#hsmtmts s4

[starrrbakerrr]

You're the "wow" guy, right? Who almost ruined the take. Wow. Yeah, like that!

#gina is so perfect to ricky🥺 #ricky bowen #gina porter #rina #hsmtmts #high school musical: the musical: the series #hsmtmts s4 #rina hsmtmts #ricky x gina #gina x ricky #hsmtmts s3 #hsmtmts s2 #hsmtmtsedit #rinaedit #gif #mine #1000+

[zanephillips]

MATTHEW SATO HSMTMTS S04E01 "High School Musical 4"

#matthew sato #matthewsatoedit #hsmtmts #high school musical the musical the series #hsmtmtsedit #hsmtmts s4 #disneyedit #tvedit #actor #men #menedit #guys #gifs #mine #* #High School Musical: The Musical: The Series

[blues-valentine]

Because…

Gina telling Ricky “but with you I feel so seen. And so understood and so known.” basically destroyed me. It hit me so hard. Like, that’s just beautiful. It’s better than any love confession. Because like, that’s ultimately all that you want. A lot of people can give you so many things but the feeling of being so utterly you, so at peace with a person. That’s priceless. And that’s what Gina deserves. The reason she felt in love with Ricky is because she could be herself instead of the made up versions she pretended to be. And you could see this season how herself she was.

And for Ricky to hear this words coming from her, someone that is constantly struggling with not knowing if what he gives or has is enough for people to want to stay (his mom, Nini…). Someone that is “always too late” (but never when it counts) it must have felt so validating. Ricky’s biggest quality is that when he loves, loves deeply and unashamedly. And that’s everything Gina needs from him. His unconditional love.

Also, give Sofia Wylie her flowers NOW.

#hsmtmts #hsmtmts season 4 #hsmtmts s4 #high school musical the musical the series #gina porter #rina #ricky x gina #ricky bowen #text post #sofia wylie

[thebvbbletea]

"I have feeling for you. I have every feeling for you"

— High School Musical: The Musical: The Series 4.08

#hsmtmts s4 #high school musical the musical the series #madlyn #maddox #ashlyn caswell #I LOVE THEM DKXHSKDH

[soursfilms]

there’s something so special about the way ricky and gina hold hands. every time they hold hands one of them has to grab unto the other’s upper arm. as if holding hands isn’t enough they need to grab each other and hold each other close. one of their top love languages is most definitely physical touch. they share that level of clinginess that their past partners weren’t into. it’s so cute.

#hsmtmts #ricky x gina #gina porter #ricky bowen #rina #rina hsmtmts #gina x ricky #hsmtmts s4 #high school musical the musical the series

[phildumphy]

Gina + The Gown (HSMTMTS 4.07–08)

#hsmtmts #hsmtmtsedit #hsmtmtsnet #gina porter #sofia wylie #hsmtmts s4 #ricky bowen #joshua bassett #dailytvwomen #userlix #*** #THE FACT THAT SHE'S WEARING RICKY'S JACKET OVER IT IN THE LAST GIF #to quote a great philosopher: don't get me started #hsmtmts spoilers #flashing tw

[pretend-of-beginning]

coming back out of my hibernation slumber to say that hsmtmts s4 had the power to do something SO INSANE with chyan and they didn’t and i will NEVER forgive them for that

#haven’t watch the season yet i probs won’t but i tried looking it up and from what i found they aren’t together #canon on screen gay ryan is so wonderful tho not diminishing that #hsm #hsmtmts #hsmtmts season 4 #hsmtmts s4 #spoilers? #hsmtmts spoilers #chyan #ryan evans #chad danforth #ryan evans x chad danforth #y’all didn’t see my original typos you saw nothing

[homemade-ghosts]

"I just thought maybe we could write this [song] together."

In season 1, Ricky can't/isn't ready to express how he feels about Nini in his own words, so he uses her's instead (by singing her song, "I Think I Kinda Ya Know", back to her during auditions). It's not very well-received, at least not by Nini (Gina's eyes light up when she hears Ricky sing for the first time). Partially because Nini has a new boyfriend and she doesn't appreciate Ricky effectively forcing his way back into her life by trying out for the musical...but mostly because he still can't say "I love you" to her, even if it's in a song (that he didn't even write). Later, Ricky wrote "Just for a Moment" for Nini, but never actually sang it to her (at least not in their reality...and when he did sing an excerpt of it to Big Red, Red immediately thought it was about Gina).

