The crap hit the fan for two “Niners” last night, while everyone else finally used some semblance of a brain. Well, except Annie, that is.
Ivy, The Surfer Girl
After hitting the waves, Liam gets in a fender bender with a surfer girl, who blames him for stopping while she was backing out of her parking spot. Liam is livid and the girl is appalled at Liam’s chauvinistic attitude. Each party demands an apology from the other one, but neither is willing to make that transaction. The two clearly leave on bad terms, especially since the girl’s surfer board was damaged in the accident. Liam later shows up to surf team practice and is wowed by a surfer who is killing the waves. The surf team coach introduces the surfer as the latest member of the team… and a girl.
Yep. Meet Ivy Sullivan (guest star Gillian Zinser), Liam’s fender bender enemy.
Ivy gives Liam crap and he gives her some back all during practice. The coach ups the ante competition wise and says that the team will battle each other for the prize of a new surfboard. Ivy’s up for the challenge since she blames Liam’s for her board being damaged. The competition is under way and the last two competitors to face each other ends up being Ivy and Liam. During the first leg though, Liam cuts in front of Ivy’s path knocking her over. She complained, but decided to get Liam back during the final leg of the competition as she plays as if she is cramping. Liam comes to help, but Ivy jumps on her board and surfs off to win the competition. Everybody celebrates except Liam.
At the Halloween Party, Liam runs into Ivy again, declaring that she cheated and won the competition unfairly. Ivy offers another competition between her and Liam, with the person winning getting the new surfboard. During the competition, Ivy shows off and wipes out, making Liam the winner. Ivy hands the board over fair and square and says that she thinks Liam should still apologize for the accident, but Liam says that he is tired of people seeing him as being a bad person and that he is tired of them making him take responsibilities for things he didn’t do. I applaud Liam for his reasoning behind not bowing down to Ivy, but where was this confidence and fire when Naomi needed to see it? Oh, and Naomi does see Liam and Ivy flirting and she runs off hurt. Ivy gives Liam the “I want to kiss you” stare, but he doesn’t get it. She plays it off by saying that she could beat him in a stare contest hands down.
Aww….
"You’re My Muse, Babe…"
So Annie has inspired Jasper to come out of his writer’s block and finish his screenplay, making Jasper dub Annie as his muse. He wants her to star in his movie as well and Annie happily accepts. Fe, Fi, Fo, Fum; I smell the crap of a vengeful nut.
Jasper brings Annie to the Beach Club to film the scene of her stealing a car that’s in valet parking. But instead of doing the logical thing and using his car as the one that’s about to get “borrowed”, Jasper wants Annie to take someone else’s car, his reasoning being that it is a motivational for Annie’s character to feel free and vivacious. Um, you could still do that with your own car, Jasper. But Annie doesn’t say these words. Instead she voices her concern and Jasper gets ‘fed up’ and Annie relents and steals, oh I’m sorry, “borrows” the car. When they shoot the scene, Annie exclaims that she does in fact feel free, but she better feel free as much as possible. Because if she keeps up the shenanigans, then she will be behind bars quicker than you could say “juvie”.
Shower vs. Environmentalist
Naomi’s about to endure pure hell and torture by watching a movie with Richard (guest star Jonathon Trent) that involves “air eating bacteria.” In walks Jamie (guest star Travis van Winkle), who turns out is Richard’s roommate, something that I didn’t grasp before. Jamie leaves to go take a shower, which Richard feels is ludicrous since Jamie already took a shower earlier that morning. Dude, being an environmentalist is one thing, but when you don’t treat your body as a temple as well renders you ‘certifiable’ to me. Anyway, Naomi is clearly smitten by Jamie, who later catches Naomi leaving the room and throwing a piece of gum-wrapper on the floor. Naomi tries to feign a slip of consciousness to save good face, but Jamie knows that she is not into fully into Richard and he takes her to California University’s football stadium. While there, the two bond over how they first knew that they wanted to go to CU and Jamie reveals that he wishes that Naomi wasn’t with Richard, because he desperately wants to kiss her. He doesn’t do it though, much to Naomi’s chagrin.
But Naomi comes to her senses and realizes that a well-showered person is healthier to her than someone who doesn’t shower often. Richard, really… So later at the Beach Club Halloween Party, Naomi reveals to Adrianna that she decided to try to get into CU the old fashioned way, which is studying, because the whole Richard thing was a bust and she ended up breaking up with him. Naomi invites Jamie to the party explaining to Adrianna that the only way she will get over Liam is if she was in a real relationship and not a fake one. Now, if Naomi would use this grain of common sense when she is around Jen, then life would be so grand.
Silver and Teddy, aka Mr. Coincidence
Silver is truly freaking out over Jackie’s health and has taken up the responsibility of dealing with Jackie’s medical needs, like medicine orders. In class, Silver is assigned a Civil Rights Movement project with Teddy, but she declares that she will do the project herself and doesn’t need Teddy screwing up things. But Silver forgets to do said project and after Teddy takes the heat for her, but she still shuts him down. While Silver is being completely rude to Teddy, he seriously can’t deal with people not liking him. How this man will manage in college I have no clue…
Silver throws herself into doing the project herself and doesn’t go to the party even after Adrianna and Naomi try to stage a little intervention out of concern for her own health. At the party, Adrianna and Naomi let slip that Jackie has cancer and Teddy runs to Silver’s side and morphs into Mr. Coincidence again.
