At least i'll have tangoed at all
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geebsDammit, I thought the TV season was over. I have studying to do. And reading. And writing projects. And I thought tonight would be the OTH season finale, but apparently not! Wednesday night CW commentary:
So the first Hidden Palms ep starts with Taylor Handley (i.e. Oliver on the OC, known here as Johnny) doing some Math HW, with his dad drunkedly telling him he doesn't need to be so smart and how he wishes he were a poet, like Pablo Neruda. Johnny is kinda annoyed by his father's drunking perstering, so his father take his leave. To step into the hall and blow his brains out, to Johnny's horror!
Cut to one year later, where he and his mom and her new husband (played by Chicago Son Mike "the Missile" Kulchak, DW Moffet). We learn Johnny's been in rehab, undoubtedly because of his father's suicide. He's also not to keen on his mum re-marrying so early.
This ep basically introduces the characters. There's Jesse Jo, played by that effeminate sounding short Southern guy who's in everything, Leslie Jordan. Johnny meets him in AA, where he's in drag. He also has a job at the local country club, though people don't seem to recognize him out of his wig.
Then there's the neighbor kids. First is Shelly (played by the young girl in the Nine), daughter of the mayor, and whose stepmother is played by Whitney from Bring it On. Weird, she used to play the teens, now she's a trophy wife.
Then there's nerdy girl next door Liza, who has a meet-cute with Johnny. Well, technically she first saw him the previous night from her garage while she was dressed in cover alls and big-ass goggles. She spends the ep doing weird science experiments that freak out her parents (her mom is president of the home owners association) and trying to pretty herself up for Johnny. Heh, so when she finally tries to go up to Johnny at the big party at the end, Shelly grabs him away to meet some peeps. HA!!
Alas, despite Liza's efforts, Johnny's enamored with the totally hot and mysterious girl Greta. Johnny and Greta spend the episode dancing around each other all flirty and "I see the real you" and wot-not. Johnny reveals the thing about his dad's death, while Greta remains mysterious.
Why is she all mysterious? It may have something to do with neighbor Cliff (played by Zach from the OC, Michael Cassidy, who looks weird to me without the fancy locks), who's mom is played by Sharon Lawrence. He acts all nice to Johnny, and seems like a nice, normal guy. He tells Johnny to watch out for Greta, because she can be kinda crazy. Then he talks about how she used to date the son of the previous owners of the house, but then he died in "an accident". There's more to it than that though, as evidenced by a mysterious conversation between Cliff and Greta where he tells her not to get too close to Johnny, and they intimate there's more to the previous kid's death than meets the eye. And as if to show that he's secretly evil, he kicks a dog! Ha!
By the end, Johnny looks wistfully at a picture of his dad, while Greta shows up at Cliff's door and tells him she hates him. Then she hugs him. In the bushes, nerdy neighbor girl watches them. Then we end with Johnny reading poems by Pablo Neruda.
****
So this week's OTH starts where last week's ended- Luke walks in on Dan kissing Karen. Lucas punches him out. Karen thinks at first he's just shocked about them kissing, but Luke's all, "He killed Keith!" Karen, is of course, skeptical, and Dan spends the ep trying to convince her Lucas is just acting out and/or crazy. Lucas doesn't do too well for himself when his mom asks him for an explantion later, and he starts out with his dream as opposed to what Abby told him! Wait to make yourself sound crazy by telling her a dream led you to Abby, moron! Surprisingly, he doesn't try telling anyone else, like any of his friends! He does trying to tell the police, without sufficient evidence, like that's smart when you're frickin' accusing the mayor of murder!
So Lucas spends the ep coming up with a plan. Involving a gun! Heh, its like there's a scene in the beginning where Nate walks in on his mom cleaning her gun. What's the rule, if there's a gun shown in the first act, it'll be used in the third? Of course, Haley lets slip about the gun and where Deb hides it (Deb gets nothing else to do in the ep except to show there's a gun at her house, ha!) so Lucas grabs it. So you know he's gonna do something stupid. Particularly when he tells Mouth what a great friend he's been, and when Peyton tells him about her internship and he's all "You should go!" and "You know I love you, no matter what happens, right?" After he sees Dan meet with his mom at their house, he sends a fake text from Abby to Dan saying she's going to the police, and Dan takes his leave. That's when Lucas shows up with the gun, all "See, I told you Mom!" The ep ends with her fainting and Dan worrying there's something wrong with the baby, WHOSE FATHER HE MURDERED! He wants to help her out, but Lucas tells hims to stay away from her. He goes to check her out, and we fade to black on Luke's gunshot.
What else? There's this little thing between Brooke and Clean Teen guy. He's tells her he's very guarded with his heart, which is why he's been so distant despite her efforts (fag! She's hot!). They exchange yearbooks to sign, and what the hell, what's with people taking a whole class period to sign a yearbook?! Anyways, she pours her heart out to him, because she thinks their talk means he's warmed to her. But ha, she gets her yearbook back and its all, "Its really nice to have met you!" So she's embarassed and avoids him for the rest of the day. She complains to Peyton that she can't show her face in school ever again, and for once, I agree with P Sawyer (whod've thunk?) when she tells Brooke she's being ridiculous and they're about to graduate anyways, so its not like she has to deal with it for that long! By the end, Clean Teen guy shows up at her house, brings up the whole being guarded with his heart thing again, which is why what he wrote is so terse, but he was touched by what she said and they end up kissing.
