Mayor Queen deals with the fallout of Chase being revealed as Prometheus while Oliver and Thea find out something disturbing about their father and the Green Arrow and his crew rush to stop a horrific plan...
Oliver certainly had his work cut out for him tonight. As mentioned last week, there was some major fallout from the revelation that Chase is Prometheus. Because he was the DA, all of his prosecutions are now suspect, so 36 people were freed. While Oliver and the gang managed to capture one tonight, I am more than willing to bet that this storyline will be a major role in next season, particularly if (as I've heard) the Vigilante plays a role in next season.
This problem is still not a major issue yet, but Oliver and Thea faced an earth-shaking revelation tonight. In 2002, Robert Queen got in an argument with a city councilman and the councilman died. While the death was an accident, that doesn't prevent Thea from being even mor3e convinced that she is descended from, or raised by, monsters, which means that she is one too. I have to admit to rolling my eyes at that one. I get why she and Oliver would be upset about what happened, and the fact that it was covered up, but it was clearly an accident. That means that Robert Queen is not a monster because of this, if he is at all. I think Oliver had it right when he explained that it just means that Robert, like Moira, was a complex person who didn't always do the right thing.
I think the problem with Thea is similar to the problem with Diggle. Both of them view the world in very binary, black-and-white terms. You are good or bad, evil or not, a monster or a savior, but not something in between. The problem is that most people really are somewhere in between. They aren't perfect, but they're not monsters either. I also think that Thea feels guilty about things she has done in the past, so she is looking for an excuse to hate herself, not unlike Oliver a few episodes ago. They both need to accept that they have done some wrong and some right and really focus on how they help people. As Oliver noted, they are not their parents, nor are they defined by their parents' actions, unless they choose to define themselves that way. They are each their own person who must stand or fall based on what they have done, not what their parents have done.
I do admire how Oliver managed to capture Chase. However, I have to wonder (given the look on his face at then end of the episode and the preview for next' week's episode) if Chase already knew how his dad felt about him or if Chase planted that story in order to make Oliver think he had a leg up on Chase. The entire thing was way too easy. And easy, in this world, makes me very, very nervous.
I really hope that Rene is ok. Not showing up for the hearing to get his daughter, even given how nervous he was early in the episode, is not a good thing. Here's hoping that something didn't happen to him.
And Kovar is on Lian Yu with Oliver? That is so not a good thing.....
Until next week!
Thursday, May 11, 2017
Wednesday, May 10, 2017
My Review of The Flash 3.21- Cause and Effect
Barry finds out why the other Barry became Savitar which causes Julian and Cisco to take drastic actions to stop the events from unfolding....
So, the Barry who became Savitar is not an alternate version of Barry, but a time remnant of Future Barry who was left over after Barry created Flashpoint in order to stop Savitar. This is a perfect illustration of something I have talked about before. With all of the time travel that takes place on this show, sometime the effect of an action precedes the cause. So here's what happened:
In order to stop Savitar, Future Barry created time remnants of himself much like Barry did last year when he was racing Zoom. Of these time remnants, one survived and was; for some reason; cast aside because he wasn't the "real Barry". To get revenge, he became Savitar and went back in time in order to get revenge on Barry and force him to create more time remnants so that one of them will become Savitar and start the cycle all over again, thus creating what Cisco called a "closed loop" or; in a less elegant form; a perpetual series of events where each cause creates an effect which then causes the cause. Yeah, take a second to wrap your mind around that one.
At this point, the only way to stop Savitar will be for Barry to somehow break the cycle by not using time remnants to fight Savitar. Which leads to an interesting question: why isn't the Black Flash after Savitar the way it was after Thawne on Legends? Or maybe that is the key to defeating Savitar. If the Black Flash comes after Savitar, then Barry can defeat Savitar without creating a new one. But allow me to speculate a little further. What if the "casting off" Savitar referred to was an attempt by the Black Flash to destroy the time remnant? That would explain the scars on his face and why Savitar is in the suit. The suit might somehow protect him from the Black Flash. I know it is all highly speculative at this point, but it is worth considering.
Then we have Cisco and Julian's attempt to try and stop Savitar. The idea wasn't a bad one per se, but it wasn't terribly well thought either. By preventing Barry from creating memories, it would doom him to only ever knowing what he knows now, which would mean that any future villains Barry would have met would have an advantage because he wouldn't necessarily remember that they are villains (as one example). The fact that it backfired so spectacularly was sort of amusing.
