Hopewell Valley Student Podcasting Network

Show Name: The Fan and The Foe

Episode Title: The Summer I Turned [into a] pretty [huge superfan]

You are listening to The Fan and the Foe with your host(s) Gabbi and Louisa.

In this episode of The Fan and the Foe we discuss the summer I turned Pretty and its EXTREMELY dedicated fans

Segment 1: Talking About TSITP

Louisa: okay before we get into things i want to clarify that we have both watched this right

Gabbi: yes I ve watched all the seasons

Louisa: Okay good me too, but for the listeners that don’t know, do you want to explain what TSIPT is??

Gabbi: Of course. So basically The Summer I turned pretty is a wildly popular YA romance show that is based off of the book trilogy by Jenny Han. You might be thinking to yourself hmm. I totally know that name from somewhere? It's because she is also the author of the equally famous To all the Boys I’ve Loved Before book and movie series. TSITP follows Isabel or Belly who spends every summer at her family friend's beach house on Cousins Beach. Belly has always been seen as a younger sister to everyone, especially her moms best friends two sons Conrad and Jeremiah, who are BOTH the love interests of this series at one point or another. But of course Belly goes for the older and emotionally unavailable one who she's been DOWN bad for since childhood.

Louisa: Oh obviously why would you go for the more reasonable option when there's a much more difficult and treacherous path to go down in the form of his older brother. But I am still team Conrad, jeres just there for the plet

Gabbi: trust me Louisa everyone whose ever seen the show shakes their head at every single decision belly makes.. This fanbase is you guessed it like that of most other teenaged romances– teenage girls who are desparately hope for their moms best friends son who also looks like chris briney to fall in love with them!

Louisa: Hey- don’t hate on my guy chris briney. He is the best actor in the entire series. And I think some people hope for their moms best friends son also looks like jeremiah

Gabbi: Okay okay your probably right. Anyways One of the biggest controversies of this show is the heated rivalry between the two brothers over Belly, and very polarly you either have to be Team Jeremiah or Team Conrad. There is a right answer and it is obviously Team Conrad

Louisa: How is that obvious? I feel like they both have some pretty apparent flaws and differences. But im not going against my word because as I said its def connie for the win. BUT my sister is team jeremiah because she says he is the one that has been there and the one that high as she says climbed up that ladder.

Gabbi: I mean they definitely both have their drawbacks and emotional trauma but at least Conrad didn’t cheat on belly and then fix it by proposing to her???

Louisa: Mind you with the SMALLEST ring known to mankind. But at least Jeremiah actually cared about her and didn’t try to covertly steal his brothers FIANCE. But Conrad is more stable and much more mature and caring. So like i guess I know where my sister was coming from we we actually got in a fight about it haha

Gabbi: a FIGHT??

Louisa: like basically yes haha. We were watching the finale together and SPOILER ALERT when they looked back at the house in cousins after belly and conrad were together she said smth a long the lines of “that shouldve been jere” so I was like what the heck are you talking about its always been conrad and so she was like no its been jere for like 7 years and I said sure but shes always thought about conrad and their infinity necklace and she like stormed off because she was so mad but we resolved it and mow were chillin even though we joke about that fight now

Gabbi: omg tahts insane haha, maybe your part of the crazy fandom.

Louisa: I mean were def not the ones reading the books and making conspiracy theories, but we do love the show.

Gabbi: haha I get that, dont know if I believe you. In my opinion Belly always loved Conrad so he was always predisposed to her heart. Like Belly dates a bunch of guys between the ages of 16-21 but emotionally she's always had her heart set on a different target. Conrad.

Louisa: exactly, like its always ben conrad no matter who she is dating

Gabbi: you don’t think thats an issue at all??

Louisa:woah I never siad thatOk

Gabbi: before this gets TOOO heated lets take a quick break and you can hear from one of our friends podcasts and when we get back we will introduce a new game!

Segment 2: Banter

Gabbi: Welcome back!! I’m sure that you are all on the edge of your seat trying to figure out what we could possibly have in store for you but I thought it would be fun to play a game where I give louisa a scenario and she determines whether it is a plotline from the insane show that is The Summer I turned Pretty or something random that my brain came up with

Louisa: Wait this actually sounds like so much fun you mustve done a lot of thinking about things other than The Hunger Games to come up with it, and we all know that you find that challenging.

