I just want to say WOW at how much some of the characters
changed. Ashley dropped her Goth look and has this new punk/rock style which I
loved so much and still do also lots of the boys have fluffy CW/douchebag hair.
The episode begins as Emma is sitting outside reading as Christine
yells ‘it’s time’. Soon some Lion King-esque stock music plays in the background
as Emma and Simpson run inside thinking she’s about to give birth. It was just
a drill and both of them sigh. Apparently she’s been doing these allot as she’s
prepping to have a home birth and needs to make sure things are going swimmingly.
WHATEVER IT TAKES
The opening has changed since last season and not just with
additional scenes. It changes styles and this same style will be used in every
season sans six and seven up until at least season 12 (I don’t know if the
season 13 opening will of leaked by the time this entry posts though it begins
tomorrow so we’ll see if it’s the same style or not) It would be highly
interesting if someone ever did a GIF set on Tumblr with the scenes through the
seasons and what ones mirrored one another. Just from now I can already pick
out a few:
- Ellie/Peter/Sav with the camera
- Emma/Clare sticking tongue out at said camera
- Toby & Liberty/Conner & Wesley in the science lab
- Or as far as scenes in later seasons go Emma & Manny & Kelly in the truck/Alli & Clare & Jake with the truck
I’m sure there are many more but back to the episode…..
Emma is in the basement which is being renovated into being
her new bedroom as the baby due any day now is moving into her room. Christine
comes to say she needs to get up because she doesn’t want to be late for the
first day of school and that the baby shower is that evening at Joey’s however
Emma is none too thrilled about it.
In front of the school Paige and Spinner are showing allot
of PDA as they celebrate the start of their tenth grade year. Ellie makes a
comment about the show and Craig looks between her and Marco and says that he’s
sure the two of them have pet names and act all cutesy too.
Emma is venting to Sean are things are at home with the
renovation and her mom being nine months pregnant.
Spinner, Paige, and Hazel are looking at class schedules to
see what homeroom they are in. Hazel comments she hopes they have Armstrong because
he’s cute and Paige comments ewww because he’s a teacher….guess who gets all
hot for teacher well student teacher this season….three guesses. However they
don’t have Armstrong but have Simpson. “Well, it’s better than the alternative,”
quips Marco while looking across the hall at Kwan and it’s mentioned that
Spinner has to re-take grade nine English.
Speaking of grade nines in Miss H’s homeroom Toby asks JT
who he’s gunning for this year. He brings up Miss H whom he previously had a
fling with as well as Kwan jokingly before Miss H goes to call attendance. She
calls out Emma Simpson and Emma flips her shit. It’s still Nelson just because
her mom married Mr. Simpson doesn’t mean Emma now has his name….hell her mom
even kept her maiden name.
Paige arrives at her new locker and it’s in the bad part of
the school while Hazel has prime real estate. Spinner wants to do something for
their four month anniversary and since he’s broke he wants Hazel to trade
lockers with Paige. Hazel refuses.
Emma’s in the library looking at old yearbooks from the 80’s
as Craig and Ashley look on. She pauses at a photo of a man and tells them that
he’s her biological father Shane. She’s only seen Shane once when she was three
and that he’s a doctor. She heads home after school but before the shower and confronts
Simpson who is already at work painting Emma’s old room to make into the nursery.
Emma rams into him asking if he changed her name at school. He says that the
new secretary knows that you’re my daughter and must have just assumed. She
comments how Simpson isn’t her real dad and that Shane is and things change in eleven
years and she needs to see him. She’s met with a no. Emma leaves the room and
Simpson tells Christine she needs to tell Emma the truth.
It’s now the shower and there are some adult based plots
namely Caitlin talking to this woman named Sydney who is Joey’s new girlfriend
which stings cause Caitlin has lingering feelings toward him stemming back to
High School and the original series and there is an on/off Joey and Caitlin
plot that is peppered through this and the following season that I may or may
not just skim over don’t know yet. Anyway Emma asks her about Shane and she
says it’s not her place to tell.
Once the shower ends and Emma is back home she does a web
search and finds an address for one Doctor Shane McKay and plans to meet him herself.
The following day at school Spinner approaches Marco who has
an awesome locker mirror I just wanted to point out about the epiphany he had
while playing Monopoly with his family. If he can coax people into making
trades he can get Paige into Hazel’s locker.
Emma asks Sean if he’ll skip school to go see Shane but he
refuses to go because he doesn’t want to mess up his already spotty record.