It was fun to see Barry be the way he was in the first season, when his powers were new and he was discovering everything for the first time. He was so happy with everything that was going on and his sheer joy at being able to speed around was just fun to watch. Unfortunately, the other unintended side effect of the attempt was to strip Wally of his powers because, without Savitar to give him his powers in this timeline, Wally was powerless. So, not the worst idea in the world, but not well thought through and with horrible side effects.
It was also fun to see HR and Brand try and resist the romance and see how HR's word gave her the spark she needed to complete the Speed Bazooka. I am definitely enjoying watching this. I don't think she'll stick around, so I'll enjoy this while I have it.
Until next week!
So, the Barry who became Savitar is not an alternate version of Barry, but a time remnant of Future Barry who was left over after Barry created Flashpoint in order to stop Savitar. This is a perfect illustration of something I have talked about before. With all of the time travel that takes place on this show, sometime the effect of an action precedes the cause. So here's what happened:
In order to stop Savitar, Future Barry created time remnants of himself much like Barry did last year when he was racing Zoom. Of these time remnants, one survived and was; for some reason; cast aside because he wasn't the "real Barry". To get revenge, he became Savitar and went back in time in order to get revenge on Barry and force him to create more time remnants so that one of them will become Savitar and start the cycle all over again, thus creating what Cisco called a "closed loop" or; in a less elegant form; a perpetual series of events where each cause creates an effect which then causes the cause. Yeah, take a second to wrap your mind around that one.
At this point, the only way to stop Savitar will be for Barry to somehow break the cycle by not using time remnants to fight Savitar. Which leads to an interesting question: why isn't the Black Flash after Savitar the way it was after Thawne on Legends? Or maybe that is the key to defeating Savitar. If the Black Flash comes after Savitar, then Barry can defeat Savitar without creating a new one. But allow me to speculate a little further. What if the "casting off" Savitar referred to was an attempt by the Black Flash to destroy the time remnant? That would explain the scars on his face and why Savitar is in the suit. The suit might somehow protect him from the Black Flash. I know it is all highly speculative at this point, but it is worth considering.
Then we have Cisco and Julian's attempt to try and stop Savitar. The idea wasn't a bad one per se, but it wasn't terribly well thought either. By preventing Barry from creating memories, it would doom him to only ever knowing what he knows now, which would mean that any future villains Barry would have met would have an advantage because he wouldn't necessarily remember that they are villains (as one example). The fact that it backfired so spectacularly was sort of amusing.
It was fun to see Barry be the way he was in the first season, when his powers were new and he was discovering everything for the first time. He was so happy with everything that was going on and his sheer joy at being able to speed around was just fun to watch. Unfortunately, the other unintended side effect of the attempt was to strip Wally of his powers because, without Savitar to give him his powers in this timeline, Wally was powerless. So, not the worst idea in the world, but not well thought through and with horrible side effects.
It was also fun to see HR and Brand try and resist the romance and see how HR's word gave her the spark she needed to complete the Speed Bazooka. I am definitely enjoying watching this. I don't think she'll stick around, so I'll enjoy this while I have it.
Until next week!
Thursday, May 4, 2017
My Review of Arrow 5.20- Underneath
Oliver and Felicity get lots of enforced alone time (thanks to Chase) while the gang tries to figure out how to rescue them and Diggle and Lyla try to work through their differences regarding ARGUS....
This was an episode that wasn't so much about moving the overall story along as much as it was cleaning up the personal messes between the gang in order to allow them to focus on the bigger picture.
First off, I was so glad to see Lyla call out Diggle on his behavior. Is she running ARGUS the way he wants her to? No and she is also not running it in the most moral way, mainly because she is operating in a world of grey. And, as she pointed out, Diggle has tended to support Oliver in most (but not all) of his decisions, so she; as his wife; deserves to receive the same consideration, at the very least. I know I harp on him a lot, so it was nice to see someone on the show call him out on this sort of thing. As for the whole stealing and improving Curtis' tech thing, I think that would barely have been mentioned if he hadn't already been upset at her, so I won't even really look at that.
