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geebsTV commentary:
Degrassi- You know, I know Frankie and Hunter are twins, but sometimes I forget that means they're the same age. Although that may be more the company they keep. Like Yael/Vijay/Baaz seem younger than Shay/Lola. So, just finished the Lola abortion story arc. Which is the reason I bring up the age thing. When Lola first started working with them I was all, I wonder how they managed to convince someone in a higher grade to do their little channel. Then I realized, oh, they're all the same age. Anyways, its was interesting to see Yael be the one for her, since Lola felt Shay and Frankie were being too judge-y.
But then she revealed she had an abortion online, though she didn't tell her friends that Miles was the father. Not that he didn't figure it out when he heard. Surprisingly that part ended up only being a footnote in the whole Miles/Tristan/Lola thing. Heh, Miles does finally confess, though Tris says between the play and Lola's abortion video, it was kinda obvious. Despite this, Tristan asks Miles who he'd rather be with, and Miles says him, so all is forgiven.
So all in all, like I said, Miles cheating on Tristan with Lola sounds terrible on paper, but their overall arcs ended up actually being pretty good.
Actually, this season was much better than the previous seasons because most of the overall storylines were pretty good. I wasn't too keen on the Frankie/Jonah stuff, because seriously, I don't get what she sees in him. Heh, it is funny that she keeps forgetting herself. So, she is kinda needy, and she eventually realizes she gets kinda crazy when she has a bf. So she correctly says they should take a break so she can figure things out. Which is good, if she actually did that. Eventually, she goes back to him, thanks to Hunter getting revenge on her for her pretending to be him online to Yael and saying the L-word to fix her brother's relationship, so he texts the same thing to Jonah. So she goes to Zoe's mom's wedding where he and Grace are DJ-ing to do damage control. But he hadn't seen the text yet!
So they talk it out, and she thinks its went well. But then she can't freaking even wait a couple hours to hear back from him, so she breaks into his account to see what he's doing. So of course he walks in at that moment and catches her and they break up for good. I mean, she should basically see that as a sign that she was correct the first time. She needs to figure out how not be a crazy person when she's in a relationship before she gets in another one. The second reason I wasn't keen on this arc was because that it freed Jonah up to perhaps get with Grace. Ugh.
But I'll get back to that later. I liked the Zoe arc, and glad to see her finally get a girl in Rasha. It kinda sucks that her mother kicked her out, but at least Grace took her in. I'm also glad things worked out with Rasha. So Zoe's mom finds out she's gay, but thinks its just a phase. I guess religion is the go to thing for lgbt intolerance, but her mom being an ultra-conservative Catholic doesn't really gel with Zoe's backstory. I mean, she was a child actress! The show started with her mom being a total show mom.
I mean, Zoe's mom being all, "You're not gay, you don't look gay!" I think would work better if her mom was all worried that her being gay would make her lose out on future acting parts (though I guess they haven't really covered the acting thing with her for a while). But yeah, she invites Rasha to the wedding and makes sure their gayness is on display for everyone to see. Too bad she didn't tell Rasha she was doing this, and Rasha obliviously thought everything was cool.
So Zoe gets kicked out by her mom, and Rasha is upset because the whole thing brings up bad memories from back in Syria where she was invited to a wedding and the secret police showed up to question her about being gay. Thankfully, Goldi fixes things between them. Which, it was cool to see more of her this season, particularly the arc they gave her, what with navigating her religion and being friends with lesbians (one knowingly and one unknowingly).
Then there's the Maya sinking into a depression arc. At first it was low-key, but holy crap things got super dark near the end, when you kinda realize what she's doing. She messed things up with Grace, kisses Zig, which pisses off Esme. And then things get tense with her fam. And its like a switch flipped. She turns all super nice, fixing the family heirloom mirror she broke with her savings, and having a movie night with her mom and sister (it was nice to see Katie again, especially with her back to being a blond!), giving her ring to Grace.
And you realize its a long set up for her getting ready to commit suicide. Grace figures it out, but its Esme and Zig who find Maya. Which is kinda effed up, because we just learned Esme found her mom when she committed suicide, and lest we forget, it was Zig who was the last one to actually speak to Cam (harshly) when he killed himself. And he had just blown Maya off because he said he couldn't be seen talking to her by Esme else his hide would be tanned.
Esme is obviously distraught upon finding Maya, but it turns out its good, as her familiarity with her mom's suicide lets them know the proper action to take to save her. The series seems to work very slowly at times, so I wonder if this will be set up for an Esme redemption arc next season. In any case, Maya lives, so despite the dark turn the season finale took, we go into next season on an uplifting note. Even Zoe, Miles and Tristan are friends again.