Spinner approaches JT and Toby in the hall asking them about
lockers (I don’t know if it was just JT’s or if the boys shared still it was
hard to tell) followed by Chris (a new character) and finally back to Hazel
herself and he makes a few deals and BAM just like that Paige has a new locker.
Since Manny’s parents will kill her and Craig has had his
own daddy issues recently she asks him and they are off. Once they arrive to
Dr. McKay’s office they are met by a to put it bluntly a black man and not the
man that was in the photo. They end up back at Emma’s place where she remembers
Simpson is in charge of keeping the alumni addresses and gets Shane’s address
from there….it’s in a different city but apparently not so far that they can’t
take the train and plan to go the next day.
Spinner gives Paige the locker and she smiles thanking him
for the effort but she doesn’t want the locker because it’s not just about
location. She says this as she eyes Jimmy’s locker across the hall which is all
decked out in all this cool gear and she begins to salivate over it.
Craig and Emma make their way toward the hospital that they
had the address for and as they go inside Emma finds her way toward Shane’s
room only to find out he’s a mental patient and not a doctor at all…..TO
BE CONTINED
With no recap part two immediately opens with Emma backing
out….no…this was a mistake…..then Shane tells her to wait and says he likes her
blonde hair and it reminds him of his daughter Emma. Going over to his desk he
picks up a photo of Emma when she was a little girl. He says she doesn’t love
him because she never visited. Emma is verging on tears saying she never
visited because she didn’t know where to find him and that she’s Emma.
I KNOW I CAN MAKE IT THROUGH…..
Jimmy and Spinner are at a skate park and jimmy admits to
being over the MP3 Player thing. Jimmy says that if Spinner can admit that he’s
whipped by Paige by noon the next day the locker is his.
At the hospital Emma asks Shane how long he’s been there and
he says since he fell and hit his head. A nurse shows up saying how Emma should
leave and that she shouldn’t of surprised Shane like this. As Emma is about to
go Shane begins to flip out and is only calmed by knitting. (Can you guess what
therapeutic hobby Emma herself will later take up?) She tells Craig how she
hates her mom for lying and Craig replies that at least Emma still has a dad,
two really. They miss the train back home and call Joey to get them. Joey is
none too pleased especially once he hears they went to see Shane. Christine and
Simpson ask why Emma skipped school and once again she flips out saying Simpson
is not her dad once more rather harshly before going to her room.
In Armstrong’s class the next day Jimmy informs Spinner he
has fifteen minutes left to declare he’s whipped and so when Armstrong asks for
someone to come up to solve a problem on the bored he does and gives a speech…Paige
is mortified.
Christine is home knitting (guess it’s a family trait) and
there is a knock on the door….Shane.
Simpson approaches Emma in the hall and lets her know what
really happened and why Shane was hidden from her all these years. When Christine
was pregnant he wanted to help but his parents would allow it and so one night
he tripped on acid and jumped off a building cracking his skull and causing permanent
neurological issues which is why he’s been committed to the facility he was in.
Shane tells Christine he should be her husband and that she
should be carrying his baby not Simpson’s the scene is really creepy and scary
and it makes you feel like something bad is about to go down especially when
Shane refuses to let Christine use the phone. Emma meanwhile is calling home
from a PAYPHONE at the school and gets a dead line making her realize something
is up. Shane begins to flip out and smash things around in the house.
Spinner tells Paige that he’s got Jimmy’s locker for her and
she’s pissed that he pretty much painted her as a shrew and a control freak and
it seems that their relationship is dead and buried just shy of four months in.
Christine manages to finally get the phone from Shane who is
freaking out some more however soon contractions begin…for real this time. Emma
shows up and while for a while Shane won’t let them use the phone to call Simpson
or the Midwife he finally caves as Emma hands him her mom’s knitting. Simpson runs
home to the same Lion King stock music from the start of part one.
Radtich yells at Spinner for his locker scheme and says
everyone will go back to the assigned lockers Paige comes into the room and he apologizes
saying he wanted to do something nice and how he feels like a familiar because
he’s poor and had to retake grade nine English. She assures him he’s not and
they are back on.
Simpson shows up and is taken aback by Shane being there
however soon turns his attention to his wife giving birth. A nurse soon comes for Shane however before he
leaves Emma gives him a snapshot of them that Craig took. Coming back inside
Emma meets baby Jack who looks just like ‘Their’ father in reference to
Simpson.
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