Well the episode starts off with some previously on, in case you forgot some of the major story lines and I was happy to see that I was pretty on point with what I did remember from the end of season three in my previous 90210 anticipation blog.
Then our first shot of what we think is the present is Naomi and Max in the hospital. Where we see them both nervous about this first appointment with the doctor, who comes into the room to announce that Naomi is in fact not pregnant that her previous blood test was a false positive.
Which is something that “happens” and I wish doctors wouldn’t say things like that, because it shouldn’t happen. Don’t let me think I’m growing this life inside of me and that snatch it away. You should have done three tests before telling me what the actual answer was!
Getting back to the show, Max goes into typical teen boy response to finding out he didn’t actually knock up is recently graduated from high school girlfriend. “Talk about dodging a bullet, we almost threw our lives away.” Which might have been what he was actually thinking, but there is a huge difference between what you think and what you should say out loud!
Flash to Naomi arriving back in LA and suddenly we’re at an end of summer beach party with the whole gang. We learn what pretty much everyone did during the summer in a quick 5 minutes. Naomi decides to go after the head jock of the college she’ll be attending, auditioning him to be the next Mr. Naomi Clark, only to quickly learn she’s at the bottom of the totem poll in college and the bottom is not a place Naomi Clark stays for long. Which is why she’s now on the hunt for the perfect college house.
As far as the other and (as Naomi would refer to them) less important story lines go. We learn that the family of the woman who left her home and fortune to Annie is suing to contest the will. Which was my prediction last season when it happened. I hope Annie is able to win, but I saw this coming a mile away.
Liam…
Ah… Liam… so he shows up in front of Annie at her car in the middle of the street and plops an engagement ring down on the hood of her car with a “let do this” as a proposal and a smile on his face. I would have laughed in his face and told him to get the fuck away from my car, considering he disappeared off the radar for the entire summer and didn’t tell her one way or another what he really wanted from their relationship, but that’s just me.
Silver and Navid end up having his little sister move into Silvers studio with them.
First… HELL TO THE NO! I just graduated high school I’m not trying to raise another high school baby.
Second… I could have sworn that Silvers place was like the guest house to her sisters big house… and if that’s the case, why don’t she and Navid just move into the big house now that it’s them and a third??? Did I miss something? Is she living somewhere completely different and I just missed that some how? Let me know!
Dixon finds out that Navid screwed him over when it came to his applications for college and now he’s out of a place to live because the male dorms are all full. His response to realizing this was “I’m homeless, I’m a homeless black man.” and I must say that I busted out laughing! He’s at a beach bar with Navid, Teddy and Liam when he says this, and their lack of sympathy is amusing.
Liam has decided to drown his sorrows in the bottle, and is complaining about not knowing what girls want and that’s when Dixon tosses out another funny, that I think might have gone under the radar but still produced a good laugh from me.
“at least write her a love song”
“a love song?”
“I don’t know!”
and by itself it’s not all that funny but the actor delivers that “I dont know” in just the right way that you cant help but bust out laughing.
As follows Naomi finds the perfect house. Insults the son of the current owner unknowingly and ends up playing an extra half million unnecessarily. Moves in, and puts together a huge party that has plenty of pazazz but no planning. So many things go wrong, from the cop showing up to give her a ticket, to said owners son showing up with Dixon, to getting arrested for said son’s (I still don’t know his name) marijuana plants. All happening in honesty because she didn’t want to take the time to deal with a letter she received from Max and all the residual heartache she’s feeling from what happened with him.
And to finish… I love Ivy, I’m pretty sure Liam almost died at sea and that’s why he’s making stupid rash choices (like spending all his near death experience money buying a bar because he was getting drunk instead of talking out his problems.) AnnaLynne McCord is absolutely gorgeous and an amazing actress. She’s taken Naomi from being so very one dimensional in the first season to having so many layers that it takes my breath away to watch her on screen. Naomi may be my favorite character on the show!
I agree 100% with Silver’s refusal to let Adrianna just have a clean slate on this. At first I wasn’t sure, but when you hear her admit that she was going to kill herself you realize just hope serious it all was with even clearer eyes. Adrianna took it passed the level of forgivable.Then to make matters more blurry Adrianna being the manipulative person she is hooked up with Dixon’s new roommate which gives her an in where there wouldn’t have been on otherwise. Sneaky bitch.
All in all I really did love this first episode of the season, but I’m wary on next weeks episode. The whole first day of college… blah blah blah… I’m more excited to get to episode three when we’re more into a flow of things… but that’s just me.
Of all the shows returning to the CW this fall, this may be the one I’m least anticipating. In fact, it is the one I’m least anticipating, but then again it always is and yet every season they pleasantly surprise me!
I know we’re supposed to come back this season with everyone out of high school and beginning their “adult” lives. Unfortunately most shows don’t last past the first after high school graduation season, but I’ve got high hopes for this one!
When we last saw the show, Naomi was telling her then boyfriend that she was knocked up with his spawn, and then the show cut to black. (at least I think it did.) Since the first shot we really see of her in the preview for this next season is of her strutting her stuff in a bikini I’m not sure where the writers are taking that storyline.
Does she lose the baby, abort the baby, is she still preggers and just not showing yet? Not sure and curious to see! A lot of people don’t go for the pregnancy story lines on these YA shows, and I get it, but I also think if its done well it can work. (Although my thoughts on this could be in major part because I tend to write pregnancies into my fanfictions when given the opportunity!) :]]
I dont remember where most of the other characters were actually… um… Dixon… going to college. Annie, well she has her own house and tons of money now so she can go to the school of her dreams and she’s set on the cash front. Also her and Liam are still on, and based on the trailers he’s trying to lock the pussy down. Silver was recovering from the torment of Adrianna going all psycho on her and messing with her pills. Teddy… I don’t remember. Everyone else… I don’t remember. I think Naomi’s sister came back, but I honestly couldn’t tell you.
Despite not remembering a lot, and after writing this out, I’m actually pretty excited for this show to hit the air on Tuesday! Time to go in and edit all my recordings! So thankful for DVR!