Then there is Oliver and Felicity. It was nice to see the two of them talk about what has happened between them and for Felicity to acknowledge that Oliver's keeping William a secret wasn't that big a deal. I was not fond of the way they retconned her reasons though. Last year, she was fairly specific that she was upset that he hadn't included her in any decisions and now they are having her say that she was really upset that he didn't trust her enough to tell her about him. Personally, I think both are bogus. The idea that you don't keep secrets from someone you trust is not really a good one. Everyone (well, most people) is going to keep something from people around them, no matter how much they trust them. They may be embarrassed, they may just not want to talk about it, or it may be one of a million other things. It doesn't automatically indicate a lack of trust.
It was good that Oliver told Felicity what Chase had done to him and what he learned about his inspiration for becoming the Hood in the first place. That was something that did need to be shared because that sort of secret could really eat away at everything. And she handled the whole thing perfectly. She said what a lot of people have said, which is that he really is not as bad as he sees himself to be. Is he perfect? Hell no. But he is not a total monster. He has done some really heinous things and some things that cross moral lines, that is for sure. And while his initial reasons may not have been the best reasons, the reasons for doing what he is doing have changed over time. And that is a good thing.
I hope they deal a little more with the storyline they touched on briefly about the criminals that Chase has put away. That sort of story could really go far in powering a season long arc of trying to recapture people that were released after it was revealed that Chase is Prometheus.
Until next week!
This was an episode that wasn't so much about moving the overall story along as much as it was cleaning up the personal messes between the gang in order to allow them to focus on the bigger picture.
First off, I was so glad to see Lyla call out Diggle on his behavior. Is she running ARGUS the way he wants her to? No and she is also not running it in the most moral way, mainly because she is operating in a world of grey. And, as she pointed out, Diggle has tended to support Oliver in most (but not all) of his decisions, so she; as his wife; deserves to receive the same consideration, at the very least. I know I harp on him a lot, so it was nice to see someone on the show call him out on this sort of thing. As for the whole stealing and improving Curtis' tech thing, I think that would barely have been mentioned if he hadn't already been upset at her, so I won't even really look at that.
Then there is Oliver and Felicity. It was nice to see the two of them talk about what has happened between them and for Felicity to acknowledge that Oliver's keeping William a secret wasn't that big a deal. I was not fond of the way they retconned her reasons though. Last year, she was fairly specific that she was upset that he hadn't included her in any decisions and now they are having her say that she was really upset that he didn't trust her enough to tell her about him. Personally, I think both are bogus. The idea that you don't keep secrets from someone you trust is not really a good one. Everyone (well, most people) is going to keep something from people around them, no matter how much they trust them. They may be embarrassed, they may just not want to talk about it, or it may be one of a million other things. It doesn't automatically indicate a lack of trust.
It was good that Oliver told Felicity what Chase had done to him and what he learned about his inspiration for becoming the Hood in the first place. That was something that did need to be shared because that sort of secret could really eat away at everything. And she handled the whole thing perfectly. She said what a lot of people have said, which is that he really is not as bad as he sees himself to be. Is he perfect? Hell no. But he is not a total monster. He has done some really heinous things and some things that cross moral lines, that is for sure. And while his initial reasons may not have been the best reasons, the reasons for doing what he is doing have changed over time. And that is a good thing.
I hope they deal a little more with the storyline they touched on briefly about the criminals that Chase has put away. That sort of story could really go far in powering a season long arc of trying to recapture people that were released after it was revealed that Chase is Prometheus.
Until next week!
Wednesday, May 3, 2017
My Review of The Flash 3.20- I Know Who You Are
The identity of Savitar is revealed, and it's a doozy! Meanwhile, Cisco deals with his feelings about confronting Killer Frost and HR starts falling for a physicist...
So a future Barry is Savitar. And this Barry is very, very different from the other future Barry we saw last week, so I can only assume he is from a different timeline or a different earth. This whole thing leads to a very interesting conundrum: How does the future Barry from last week trap Savitar in the Speed Force and why is Savitar trying to kill Iris? If Savitar is future Barry and knows what Barry will do, then how can he be trapped by future Barry? And how did he come to be the way he is? My suspicion, at this point, is that some future event (or event in an alternate timeline) caused that Barry to lose Iris, which led him to become Savitar and to try to kill other Iris' to prevent other Barry's from being happy or something like that. Or, it could be that he needs to kill Iris in order for Barry to turn into him so that Savitar can continue to exist. The only problem with the last is that it assumes that Savitar changes each time. If Savitar is trapped in the Speed Force each time through the timeline, it is possible that this Savitar is the original and that he has been trapped in the Speed Force over and over again, which would explain his madness. I guess we'll have to wait until next week to find out for sure what happened.
