Shippy Moment of the Day: "What About Him?" (Greek)

Casey Remembers the Last All Greek Ball
"Freshman Daze" from Greek Season 1

Recap: A classic flashback episode where we find out how Casey, Cappie, and Evan all first met. A not-so-surprising secret? Cappie partied too much to have time for his then-girlfriend Casey. A surprising secret? Evan was always there for Casey. The flashbacks culminate at the All Greek Ball, a Greek formal where Cappie forgets to pick up Casey, so Evan takes her instead. When Frannie bitches Cappie out, he gets to the dance only to find Casey and Evan together. A fight between Cappie and Evan ensues, leaving us to see whose side Casey will take.

Note: There's minimal dialogue in this moment, so it's a little more pic-heavy.

The Moment:

Accidentally Hand-Touching! This can only lead
to Flashback Goodness!

Awkwardness = Cue Flashback!

Old-School Evan is so meek and dorky--I love it! Plus, he is
genuinely a good guy. Before Omega Chi and his parents
caught up with him, he was just like any other well-intentioned
college kid trying to find his place.

Evan: What about Cappie?

And she says this with such bite and finality:

Casey: What about him?

And she has no regrets about choosing Evan.

And, wordlessly, he drops his hand and walks away. He's been
an ass this entire season, but in this moment, he has nothing to
say because the memories are strong enough in both
of them that nothing needs to be said.

And, of course, Cappie's third of the triangle is watching.

A glimpse of the Old Evan, like a ghost as he
disappears back into the crowd.

Casey gets a moment to recover before she realizes...

...Cappie is watching and her past hell isn't over.

Cappie's smile here is the one thing I can never figure out. Is he
secretly happy that Evan and Casey are now so awkward toward
each other at the event that brought them together two years ago
and left he in the cold, girlfriend-less and best friend-less?
Or is it a smile of support for Casey? Or is he happy that everything
worked out for him, if not his two former best friends? I get the
feeling it was supposed to be the second, but it comes
across as the first or third.

LOVE THEM. Cappie/Rebecca 4-Eva!

And Casey realizes she's left with no one.

Thoughts: This is my kind of episode. Flashbacks + Angst! I love me some good backstory, and the episode was killer for that.

Up until this point, the season's been pretty anti-Evan. He cheated on Casey, he sucks, whatever. But in this episode, we get to see how Evan used to be. Does that excuse who he is now? Of course not. But it does
a) give the audience understanding of why Casey was so loyal to him and
b) allow him a piece of the audience's heart so he can be an actual contender in the love triangle.

I was a sampler of Greek before this episode, but MAN! This episode just reeled me in and since I've fallen in love with it. I think it shows everything Greek could be if it let itself: a delicious drama with consistent characterization and actively poignant/relevant backstory informing current actions. We get Frannie being kickass moments. We get hilarious rush moments (oh, the memories). And, most impressively, we get great Cappie/Evan friendship moments.

Unfortunately, Greek has decided that instead of playing up this beautiful backstory, it would be better to make Evan an asshole with possibly the worst/most schizo characterization I've seen on TV outside of Smallville Season 8. I can't excuse anything Evan's done, but I do still root for him. Sure, I love Max more than Evan and Cappie combined, but I find that I care more about how the show treats Evan than how it treats Cappie. Since Casey/Cappie is obviously the show's OTP, I'm afraid that Evan will increasingly be thrown to the wayside without hope of redemption. Despite how this episode shows how beautiful and dramatic and fulfilling good Evan is, I think the show prefers him in the villain capacity (although his "off the map" longing looks during Season 2 give me hope for a Casey/Evan reconciliation despite his inexcusable actions in the finale).

But, ranting aside. A great moment where we get to see interaction of all the major couples so far, including my beloved Cappie/Rebecca. (Still pissed about them breaking up.)

Spoiler Snark: Gossip Girl, Greek, and Smallville

Where I will snark about spoilers. (Boy, I'm being adventurous with my newfound blogging love.)

