13x38/39 Thunderstruck

Finally the season finale. This was a one hour action pack event let me tell you. The episode opens with foreboding and foreshadowing shots of natural disasters as Imogen is giving a report on Global Warming. Dallas comments that nothing like that would ever happen in Toronto and even after Imogen points out that the weather channel says that a system is brewing he claims it’s more likely to hit New York or New Brunswick. It’s apparently the end of term (how freaking long are terms in-verse…cause like didn’t just a few episodes a term/semester started and the activities fair is what inspired Maya to do the arts night?) Anyway Drew and his council company are going to now set their sights on the end of term dance. Becky wants to know about when the dance is supposed to end and it’s known that things have been a bit tense in the Baker home since Luke got sentenced to two years in jail. Imogen decides to cheer her up with Mambo #5 which causes Becky to burst out in tears and leave the room. Drew being Drew follows her and Dallas comments about how Drew is just friends with a girl to whom Imogen teases how he believes that but not global warming.

WHATEVER IT TAKES (god I hope the old theme or a variant is back next season)

12x29/30 the Time of My Life RECAP…..

I can’t believe it….we did it….we went full circle as the first thing posted aside from an intro post about my madding idea to rewatch and re-cap every episode was the postmortem for this episode when it aired back in June…..man time flies when we’re having fun….. As for what happens next…..while I don’t plan on starting a season 13 re-watch until after the completion of 13C at the latest I may go back and recap some of if not all the webisodes if the mood strikes me (if nothing else I’ll be commenting on the remainder of Dorm Life as episodes roll out) …..

Imogen and Eli are making their way toward the Prom venue to meet Fiona though Imogen seems more flustered than usual. Eli observes that she still hasn’t opened her final report card. She’s worried cause if she failed she will have to repeat senior year instead of going off to school with Fiona…..she failed. Fiona shows up and she hides her card as Fiona opens the door and reveals the venue all set up…..

WHATEVER IT TAKES (title card)

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.

WHATEVER IT TAKES

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.

WHATEVER IT TAKES

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

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

7x24 We Built This City recap

Toby comments she thought Liberty would be studying for finals however she tells him she’s been busy with Prom and Grad plans. Speaking of plans he asks if she’s up for a post grad rededication of the ‘JT Yorke Memorial Zen Garden’ Miss H approved that the two of them, Emma and Manny can have a private get together after graduation. Damian buys tickets for Prom for him and Emma however he and Liberty end up flirting. She gets a phone call the school just won a radio contest and Natasha Beddingfield is playing at prom (and que Pocket Full of Sunshine)

WHATEVER IT TAKES (bye bye instrumental opening it was nice knowing you….wish you returned in season thirteen instead of the dreck we have now)

6x18/19 Don’t You Want Me—recap

Paige is over at Alex’s house when there is a knock on the door. Her mom’s boyfriend Chad is getting arrested for credit card fraud. Alex tells her that she should go.

WHATEVER IT TAKES

5x18/19 High Fidelity

Wow time flies and we’re now at the end of another season….five down and seven more to go….well eight if you count season thirteen already in progress. Also fun fact…. Part two of this episode makes the hundredth episode can you believe we’ve gotten this far already….for the record as of this posting 322 episodes have aired (320 since I’ve actually typed this up and placed this post into the queue)…..

Manny and Emma ask why Darcy didn’t come into the Dot for coffee however Spinner shoos them away so he can have time with Darcy. Darcy tells Spinner she got a councilor job at bible camp and is going to miss Spinner all summer. He’s going to miss her too and they start to make out however before they get too far Darcy stops him telling him they made an abstinence vow to stay virgins till marriage…..virgin…yea Spinner is one of those.

WHATEVER IT TAKES

4x21/22 Going Down The Road--recap

This is an interesting episode because it just feels a bit disjoined from most of the narrative of the season as a whole.

The episode opens with Alanis, Jason, and Kevin in a scene from the movie. They call cut and Kevin starts to talk to Craig and Ashley. He asks why Craig isn’t working on his song and he says how he wants to spend time with Ashley before she heads off to England for the summer.

WHATEVER IT TAKES

3x22 The Power of Love--recap

As another season comes to a close we get an episode that like more modern episodes has an A-B-C format translation tons of shit goes down.

The episode begins with it being the last day of school and Simpson is watching the students emptying lockers. Jimmy is leaving to go to Basketball Camp in California over the summer though he wishes he didn’t have to as while it’s the best of the best when he signed up for it he didn’t have a girlfriend he’d have to leave behind for the next few months and so he is planning the perfect night for him and his friends complete with a limo and nice pre dance dinner. Meanwhile Paige is celebrating her yearlong banishment to the wasteland (remember episodes one and two?)

WHATEVER IT TAKES

2x21/22 Tears Are Not Enough recap

After re-watching this episode it feels like the perfect book end to the season opener with its plotlines. The episode opens as the students are getting ready for finals. Albert Manning show’s up outside the school taking Craig off guard. He’s there to say hi and wants to catch up with his son.

WHATEVER IT TAKES

1x15 Jagged Little Pill Recap

This is one of three episodes to my knowledge to air out of order in the US do to subject matter as this aired between 2x03 (Girls Just Wanna Have Fun) and 2x04 (Karma Chameleon) during season 2. The other episodes are 2x07 &08 (Shout) which aired as a 90 minute special  along with 2x20 (How Soon Is Now) and 3x14/15 (Accidents Will Happen) which aired in the US well after it came out in the DVD boxed set.

The episode begins on the last day of school Jeff and Kate are planning to go away for the night and have told Ashley and Toby that they can each have one friend over and no parties.

WHATEVER IT TAKES

12x39/40 The Time of My Life—postmortem