12x13/14 Rusty Cage RECAP

And cue the water works because two of the three subplots of this episode are totally on the emotional side of things.

The episode opens in the locker room as the older jocks are hazing Campbell some more. Its game day and they start teasing him about his skates and his lucky boxers and the puck bunnies that are just wanting him to give them the time of day. A delivery of balloons come and they comment how Campbell was holding out on them however the delivery is from his mom or at least that’s what he says. We then are met with some action shots in the rink of the Ice Hounds playing and Campbell gets pushed down.

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12x11/12 Waterfalls RECAP

Clare’s delivering coffee to Asher at a pitch meeting and asks if she can sit in. Asher lets her however when she decides to speak up to pitch she’s cut off and Asher tells her to walk before she can run and asks if she’s done with the fact checking. She goes to finish it….as well as to send Asher her ideas.

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12x09/10 Closer To Free RECAP

This episode opens with Jenna playing her guitar and pretty much singing about how Jake is focusing on setting the new garden up and not her and how Clare and Alli have gone AWOL and so she’s all by her lonesome…. Becky soon joins in and a friendship soon blossoms. Becky complements Jenna on her singing and Becky invites her to her place to play for her and her ‘friends’ Jenna gets what it’s like to be the new girl and accepts the offer.

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12x03/04 Walking On Broken Glass

AKA Gives You Hell….I don’t know if it was a working title or if it went by this name in Canada….anyway in fitting with the Novella format this episodes plots flow right from the last and it’s rather interesting cause the continuation of the Katie/Drew plot is mostly from Katie’s POV in part one and Drew’s in part two which is interesting in its own right.

Council is getting ready to plan the ice hound pep rally as Katie comes to the meeting late. Marisol asks if she’s up for it and she says yes she’s president and she’s ready to take the job back from Marisol and asks for the team to catch her up. She says they should get a sizzle real and show footage of the team. Mo comments how it should be easy since Dallas is with Drew. Marisol reminds him of the break up and he apologizes but it’s too late as Katie starts to ugly cry because it just hurts so much.

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SEASON 12 CHARACTERS

11x44/45 In The Cold Cold Night—RECAP

Wow….one more season down and one complete season to go until we get to the present one.

The finale opens as Fiona asks Imogen if she’s ready to make a move since they’ve been trying to overthrow the student office since the start of the school year (read-mid season) and now that Katie’s gone off the grid thanks to her little pill problem taking reign from Marisol will be a piece of cake. As it is, Marisol is being swarmed by students wanting to get a word in. a freshman says that Katie promised to talk to Simpson about the uniforms and Marisol says and Mo parrots back that she’s not Katie. Fiona and Imogen then saunter in and Fiona comments about how there have been no social activities what-so-ever this school year and winter is coming…. Winter break that is and she has a great idea for an event that will knock everyone’s socks off. Marisol brings up the coffee house and informs Fiona that since Vegas Night and Prom ended in disaster Simpson has banned any nighttime events and tells her personal bouncer Mo to boot them out.

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11x38/39 Need You Now RECAP—

Eli’s napping as Imogen is creepily taking pictures of him. He wakes up and she asks him what he was dreaming. He is curious and asks if he was a snorer and Imogen informs him he was simply just a drooler. She’s curious if he always goes to sleep at 9:15 and he says he was just run down by his jog though now that he’s had a power nap he’s wired and invites her to spend the night and watch a movie. Imogen is a bit weary at first but then decides to call her dad and lie saying she’s with Fiona. She is about to make the call when Bullfrog shows up saying how Eli needs to keep up with a sleep schedule to insure his meds work and Imogen leaves. Eli is upset his dad is wanting to parent and cock blocked him by bringing up his bi-polar not that he and Imogen were going to do anything more than see a movie and sleep.

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11x36/37 Not Ready To Make Nice—RECAP

Without spoilering Clare’s plot in this episode from the on-set when this episode was in production and behind the scenes twit pics began to surface I was really starting to think that Clare’s plot would have been something else….something that the show hadn’t and still hasn’t tackled before but I really wish it would cause it would be an interesting plot. Anyway at least part two is a Ramona Episode which means it’s bound to be good.

