Enjoy the Silence – Episode Review

My favorite part of this episode was Clare, the mad scientist. And I mean MAD scientist! I was really surprised at how angry she was. True, Drew hooked up with her and then refused to date her, but it was pretty understandable given the circumstances. I kept thinking, was there something I missed? Did Drew like, call Clare a skanky b—when he broke things off with her? So I re-watched Sparks Will Fly Part 2. Let’s review what actually happened:

1. Clare had sex with Drew and then had an emotional breakup with Eli right in front of Drew’s eyes, when all along she had been misleading Drew into thinking things with Eli were completely over and resolved. 2. Clare tried running immediately back to Drew like none of this had happened, and he told her, “Look me in the eye and tell me some part of you doesn’t still love him.” Clare couldn’t do it and instead said “It’s complicated.” 3. Drew made it clear that he couldn’t get together with Clare right at that moment because he didn’t want to be her rebound. He then walked off into the sunset.

Sparks Will Fly Part 2 – Episode Review, Part 3

This one’s for you, Maya, Miles, and Zig. The was actually the plotline I found most dramatic and disturbing, so I don’t know why it’s taken me this long to write about it. Actually, I do. Because it was so disturbing! I didn’t want to think about it. Also I like to save the best thoughts for last sometimes.

Just like I was surprised at how quickly everything started up and then ended between Clare and Drew, I was also surprised at how the episode just up and started off with Maya ditching Zig. I thought, “What? It’s over just like that?” I was expecting their relationship to drag out a lot longer considering all the build-up, but then again I guess I turned out to be right, because 20 minutes later they were back to eating out of the same carton of ice cream. (Ick, I pity Maya’s disabled mother who doesn’t realize she’s consuming Zig’s saliva every time she opens the fridge and grabs a snack).

Sparks Will Fly Part 2 – Episode Review, Part 2

Time for Part 2 of my review! I still need to talk about what went down between Miles and Zig at the wild wild west dance, and also give my two cents on Clare and Drew. So this gave me a really good excuse to re-watch the episode this morning and refresh my memory :)

Anyway, I was really surprised at how quickly things moved between Clare and Drew! I’m not talking about how quickly the romance developed either, because I honestly do think they’ve had a lot of time to get to know each other throughout the year, and it’s definitely taken a few episodes for them to get to the actually-being-single-and-asking-each-other-out point. What I’m talking about is how quickly they went from the cute beginnings of a relationship, to having sex in the prop closet (are there any male chauvinists who want to give Drew props for that? lol), to being broken up. I guess I could have seen this coming, because Drew really likes to start a relationship by having sex in various closets at schools or in other people’s houses. This essentially is his way of asking a girl out. Also, Clare was really vulnerable right then, so it makes sense she would do something impulsive.

Sparks Will Fly Part 2 - Episode Review, Part 1

Wait, Zoe actually got that role? I can’t believe I missed this! So I had to re-read my blog entry from last week (which oddly enough, didn’t completely reveal that I misunderstood this whole audition thing), and then I re-watched the Zoe clips from last week. Indeed, I was not in a coma for any part of the episode last week. As I re-watched it I was thinking, “Oh yeah, I DID see Zoe put on those sunglasses and call everyone around her a bunch of losers.” That lame “Zoe Rivas is back, baby” rang familiar in my ears.

The thing is, when I watched her say it the first time, I guess I was focusing less on the fact that she actually got the role, and more on how mean and undeserving she was. It’s like I re-wrote the episode in my mind to get her rejected from the role, because the way it happened was so unrealistic and distasteful. It’s like, you know how some people black out certain traumatic events from their past? I think I blacked out the second half of Zoe’s plotline because it would have been too mentally disturbing for me to recognize that she was receiving the world on a silver platter yet again.