what i would like to see in season 2 (and 3 tbh) of high school musical: the musical: the series
nini goes to YAC. she has to do it or all that she has been preaching about being her own person and not being so boy-dependent during season 1 will be even more in vain. she leaves but she and ricky decide to try long distance, because they just got back together and don’t want to lose each other again so soon. although he doesn’t say it to her or show it when they talk/facetime, he is devastated. he is lost. he needs someone to understand what it’s like and the only person who can do that is gina, who is so used to moving all the time and is now back at east high, staying at ashlyn’s. at first he is a little bit reluctant, as he was in the season finale, because he doesn’t trust people to come back in his life, he’s one of those “everyone always leave” kind of person. after a while though he lets her back in, because he needs her and because she doesn’t stop trying to be there for him, because she knows. and they bond over that like, a lot. they become closer and closer, they hang out all the time, and gina slowly starts to catch feelings for him (or better the feelings she already had but pushed back to make him happy at the end of the first season grow deeper). she doesn’t say a word until they perform in the musical and she realizes she can’t hold it anymore: she goes to find him and tell him how she feels but finds out that nini is back, like for good. so she gives up, this time for real, which leads to gina finding a boyfriend in season 3. seeing them together and being actually back with nini makes ricky realize that he doesn’t love her anymore and the girl he actually has feelings for is, in fact, gina.
meanwhile, kourtney and ej, who are the leads of their rendition of beauty and the beast, bond and find comfort in each other - and eventually fall in love - over nini’s departure. but when she comes back, she kinda bursts their bubble and angst between the two ensues, as well as a rocky relationship between nini and kourtney, which ends up in the latter finally standing up for herself. nini will have a little bit of a hard time between this and her relationship with ricky but it’ll be what she needs to finally find herself and be who she really is.
my thoughts on the rina/rini situation (not that anybody cares)
i ship rina and i don’t like nini. this had to be said.
regardless of either of these things, i truly believe that making rini endgame would be the wrong move. not only because it’s the easy and predictable route and frankly quite boring (and with what i’ve seen so far i trust the writers enough to do better, even though it’s a disney show), but because it would be so important to teach kids and teenagers, which are ofc the main demographics of the show, that:
a relationship can fail and it’s okay.
even though the heartbreak from said failed relationship seems unbearable and it feels like the end of the world, it is not and you will find love again.
it’s okay to move on.
and finally that exes can still care about each other and be friends.
although we might want to believe it, more often than not our first love doesn’t last. let’s not further fill kids’ heads with unrealistic expectations about love and give them something they can relate to and learn from.