Gabbi: Well I don’t know if you need to be so mean, but yes very possibly it took a lot of my brain power. Ok now lets get started and feel free to play along at home!

Scenario 1: Right after their mother’s funeral the boy’s cousins and aunt come to Cousins (The town) and announce that they are selling their families beloved beach house which was

Louisa: oh well unfortunately i do remember that season, isn’t that the entire plot line of season two, and it was not my favorite season by a LOONGGGG shot. But that is definitely a Summer I turned pretty plot point

Scenario 2: In this next emotionally charged season the summer after susannahs death, belly and the boys (minus bellys brother for some reason) all recieve extremely heartfelt and meaningful letters that tell belly who she should marry, and tell the brothers who belly will marry subsequently breaking Jeremiah's heart.

Louisa: I feel like something like that definitely happened. So maybeeee it's a TSITP plot point?

Gabbi: I feel like I was a little tricky with this one because something like this does happen where susannah gives them all letters but it has little to nothing to do with directly who Belly should marry and it is more of letters of I love you and I'm sorry I can’t witness you grow up and get married.

Louisa: What an extremely sad lens to put on that.

Gabbi: It is a very sad show, in fact the first time I watched it I was with my mom and we both cried for a long long time.

Scenario 3: Belly moves to Paris and gets a bad haircut after she cancels her engagement with Jeremiah. She dates a Parisian man and then when her man Conrad shows up to Paris she dumps her Parisian man for Conrad.

Louisa: I have a feeling that happened so definitely a real plot point.

Gabbi: Yea you are right!! Good job ⅔ is like a new record for you!!!

Segment 3: Crazy Fan Encounter

Louisa: ok whatever now its time for everyones favority segment, the crazy fan encounters!!!

Gabbi: WOOOOOOO

Louisa: SO a little different this time, I still found a wild story or encounter, but I also wanted to share a really sweeet interaction between the actors and a fan.

Gabbi: ooh okay lets hear it!

Louisa: so basically A young fan and leukemia survivor, Jayce Bickford, used her Make-A-Wish experience to meet the cast of The Summer I Turned Pretty. The cast surprised her at her job (yes, at Sam’s Club!), gave her favorite Starbucks drink, and took her onto the show’s set — even letting her sit in the iconic red Jeep from the series. Clips of her joyful day with Lola Tung, Gavin Casalegno, Christopher Briney, and creator Jenny Han quickly went viral online, making it one of the most heart-melting fan-celebrity stories of the summer.

Gabbi: omg what thats the sweetest thing ever. Its good to see that the cast are better people in real life than they appear to be in the show

Louisa: haha I know right. However some people on the internet seem to disagree and thats where are actual crazy fan encounter come in

Gabbi: oooh okay im excited its sounds like its gonna be a good one

Louisa: still not as good as 1 direction, but basically Gavin Casalegno, who plays Jeremiah Fisher, received public death threats online from some viewers upset about his character’s actions and story arc. This was serious enough that Prime Video issued statements urging fans to stop the harassment. It went so far that The show’s official social accounts repeatedly reminded followers: “The show isn’t real but the people playing the characters are,” stressing that the actors are real human beings — not the fictional figures people are fighting over.

Gabbi: holy cow thats insane and not okay, people need to learn to separate from the characters and understand the idea of acting

Louisa: yea and tht wasnt even it- the Harassment wasn’t limited to threats — actors, including Gavin and co-stars like Lola Tung and Christopher Briney, have been targeted with insults and hostile messages on social media simply because of how fans felt about their characters. Like my sister and I fought with each other, but love the actors for both characters so would never ever do anything to them

Gabbi: yea that whole story is insane and you and your sister are the more reasonable ones here sounds like a good place to end this episode

Louisa: I agree, thank you for listening to the fan and the foe, we’ll see you next time

Gabbi: And don’t forget to stay nerdy

Louisa: or don't…

Music Credits:

Introduction

Website where you got the song from: YouTube Audio Library

Song Title: F16

Artist: The Grey Room/ Golden Palms

Licensing: YouTube Audio Library License

Outro Song Title: Merry Go Round

Artist: Telecasted

Licensing: YouTube Audio Library

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