Jake is commenting to Clare at breakfast how they should really coordinate their schedules as to who is running late on which day so they can continue their pattern of avoiding one another cause it’s clear that they aren’t trying to work on the whole sibling thing. Jake comments how Clare is always locked in her room all reclusive and she comments how hard it is now living with two strange men especially when one said man is her ex. She comments about an empty milk carton in the fridge as Glenn steps into the room apologizing that it’s a bad habit and wishing his son a Happy Birthday. Helen didn’t know it was his birthday and we find out he’s only turning 17 yet the last crop of seniors were all turning 18 in their senior year though then again their Birthdays all happened in the latter end of the school year so Jake being the baby of his class would make sense especially if like in parts of the US, Canada had cut off dates for Kindergarten registration. Anyway Glenn asks if Jake plans to invite his ‘new girl’ to dinner causing Clare to roll her eyes as this is the first she’s hearing about it. Jake tells him they are just friends but she’s welcomed all the same.

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11x34/35 Can’t Tell Me Nothing—RECAP:

The episode opens as Katie is in a conditioning period for the under eighteen junior national soccer team. Soccer is her lifeblood, her passion; it’s to her what applause is to Tinkerbell she needs it to live….yea I know she told Adam of her journalism dreams last season however apparently that dream is a moot point. She ends up getting too physical and elbows one hard in the jaw. Katie feels bad and wants to apologize however Drew tells her she was just in the way and eyes on the prize if she wants to win.

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11x20x21 Extraordinary Machine –RECAP

Bullfrog is driving Eli to school asking if he slept the night before. Eli said he was up late doing revisions. Bullfrog asks how he’s doing emotionally and if Eli needs to see someone to talk. Eli says it’s fine and it’s mostly due in part to Bullfrog giving him the pills or so his dad thinks. As this conversation is going on outside, Clare and Jake are acting all coupley out in the rain. As Eli gets out and walks toward the school he spits his pill into a baggie filled with more discarded ones.

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11x16/17 Lose Yourself—RECAP

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KC’s rocking Ty at Degrassi as Marisol comes over and KC tells her that they need to cool things down at school because Jenna’s in Simpson’s office talking about coming back. Jenna tells him that she can’t because she doesn’t have proper child care. KC suggests that she talks to the moms in her mommy and me group to see how they deal with juggling motherhood and real life. Jenna nods saying one way or another she needs to get back to Degrassi.

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11x12/13 Should of Said No RECAP—

From the title I bet you’re wondering if this is another rape based plot….and no it’s not rape based.

Clare’s on her phone talking to Alli about Jake and how he’s tall and drives a truck and is supermegafoxyawsomehot…..okay maybe Clare didn’t use that last word verbatim but come on Jake Martin is supermegafoxyawsomehot as she’s gushing about him she walks into her living room to see Glenn there. Clare is beat red only to be redder when Glenn tells her that he’s in the kitchen and she walks in on him shirtless. She’s in a rambling speechless mode and you can just feel the chemistry between the characters….even though this is just a midgame….

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11x08/9 Dirt Off Your Shoulder—RECAP

Eli’s limping off the bus and Adam notes that Clare is coming his way. She tells him that she’s got a job on the school paper and her assignment is an interview with him. He says no sweat and he’ll give her an interview. Adam says that went well thanks to his pills. Adam asks what’s wrong and Eli says there hasn’t yet been an official diagnosis…anyway he can get over Clare and will do so with the play.

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11x04 What’s My Age Again—RECAP

Anya, Fiona, and Holly J are looking at magazines looking through magazines and brainstorming themes….no not for prom but for Anya’s eighteenth birthday party. Vampires…they are in….no….Fiona suggests Alice In Wonderland and while it’s shot down as being juvenile she reminds them of the trippy Burton adaption. Anya thinks Paris but that’s cliché and wouldn’t it being back memories of Sav and Junior Prom…..pish posh she’s over Sav and in a few short months she’ll be at Toronto U with Doctor Kris as her boyfriend. Fiona asks if she should add his name to the invite list and Anya says let’s ask him and she dials him up as Holly J and Fiona are making kissy noises. He’s been meaning to call her and she tells him her birthday is in two days and invites him. She hangs up saying to the girls he can’t make it…..but he asked her out for the following night instead.

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11x03: Love Game RECAP

No don’t let things fool you we’re not giving up on two part episodes just yet (at least not until season 13) however unlike last season’s Summer Arch where week 1 we had Manhattan kick it off and then for one week only have an episode air on Friday with this season we had an hour long season opener with three one-parters week one and two parts the remainder of the season leading to a grand and odd numbered total of 45 Episodes this season…..