In this outing: Who’s hooking up on Gossip Girl? Who’s deactivating on Greek? And who’s Smallville’s latest superhero?

Gossip Girl

As Watch with Kristin reported, Nate and Blair are officially ON.

To quote Kristin’s insider: "Blair and Nate are both at a crossroads. Blair has to accept she isn't going to Yale. Nate is being sucked into his family's expectations, and they are both there for each other and enjoy the familiarity. At first it's platonic, but, of course, that doesn't last long."

And, despite my loyal Chair/Bluck love, I am super-excited about this development. I know, I’m in the minority. But let’s think about how this is good for the show:

1. Nate hooking up with Blair totally shows Chuck what he’s lost and hopefully will give him a good kick in the rear to get his priorities in order.

2. Nate will finally be back in the central plot where he belongs. While I do love the Nate/Vanessa cuteness, Nate is not a B-plot character. And I’m excited to actually have Chace Crawford’s man-bangs cross my TV screen for more than three minutes a week, if even.

3. It will heat up a Nate/Chuck rivalry, meaning they'll actually have screentime together. Does anyone else miss season one Nate and Chuck when they smoked pot in Central Park and were just effortlessly cool and bromantic? Or when they fought over Blair and it was so effing amazing that you were angry that Nate gave up too easily? Yeah. I miss my Nate/Chuck interaction of any type and a Nate/Blair/Chuck love triangle works well to help re-establish their on-screen chemistry.

4. Anything that takes away from the Dan/Serena “we’ve broken up three times and still haven’t learned our lesson” drama is more than welcome in my book.

Plus, we all know that Blair and Chuck are endgame. So I don’t mind our Queen B getting some hot biceped action in the meantime. (And how romantic/gorgeous/exhilarating is that kissing-in-the-snow photo?)

P.S. If Blair’s not going to Yale, where IS she going? If everyone ends up at Columbia, I’m going to be so underwhelmed.

Greek

Two pieces of news:

From Watch with Kristin

“Max has given up grad school for Casey, which he'll make a point of a lot, but when he goes out of town for a month, look for Cappie and Casey to get into some trouble.”

No! Not my beloved Max! Seriously. I’m Cappie-ed out. I realize that he’s the charming slacker that we should all root for Logan Echolls-style, but Max is so wonderfully cute and smart and generous of spirit. I avoided falling in love with Max because I knew that I’d get my heart broken since Cappie/Casey is obviously what the writers and fans want, but he’s irresistibly a-dork-able. Stupid Casey. Maybe Max can get together with Ashleigh?

From Ask Ausiello

“Sources confirm to me exclusively that ding, dong the witch is dead. The witch in this case being Zeta Beta beeyatch Frannie, played with wicked zeal by Tiffany Dupont.”

This actually is freaking me out a bit. Without Frannie to act as the Big Bad, the show just makes Rebecca and Evan do unbelievably stupid stuff. Frannie is the go-to bitch character. I don’t care about her character’s redemption, unlike Rebecca’s and Evan’s. I’m really afraid that without Frannie that Evan will fully embrace the dark side that he has been wading in all of last season or that Rebecca and Casey will finally start an all-out war.

Smallville

Can't. Look. Away. From. Photoshopped. Chest.

From Ask Ausiello
“Anywhoo, by now you probably know that episode 19 finds Lois concocting her very own superhero alter ego, Stiletto, in an effort to smoke out the Red Blue-Blur. (She attacks bad guys with her pointy heels. Get it?) Well, what you may not know is that in that same episode, Chloe willingly begins harboring a fugitive whose name rhymes with Broomsday. (Second hint: He turned her wedding day into a low-budget Cloverfield.) And being the dutiful hostess that she is, she even throws in free meals. Wait 'till you see what, er, who she serves for dinner on Day One.”

Yes, ladies and gents. You read right. Lois Lane becomes a superhero named STILETTO. Like the shoes that you wear to your sorority’s formal before tossing them off because you can’t dance to K-Clarkson’s new single in them. I know I’m probably the only one still watching this show, but come on! Superman should not be about Lois Lane’s fetish for spiky footwear inspiring her to be a superhero.