Then, in season 2, he writes Nini yet another song (two, actually, but "The Perfect Gift" is so generic that I consider it more of a cute holiday song by Josh than a song Ricky wrote for Nini) — and again, he doesn't actually get to sing it to her. They're so bad at communicating with one another that they spend the entirety of that day (Valentine's Day) trying to meet up, but never being able to. They can't even get the timing of a simple phone call right (a call that was Gina's idea, by the way) so Ricky has to sing "Even When" to Nini's voicemail (and vice versa).

Later on in season 2, Ricky & Nini were tasked (by Miss Jenn) with writing an original song for Beauty & The Beast together and they couldn't do it. Nini, instead, wrote the song on her own — a song that ended up being about how she feels, understandably, idolized and suffocated by her relationship with Ricky...which she told Kourtney not to tell Ricky about and then told Ricky, to his face, that the song wasn't about him.

Ricky writes Nini another song ("Let You Go") after they break up (or at least he finishes it post-breakup) that he claims was written for Nini, as a goodbye or some kind of "Hail Mary", but he never sings it to her...because it wasn't so much about her as it was about him grieving the childhood relationship they had and coming to terms with the fact that ending it was the right choice for both of them.

My point being, Ricky has always written songs for someone else (or claimed they were for someone else), but never with them (technically, there's that throw away line in s2 where Carlos mentions that Ricky wrote some of the lyrics in "In A Heartbeat", the song for Seb, but I'm talking romantic relationships here). He couldn't write a song with Nini because they were never on the same page, they couldn't communicate with or understand each other personally, so they couldn't collaborate musically (& even the songs he wrote for her rarely went the way he wanted them to).

Which is why it speaks volumes when Ricky says he wants to write a song with Gina. Finally, he's in a relationship with someone that's built on true friendship, mutual support and understanding (& vice versa for Gina, too), someone that he can communicate and collaborate with. With Nini, it was always about pushing his feelings onto her, but now he doesn't just want to sing a song to Gina about just his feelings (though he'll do that, too) he wants to listen to her, to know how she feels. He wants to work together to create something that they can share, that's not just his or just her's, but uniquely their's.

In season 2, when Nini flees after Ricky tries to talk to her about the song she wrote ("The Rose Song") she says something like, "It's just a song, Ricky." to which he responds, "A song can mean everything."

He was right, a song can mean everything.

#anyway catch me crying when they sing the song they wrote together #ricky x gina #rina #hsmtmts #ricky bowen #hsmtmts s4 #gina porter

[thedesertpenguin]

Idk if anyone else has pointed this out but this season has 4 instances of duets where one person wrote the song and their counterpart jumps in by reading the song:

Gina writes a song, Ricky jumps in

Ashlyn writes a song, Maddox jumps in

Seb writes a song, Carlos jumps in

These are all explicitly romantic pairings then:

EJ writes a song, Ricky jumps in

I can’t look at this pattern and not think that it wasn’t intentional. They knew exactly what they’re doing right??

#I’m not a big Caswen shopper but I saw the potential in e5 #salty that they didn’t do this with jetney tho that’s RUDE #hsm the series #hsmtmts #hsmtmts s4 #caswen #rina #seblos #madlyn

[ellscarrotqueen]

is anyone talking about the way ricky was looking at ej when he was singing speak out. like this dude was mesmerised. hello???????

#caswen #ricky x ej #ej x ricky #hsmtmts s4 #ricky bowen #ej caswell #bisexual

[goginaporter]

it’s so special to me that the show and tim are continuing to drive the point that rina is forever. it’s gina for ricky and it’s ricky for gina and it’s going to be like that for the rest of their lives. mr. and mrs. porter-bowen 🤍🤍🤍

#hsmtmts #gina porter #ricky x gina #rina #ricky bowen #rina hsmtmts #gina x ricky #gina porter x ricky bowen #my loves #hsmtmts spoilers #I just adore them #hsmtmts s4 #never won this hard #and never will again #glad they’re making sure everyone gets that they will never love or be in love with others like they are with each other #i’ve been saying it since the beginning but the confirmation is always great

[starrrbakerrr]

"My heart's far, far away." - "Home" (Beauty and the Beast) "Cause my heart is wherever you are." - "Can I Have This Dance?" (High School Musical 3: Senior Year)

"One of the wonderful things about being a producing/director on a series is that you get to tell a story over time. In the image above (season 2) the steadycam move caught Ricky in the doorway for a fraction of a moment as Gina in the foreground sheds a tear for him. In the image below (season 4) Ricky and Gina, now dance together in the same angle and framing. As a director, I really like book ends and used blocking as a way of calling back to moments without directly referencing them." - Kimberly McCullough (director of 2x06, "Yes, And," and 4x03, "A Star is Reborn")

