10x13/14 You Don’t Know My Name—RECAP

Drew propositions Alli in the hall asking for her to walk him to class. She comments that if he keeps this up people are going to think they are a couple. Drew says they aren’t a couple cause labels are pointless and they are different and you can’t break up something that isn’t there. Alli asks if they are friends with benefits and Drew says well if you have to label us then…..we’re going to be late for class.

WHATEVER IT TAKES

10x01/02 What a Girl Wants||RECAP

So here we are up to a double digit season number and also a supersized forty four episode season….yea, you read that right. Though to be fair technically it’s twenty two two-part episodes and that’s how I’ll be posting them all….With this season we also get the dropping of the ‘Next Generation’ subtitle and the intro also of   fan favorites   Drew Torres introduced in this episode and Eli Goldsworthy introduced in the next pair. Also you’ll note the season is more fast paced and there is allot more character/story arcs happening thought the season as opposed to one episode then done.

The season opens where the movie left off in New York at the Coyne penthouse. Its Holly J’s going away party. It’s not really goodbye it’s see you in a few months when you arrive at Yale. Fiona finally arrives at the party after her exhale in the Hamptons all renewed and refreshed with a new boyfriend. Declan just doesn’t trust Bobby…maybe it’s cause he’s Fiona’s first (and only) real boyfriend or maybe just maybe it’s cause of something else.

WHATEVER IT TAKES---I think it’s the same background vocals as last season….90% sure of it. The credits are a mix of old and new clips and faces…it opens with new shots of Peter, Sav, Clare, and newbie Eli. Then it’s the old Coyne Twin and Leia/Holly J scenes. A new one with new teacher Miss Oh, Connor and Wesley. The old Chantey/Anya and Jenna/Dave scenes then more new content with Adam and Bianca (newbies) along with Simpson and KC followed by newbie Drew, Riley and Alli with the pimp spot...

SEASON 10 CHARACTERS

Degrassi Takes Manhattan RECAP

I don’t know if this set of episodes/movie had an alternative title or not for what for all intents and purposes would have been episodes 20-23 however it’s interesting to note that while it’s packaged with the season nine DVD (wrapping up the seniors plots by showing the graduation of Danny, Peter, Jane…) it also served as the launch of the first of three summer ‘Novella’s’ that Degrassi had (mainly setting up Fiona’s arch for the first few episodes of season ten) The movie also brings up the ship that shant be named in the Degrassi fandom though like I said looking back at ‘Holiday Road’ maybe it wasn’t so WTF that came out of nowhere after all. And speaking of the ship that shant be named this movie (so far) is the last appearance of any of the season one student cast sans a season eleven webisode appearance of Paige.

The film opens on a deserted and messy hallway, it’s the last day of school and the seniors are returning books and getting ready to blow the school forever. Spinner closes down the Dot for an hour and Jane, and Danny are pulling Sav out of his final class wile Peter is setting up equipment outside on a stage. The final bell rings and the band is playing an impromptu show.

Declan and Holly J meanwhile are in the lab counting down until New York and generally making out.

Clare comments asking how Alli could fit all her skimpy school cloths in her locker (which aren’t all that bad like I’ve noted in the past….though definitely not what her parental would approve of) she mentions someone is coming and Clare gets all blushy saying goodbye to Declan. Holly teases him asking if she’s going to stalk him to the city and he just laughs it off.

WHATEVER IT TAKES (well a title card comes up)

9x19 Keep On Loving You recap

Much like last season, this one has an ending episode but then the finale/movie. And like last season this episode will be tagged as the finale and have the character rank you’ve come to love.

Declan gives Holly J a bracelet and they start to talk. They’ve been together three months and she’s been on the pill. She loves him and she thinks it’s the right time for them to make love.

WHATEVER IT TAKES

9x18 In Your Eyes recap

Peter is roleplaying with Riley in his anger management group. Peter asks Riley if he’s talked to the councilor about his other little issue….namely the fact that he’s gay. Not that there is anything wrong with it just that it would help if he came out to someone else aside from just his friend. Anya comes into the room after the meeting is dismissed wanting to interview the school’s most eligible bachelor for the video yearbook….Riley.

