The Past (Forgotten –Swallowed)

Sweetness all over this episode was distributed to ever character in a way or the other. Every scene was structured to reveal a “better situation” or “better view” of the facts, information or story. Apart from a few yellings going on with few characters, the episode runs quiet, smooth and most important, presenting some solutions, or seems to, in regards to storylines and plots hanging over the entire season or even maybe a few seasons. The willing to do more for the other and make things better for the other is what made this episode so calm and, to my opinion, soothing after all the drama we are getting this whole season.

We see Toby trying to build the confidence of Sharee to study and pass the test. J&K learning new things together, Daphne making peace with Angelo and Abby and Bay going through the truth about Ty very serene thanks to Emmett.

After Marybeth learned that Bay is still seeing Tank even though he belongs to the frat house that was organizing a dogfight party, she started to avoid all kinds of conversation with Bay about Tank which made a very clear statement to Bay that she doesn’t like Tank. The problem is, as a friend, Marybeth may not support Bay’s decision but did she need to storm out of Bay’s house to avoid the conversation? Couldn’t she just change subject and continue to visit Bay? If she really wanted to avoid talking to Bay about Tank or the frat guys, she shouldn’t be going out with Bay the night after since you would know the subject would come up. Now, really, MB was a little overreacting about this dogfight party. Just because the fraternity was planning the party it doesn’t mean that all the guys in it are the same and Bay has told her many times that Tank was one of them that doesn’t follow the “bad guy” stereotype, yet MB couldn’t stop her anger and to make things even more clear to her she spilled out the truth about Ty not really cheating. It was obvious that she has been on Ty’s side this whole time letting Bay suffer as she did. The real question here is, who else does Bay need to forgive? Ty for lying, Marybeth to let her suffer, Tank for caring more about the frat house than her..and her list goes on. Not to mention the past incidents she already had forgiven. As we see, Bay seems to really not care about Ty anymore, and seems to be either over him and just don’t care about what he did or didn’t do anymore. She still mentioned that she has a lot to think about but was decided not to go back to him and stay with Tank. Let’s just hope that whatever she is still thinking about just dissolve on her mind and let this story be buried with her anger of him making her suffer for something he didn’t even do.

The calm tonality of the episode was also a little off when Daphne yells at Angelo for pure jealousy of Abby. Although it seems silly for a grown woman to be jealous of a baby, it is completely understandable Daphne’s jealousy because she, as a baby, missed her time with him, as her father. But it all came together when she spelled it out to Angelo and we got our family moment, soothing feelings again in the episode.

John and Kathryn couldn’t have been cuter as a couple. It seems like they are on their 20s again discovering life together. Granted they know that is not what is going on, but after last touching episode, their relationship now seems to be starting over with full power and feelings. They are in tune, they can handle each other confessions, they help each other, they are creating their new adventurous life as if they were starting their relationship right now. They are finding out that even after 20s together, they don’t really know each other. This just give us the statement that, who, in this world, knows someone else for real? The only person you really know is you, and even then sometimes you discover you don’t know what you have inside, let alone someone else. The never ending support of John to everything that Kathryn does is just a sign that what they have is the true love and commitment to each other. “In sickness and health until death parts” them, it is jut full commitment.

Great advice from Emmett kept Bay calmed after finding out about Ty, as creator Lizzy Weiss tweeted during the show, who would have thought that Emmett would be “helping” Tank pushing Bay to him? Well, let’s talk about first why is it that every time Bay has a guy problem she goes to Emmett? On Episode 1, she mentioned that she should stop doing it but obviously she didn’t. And let’s not forget that she went to talk with Emmett after finding out that Ty cheated (or she thought so), now she is back again to Emmett after finding out that Ty didn’t cheat. It just seems to me that all the talk from Episode 4 about hurting each other talking about their current dating lives were just a big vent and not really to take into consideration. She continues to hurt Emmett with her constant updates of her dating problems to him, yet he continue strong to take it in and looking out for what SHE wants and how SHE feels, he gives her the most sincere and selfless advices even if that means she will end up running to another guy (in this case now is Tank). On another observation of this small conversation, it does look like that Emmett is just re-living his situation when he started dating Bay after Ty was gone and his advice for her was exactly what he got when they started..he was not the perfect guy but he was there, he liked her and he was trying to be with her. No doubt that he was a little shook up talking her into be with someone else once again, it shows when he hesitated to say “anytime”, that “anytime” sounded more like “not again” “please stop hurting me” with a tone of “anything for you to make you feel good”

On a technical subject, Kathryn clothes seemed to start showing her erotic mind, a very beautiful assemble but, to be honest, it doesn’t look like to upper-class housewife she used to be. It was also weird to see all the emails about Principal Rose being on this episode and she didn’t show up at all, once final editing was done we now wonder what she was saying and how Sharee convinced her to let her play Hockey field even though she didn’t get the grade she needed.

Here it the promo for episode 10 (next monday)

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