From: larryr@saturn.sdsu.edu (Larry Riedel)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.bh90210
Subject: Summary of 1/27 episode (SPOILERS)
Date: 28 Jan 1993 12:16:10 GMT
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Here's a summary of the 1/27 episode.



SPOILERS AHEAD!!!!!







Executive Summary:

C'est Fini!  Get out now!  This schlocky schmaltz (as Andrea's grandperson
would say) is a travesty of the great show that was 90210.  Any semblance
to that upbeat, insightful and ideologically balanced show is now rare
and purely coincidental.



Jackie & Mel:

Are apparently going to break up, because Mel is a man, and men are
incapable of marital fidelity.


David:

David wants to stay with Kelly's family that he's lived with for eight
months rather than his dad whom he lived with for the previous 16 years.
What gratitude.

Worst part is that he doesn't seem to realize that if he moves out and
goes with his dad, he could create a scenario which would greatly
improve the potential for a long-term romantic relationship with Kelly,
who is now the sole reason for watching this show.


Andrea the Troll:

Andrea got her hair colored red, because it is time for a change.  I
guess Bill Rodham-Clinton has had a big effect on her - she's decided
to adopt his brilliant philosophies in her daily life.  Bill believes
it's time for a change - time to make this nation a little more red.


Donna:

Gee, wasn't there a big problem in her family because her mom was having
an affair?  Sure, for one episode, but it's not good to portray women as
having extramarital relationships like that because women don't do that.
Women are good.  Men are evil.  Men can't be happy with just one woman.
So we don't talk about her affair.  Only about Mel's, because Mel is
evil - Mel is a man.


Jack McKay:

Is out of prison and trying to raid Dylan's trust fund.  Jack is a
bad man, because he is rich, and as Brandon says, "maybe the rich
are different."  Alright Brandon - sign up for Billary's '96 campaign!


Cindy & Jim:

All of a sudden Jim thinks Dylan's dad is a monster.  And of course he
is, because he is rich.


Brandon:

More of the gambling stuff.  It looks like they're easing up on the eye
liner for him, which is nice.


Steve:

As usual, nothing happened with Steve.


Dylan:

Dylan's giving his pop the benefit of the doubt for the time being.  Of
course Dylan is going to get shafted because Jack is a bad man.

Dylan chooses Kelly to be his girlfriend.


Kelly:

Accepts, but she wants to air all the dirty laundry - in particular the
fact that she had a fling with Dylan over the Summer of 90210 (TM).


Brenda:

Poor Brenda.  So much awful stuff happens to her.  I think she is sweet
and pretty and witty and smart, and I'd be proud to have her as a friend.

This week her dad forbids her from going to see Dylan at a party when
his dad is there, because his dad is a rich man, and therefore a bad
man, and despite her strong desire to go, she respects and obeys her
father.

Of course she is upset, so she goes to her brother Brandon for help,
and Brandon tells her to go away because he has to see the last 10
seconds of a basketball game on which he has a bet and of which he
could easily find out the score anytime he wants.

Brenda asks him why he's betting on basketball games and Brandon goes
on a tirade which matches anything Brenda has every made in this
series, but of course Brandon isn't a megabitch for doing it like she
is when she does it.

Dylan has chosen Kelly, but hasn't told Brenda, and he is lukewarm to
her the next day at school.

Even though it wasn't her fault, she still feels bad about not going to
the party and she apologizes to Dylan and has the courage and dignity
to accept the responsibility herself rather than make her father look
bad and possibly compromise Dylan's relationship with his own father
by expressing her father's apprehensions.

Dylan's response is tepid, and Brenda asks if he'd like to go out
because she wants to make up.  Dylan says no.  That's got to feel
real good.

So some time passes, and Kelly and Dylan show up, and take Brenda out
of her house to tell her that Dylan has decided to make the ultimate
affront to Brenda by having the nerve to choose Kelly over her, and
then to cap it all off, they tell her that they had a fling with each
other over the Summer of 90210 (TM) and they didn't have the guts or
the respect for her or their friendship to tell her any sooner.

Brenda's response was the highest point in the history of 90210.  I
am so proud of her - she let them have it and those snakes deserved
everything she gave them.



Great shows like 90210 come and go, and there never really seems to
be an episode where it's clear that the show has peaked and it's all
downhill from then on.  Well, for 90210, this was that episode.


Larry


P.S.  Kelly, the answer is no.