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Before You Watch, Read This: Season One Recap, Trevor Donovan Interview

For last season, I would do reaction posts for each episode.  This year I figured I’d step it up a notch with live-blogs.

Keep refreshing this page throughout the show for plot developments, quotes and commentary.

EPISODE 2.1: TO NEW BEGINNINGS

• Previously on–as if this isn’t a season premiere?!  Weird.
• Includes: Naomi/Liam, Adrianna/Navid, Naomi/Annie, Liam taken away Annie’s cliff-hanger
• Naomi splashing around in water with some random OLDER dude.  Sketch.
• She’s only fantasizing.
• Back in school?  Nope, summer school.  And it’s over.  Silver’s pumped.
• Q1: Suck it summer school–Naomi
• Silver and Dixon = awkward!
• Liking Silver’s shorter hair.
• Q2: You just interuppted an ordinary moment by making it extremely awkward.–Silver to Naomi
• Not feeling Adrianna’s super long hair.  Natural or extensions?
• Hate the timing: in reality, school is just STARTING for everyone!
• Filler shots of Los Angeles, just like the original used to do.
• Beverly Hills Beach Club back, as reported.
• Older guy = Jason (Brenda also dated an older guy named Jason in the BH 90210 series premiere)
• Adrianna clearly lost the baby weight
• Q3: Monica Lewinsky, a movie-musical?–Naomi
• Adrianna back in the acting track but she wants to stop
• Q4: I’m done with drama, onscreen and off.–Adrianna
• Q5: You wanna be no drama Adrianna.–Silver
• Q6: To being teenagers–Naomi
• Naomi sparring with “older” beach club women
• Really cute moment with the girls jumping in together
• Weird to see Silver and Naomi so close again
• Adrianna clearly still upset about giving up her baby.  I wonder if this will play out, or just be dropped.
• In the pool camera work = nauseating!
• Adriana still with Navid
• Q7: I’m so getting laid–Navid
• Are those boogey boards?  Really?
• Read recently that Michael Steger is 29 IRL.  He definitely looked young when I interviewed him.  Hmmm.
• Love that Dixon is giving Navid advice on having sex.
• Q8: “Like a sex jams cd?”–Navid
• Q9: “Remember sex is more romantic for girls than it is for guys.”–Dixon
• Wow, Navid just screamed “I’m so getting laid.”  That’s attrative.
• Silver still freaking out about Dixon and Ethan.
• At least Ethan is being mentioned.
• Q10: Silver, I don’t know why you’re so stuck up on high school boys.–Naomi
• Naomi likes man-hands.  TMI.  Silver agrees.
• First Liam reference.
• Moved out to Long Island?  New York Long Island?  My Long Island?!
• Silver points out the obvious: no actual proof that Annie slept with Liam
• Q11: I know she’s a rat.  But a skank? –Silver
• What house is this?  Where is Casa Wilson?
• Annie looks like she’s been crying.
• So she knows she hit a guy.  And the guilt is getting to her?
• Naomi sees her older man, Jason.
• Whoops.  He has kids.  And he’s married to the older woman from before.
• New 90210 opener: HATE IT HATE IT HATE IT.  Butchered the original 90210 theme song even more and doesn’t even show the cast.  As if we want to see just non-descript pictures of LA.  No thanks.
• Promo: T-Mobile and the Girls of 90210.  More like a recap of last year.  They should’ve shown this first.
• Naomi still concerned about Jason? Let it go.
• Naomi wants to get back at him with the tennis instructor = Teddy (Trevor Donovan–see interview link above)
• Trevor is actually like 30.  And he looks it.  I don’t know how we’re supposed to believe he’s in high school.
• Q12: I’m very possessive when it comes to balls.–Naomi
• Q13: I don’t do anything by the numbers.–Naomi
• Teddy will be starting West Bev.
• Q14: Flirt with her.  This whole Vicky Cristina Barcelona thing isn’t my thing.–Silver
• Whoops.  Teddy and Adrianna know each other.   “Old boyfriend from summer camp.”
• Tabitha doing a show in Las Vegas
• Vague mention that this is a new house.  But why?
• Harry and Debbie know Annie called the cops on the post-prom party.
• Annie finds out the hit-and-run “John Doe” died.
• Local promo for Gossip Girl and contest to win GG-inspired wardrobe.
• No One Tree Hill promos so far.  Weird.
• Too much Melrose Place.  But I guess it’s fair, since it’s debuting right after this.
• Naomi “mind-boggled” by who Teddy is.
• Adrianna says Teddy is all hers.
• Nice that Naomi is concerned about her.
• Valerie on BH90210 did the whole married-man-with-kids thing.
• Text message for Silver from Ethan!  Curious to see how they handle this.
• Annie confessing to Dixon?
• Dixon guesses it’s about Liam, and them “sleeping together.”
• Q15: I think you have a problem with apologizing.–Dixon
• Dixon says he was in summer school because of Annie.  Um, what?  Was it punishment for the party?
