Everwood!

[lierdumoa]

My take on this weeks episode: Craptastic!

But it had it's moments. And me, I always find something to squee about. Always. So today you get more than the usual bitterness. It just makes you treasure the squeeage all the more.



We begin with the police search. Amy! Where has she gone?!? Oh, no she could be dead! She could be lost and alone and starving! She could be...at Edna's. Fucking lazy writers. You can't even have her run away properly. And dude -- why didn't anybody think to call friends, family, etc. before calling the police? So what, Amy's parents are just giant spazzes? Did I pluralize that word correctly? But I digress. Whoops! Amy's back! How depressingly anticlimactic.

And Rose. Wow. Angry. Rightly so, of course, but damn, woman! All at once! Good acting on her part, though. She did the frustrated housewife quite well. Harold -- don't you just love how she defended you to both your grandmothers and then turned around and threatened divorce? I'm proud of you though. I expected you to run and hide behind one of your sweater sets, but instead you just yelled yourself into a bigger hole. And only then did you run and hide behind your sweater sets. Okay, so maybe I'm not proud of you. You weren't being brave the first time -- you were just underestimating your wife.

And your daughter is so damn spoiled. I mean, good God. So. Damn. Spoiled.

Okay, so we find out that Amy is staying at Edna's. People yell. Scene change to Ephram teasing Madison into a makeout. Awwww -- lookit the happy couple. Madison tells him 'no kissing in the house' and Ephram big talks about how he obeys no laws and then, of course, daddy walks in and Ephram yells out that he's just watching a movie. It's cliche in a way that's almost cute. But not quite. So then it's just Delia yelling at Andy. Man -- I sure love the yelling channel (TM smithereen). You know -- cause he kissed Linda in the last episode. And he promised Delia he wouldn't. Ephram sees all this. Andy sits down and discusses it in terms of Delia's reaction, not really figuring that Ephram might just be a wee bit upset about this. Nice to know Andy's staying in character. And we're back to Edna's place. She's talking with her hubby about the stress of having a teenager and how, well, it's not like Amy's gonna be staying with them or anything (forshadowing!). Not much happens. I think there's some shots of the old couple being still and thoughtful.

Scene change!

Andy's in his office with a woman who wants her dead husband's sperm implanted in her womb. I like how she keeps emphasizing "I promised him I'd do this" over and over again. Cause I, like, totally didn't get the point the first twelve hundred times. Reiteration is key. And then, another scene change. Back at Edna's place. Rose makes an ultimatum -- our terms or Amy lives with Edna. And Amy chooses to live with Edna. And Edna's got that 'Oooooh boy...' on her face. Rose is, like, so scary this episode. It's kinda cool. In a really overstated way. Was I the only one who felt like the writers were trying to get all their points across by beating us viewers to death with them?

So the Abbots leave Edna's house -- except for Bright, who apparently stayed at home for that scene. Amy runs off to do stuff, taking Edna's car. Scene change to Andy's medical office. This time he's visiting with sperm lady's husband. Oh! She remarried! And failed to mention that before when Andy did his whole speil about how raising kids alone is hard, but rewarding. So now we see why she kept emphasizing that promise she made. We should make a drinking game out of it. Rewatch the episode and take a shot every time somebody says the word promise. Cause I bet if I'd been drunk this episode would have seemed so much better than it was.

Okay, yeah, so suddenly Amy's eating lunch with Tommy. And skipping English to do so. But I don't give a shit, cause Tommy's back! I love his eyebrows. They're so sexy. And I like how he's, like, a bad boy, but not. Kinda like Ryan on the OC. Only he doesn't have Ryan's nose. Which is so much sexier than Tommy's eyebrows could ever dream to be. I love Ryan's nose. It does weird but pleasant things to me every time it appears on screen. But I digress. Back to Tommy. He's so sweet. And sane. Unlike his crazy spoiled girlfriend. And, for that matter, everyone else on the show.