#every rina moment is intentional no matter how many times *they* try to say otherwise #im not claiming to be the original person to make this connection btw!!! I first saw it on twitter and then saw the director's post!! #rina #hsmtmts #high school musical: the musical: the series #gina porter #ricky bowen #ricky x gina #gina x ricky #hsmtmts rina #rinacentral #hsmtmtsnet #mine #rinaedit #hsmtmts s4 #hsmtmts s2 #hsmtmtsedit #disney plus #rina parallel #disneyedit #yes and is so hard for me to watch bc gina's so sad ☹️ #this is such a beautiful parallel they are so special to me #a silly little disney show has one of my favorite couples ever😭

[katiemcgrathhh]

I need more madlyn in my life 2 seasons and 1 kiss was not enough for me🤧😭

#ashlyn caswell #maddox hsmtmts #hsmtmts s4 #madlyn #maddox x ashlyn #my smol babies were too pure and I’m obsessed with them 🥹🥹

[blues-valentine]

They went kinda crazy this season with the callbacks because Season 2 Ricky telling Nini she was his home for all the wrong reasons [and Nini feeling pressured because of it] to telling Gina “you and I’ve become a sacred kind of home” as in him and Gina are building a space that feels like home together. It’s not just Ricky putting her on a pedestal but a mutual feeling. And Gina nodding to let him know he’s right is everything.

#rina hsmtmts #hsmtmts #hsmtmts season 4 #hsmtmts s4 #gina porter #rina #ricky bowen #ricky x gina #text post

[sharpexgoodwin]

Look at Carlos and Kourtney’s face during Rina’s CIHTD it’s just too funny

#they really clocked their tea #reminded me of the wdykal performance #ricky x gina #hsmtmts #gina porter #ricky bowen #rina hsmtmts #rina #high school musical the musical the series #hsm the series #hsmtmts s4 #carlos rodriguez #kourtney greene

[soursfilms]

gina wanted someone to fight for her. (a short sort of analysis on gina porter)

ej never fought for gina during their miscommunication in the season two finale. he just cancelled the date and let her go. if it wasn’t for ashlyn talking to gina, they wouldn’t of gotten together because he didn’t fight for her. in season three he said he was doing the musical so maybe his dad can let him stay in salt lake and they could be together, but we all know his dad’s approval was his main motivation. he ditched her and made promises he couldn’t keep. he didn’t fight for her when she gave him another chance to show up at prom. when they broke up, he deflected, bringing ricky up unprovoked, and then let her go, again, without a fight. (though they only dated for two weeks and what they had wasn’t strong enough for a fight but i digress)

when gina admitted to ricky her feelings in the last episode of season three, she was prepared to walk away with her head held high, but he stopped her, and like ej told ricky in season four, gina wouldn’t be with him if she didn’t know the guy he could be. all of season three ricky continuously showed up for her and regretted what happened the semester before. gina saw something in ricky all the way back in season one and she knew that he was the one. although it took some time, due to the fact that ricky didn’t want to make the same mistakes he did with nini.

gina would’ve loved to receive a bunch of messages from ricky telling her he wishes she could stay with him unlike nini would’ve. (which is so valid for her to feel! this is just me explaining how different nini and gina receive and view love) she doesn’t see it as him “holding her back” she saw it as someone who fights for what they built and she’s always wanted someone to fight for her, and ricky did that. he showed up for her and stayed. even if she would’ve left, he sang to the world how he’s in love and how they’re forever no matter what. that’s all gina has ever wanted. growing up no one in her life fought to stay in it. jaime left. her mom leaves her alone a lot of the times because of her job. her dad isn’t there. no one fought to be in her life that way. she’s so used to leaving and moving. then ricky comes around and promises her she’ll never walk alone (puppy love lyrics reference!) that they built a sacred home forever, and showed it to her continuously all season.

also, want to mention, in the troy and gabriella scene in the play, one of her lines is, “i always do the right thing, maybe i want to do something crazy this time. i mean, everything about my life has been full speed ahead.”

while ricky was worried of holding her back, or ruining her moment and saying the wrong thing because of his past mistakes with nini, gina wouldn’t of minded that at all. she wanted ricky to finally say i love you. to know what they have is real so they could fight for their love together no matter what happens next. (she already knew he loved her though, gina just needed him to say it so she could finally do “something crazy”)

#hsmtmts #gina porter #ricky bowen #ricky x gina #rina #rina hsmtmts #gina x ricky #hsmtmts s4 #high school musical the musical the series #ej caswell