I can't say that I blame Cisco for being unwilling to fight Killer Frost. After all, she does take his hand in the future and he doesn't have full control of his abilities. I didn't think his control was that bad because he has not seemed to have had a ton of trouble controlling his abilities, but maybe he has been having more trouble than he has been letting on. My thought about his reluctance was that he just didn't want to hurt her at all because she is his friend.
You have to wonder how everyone else is going to react to the news that Barry is Savitar. The one thing we know for sure is that it is going to be confusing for everyone. I just hope that we get some explanation about why Barry became Savitar relatively quickly because we only have a few episodes left.
I find it hard to blame Tracy for wanting to run away from everything, after all, it's not every day you find out that a speedster from the future wants to kill you to prevent you from trapping him in a force you only speculatively knew about. Yeah, this will mess with your mind for sure. Here's hoping they can figure everything out.
Until next week!
So a future Barry is Savitar. And this Barry is very, very different from the other future Barry we saw last week, so I can only assume he is from a different timeline or a different earth. This whole thing leads to a very interesting conundrum: How does the future Barry from last week trap Savitar in the Speed Force and why is Savitar trying to kill Iris? If Savitar is future Barry and knows what Barry will do, then how can he be trapped by future Barry? And how did he come to be the way he is? My suspicion, at this point, is that some future event (or event in an alternate timeline) caused that Barry to lose Iris, which led him to become Savitar and to try to kill other Iris' to prevent other Barry's from being happy or something like that. Or, it could be that he needs to kill Iris in order for Barry to turn into him so that Savitar can continue to exist. The only problem with the last is that it assumes that Savitar changes each time. If Savitar is trapped in the Speed Force each time through the timeline, it is possible that this Savitar is the original and that he has been trapped in the Speed Force over and over again, which would explain his madness. I guess we'll have to wait until next week to find out for sure what happened.
I can't say that I blame Cisco for being unwilling to fight Killer Frost. After all, she does take his hand in the future and he doesn't have full control of his abilities. I didn't think his control was that bad because he has not seemed to have had a ton of trouble controlling his abilities, but maybe he has been having more trouble than he has been letting on. My thought about his reluctance was that he just didn't want to hurt her at all because she is his friend.
You have to wonder how everyone else is going to react to the news that Barry is Savitar. The one thing we know for sure is that it is going to be confusing for everyone. I just hope that we get some explanation about why Barry became Savitar relatively quickly because we only have a few episodes left.
I find it hard to blame Tracy for wanting to run away from everything, after all, it's not every day you find out that a speedster from the future wants to kill you to prevent you from trapping him in a force you only speculatively knew about. Yeah, this will mess with your mind for sure. Here's hoping they can figure everything out.
Until next week!
Thursday, April 27, 2017
My Review of Arrow 5.19- Dangerous Liasons
In an effort to find Chase, Felicity takes some questionable steps; Diggle finds out some disturbing information, and Lance helps Rene out...
Did Felicity do wrong? That is the big question tonight. She's right when she said that Oliver has taken some questionable steps in the past, but by involving Helix and helping them to free someone who was in Helix's custody, she did take some steps that Oliver hadn't in the past. She's right that they did need help to find Chase, but freeing a prisoner was a bit of an extreme way to get that help. That being said, I find it hard to say that she was wrong, if only because sometimes extreme situations do call for extreme measures.
I get the feeling that Oliver might agree with this on some level because he really didn't put up much of a fight with her when he talked with her in her apartment. Then again, he did go with the team to stop her, so I could be wrong. It could also be that he realizes that, in this situation, he doesn't have much of a leg to stand on. at least he and Felicity will have plenty of time to figure things out next week, seeing as they're trapped in the lair and everything.
So about that program that the freed prisoner gave them. Was it intended to send out that EMP or did Chase do something to harm Oliver and Felicity? If it was intentional, then that puts tonight in an entirely different light and Felicity was a fool to trust Helix. It's entirely possible that Helix is working with Chase and that the code that Felicity was given was meant to cripple the lair in order to give Chase time to do something. Or it could be that Helix was hoping to catch the entire team together and cause problems because of what happened.