Getting back to Peyton, as I said, she got an internship in Cali. Its a great opportunity, but she's sad that Lucas immediately said she should go and that he'll wait. Like Piz in VM, she was hoping for some hemming and hawing. Though after reading what he wrote in her yearbook, "Love ya, no matter what happens", it seems like she might've figured out he was going to do something crazy (even though she's unaware of the whole Dan being the real killer thing)
Nate and Haley deal with the aftermath of him revealing the point shaving scandal. He lost his Duke scholarship, while Haley is told she can't give the valedictory (is that a word?) speech. At first, I thought its because she was preggers, and the community would be offended at having a pregnant teenage mother giving the valedictorian's speech, but then I realize its over the gambling scandal. Nate convinces the principal to change his mind and let Haley be valedictorian. Other than that though, he's all mopey about losing out on his dream to be a Duke Blue Devil. Whitey tells him to fight for it and find a college that will take him. Of course, no college will touch him with a ten foot pole, so Haley begs Whitey to do something, and he makes a call to the athletic director of some school we don't know.
Mouth is all offended when he finds a pic of himself and Jimmy in the yearbook, with Jimmy cut out. He asks Gigi about it, and she tells him they were instructed to remove him. Mouth complains to the principal, and its like, what does he hope to accomplish? The yearbook's out already! Does he want everyone to give their's back and make a new one?! Obviously, the principal refuses to do anything. Anyways, Gigi cheers Mouth up by meeting up with him in the yearbook office. Lemme just say, while Mouth has been involved with such hotties as Brooke and Rachel and Shelly, I've always liked Gigi. She's very cute, in a nerd girl kinda way. He says he understands why she broke things off, and they're all mebbe one day. And then she gives Mouth Jimmy's yearbook, only they modify it to add some memorium pages to him. And ill, he stands up in the middle of the lunch area all, "Jimmy was my friend, and I know some of you knew him too" and "Plz sign his yearbook and say something nice about him and put down fond memories!" And when he gives the yearbook to Jimmy's mom later, its chock full of writing. Bull! The whole reason he shot up the school was because everyone ignored him, and then harassed him after Rachel released the time capsule where he trashes everyone. But whatever. I guess they want a happy ending with that or something.
So the first Hidden Palms ep starts with Taylor Handley (i.e. Oliver on the OC, known here as Johnny) doing some Math HW, with his dad drunkedly telling him he doesn't need to be so smart and how he wishes he were a poet, like Pablo Neruda. Johnny is kinda annoyed by his father's drunking perstering, so his father take his leave. To step into the hall and blow his brains out, to Johnny's horror!
Cut to one year later, where he and his mom and her new husband (played by Chicago Son Mike "the Missile" Kulchak, DW Moffet). We learn Johnny's been in rehab, undoubtedly because of his father's suicide. He's also not to keen on his mum re-marrying so early.
This ep basically introduces the characters. There's Jesse Jo, played by that effeminate sounding short Southern guy who's in everything, Leslie Jordan. Johnny meets him in AA, where he's in drag. He also has a job at the local country club, though people don't seem to recognize him out of his wig.
Then there's the neighbor kids. First is Shelly (played by the young girl in the Nine), daughter of the mayor, and whose stepmother is played by Whitney from Bring it On. Weird, she used to play the teens, now she's a trophy wife.
Then there's nerdy girl next door Liza, who has a meet-cute with Johnny. Well, technically she first saw him the previous night from her garage while she was dressed in cover alls and big-ass goggles. She spends the ep doing weird science experiments that freak out her parents (her mom is president of the home owners association) and trying to pretty herself up for Johnny. Heh, so when she finally tries to go up to Johnny at the big party at the end, Shelly grabs him away to meet some peeps. HA!!
Alas, despite Liza's efforts, Johnny's enamored with the totally hot and mysterious girl Greta. Johnny and Greta spend the episode dancing around each other all flirty and "I see the real you" and wot-not. Johnny reveals the thing about his dad's death, while Greta remains mysterious.
Why is she all mysterious? It may have something to do with neighbor Cliff (played by Zach from the OC, Michael Cassidy, who looks weird to me without the fancy locks), who's mom is played by Sharon Lawrence. He acts all nice to Johnny, and seems like a nice, normal guy. He tells Johnny to watch out for Greta, because she can be kinda crazy. Then he talks about how she used to date the son of the previous owners of the house, but then he died in "an accident". There's more to it than that though, as evidenced by a mysterious conversation between Cliff and Greta where he tells her not to get too close to Johnny, and they intimate there's more to the previous kid's death than meets the eye. And as if to show that he's secretly evil, he kicks a dog! Ha!
