In
Canada I don’t know if it was called its original title ‘Bleeding Love’ or not.
Anyway this stand-alone two part episode was meant as a bridge/filler between
the summer novella and the back fourteen that hasn’t been set to air until the
spring of this season. It was pegged by some as a Halloween episode and while
it did air around Halloween time in Canada it didn’t air until mid-November
stateside the first time that episodes didn’t sync up across North America
since season 9. The feel of this episode is a bit weird and not cause it had
the same ‘movie’ cinematography as Hollywood, Manhattan, Spring Fever, and season
twelve’s Vegas. Also it was purely coincidental that this episode’s recap would
be queued to post on Halloween (okay sure so I doubled up a few episodes to
make it so but whatever)
Anyway
it all begins on a dark and stormy night…..no seriously it does. Clare’s
looking at a dress in her room and letting out a scream. Alli, back from her
summer in Ottawa comments saying it’s not THAT bad as Clare brings up it’s not
the dress it’s the fact that her mom’s getting married to her exes’ dad in the
morning. Alli asks if she’s talked to Jake but he’s gone rogue all summer
working as a counselor by his cabin. Clare admits she still has feelings for
him but she needs to move on. The girls soon hear a foreboding notice and Alli
thinks it’s coming from the closet. There is nothing in there but soon the
lights flicker out and they see a mysterious shadow by the door. As the lights
return Jake’s there and he wants to talk. He tells Clare he was just there to
move things into his new room and he’ll see her at the wedding. Clare tells him
the space he gave her was a good thing all things considered and tomorrow is a
fresh start between them. Jake leaves the room leaning against the wall with a
sigh as he opens up the box in his hand to reveal a bouquet of roses.
WHATEVER
IT TAKES (in the initial air there was a special title sequence but here on the
DVD we get the new season 11 part 2 sequence….. it’s a bit discombobulated
cause it has a mix of old scenes and new which wouldn’t be so bad except the
old scenes have students in the polo’s for the grades they were in last year
sans Katie and Marisol who are in sport uniforms and Fiona who was retained
while the new characters obviously have their new polo’s. It begins with the
old Adam and Jake/Alli/Clare scenes, then a new scene with the new freshman Tristan,
Maya, Tori, and Zig. Then the KC/Jenna/Ty scene despite them giving the baby up
and being splitsville, Katie/Marisol, Imogen/Eli/Fiona, Conner/Wesley (despite
Spencer not being on the show due to personal reasons then told they exhausted
plots for Wesley and firing him), new scene with Mo and Miss Oh which is pretty
much the same as the one with her and Sav in part A, Bianca/Simpson/Owen, and
finally Dave and Drew)