And that leads to the next big issue: Lyla is turning into Amanda Waller. I know she became the head of ARGUS with the intention of reforming it, but what is right and wrong can often change depending on your perspective. Lyla has been tasked with protecting her agents and the world, so she is going to have different priorities now. Operating a secret jail is so not kosher, but it is hard to blame her for wanting to keep someone who had hacked into ARGUS put away where she could keep an eye on him. Here, once again, Diggle's perfectly black and white view of the world rears its head. Granted, this time I do think he is right, but that doesn't mean that Lyla doesn't have any valid points. The world she is operating in is all sorts of different shades of grey, so sometimes she has to do things that are not exactly kosher.
I did enjoy the subplot of Lance helping Rene reunite with his daughter. That help provide some sweet interludes to a fairly dark episode. And I am even more glad that Rene finally decided to fight to get his daughter back.
Until next week!
Did Felicity do wrong? That is the big question tonight. She's right when she said that Oliver has taken some questionable steps in the past, but by involving Helix and helping them to free someone who was in Helix's custody, she did take some steps that Oliver hadn't in the past. She's right that they did need help to find Chase, but freeing a prisoner was a bit of an extreme way to get that help. That being said, I find it hard to say that she was wrong, if only because sometimes extreme situations do call for extreme measures.
I get the feeling that Oliver might agree with this on some level because he really didn't put up much of a fight with her when he talked with her in her apartment. Then again, he did go with the team to stop her, so I could be wrong. It could also be that he realizes that, in this situation, he doesn't have much of a leg to stand on. at least he and Felicity will have plenty of time to figure things out next week, seeing as they're trapped in the lair and everything.
So about that program that the freed prisoner gave them. Was it intended to send out that EMP or did Chase do something to harm Oliver and Felicity? If it was intentional, then that puts tonight in an entirely different light and Felicity was a fool to trust Helix. It's entirely possible that Helix is working with Chase and that the code that Felicity was given was meant to cripple the lair in order to give Chase time to do something. Or it could be that Helix was hoping to catch the entire team together and cause problems because of what happened.
And that leads to the next big issue: Lyla is turning into Amanda Waller. I know she became the head of ARGUS with the intention of reforming it, but what is right and wrong can often change depending on your perspective. Lyla has been tasked with protecting her agents and the world, so she is going to have different priorities now. Operating a secret jail is so not kosher, but it is hard to blame her for wanting to keep someone who had hacked into ARGUS put away where she could keep an eye on him. Here, once again, Diggle's perfectly black and white view of the world rears its head. Granted, this time I do think he is right, but that doesn't mean that Lyla doesn't have any valid points. The world she is operating in is all sorts of different shades of grey, so sometimes she has to do things that are not exactly kosher.
I did enjoy the subplot of Lance helping Rene reunite with his daughter. That help provide some sweet interludes to a fairly dark episode. And I am even more glad that Rene finally decided to fight to get his daughter back.
Until next week!
Wednesday, April 26, 2017
My Review of The Flash 3.19- The Once and Future Flash
Barry goes to the future to find out who Savitar is and finds out some unpleasant information while the gang deals with the fallout of what Julian did to Caitlin...
While we didn't get to see who Savitar is (BOO!!), Killer Frost did and she certainly seemed to know who he is, which leads me to suspect that Savitar is someone we know. One fairly obvious answer is Ronnie. When we last saw him, he was flying into the singularity, so he could have been trapped in the Speed Force for a long time or he could have been thrown out of time. And since the singularity was caused by Barry, that would certainly explain why Savitar has such a hatred for him. That being said, I am not sure how Ronnie could have become a speedster, unless the suit is what gives him his speed, so that is an issue. Based on what the future Killer Frost said to our Barry, the person who is Savitar is close to him, but since we saw the rest of the gang in the future, and we know that Savitar is trapped in the Speed Force, I am not sure who else it could be.
The future versions of everyone were pretty much what I would have expected. Having lost Iris, Barry seriously drifted from the group which led to the group completely falling apart. Joe is still grieving Iris' death, Wally tried to avenge Iris but ended up being paralyzed and in some sort of catatonic state, and Julian went back to science. About the only surprising thing was that Cisco had fought Killer Frost and she froze both his hands, so he lost them and had to create robotic ones for himself. Consequently, he lost his powers and everything else as well. Oh, and Killer Frost was captured and being held in the prison where Julian worked. And good old HR kept writing books (or a book anyway).