By the end, Johnny looks wistfully at a picture of his dad, while Greta shows up at Cliff's door and tells him she hates him. Then she hugs him. In the bushes, nerdy neighbor girl watches them. Then we end with Johnny reading poems by Pablo Neruda.
****
So this week's OTH starts where last week's ended- Luke walks in on Dan kissing Karen. Lucas punches him out. Karen thinks at first he's just shocked about them kissing, but Luke's all, "He killed Keith!" Karen, is of course, skeptical, and Dan spends the ep trying to convince her Lucas is just acting out and/or crazy. Lucas doesn't do too well for himself when his mom asks him for an explantion later, and he starts out with his dream as opposed to what Abby told him! Wait to make yourself sound crazy by telling her a dream led you to Abby, moron! Surprisingly, he doesn't try telling anyone else, like any of his friends! He does trying to tell the police, without sufficient evidence, like that's smart when you're frickin' accusing the mayor of murder!
So Lucas spends the ep coming up with a plan. Involving a gun! Heh, its like there's a scene in the beginning where Nate walks in on his mom cleaning her gun. What's the rule, if there's a gun shown in the first act, it'll be used in the third? Of course, Haley lets slip about the gun and where Deb hides it (Deb gets nothing else to do in the ep except to show there's a gun at her house, ha!) so Lucas grabs it. So you know he's gonna do something stupid. Particularly when he tells Mouth what a great friend he's been, and when Peyton tells him about her internship and he's all "You should go!" and "You know I love you, no matter what happens, right?" After he sees Dan meet with his mom at their house, he sends a fake text from Abby to Dan saying she's going to the police, and Dan takes his leave. That's when Lucas shows up with the gun, all "See, I told you Mom!" The ep ends with her fainting and Dan worrying there's something wrong with the baby, WHOSE FATHER HE MURDERED! He wants to help her out, but Lucas tells hims to stay away from her. He goes to check her out, and we fade to black on Luke's gunshot.
What else? There's this little thing between Brooke and Clean Teen guy. He's tells her he's very guarded with his heart, which is why he's been so distant despite her efforts (fag! She's hot!). They exchange yearbooks to sign, and what the hell, what's with people taking a whole class period to sign a yearbook?! Anyways, she pours her heart out to him, because she thinks their talk means he's warmed to her. But ha, she gets her yearbook back and its all, "Its really nice to have met you!" So she's embarassed and avoids him for the rest of the day. She complains to Peyton that she can't show her face in school ever again, and for once, I agree with P Sawyer (whod've thunk?) when she tells Brooke she's being ridiculous and they're about to graduate anyways, so its not like she has to deal with it for that long! By the end, Clean Teen guy shows up at her house, brings up the whole being guarded with his heart thing again, which is why what he wrote is so terse, but he was touched by what she said and they end up kissing.
Getting back to Peyton, as I said, she got an internship in Cali. Its a great opportunity, but she's sad that Lucas immediately said she should go and that he'll wait. Like Piz in VM, she was hoping for some hemming and hawing. Though after reading what he wrote in her yearbook, "Love ya, no matter what happens", it seems like she might've figured out he was going to do something crazy (even though she's unaware of the whole Dan being the real killer thing)
Nate and Haley deal with the aftermath of him revealing the point shaving scandal. He lost his Duke scholarship, while Haley is told she can't give the valedictory (is that a word?) speech. At first, I thought its because she was preggers, and the community would be offended at having a pregnant teenage mother giving the valedictorian's speech, but then I realize its over the gambling scandal. Nate convinces the principal to change his mind and let Haley be valedictorian. Other than that though, he's all mopey about losing out on his dream to be a Duke Blue Devil. Whitey tells him to fight for it and find a college that will take him. Of course, no college will touch him with a ten foot pole, so Haley begs Whitey to do something, and he makes a call to the athletic director of some school we don't know.
Mouth is all offended when he finds a pic of himself and Jimmy in the yearbook, with Jimmy cut out. He asks Gigi about it, and she tells him they were instructed to remove him. Mouth complains to the principal, and its like, what does he hope to accomplish? The yearbook's out already! Does he want everyone to give their's back and make a new one?! Obviously, the principal refuses to do anything. Anyways, Gigi cheers Mouth up by meeting up with him in the yearbook office. Lemme just say, while Mouth has been involved with such hotties as Brooke and Rachel and Shelly, I've always liked Gigi. She's very cute, in a nerd girl kinda way. He says he understands why she broke things off, and they're all mebbe one day. And then she gives Mouth Jimmy's yearbook, only they modify it to add some memorium pages to him. And ill, he stands up in the middle of the lunch area all, "Jimmy was my friend, and I know some of you knew him too" and "Plz sign his yearbook and say something nice about him and put down fond memories!" And when he gives the yearbook to Jimmy's mom later, its chock full of writing. Bull! The whole reason he shot up the school was because everyone ignored him, and then harassed him after Rachel released the time capsule where he trashes everyone. But whatever. I guess they want a happy ending with that or something.
