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Thursday, May 10, 2012
12:11 pm
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Tagged: filler episode, funny, Mini-Declan, parody, recap, revenge, S-Natch, tvgasm, Welcome Hayes
Greetings, Gasmii! It is a magnificent day!! My stepdaughter is in labor as we speak, so little Hayes Bradley will make his entrance into the world today!! As a dedicated Gasmii, I hereby pledge to enter him into a T&T pageant the minute I find an unspayed Weimaraner to keep constantly impregnated for my own financial gain and a pageant that offers a truck full of Little Debbies as the Ultimate Grand Supreme with extra cheese prize. Until then, though –
BA-BAY FEEEET!
It seems appropriate that this week’s episode of Revenge is entitled Legacy, so let’s dive right on in before the hospital calls, shall we?
We open in New York City
SORRY – IT’S KIND OF A PAVLOVIAN RESPONSE
It is December 28, 2002, and lots of people are dancin’ in da club. Apparently it’s somebody named Shawty’s birthday, and she seems to have lots of friends. Unlike our heroine. She is in her pre-Emily phase, so I shall call her Amanda.
Amanda is dancing with some dude who keeps grabbing her ass, so she gets pissed. She shows her disgust by demanding, in a totally non-cliched way, a “vodka tonic, hold the tonic.” Amanda then espies her man taking some skanky ‘ho nice, respectable young lady into the bathroom. Amanda bursts in and beats the shit out of him with a toilet seat.
THE WEAPON OF CHOICE FOR ALL TOUGH GAL EX-JUVIES, I AM TOLD
The bouncer grabs her and hauls her outside when, who should she see, but Nolan in a stretch limo – and flat, dark hair.
Nolan signals the bouncer to throw Amanda into the car. They go to a diner where Amanda is eating like a truck driver, shoveling the food in and chomping with her mouth open like a cannibal on the scene of the Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, and I begin wonder if the writers are really so lazy that they are now looking up scenes from The Every Hokey, Played-Out Stereotype Handbook.
STILL LOVE THE SHOW, JUST IRRITATED WITH THE BLATANT DISREGARD OF THE VIEWERS’ INTELLIGENCE
I digress. Nolan is concerned that Boyfriend is going to press charges. Amanda reminds Nolan that they have only met once before, so its NOHB, and if he wants his money back he can kiss her ass. Nolan realizes Amanda hasn’t read her father’s journals yet. He begs her to read them. She storms out.
Back at Grayson Global, Conrad, Frank, and Victoria are meeting because Conrad received this:
Frank says that, since David Clarke is dead, they are considering the card a threat from someone who has inside knowledge of the circumstances of David’s case. They are making a list of all of the people who were part of the scandal and inviting them to the Grayson New Year’s Eve party so Frank can use his crack investigative skills to disclose the culprit.
Victoria refuses at first, but Conrad reminds her that they face life in prison if the truth comes out.
Amanda walks into The Stowaway and actually orders “vodka tonic, hold the tonic” again. The female bartender answers, “You want a twist? The hero and the villain are actually the same person. Get it? A twist?”
ESPECIALLY THIS SCRIPT
Dad Porter comes out with some boxes and a mini-Declan.
Jack is right behind him and we know he is young because he is clean-shaven and is wearing a backward baseball cap.
He looks Amanda right in the face and smiles. Okay. Stick a fork in me on this episode. Amanda is wearing a brown wig with bangs, but he is not going to recognize her a couple of years later as Emily? I will give the benefit of the doubt, though, maybe they will acknowledge they saw each other and just comment on her hair being different. We can only hope.
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I hearted this entire episode so much! I loved the younger looking versions of Nolan and Jack and Declan. So cute! Also cool to see how the Graysons also destroyed other people to fuel their plot against Clarke. I am such a fan girl for this show and get more so each week.
I think it is supposed to signify how little people pay attention to “The help”. Or just plot holes. Either way. I mean think of how many people you interact with on a daily basis. Unless you are a good reader of faces, you probably are not going to remember them. Eyewitness accounts have been proven to suck. So I could totally believe they would not recognize her. I do feel Victoria has always sensed something “off” about Emily and it may be her subconcious recognizing her from the party or from her childhood face. Not enough memory though to peg her as Amanda.
At this point in the season, especially after the months long pause, this episode felt like a total filler. It would have been better in the first half of the season. We didn’t learn anything the new. It didn’t really move the plot forward. However, it did show that the characters are capable of facial expressions. And seriously, how old is that dog??