The episode opens with Clare looking in the mirror trying to figure out what to do with her hair and Helen calling out to her to not be late for Dinner. Also getting ready for school is new mom Jenna focusing on both getting herself and baby Ty ready.

Now we’re at Degrassi as Eli is limping into the school and down the hall with a cane devoid of any emotions like a zombie as Clare and Alli walk down the halls….it had to end sometime but Clare just hopes he’s okay. She locks eyes on him and Alli asks if he’s even called since that night….no…..but that doesn’t mean that they can’t be mature about things. She asks how he’s going and he says great she asks if he wants to talk and he says nope….like I said before he’s very robotic and zombie like and his spark is gone.

WHATEVER IT TAKES (new background vocals and with this season brings a whole new opening sequence….granted it’s the same style as seasons 3-5 and 8-present but the sequences are new. The order of scenes is….Adam, New Character Jake, Alli & Clare, Anya & Holly J & Chantey, KC &Jenna (and baby TY), ascended extra Marisol & New Character Katie, New Character Imogen& Eli & Fiona, Zane & Riley, Conner & Wesley, Sav & Miss Oh, Simpson & Bianca, Owen, Dave, and finally Drew.

11x01/2 Spring Fever AKA Boom Boom Pow—RECAP

While this episode is the season opener it was produced at the end of season ten….that said doesn’t expect to see any newbies. And don’t expect to see a new and improved opening title sequence either as this episode is produced on the DVD like the full length movie episodes were.

The episode opens with scenery porn of Toronto. It’s Spring Break. The Bhandari’s are painting walls, Drew, Bianca, KC, and Dave are out where a DJ is giving out KeKe Palmer tickets and Bianca does a dance to win them as Fiona is trying on swim suites. Bianca is taking Drew home before his curfew as some old buddy of hers, Anson starts to cat call her. He’s a nobody….a has been and she just wants to saver what time she has left with Drew.

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SEASON 11 CHARACTERS

Season 11 is rather dis-joined with the first part taking place at the end of the present school year and introducing a few new faces while the back end dropped all the graduates and added a quad of incoming freshman....instead of making two season tag pages however I'm adding everyone in here.....

10x43/44 Drop The World—RECAP

Here we are at the Season FINALLY I mean Finale of season ten…..yea seems like forever since the season began and just think the school year is far from over as we’ve still got Spring Break, A SECOND school election, Prom, Graduation, and FIVE Newbies (well three newbies, one minor character promoted to main and one new minor that is promoted to main in the back end of the season) left to come.

Eli runs to the newsstand buying up all the copies of ‘Gothic Times’ before running to school. They published Eli’s story….no not Eli’s…..THEIRS….their first collaboration. They are a dynamic duet and Eli wants to hone his dark twisted mind and her flair for the romantic together lock themselves in a basement and not leave until the manuscript of their first novel is finished…..tempting….Clare tells him she’s got plans….to go shopping with Alli for Spring Fling. Eli comments saying she was just published and says doesn’t she think dances are trivial and droll….she says he doesn’t have to come.

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10x37/38 Jesus Etc RECAP

Eli tells Clare that the submissions for some Gothic Fiction contest are due soon and he’s suffering from some blockage. Clare comments how he needs a distraction and he replies like giving driving lessons which is what he’s doing in the moment as Clare has taken up the driver’s seat of Mortey while Eli’s in the passenger’s one. She says you can teach me and I can pay you back without editing. He calls her his muse and then tells her to take care of his baby. He’s an antique hearse and he doesn’t want Clare or the car to get hurt…..Clare starts pulling down the road as Fitz shows up besides the car. He’s been looking for the couple and wants to talk.

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10x35/36 The Way We Get By—RECAP

The episode opens with the basketball team playing and I instantly know what episode this is cause while I remember the basic archs of the season honestly with 40+ episodes it’s hard to recall what plot goes where…..spoilers…..it’s the Drew takes shrooms episode…..anyway the team is on to the semi’s meaning that a year has already flown by since the drama with KC and Coach Carson. Drew wants to celebrate however he realizes he’s the fifth wheel to Dave and Sadie and KC and Jenna. He decides to stay behind and work on his game and I just want to give him a hug.

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