And we're back to Andy's office, and he's back to talking to the wife. Hubby asked Andy to talk to the wife about not doing the sperm implantation. Andy loves to meddle. Again -- keeping him in character. I like that. So now the wife is pissed. She is yelling. And the scene changes to Rose yelling at Harold. Apparently Rose blames Harold for letting Amy break their family apart. She threatens him with divorce, dude. He doesn't take her seriously at first, so it's a while before we get to him running and hiding behind his sweater sets as I mentioned earlier. Well anyway, Bright is sitting on a couch in the next room over and hears the whole damn thing. And oh, man, is he beautiful. He does the earnest and sad thing so well. And I just want to hug him. And, you know, have hot hot sex with him, but that's a given.

So we're changing scenes again. Andy's taken Delia camping to talk to her so she will like him again. Apparently Andy sucks at the camping thing. But he tries. And he's in character. So no complaints. Switch scenes to Ephram, blowing up over non-Kosher Chinese food. And Madison, being all wise and intuitive, figures out that he's upset about his daddy moving on with Linda. "It's okay if you're upset, honey. You can talk to me. I'm here. I'll listen. Oh, I know -- I'll blow you! It'll, like, so totally cheer you up!" But Ephram's having a vulnerable moment. So he opts for cuddling instead.

I like pimp!Ephram much better than this version. This version's kinda sucks.

So Edna calls a priest, and the whole Abbot family has a nice discussion, with priest guy moderating. Amy shows how truly spoiled she is. Bright tells her how spoiled she is. Repeatedly. Because reiteration is key. Scene change, and we're back in the doctor's office, with hubby telling his wife "Choose -- me or the sperm. Cause I can't love kids unless they're mine." Okay, I get that he'd be annoyed that his wife was so obsessed with her dead husband. But why add in the whole "I can't love kids that aren't mine" part? I found that really unnecessary. Anyway, the wife chooses him, and dumps her old hubby's sperm. And the moral of the story is -- sometimes it's okay to break promises.

No, I swear. That's the moral. I told you this episode was craptastic.

Andy finishes off his father-daughter outing in a hotel. He goes to pick a movie with Delia on the hotel tv. Somehow, the name to a porn flick pops up on the screen. Andy tells Delia, "You wouldn't like that one." Dude -- that was really tacky. So not a good joke. Ick. This episode was so badly written. Anyway, so Delia's now okay with the Linda thing because she talked it out with Andy. They had this whole long conversation which was about twice as long as it needed to be. Because the dialogue in this episode was horrible. Horrible.

And then, last scene. Andy and Ephram tossing wife chica's sperm off a cliff. Okay, wha-huh? And we finish off with a set of bad sperm jokes.

Blegh!



Yeah, so my Brephison fic is now officially an AU. Which is just fine by me. Cause I like my plotline so much better.

Comments

[visbot.livejournal.com]

HEE!@

I found that recap extremely amusing :)

"It's okay if you're upset, honey. You can talk to me. I'm here. I'll listen. Oh, I know -- I'll blow you! It'll, like, so totally cheer you up!" But Ephram's having a vulnerable moment. So he opts for cuddling instead.

I like pimp!Ephram much better than this version. This version's kinda sucks.

hehe.
that's cause the only lips that go on his cock is bright's. and Bright will be PO'd if someone else gets near Ephram.

I thought it had lots of solid elements, espeically Rose, and lots of craptacular parts (you hit most up there). it was a very well acted episode but had so many plot holes/just plain bad ideas

woo! new EW tomorrow :D

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

Well, I beg to differ on the Bright argument. See, I'm all for the threesome. The way I see it, Ephram should be getting as much play as possible, from all the pretty folk. So I really think his refusal was solely due to his vulnerable moment.

I won't argue about the acting. It was very well acted. But that certainly doesn't make up for the horrendous script. The dialogue sucked. The plot sucked. The jokes sucked. Everything about it just sucked -- and not in a good way.

Yay for a new ep, though!

[visbot.livejournal.com]

I give them credit for trying to start off the new epsiodes with a bang, but horrible horrible plot.

hehehe Eprham so needs to get around :P

and madison IS pretty hot :P Eprham needs to be in the middle XD

the best part of the entire epsiode was when Ephram said 'spunk' :D

I still need to make an icon of that :D