Degrassi- You know, I know Frankie and Hunter are twins, but sometimes I forget that means they're the same age. Although that may be more the company they keep. Like Yael/Vijay/Baaz seem younger than Shay/Lola. So, just finished the Lola abortion story arc. Which is the reason I bring up the age thing. When Lola first started working with them I was all, I wonder how they managed to convince someone in a higher grade to do their little channel. Then I realized, oh, they're all the same age. Anyways, its was interesting to see Yael be the one for her, since Lola felt Shay and Frankie were being too judge-y.
But then she revealed she had an abortion online, though she didn't tell her friends that Miles was the father. Not that he didn't figure it out when he heard. Surprisingly that part ended up only being a footnote in the whole Miles/Tristan/Lola thing. Heh, Miles does finally confess, though Tris says between the play and Lola's abortion video, it was kinda obvious. Despite this, Tristan asks Miles who he'd rather be with, and Miles says him, so all is forgiven.
So all in all, like I said, Miles cheating on Tristan with Lola sounds terrible on paper, but their overall arcs ended up actually being pretty good.
Actually, this season was much better than the previous seasons because most of the overall storylines were pretty good. I wasn't too keen on the Frankie/Jonah stuff, because seriously, I don't get what she sees in him. Heh, it is funny that she keeps forgetting herself. So, she is kinda needy, and she eventually realizes she gets kinda crazy when she has a bf. So she correctly says they should take a break so she can figure things out. Which is good, if she actually did that. Eventually, she goes back to him, thanks to Hunter getting revenge on her for her pretending to be him online to Yael and saying the L-word to fix her brother's relationship, so he texts the same thing to Jonah. So she goes to Zoe's mom's wedding where he and Grace are DJ-ing to do damage control. But he hadn't seen the text yet!
So they talk it out, and she thinks its went well. But then she can't freaking even wait a couple hours to hear back from him, so she breaks into his account to see what he's doing. So of course he walks in at that moment and catches her and they break up for good. I mean, she should basically see that as a sign that she was correct the first time. She needs to figure out how not be a crazy person when she's in a relationship before she gets in another one. The second reason I wasn't keen on this arc was because that it freed Jonah up to perhaps get with Grace. Ugh.
But I'll get back to that later. I liked the Zoe arc, and glad to see her finally get a girl in Rasha. It kinda sucks that her mother kicked her out, but at least Grace took her in. I'm also glad things worked out with Rasha. So Zoe's mom finds out she's gay, but thinks its just a phase. I guess religion is the go to thing for lgbt intolerance, but her mom being an ultra-conservative Catholic doesn't really gel with Zoe's backstory. I mean, she was a child actress! The show started with her mom being a total show mom.
I mean, Zoe's mom being all, "You're not gay, you don't look gay!" I think would work better if her mom was all worried that her being gay would make her lose out on future acting parts (though I guess they haven't really covered the acting thing with her for a while). But yeah, she invites Rasha to the wedding and makes sure their gayness is on display for everyone to see. Too bad she didn't tell Rasha she was doing this, and Rasha obliviously thought everything was cool.
So Zoe gets kicked out by her mom, and Rasha is upset because the whole thing brings up bad memories from back in Syria where she was invited to a wedding and the secret police showed up to question her about being gay. Thankfully, Goldi fixes things between them. Which, it was cool to see more of her this season, particularly the arc they gave her, what with navigating her religion and being friends with lesbians (one knowingly and one unknowingly).
Then there's the Maya sinking into a depression arc. At first it was low-key, but holy crap things got super dark near the end, when you kinda realize what she's doing. She messed things up with Grace, kisses Zig, which pisses off Esme. And then things get tense with her fam. And its like a switch flipped. She turns all super nice, fixing the family heirloom mirror she broke with her savings, and having a movie night with her mom and sister (it was nice to see Katie again, especially with her back to being a blond!), giving her ring to Grace.
And you realize its a long set up for her getting ready to commit suicide. Grace figures it out, but its Esme and Zig who find Maya. Which is kinda effed up, because we just learned Esme found her mom when she committed suicide, and lest we forget, it was Zig who was the last one to actually speak to Cam (harshly) when he killed himself. And he had just blown Maya off because he said he couldn't be seen talking to her by Esme else his hide would be tanned.
Esme is obviously distraught upon finding Maya, but it turns out its good, as her familiarity with her mom's suicide lets them know the proper action to take to save her. The series seems to work very slowly at times, so I wonder if this will be set up for an Esme redemption arc next season. In any case, Maya lives, so despite the dark turn the season finale took, we go into next season on an uplifting note. Even Zoe, Miles and Tristan are friends again.