Turns out that Teddy’s mom died three years prior to an illness and that he understands what Silver is going through. While somebody losing someone is no laughing matter, does anyone else feel that Teddy is just too coincidental when it comes to the entire 90210 clique’s problems? It’s like he is the 90210 Messiah or something. Got a problem? Go to Teddy…
But Silver doesn’t bite his head off this time and allows for him to show her how he blows off steam, which entails hitting tennis balls as hard as possible off the roof of West Beverly.
Now, who is going to pick up all those balls tomorrow morning?
Harry the Moron…
Debbie is still miffed about Harry calling her by Kelly’s name and despite him consoling her and saying the incident was completely work related, Debbie still feels as if Kelly has a crush on Harry. To smooth over the stress, Harry sets up lunch with Debbie at the school the next day. But the next day arrives and Kelly comes into the office and has to endure Harry in a hideous Obama Halloween Mask (which bothered me because it was creepy and over the top). Kelly tells Harry that she is stressed about the Jackie/Silver situation and wants to talk over lunch. So what does Harry do? He cancels lunch with Debbie in favor to lunch with Kelly with his lie being that he was swamped at work. As Debbie and Harry eat and talk, Debbie walks in with lunch for Harry, clearly hurt. Harry runs after her, but she says she will not have this conversation at school, but boy when they got home!
Harry brings flowers, which Debbie doesn’t care for. She tells Harry that he needs to open his eyes and see that Kelly is into him and to stop playing into it. Later, Kelly calls to see if everything is ok. Harry tells her what Debbie thinks and Kelly pauses before saying that is not the case. Harry buys the pause as truth to Debbie’s claims, but I thought that Kelly paused at the asinine accusation of her liking Harry. But I don’t know. If she does like Harry then I will have to give her a “naughty girl” finger shunning.
Mother, May I Sleep With Adulthood?
Dixon wants to go to places with Sasha instead of them being holed up in her apartment all the time. Sasha doesn’t want to get caught fooling around with Dixon, because of the statutory rape lawsuit that’s waiting for her ass around the corner. Dixon wants to be able to be in the relationship openly. Sasha wants to be careful and doesn’t want to be like Katie Holmes crawling through his window to see him ala Dawson’s Creek, a reference that goes clearly over Dixon’s head. Dixon, dude, you CANNOT be that damn clueless when it comes to pop culture!!! My eleven year old cousin knows what Dawson’s Creek is!! And you call yourself
BMOC?
But despite my utter disdain for Dixon’s lack of Trivial Pursuit skills, can you see how childish both are about this situation?
Dixon begins getting flack from everyone about his strange behavior and recent absence as of late. Annie shuts his ass down when he questions her dating Jasper, who Dixon calls shady and questionable. Annie rebuttals that Jasper isn’t a West Bev judgmental asshole, which Dixon is in her eyes and mine. She also says that the only shady and questionable person recently has been Dixon, since has been sneaking out the house at all hours of the night. As much as Annie pissed me off last night, she was right on the money with this one.
Dixon even gets cut from the swim team for his insolence for the team. He begs to get let back on and is put on probation. When Dixon can’t participate in the surfing competition, it is the nail in the coffin for him. Later that night he goes to Sasha’s and breaks it off with her, because he wants to go play with his friends and being with her is seriously cutting into his hang time. Pacey Witter would be disgusted… Sasha tells Dixon to get the hell out of her house.
But Liam and Teddy don’t think that the relationship is over…and they are right.
After the Halloween Party, Dixon runs into Sasha, who has been waiting for him. She apologizes about being needy and he says that they are at two different places in their life and that’s why he called it off. Well, duh!
But Sasha tells him that he better “get in sync” with her because she is pregnant.
SHUT THE FRAK UP!!!!!!!!!!!
Observations
I didn’t see Sasha’s pregnancy coming… Well, in a way I did, but only because it was on my list of things of what will it take for Dixon and Sasha to get caught. Also on the list were Debbie or Harry finding out and Sasha being arrested for something. But another reason why I ruled it out was because they have already dealt with a teen pregnancy with Adrianna. While Dixon isn’t obviously carrying the kid, the responsibilities of a teen becoming an adult pretty quickly are still in play. Then there is the nagging little voice telling me that Sasha is making this up and is getting back at Dixon.
Annie needs to open her eyes and fast. Jasper is not all there and who is to say that he didn’t attempt to kill his uncle and left him to die on that deserted road? That would be a wonderful twist.
Harry and Kelly? Vomit inducing.
Teddy? Please, have a flaw. You are entirely too perfect and my teeth rot every time you appear on screen.
Ivy? Love her. For now.
Your thoughts?
annie is the one who killed his uncle, she drove over him with a car
annie is the one who killed his uncle, she drove over him with a car