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Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Drowning Girl

Season 3 premiere of Switched at Birth started with a big bang but the story on this very first, so expected episode was somewhat lost. With too many new characters being introduced right on the very first episode, the regular actors lost a little of track on where they have stood or what they will be doing from now on.

It was an episode of JUST plots starting, from my point of view, not one old plot left hanging from the 2nd season was addressed or attempted to have a closure on this 1st episode of the season, however we do see many new plots coming to the screen which may consist on making this season one with the most story lines to be unfold before the end, and that means a lot of actions being taken so those stories can have a closure (hopefully) before the end.

Congratulations on Toby for improving his sign language and finally picking his dominant hand to sign. Previously, Toby was signing switching hands, even though the sign was right, switching of dominant hand is not "permitted" on signing languges. On his scenes in this episode, Toby maintain his signing with his dominant left hand for, what we can say, 98% of the time, switching really few times between hands!

As for our favorite character, Bay, can she spend 1 episode without crying or fighting? It was obvious that a girl of her kind, sensitive and 17, would be still hung up on the ex-boyfriend who was her "first". The story on this episode represents 99% of the 17 year old girls in love and heart-broken, which in my opinion, made this episode the most accurate for Bay's character from all the other episode aired so far. My question here is, why didn't we see that when she broke up with Emmett? Yes, of course her relationship with Ty was more intimate, but her relationship with Emmett was also, in many ways, really profound. So much that up until now, we (the audience) can still feel the tension when Bay and Emmett are together on scene. So, where are all the tears for Emmett? Here is my theory: She was mad at him more than she was hurt. The anger made her strong, so much that she forgave him, in her heart, just a couple weeks later. Plus, she was aware of all he was doing to get her back, to make her feel wanted again and to prove he was still in love with her. He was there for her all the time (except one drunken and very mess up night, because of her..in a way, she made him go overboard with his emotions - anger). The situation and feelings she went through when Emmett cheated on her was somewhat serving to prepare her to handle the "Ty cheating" situation (Yes, I know he didn't really cheat, but that is what she thinks it happened, so her feelings is in correspondence to that thought). With Emmett, it was something she have never handled before, but with Ty, she already knew the feeling, how the heart would hurt with the pain of knowing the guy she is with is not into her enough to go around and sleep with someone else. So in a way, her experience with Emmett just made her more prepared to how to handle what is happening with Ty and she is doing really good, except she is now even more hurt to know that Ty not only cheated, but he also doesn't care to make amends, he doesn't care about her feelings, he is not there for her, not even to discuss about it or try to work things out, he didn't care to prove his "love" (remember he said the "L" word to her on episode 18 of season 2), like Emmett was the whole time.

I expect to see a lot more of Bay still crying over Ty, but I hope she will realize the difference of Love between what Emmett did and repented to what Ty did and didn't care to make amends, hopefully soon enough before she loses both forever. And Bay MUST decide deep in her heart, who she REALLY loves.

On another subject of the character, back to school, Bay went back to be on Bay style again. Even on Season 2, when Bay transfered to Carlton, the character went through a change of style on clothes and hair/make up. She let go of the beautiful high maintenance curls and dresses with stocking to a light wavy to completely straightened hair (when not on buns or braids) with a lot of jeans and pants. On Season 2B, she had totally forgot about curls, wears little to no makeup and not to mention the whole light clothes and shorts with no stoking, making her a very common teenager, and not really the complex and amazing beauty Bay. We didn't really see Bay with stocking on this episode, but the beautiful curls are back to her style, and she is even putting some make up as we see the mascara coming down her face with her tears on the scene she cries with Tank. She also starts wearing, again, the heavy dark clothes that defined her and complete her skin color together with her hair color. Welcome back Bay!!



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