heather now that she’s pregnant. My guess is that Colt will want to help Abby as much as he can, but will not be with her as a couple. And I think that’s also something Heather would want, I honestly don’t see them happening at this point *sighs*.

I think Abby will be mad at Colt for the baby situation and Colt will try to win her back again, as he has been doing since season 1 A. My hope is that this time it won’t be as annoying as the first time, and both will actually put theirselfs to work on their relationship for it to work.

A picture that took a lot my atention is this one:

WHAT THE FUCK, MAN? For the way Colt and Rooster are looking at Berto, I guess it’s his fault their are in what seems to be jail. I bet you we are going to see the boys going out and making a party out of their alcohol, then getting into trouble or they will do something stupid and risky to help Berto out of something, and they will end up in jail.

Who is going to bail them out, though? Maybe Maggie will go to their rescue, or maybe Mary would do. I wish Mary and her girls weren’t such minor characters, the three of them are more interested than some arcs with some characters… but okay.

And then, what I actually care more about, is Rooster’s story line. 

Because we have him being comptitive with Beau here:

and then friendly as fuck with him here:

What I think is that we’ll have them trying to get along, at least when they are around their family, especially Maggie. I bet you Maggie will try to have them talk and fix their shit, but they will also be in constant competition when it comes to their respective ranchs.

Rooster is working for a big ass ranch that belong to a rich dude that knows shit about how to be a rancher, and we have been told and SHOWN that Rooster is damn GOOD at what he does. So it’s goign to be interesting to see what he can do with his own space, people and materials… and against his own father.

Because we have to remember that, from this family, Rooster is probably the most loving one and also the most closed one after Beau. He and Beua are pretty similar when it comes to their macho image and the not sharing feelings part. When it comes to be serious, Rooster is pretty serious (and I hope they keep that characterization for him).

So them drinking together at their home may be just to make Maggie happy or may be the start of an assosiation? I don’t think Rooster will come back home so soon, and I would hate it if he has to because Colt can’t do shit and Beau really needs the help, or because he couldn’t do it on his own (<– I would hate this option even more, since option one is, sadly, in canon for him).

Another thing that takes my attention to this picture of them in the house, is that Maggie is there. I guess we will see Beau and her still working on not being married, would she date or try to date? And will something happen between Joanne and Beau? It’s going to be interesting seeing these two being actually divorced an trying to keep on their lives.

I also want to know where the hell does Rooster lives, tho.

THEN, there is this:

I’m really worried about Rooster and his job. I want to see him out of his house and going through everything on his own. I don’t want him to go back to Iron River just like that. It’s a ten episodes A part of season 2, I don’t want him leaving his job so quickly.

He’s wearing working clothes, which is the strange part of the picture. In the best case scenario, he is only helping Beau and Colt out with something at their ranch. Another option is that maybe Maggie called them all to Iron River in an emergency tone and Rooster went without changing his clothes.

I DON’T WANT HIM GOING BACK TO IRON RIVER JUST YET!

So, I think we are going to have Colt trying to have a relationship with Abby (I don’t think he will propose right now, though), at the same time he tries to be there for Heather during her pregnancy and prepares himself to be a father (BOY, he needs to mature some).

Rooster will be dealing with his feelings for his father, his new job and how to treat with Beau as another rancher more than his own kind. While Beau will be dealing with seeing his son, who was the one that was ALWAYS there, now gone and hurt by him (AND I HOPE HE FEELS BAD BECAUSE HE HAS BEEN PRETTY SHITTY WITH ROOSTER HIS ENTIRE LIFE) and making a life of his own.

Also, I expect cameos from Debra Jo Rupp and Kurtwood Smith, aisde from Wilmer’s Berto to come back as shown in the first still we got :D.

PS: I actually like Rooster’s clothes this time. I like him when he wears other than his normal ugly ass t-shirt + jeans combo, I mean here he looks fine:

[jacquelineshyde]

astronautbethjohanssen replied to your post: What are your predictions for the new season of...

I knew you would answer something awesome :D What do you think is more likely to happen with Heather and her baby?

Uhm.

I hate this kind of storylines because I feel like their never are treated as it should. A baby is a serious thing, it’s a life, and the mother should be able to chose if she wants to keep it or not, but in TV, these storylines often go like:

Mom keeps baby, decides ot be a single mom, mostly because the father does not want to be involved at first. Father gets convinced to be involved, slowburn for the parents that will ultimatelly get together at some point and shippers must pray for a) it to last and maybe be endgame, b) for the show to not be cancelled.

And in this case, I think this is more or less what will happen. When I’m not sure if it’s Heather and Colt will ever get together. Right now, in this moment, without having only s1 and the stills of s2, and my theories, I think they will NOT get together.

I do ship them, but I don’t want them rushing into something when Colt obviously has and will have feelings for Abby for a long time, until he learns to let it go or marries her, or God knows what. And Heather deserves better, she deserves a man that will love her and only her, support her and respect her, not see her as a comodity.

Colt still has a lot fo work to do in himself and his life, so I want the best for Heather and her baby, and the best will be not have a romantic relationship with Colt at the moment.