First Impressions Last the Longest

Sir Gareth, ever humble, ever patient, ever kick-ass awesome, can't seem to catch a break--from anyone. His whole book is basically a tale straight out of Ye Olde Medieval High School Movie. Teased and bullied by Sir Kay the Ever Block-headed and ignored by pretty much everyone else, he finally gets a chance to hang around the cool/popular Table at feast time, only to find out that he is wearing an outfit that is so last century. If surcoats are 'fetch,' his kitchen boy tunic is 'roll over and play dead.' But nevertheless, he gets his chance: a quest! (read: possible date to the junior prom). There Gareth is, running rings around all the other guys (actually, running them through), proving again and again (and again and again) that he's better than any jock in the whole school district, and yet the only person whose opinion seems to matter is the girl's (Lynnet)--who wants absolutely nothing to do with a guy who wears that. Meanwhile, Lyonesse (enter Taylor Swift a la "You Belong with Me") couldn't care less what her white knight is wearing--she just can't wait to get the hell out of this dungeon and out into the 'real world.'