Posted by Dustin on 09.16.2009 at 2:26 pm

So I’m gunna do my usual “thoughts” on “90210” and “Melrose Place.” I’m not recapping theses shows as much, unless I really start getting into them. Last season I just did sporadic thoughts on “90210” because I was give-or-take with it through much of the season. Honestly, without “90210” as a lead-in, I’m not sure “Melrose” will even last . . .

First up, people keep finding the blog searching for answers on Ethan. Dustin Milligan is no longer with the show. Ethan was written out, he supposedly stayed with his dad in Colorado. Last season he gave up summer sports camp to visit his dad there, well he stayed.

Onto the show!

Jen is making Naomi look like a saint. What a total bitch! Poor Ryan is really in love with her, or at least falling, and she’s just using him so she doesn’t look like a gold digger to the rich men she wants to snag. Then there is Liam, who she just screwed around with and is toying with. He’s gunna burst and tell Noami the truth sometime soon, but Noami probably won’t believe him. How long before Jen blows Naomi’s trust fund and they are both broke?

Throughout the episode, what with the guy she killed and now the “sext” I was wondering how long before Annie attempts suicide? By the end of the episode though it seemed she got her mojo back, and the previews seem to show her going after Liam for real to get back at Noami. Go Annie!

When Noami really does realize what Jen has done, will it be too late for her? I hope Annie doesn’t offer her house up to a broke Noami again. Make her do the walk of shame back to daddy!

Dixon finally stepped up at the end and decked the guy who took the sex pictures of Annie. I was glad, as he was just being a dix.. towards Annie.

As for “Melrose,” well I felt the 2nd episode was way better than the pilot, but towards the end I found myself FFing through a lot. I still don’t know a lot of the names of the characters, but that film guy and his girlfriend . . . I’m sorry, but those two are so boring that I don’t really care if that Amanda-wannabe breaks them up. Seriously, they are a snooze!

The med-student turned call girl storyline is so overdone it’s not even funny. I get it’s an ode to Sydney and the original MP, but really this is unoriginal.

I feel the same about the new Amanda on the show, the publicist wanna-be working for Victor Webster’s character. I felt like they were shoving down my throat “Hey this girl is the new Amanda, she’s a total bitch okay?” The most amusing part of her story was that Victor Webster was playing a gay guy.

I did find the Violet girl interesting, especially the end twist where she was obsessed with Sydney and thought she was her mother. Is she? Sydney seemed pretty adamant she never had a kid. Again this is an overdone horror-storyline, but interesting (I can’t remember if the original MP did anything like this?). She’s clearly the new Kimberly, ie the looney tunes of the show.

I was happy to see a lot of Sydney, even though it was only in flashbacks. How long they’ll keep the flashbacks going is anyone’s guess. Honestly, without Sydney I probably wouldn’t give the show a second look. Sadly we all know Sydney is dead, unless the show pulls a classic “Melrose” twist and brings her back (which they may have to in order to keep the show around!).