WHATEVER IT TAKES

9x17 Innocent When You Dream---RECAP

The episode opens as Clare is having a vivid Twilight/Vampire inspired dream about her and Declan. She wakes up from it and picks up the book she fell asleep reading which is a YA vampire series

WHATEVER IT TAKES

9x15/16 Why Can’t This Be Love--RECAP

AKA Promises Prom-Misses

As you can see this is another episode packaged with an alternative name at least stateside and also makes me once more question the wonderful world of Degrassi timeline….Okay so the graduating class of season 5 didn’t even have a prom episode and it just had graduation which seemed to be an afterthought to the relationship dramas at that. The class of season 7 had Prom then Graduation in the same episode, same as the class of season 12. Meanwhile the class of season 11a had Graduation first then Prom in the following episode….I’d like to assume it was due to the problems that had stemmed from Vegas Night that school year but who knows….. Anyway this season we’re now onto the Prom Episode (though they refer to it as the formal) HOWEVER there are three more regular episodes this season with graduation being no more than a five minute after thought in ‘Takes Manhattan’

Rant aside the episode opens with Sav opening his locker to a wave of confetti telling Anya that he’d be honored to go to the formal with him. She comments about how her parents want pictures of them both dressed up and would love his moms beautiful garden as a backdrop for photos. Sav doesn’t say anything and when she leaves he explains to Danny his conundrum. He told his parents he and Anya were done for good and so she can’t come over for formal photos. Danny comments saying when Anya finds this tidbit out it’s going to get messy.

WHATEVER IT TAKES

9x14 Start Me Up RECAP

Peter is running down the halls like crazy…..is he high again? No, he just got his acceptance to TU and he heads to tell the others. Danny was accepted to TU as well among others while Jane still is waiting to hear. Sav asks Peter if his dad is going to pay for it all and he shakes his head. The economy took its toll on his dad and while they will help he’s going to need to get a job. Jane asks if he’s ever done anything before and Peter comments how well he did have the band….

WHATEVER IT TAKES

9x07/08 Beat It—RECAP

I hope this recap lives up to your expectations (and mine) because when I first did it I accidentally deleted my clipboard in the process of copying this from word to this site and so I have to re-re watch this one. On the plus side the episode isn’t a weak one but on the minus side it is a two parter so it’s twice the length. Since I’ve already seen it within the past 24 hours I can tell you ahead of time that this is an ABC two parter instead of an AB/AC one with plots centering around Riley, The Niners, and Anya…..

The episode opens at the pool (cause you know that here at Degrassi they got a hidden one LOL but seriously the outside facade shots for this pool are not the norm) Riley along with Chantey, Blue, and a few random characters (including one Mark ‘Fitz’ Fitzgerald but I think he’s played by a different actor) are taking lifeguard classes with some college student named Sam. Sam is telling Riley how he’s an athlete too and being a lifeguard last summer really helped him with his speed in the sports field.  Sam then practices mouth to mouth on a dummy and Riley gets really into it and he ends up getting a boner. Jumping into the water to hide it he tells them that he’s fine though everyone laughs at him.

WHATEVER IT TAKES

9x05 You Be Illin RECAP

The trinity of Alli, Clare, and Jenna are breaking into the school to get Johnny’s phone back to delete the photos so Alli can move on. Clare suggests Alli perpetuate the trope of getting an ‘Important Haircut’ to get over it but Alli wants to get the pics and erase him from her memory. Jenna has tools to break in however the locker is open and Clare finds it’s more normal then she thought…. Alli pokes and prods and finds photos of her and Johnny and they look so happy and she pauses wondering if perhaps he still cares for her.

WHATEVER IT TAKES

9x01/2 Just Can’t Get Enough RECAP

The season opens just weeks after the events of last season/the movie special as Studz hot off their theatrical debut in Mewsical High are rocking it at Degrassi. As they are singing in the gym cut to a limo pulling up in front of the school as two well-dressed students exit from it. They are Declan and Fiona Coyne, their father is some sort of diplomat and it’s unclear whether they are American, Canadian, or duel citizens as while they call New York their ultimate home they are world travelers. Chantey introduces herself to the twins’ camera in hand ready to vlog. They ask who the important people are…. Holly J the president, Studz Degrassi’s own movie stars and the lead singers girlfriend famed model Mia just home from Paris. I assume the shoot that was canceled/delayed in the movie happened and she flew from LA to Paris then back home which was why she had millions of dollars of cloths with her on the bus….see it all comes together. Holly J tells the band they are on the set list for the Winter Beach Bash while Peter comments they ARE the set list and informs Mia he’s so close to landing a spot in the music master class.