Also, why is Chloe harboring Doomsday/Davis? Remember how he trashed your wedding? And do I really have to watch Chloe serve him people ala Little Shop of Horrors? I thought old school reporter Chloe would return once Brainiac was extracted from her, but it just seems like the writers want Chloe to just be the most nonsensical character on the already ridiculous show.

LET CHLOE BE HAPPY, TPTB! She deserves it after all the crap you've put her through!

Awkward.

Two Winning Moments of the Week So Far:

As the Omega Chis get Calvin for hell week:

"Calvin Owens, Hell Week, buddy, let's go."

"Awkward."

I LOVE the delivery of that line. HILARIOUS. Just adds to my over-rationalizing, super-love for Evan.

(Also, ever since I accidentally in a sleepy haze walked in on one of my sister's boyfriends in the shower, any situation involving such a scenario makes me laugh.)

AND

"I know the Sculnit family. You should tease him about his alcoholic mother."

You know, Dan will never be a good guy. But, damn, does he get great dead-pan one-liners.

(Also, later in the episode, he totally drops the "gotta go see my parole officer for my MURDER" in front of the bitchy mom.)

I know, I'm still behind on recaps. But midterms are kicking my ass and since my parents are still under the impression that I'm graduating, I have this crazy impulse to study for them. Well, "study" for them.

So, my promise from ME to YOU, gentle readers:
1. I will get up-to-date on Smallville and Gossip Girl by this upcoming Monday. NCIS fans (being Katy)...I'm sorry, but I think I just can't handle so many shows right now. But Winter Break looks promising for updating.
2. I will also post my High School Musical 3 review. I know. I haven't seen it yet. But I will. And it will be AWESOME.

Preview:



Absolutely GORGEOUS song. I've been listening to it on repeat for the past few days. It's the only thing getting me through exams. Although, the dancing is a bit TOO much. But DUDE. It's Kenny FREAKING Ortega. He had a synchronized crouch thrust done by pubescent boys. He can do whatever he wants. GOD AMONG MEN.

The Perfect Relationship Goes South

I am so angry this week. I have not been this angry at my TV since Michelle Kwan got the silver at Nagano. I am literally livid, boiling with anger.

I know, I know, I'm a week behind in recaps and I am the suck. But the ranting will take place now, and I will recap tomorrow after work, catching up with two weeks of TV.

Let's look at the shows, shall we?

Gossip Girl
Didn't even air this week. MADE OF LOSE.

Greek
I have a half-written post on the back burner written about this, but I hate hate hate how they treated Casey/Evan in the episode. The show has been very clear that Casey and Evan really had deep feelings for each other and the episode just trivialized them because it was "funny" and "dramatic" to have Evan be a jerk and have Cappie and Rebecca break up once more because he has "feelings" for Casey. The only good part of the episode was Rusty and Ashleigh. That was adorable. But the rest? I'm not impressed nor won over.

NCIS
Haven't watched it yet. But with my luck, Tony and McGee accidentally killed each other in friendly fire.

Project Runway
THE BIGGEST BS IN PROJECT RUNWAY HISTORY. Jerell won what was supposed to be the challenge before Bryant Park. He EARNED his spot. And instead of giving it to him, the designer with the most wins of the entire season, the show slaps him down and treats him like he is tasteless vomit. I am so angry about this it hurts.

Smallville
This is the final straw of my TV watching this week. The "Fever" letter is sacred. SACRED. And even if the writers don't think it has the level of holiness that a Chlarker does, it doesn't mean they should attempt to ruin the pillar of the ship just so they can fail at justifying Chimmy and Clois. The Chloe/Clark relationship deserves better. The fans deserve better.

I am so disgusted with this week of TV. I want to punch things. Writers. Producers. Actual televisions.

Television, I expect better from you. If I'm going to skip out on homework because of you, you have a responsibility to make it worth my while.