I feel like this show would have been better as a mini series. How are they going to extend this over another season? What type of hellish cliff hanger is this season going to end with?
@April – you have good points about “the help” and eyewitness accounts – I can’t even describe what I’m wearing even when it is stretched across my ample ass. The only thing is, Amanda seemed to be right there in the middle of everything, yet the only person who thought she had seen Emily before was Lydia – and she saw her less than anyone.
@Carol – I wonder if there is going to be a Dallas-type ending. For example, in the preview, Emily is all bloody and says something like, “I want my face to be the last thing you see before I kill you.” Maybe they won’t show us who she is talking to or a gunshot goes off and Emily looks surprised so you aren’t sure if she is shot or the other person. I totally agree that this should have been a mini-series as opposed to a recurring one. I wonder if that was the original intent but then it proved so popular they want to milk it.
S-Natch, The only reason why Lydia remembered Emily is because of that picture that was taken from the party with Emily in the backround. I guess I should say Amanda, cause she was Amanda back then. I also think you are right about Victoria. Victoria knows she “knows” Emanda-I am going to have to call her this from now on
-from somewhere. I am going to go with that particular party. She was pretty much everywhere during that party. Heck even Frank got that feeling that he knew her from somewhere when she started seeing Daniel.
I know I have not changed much from my high school years. Hell one of my friends posted high school pictures on her FB page, and tagged me in them, that bitch
So yeah, nothing has changed except for maybe 50 pounds and 14 years, and a husband…
ps, I changed my screenname to SparkleBaby over in the T&T recaps, but I had to change it back to this, because if that Mini cap of lastnights show hits 300 someone has to shout out Sparkle Thundercunt!! You know who I am talking about
Oh and I also liked this episode, in a way, it was nice to see why she now truley hates all these people. I am hoping that next week is part of that party, and we get to see all those people again, well almost all, we know frank is a gonner, but what about Lydia…Have we seen her since her tumble off the roof and onto that taxi?
Yeah remember Lydia was in Grayson manor for a bit and Victoria was caring for her to find out what she remembered. She remembered everything but wasn’t talking. Conrad smuggled her out of the manor and hid her off somewhere. So I doubt we will see her again, but you never know.
The weirdest thing about this show. I was getting an odd hankering to rewatch “Bad Girls” and looked to see if Netflix had it (it did not! ) on instant watch. Then I started watching this show on Hulu and it had Madeline Stowe! It was like the first thing I have seen her in in a long time.
I also think they might have intended this as a one series deal or mini series but might try to stretch it out now. Wonder how they can make it last over two seasons tops is all I see them getting out of it. I would rather have a short awesome show, than a long show that dwindles and gets ridiculous.
Yes, April, I remember now, that is when Lydia remembered where she knew Em from. Not just from the hotel when she was with Conrad, but from the picture from the party.
I think the young girl that plays 8 yr old Amanda is adorable.
Nolan was so hot in this episode! I like pre-Hamptons Nolan fashion. Mmm. Jack’s hair had me laughing hysterically every time he was on screen. It was good to see Sammy (aka ZombieDog) again, but I felt like it took away some of the power of her seeing Sammy in the pilot. Like she couldn’t believe he was alive and that Jack kept him all this time. Obviously she knew. Womp womp.
While it was really great seeing all of our dearly departed/revenged cast members, I really wish that this episode had come earlier in this season. At this point, it was all somewhat interesting, but mostly just filler until the finale next week. What will I do when this show is off the air?
Boy was this a filler episode that should have been showed before the break. I did like seeing younger everyone. I wonder why we didn’t get to see mini-Daniel and Charlotte. I had a problem with NO ONE remembering Amanda when she had interactions with these people. I thought they didn’t remember her because she was in the shadows the entire time….nooooo she had MORE THAN ONE encounter with Frank WTF and Vicki. I will admit is was nice to get some (85% unnecessary) back story. But dammit the back story I want is when she travels the world and becomes a martial artist.
Me too Moli. I bet if they do another season we might get a martial arts training back story epi. I hope so! I told my hubby this show was for a minute there turning into a Kill Bill type martial arts movie and was taking a weird turn. I dug it.
I’m guess the writers will have another huge seret to reveal and that can get them another season.
I agree with what everyone said about the group remembering Amanda. I also wondered why no one had remembered her but those people are so wrapped up in their own lives,
It seems totally possible.
Great recap!
I always figured they would show that she had plastic surgery to change her appearance a bit, but that never happened. A lot of people look in the face exactly like they do as adults so you know Jack might recongize her that way.