WHATEVER IT TAKES this season it’s a new vocal track of the theme song as well as some new scenes as Derek and Mia are now gone and the four new characters this season are added. The changes are as follows: The Leia/Derek scene is now Declan/Fiona, between the Anya/Chantey and KC/Clare/Connor/Alli scene is now Leia/Holly J, then after the grade nine quad are new grade niners Jenna and Dave…. Finally with Holly J in a new scene the one of her and Mia is obviously gone….

SEASON 9 CHARACTERS

Degrassi Goes Hollywood:Recap

While I am tagging the previous episode as the season finale this movie can alternately be known as 8x19-22 Paradise City though for arguments sake I’m just going to list Danger Zone as the finale…. Anyway since this is two hours (probably about an hour and a half ish on the DVD since it’s without ad breaks) this may be lengthy. Also this is the first and for Ellie, and Craig last time you’ll see some older characters which have been absent since season seven (Marco appears next season while Paige appeared in a webisode during the back end of season eleven)

Anyway the movie begins with some scenery porn of California (I don’t remember if its location shots or stock footage but it’s stunning) Paige is on the phone with Marco gushing about her life as a Hollywood Stylist. He wants to visit but she tells him she’s swamped with clients….. though by client she really means a Diva starlet named Hailey who’s a part of the show ‘The Shores’ which is an inverse take on the Hills (despite Anya implying that the Hills is an actual show in-verse) to whom Paige acts as a personal assistant AkA glorified maid to. Hailey asks how her ‘acting’ is on the show and Paige tells her its reality TV. Hailey asks if she can help her with an outfit for some party…..for her dog. Paige picks up her cell and tells Marco….yea totally not the best time for a visit as the dog ends up taking a piss on her.

WHATEVER IT TAKES

8x18 Danger Zone—recap

This is another early A-B-C plot episode most likely because it’s a season finale.

Blue uses his art final performance piece to ask Holly J to the winter dance in a rather romantic way. She tells him she can’t cause she’s working and Chantey questions as to whether there is another guy and if he is he must be really special to of blown off Blue’s advances.

WHAEVER IT TAKES

8x17 Up Where We Belong—RECAP

The Juniors are talking to the guidance counselor because they are getting ready to plan their schedules for the second semester which is a building block for their final year and future both at Degrassi and in the real world. Mia is failing English and she’s freaking out. She’s already a year behind cause of having a baby and she doesn’t want to be in school forever. (Sweetie talk to Spinner) the councilor suggests that maybe she needs to tone down her modeling to focus more on school. As for Sav he’s at a crossroads cause the music classes he wants to take conflict with the engineering ones his father wants him to do. Mia plans to handle both modeling and school cause she HAS to while Sav…..we’ll hear from him a bit later.

WHATEVER IT TAKES

8x16 Heart of Glass--recap

Alli and Johnny are making out in his car however it’s almost nine and he doesn’t want her to be late for her curfew. He’s trying to be respectful however she thinks he’s not into her. She comes home and her mom asks how studying at the library was and Alli wines saying it’s stupid. She then slumps in the living room puts on West Drive and calls up someone presumably Clare wining that she hates her life. Seriously Alli do you want some cheese to go with your wine….god.

WHATEVER IT TAKES

8x13/14 Jane Says RECAP

Jane is waiting outside the school for Lucas to arrive with the car so that she can go out and take her road test for her license. She comes home and shows her mom she passed and she’s excited that she did it on the first try no thanks to Lucas. Her mom doesn’t know what to do with him and Jane says that maybe if he can spend more time with Isabella he’d change his life around.

WHATEVER IT TAKES

8x12 Heat of the Moment---RECAP

Holly J is looking in at Mia now captaining the squad looking upset. Alli and Clare come up behind her and Alli makes a comment about how maybe Holly J can use her newfound free time to find true love. It didn’t seem to me that Alli’s comment came off as malicious however Holly J then comments about how thanks but no thanks she doesn’t need relationship advice from a niner and then asks if Alli is even dating. Alli explains yes but when asked who claims she’s keeping it on the DL….cause yea you know her bad boy senior boyfriend is totes ashamed of her. Holly J comments how cute it is Alli has an imaginary boyfriend so she says it’s Johnny. Holly J walks to Johnny and ask if it’s true and he comments he’s a senior…yea right and Holly J tells Alli looks like she should be looking for true love too. Alli vows to kill her.

WHATEVER IT TAKES

8x10 Bad Medicine. recap

The football team is celebrating a win and Riley who’s not got a haircut is the player of the game. He looks over toward Peter and Mia with a sad look in his eyes as he has feelings. Cut to him at home with various weight training magazines and pills on the ground.

WHATEVER IT TAKES