AMC - June 9, 2009

Today’s show was a whole lot of nothin’. My personal plusses were Jake and Amanda getting engaged and Angie and Kendall interacting.

First, I love Jake and Mandy two together. Probably more than I loved Zach and Kendall. Okay, that’s not really fair. I’m being colored by my current annoyance/ennui with them. They were my It Couple when they began, and the reasons I loved them were different than the reasons I love Jake and Amanda. Sure, both couples began with the pretext of some sort of protection against an antagonizing force, and that alliance grew into love. But where you saw raw passion with Zach and Kendall, you see a tender sweetness with Jake and Amanda. It’s the ultimate fantasy of two friends falling in love. It’s not exactly how I would have written the relationship’s progression, but I’m more than okay with the results. I’m so excited, in fact, that I have yet to brace myself for whatever’s to come.

Second, Angie and Kendall. I’ve been dying for a Hubbard-Slater friendship since the returns of Jesse and Angie. Especially since I never got a Slater-Dillon friendship. I’m ecstatic that Angie and Kendall are sharing these scenes together. Kendall needs someone on her side who comforts her. Everyone on Team Kendall seems to think she’s fragile and needs protecting (Ryan, Erica, Zach), but what she really needs is a friend – and co-conspirator. Her two biggest supporters (Greenlee and Josh) are both dead. (And, in a way, both deaths were because of her. But I won’t get into that now.) She’s had no one to turn to who’ll just listen, rather than run out and try to squash whatever’s bothering her. Angie’s that new someone, and that just tickles me.

Angie took a personal interest in Ian’s case, which she really didn’t have to do. She’s been championing Kendall during the investigation, talking to Jesse on Kendall’s behalf. But most importantly, she lets Kendall vent. Plus, their mutual excitement over the possibility that David could go away for murdering Stuart is adorably insane. They’re both pretty hot-headed and make impulsive decisions when it comes to their loved ones – and their enemies. They’re perfect friends!

But speaking to Angie’s interest in Ian’s case, can we take a sidebar and talk about “Dr. Sloan” for a minute? Or, more precisely, Disney’s incessant need for self-promotion? Maybe I’m off, but I definitely took “Dr. Sloan” as a reference to Grey’s Anatomy. And here’s why: Over the past several months, we’ve seen Emma going on about Ariel, Little A preparing to watch The Lion King and having a crush on Hannah Montana, and Ryan offering to dance with Erica (a plug for Dancing with the Stars, on which both Cameron Mathison and Susan Lucci appeared). The list goes on, but I just don’t have the time to research it. I’d be on the nets for HOURS. As anyone who knows me will attest, I have no problem with product placement or cross-promotion, and lord knows I’m a sucker for a good inside joke. There’s just a point when it gets tiresome. Now, the Sloan reference may not even be a reference at all, and I’m losing my head over nothing. But, come on. I don’t think I’m reaching here.

Anyway, let’s move on to what’s sticking in my craw the most: Colby. Good gravy, if this isn’t one flipping-flopping, whining brat, I don’t know who is. When SORASed Colby first showed up, she was pissed at Liza for keeping her from her father. She grew to learn that Adam truly did love her, despite what Liza had told her. But whenever Adam disappointed her, she turned on him on a dime. She ran away to live with Tad and Krystal a couple of times. And now, she’s mad at him again for keeping Liza’s letters from her. Never mind that Liza called Colby several times and those calls were ignored. Never mind that there are such a things as email, Twitter, MySpace, Facebook and texting at Liza’s disposal and which a teenager is FAR more apt to read and that Adam couldn’t have easily interfered with. Now Colby’s realized that Liza really did love her (which I don’t think was ever a question until very recently), and Adam’s the Big Bad again. So she’s moved out of Chez Chandler. I say good riddance to bad cheese. This character has been grating for awhile, and the actress’s limited abilities haven’t helped one iota. (Bring back Ambyr Childress!) I’m sure Colby’ll be back in the manse soon enough because she’s a twit who has no idea how to fend for herself. And news that Liza faked her pregnancy will probably send her running back to Daddy’s credit card, anyway. But for now, one fewer child in the Chandler mansion is just ducky.

Hm… Yeah. I didn’t really care about anything else today, and this shit’s long enough. Maybe if I stew longer, I’ll post more later.

Until then, please feel free to respond, criticize, whatever. The floor is yours.