One thing that I did find interesting is that the city wasn't completely taken over by villains in the Flash's absence. You did have Top and Mirror Master who seemed to be on a bit of a crime spree, but that was it. I was pleasantly surprised that the writers didn't slip into that particular trope of a city going to hell in a handbasket with the absence of the hero, since that is something that could very easily have happened.
So the next thing for the gang to do is find the physicist who created the trap that Barry used to finally cage Savitar in the Speed Force and get her to create it early, because if they can, then Barry can save Iris. I'm not sure what the effects of changing the future that way will be, but I am not sure if things can get any worse for the group. But, as we know, messing with time is a dangerous thing, so trapping Savitar 4 years early could have unknown consequences. After all, that would mean saving at least one life (Iris), if not more, and who knows how people being alive who should have been dead will affect the timeline.
Until next week!
While we didn't get to see who Savitar is (BOO!!), Killer Frost did and she certainly seemed to know who he is, which leads me to suspect that Savitar is someone we know. One fairly obvious answer is Ronnie. When we last saw him, he was flying into the singularity, so he could have been trapped in the Speed Force for a long time or he could have been thrown out of time. And since the singularity was caused by Barry, that would certainly explain why Savitar has such a hatred for him. That being said, I am not sure how Ronnie could have become a speedster, unless the suit is what gives him his speed, so that is an issue. Based on what the future Killer Frost said to our Barry, the person who is Savitar is close to him, but since we saw the rest of the gang in the future, and we know that Savitar is trapped in the Speed Force, I am not sure who else it could be.
The future versions of everyone were pretty much what I would have expected. Having lost Iris, Barry seriously drifted from the group which led to the group completely falling apart. Joe is still grieving Iris' death, Wally tried to avenge Iris but ended up being paralyzed and in some sort of catatonic state, and Julian went back to science. About the only surprising thing was that Cisco had fought Killer Frost and she froze both his hands, so he lost them and had to create robotic ones for himself. Consequently, he lost his powers and everything else as well. Oh, and Killer Frost was captured and being held in the prison where Julian worked. And good old HR kept writing books (or a book anyway).
One thing that I did find interesting is that the city wasn't completely taken over by villains in the Flash's absence. You did have Top and Mirror Master who seemed to be on a bit of a crime spree, but that was it. I was pleasantly surprised that the writers didn't slip into that particular trope of a city going to hell in a handbasket with the absence of the hero, since that is something that could very easily have happened.
So the next thing for the gang to do is find the physicist who created the trap that Barry used to finally cage Savitar in the Speed Force and get her to create it early, because if they can, then Barry can save Iris. I'm not sure what the effects of changing the future that way will be, but I am not sure if things can get any worse for the group. But, as we know, messing with time is a dangerous thing, so trapping Savitar 4 years early could have unknown consequences. After all, that would mean saving at least one life (Iris), if not more, and who knows how people being alive who should have been dead will affect the timeline.
Until next week!
Wednesday, April 12, 2017
My Review of The Fosters 4.20- Until Tomorrow
Jesus has some serious problems with Brandon and Emma, the school board pulls an underhanded maneuver to get their way, Callie does something very Callie-ish and misses some very important news...
Callie has gotten herself in quite the pickle here, Because she thought she was going to go jail, she decided to save Christina from Diamond's pimp by pretending to be Christina. Very Callie-ish of her, jumping in to save someone without really thinking it through. The idea of letting Stef track them using the phone was smart, but once the phone was sent away, she knew she was in trouble. And for someone who has already been the victim of rape to be placed in that situation has to be a nightmare. I have to assume that they will get the current problem solved relatively quickly, but the emotional repercussions for Callie could be dramatic.
Unfortunately, what she didn't know is that Mike had already gotten a confession out of the grandson about the murder, which could have been used to show that her fears were justified and that she acted in a way that was not illegal. I''m just worried that Detective Grey will figure out what has been going on and take steps to stop it because it will reflect badly on him. Either that or the grandson's lawyer will find some way to get the confession excluded, which will put Callie right back int he same situation.