• Q16: Screw you, Dixon!–Annie
• Q17: Screw you, too, Annie.–Dixon
• Navid renting a cabana (for his sex night with Adrianna).  On the original show, they OWNED them.
• Q18: The world doesn’t revolve around you, Annie.–Dixon
• Jason kind of looks familiar.  Will have to look up the actor’s name later.
• Do I detect an accent?
• Jason wants Naomi to be his mistress but “be bigger than labels.”  And he uses the L-word!  Ridiculous.
• Naomi confronting Annie.  Apparently this is the first time they’re talking since prom night.  Lackluster.
• Q19: I may be a lot of things, but I am not a cheating skank.–Naomi
• Dixon pulling the fake cough routine so Navid can steal cabana keys.
• Navid has flowers.  Kinda sweet.
• Adrianna introduces him to Teddy.  Bad timing!
• Adrianna and Teddy have known each other since they were 8.
• Dixon about to ask Silver to get back together and she just kisses him.  Very sweet!
• Okay, that was the best scene yet!
• Q20: I missed you.–Silver
• Annie stuck there because Dixon has keys.  Didn’t realize that.
• Meet Mark.  He’s drunk.  And he seems to know Annie from West Bev.
• Annie starts drinking, too.  Pretty sure that caused part of her problems in the first place.
• Everyone dirty dancing.  And line dancing.  Wowow.  How much time was wasted to coordinate that?
• Woah!  Teddy took Silver’s phone and is reading her text from Ethan!  That is NOT COOL.
• Text says Ethan is staying in Montana.  And that explains it.  Sigh.
• Navid and Adrianna making out on beach.  In plain sight.
• Navid wants to keep going, Adrianna wants to stop.
• Navid babbles something about their “multi-faceted” love.
• Q21: After sex, comes drama.–Adrianna
• Adrianna seeking normalcy.  Someone should tell her normalcy doesn’t exist.
• Navid obviously peeved, whether he admits it or not.
• Cabana all directed for the sex night that won’t be.  It looks beautiful.  Sad.
• Navid gave the keys to Mark!  And he’s with a very drunk Annie.
• Will she lose her virginity to him?!
• LOL Dixon said Silver has a “Rihanna-bob.”  That’s too funny.
• Teddy tells Dixon about Ethan oops.
• How would Teddy know that Silver’s “prickly”?
• Teddy and Adrianna share a sultry dance…in front of a semi-drunk Navid.
• Naomi going for the booze, too.
• Whoops. Naomi spills to Navid that Adrianna has a past with Teddy.
• And Teddy was apparently Navid’s first.
• Q22: You never forget your first.–Navid
• Q23: You and me, we’re done.–Dixon to Silver
• Well, that lasted long.
• Toasting marshmallows.  Mmmmm.
• Wow, older woman says cabana weird.
• Apparently it was the one Navid took the key for.  And apparently Mark and Annie trashed it.
• Navid about to take the blame but Teddy steps up.
• Spence Montgomery = Teddy’s father, who is famous
• The older woman looks like a cross between Jen (where is she?!) and Rebecca Rand Kirshner Sinclair (90210’s executive producer)
• Q24: What the hell is a sex jams CD?–Teddy
• Q25: Teddy, thanks a lot.  You just ruined my whole life.–Silver
• I know it may feel like that but this is Silver being over-dramatic.  Then again, she does have a mental illness.  Hmmm.
• Silver admits to choosing Dixon because she knew Ethan was staying in Montana.
• Q26: It suddenly became clear.  Because Iwasn’t disappointed.  I was relieved.  And then I imagined what if Dixon moved across the country, and then I thought, if I lost Dixon, I wouldn’t be able to breathe.  And I can’t breathe.  I can’t breathe.–Silver
• Quote of the episode for me!
• Wait–did Annie sleep with Mark?  I guess it’s wait and see.
• OK, so now it’s school-time.  How much time just passed? I missed it.
• Silver vows to get Dixon back.  Dixon vows that he’s done and officially single.
• Naomi still looking for a guy.  Some things never change.
• Q27: I have something against you going from guy to guy to guy like this.–Silver
• Q28: If I don’t have another guy to focus on, all I can think of is Liam.–Naomi
• Woah! Liam’s back.  And staring at Naomi from afar.  Hot.
• He tries to talk to her.  She walks away, panicked.
• Cool breakdancers in the school courtyard.
• Annie probably shouldn’t be behind a car…
• Teddy’s car was the one that came up after Annie’s accident!  The sign: same back bumper and bumper sticker.
• Mark took some sort of sexual picture of Annie.  It’s proof of something.  Sex?
• Naomi sees it.
• Q29: Is that naked girl Annie?
• She sent it from Mark’s phone to his.
• Q30: I have a feeling this is gonna be our year.–Naomi
• Really sick of the “girl power walk” shot.
• Preview: Naomi vows to make Annie’s life hellish and the picture of Annie makes it way around school.

You’ve read my thoughts. Now what did YOU think?