And then there is Anchor Beach. The way Drew, Nick's dad, and the school board pushed through the vote to convert Anchor Beach to a private school was absolutely disgusting and underhanded. First, forcing Monte out in order to put Drew in charge and then making the session closed instead of open, while technically legal, was just awful. They didn't get any input from any parents at the school other than the board, who appeared to be rich, white parents who could afford the $30,000 a year tuition while excluding the "riff raff" that had been there. Nick's dad was only doing ti because he was mad about what happened to Nick although it was mostly his fault. And to close the session after telling everyone it would be open was just wrong. I almost have to wonder if this was something the board has wanted since they put Monte in place instead of Lena. I hope the kids and parents protesting outside of the school has an effect, but I am afraid it won't.
And then there was the whole Jesus situation. When he was talking with Stef and Lena, he seemed to be ok, but then he confronted Mariana who told him that Brandon knew about the abortion and he completely flipped out. I get why he is upset, but; as I've said in the past; I am very much in Emma's corner on this one. Jesus was not, and still is not, in the place where he can be a good father and Emma is certainly not ready to be a mother herself. Telling Jesus given the way he was reacting to everything was also out of the question, so she was caught between a rock and a hard place. Tell Jesus and risk him seriously flip out and potentially do something dangerous or not tell him and then have him flip out later when he does find out. So yeah, I think she did the right thing. And Brandon was being a good friend to Emma by keeping her secret, something that Mariana (as we saw last week) is utterly incapable of doing. So Jesus now has it in his head that Brandon got Emma pregnant and that is why she got the abortion, which means he is right back to where he was after he got back home. Seriously sucky situation.
I have to wonder how Jude is going to react to everything going on with Callie. He seems to have realized that she is trying to help people when she does impulsive things, so I hope he'll be supportive of her when she comes back. That conversation the two of them had on the beach, where he said that she was his hero, was a very touching scene.
Until July 11th!
Callie has gotten herself in quite the pickle here, Because she thought she was going to go jail, she decided to save Christina from Diamond's pimp by pretending to be Christina. Very Callie-ish of her, jumping in to save someone without really thinking it through. The idea of letting Stef track them using the phone was smart, but once the phone was sent away, she knew she was in trouble. And for someone who has already been the victim of rape to be placed in that situation has to be a nightmare. I have to assume that they will get the current problem solved relatively quickly, but the emotional repercussions for Callie could be dramatic.
Unfortunately, what she didn't know is that Mike had already gotten a confession out of the grandson about the murder, which could have been used to show that her fears were justified and that she acted in a way that was not illegal. I''m just worried that Detective Grey will figure out what has been going on and take steps to stop it because it will reflect badly on him. Either that or the grandson's lawyer will find some way to get the confession excluded, which will put Callie right back int he same situation.
And then there is Anchor Beach. The way Drew, Nick's dad, and the school board pushed through the vote to convert Anchor Beach to a private school was absolutely disgusting and underhanded. First, forcing Monte out in order to put Drew in charge and then making the session closed instead of open, while technically legal, was just awful. They didn't get any input from any parents at the school other than the board, who appeared to be rich, white parents who could afford the $30,000 a year tuition while excluding the "riff raff" that had been there. Nick's dad was only doing ti because he was mad about what happened to Nick although it was mostly his fault. And to close the session after telling everyone it would be open was just wrong. I almost have to wonder if this was something the board has wanted since they put Monte in place instead of Lena. I hope the kids and parents protesting outside of the school has an effect, but I am afraid it won't.
And then there was the whole Jesus situation. When he was talking with Stef and Lena, he seemed to be ok, but then he confronted Mariana who told him that Brandon knew about the abortion and he completely flipped out. I get why he is upset, but; as I've said in the past; I am very much in Emma's corner on this one. Jesus was not, and still is not, in the place where he can be a good father and Emma is certainly not ready to be a mother herself. Telling Jesus given the way he was reacting to everything was also out of the question, so she was caught between a rock and a hard place. Tell Jesus and risk him seriously flip out and potentially do something dangerous or not tell him and then have him flip out later when he does find out. So yeah, I think she did the right thing. And Brandon was being a good friend to Emma by keeping her secret, something that Mariana (as we saw last week) is utterly incapable of doing. So Jesus now has it in his head that Brandon got Emma pregnant and that is why she got the abortion, which means he is right back to where he was after he got back home. Seriously sucky situation.
I have to wonder how Jude is going to react to everything going on with Callie. He seems to have realized that she is trying to help people when she does impulsive things, so I hope he'll be supportive of her when she comes back. That conversation the two of them had on the beach, where he said that she was his hero, was a very touching scene.
Until July 11th!
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