MAIN PLOT: KC’s mom returns, and wants him to move in with her.
KC’s mom shows up at his football game unannounced to give him some news: she’s filed papers to regain custody of him.
Not if KC has anything to say about it.
Does anyone else get the feeling that KC is a little paranoid? I mean I get that his mom was a horrendous parent, but as adamant as he is about not letting his mom back into his life (no matter how much she may or may not have changed), him behaving so uneasy makes me feel uneasy. KC’s always on edge, but the fact that he is even more than usual here is what I like about this plot. Get ready to crash and burn.
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SUBPLOT 1: Clare has trouble at home, and becomes close with Eli.
Clare is paired up with Eli in class, and it’s a wonderful match from the start. Aislinn and Munro have great onscreen chemistry together. Now while things are starting off slow, but exciting for Clare in the romance department, things aren’t so great at home. Her parents are constantly fighting, which is part of the reason her writing assignments haven’t been up to par lately. That and she’s afraid to truly express herself.
The cure? More Eli.
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SUBPLOT 2: Alli plots to make Drew her boyfriend.
Alli likes Drew. Dave likes Alli. Alli asks Dave for guy advice. Dave says throw a party, where he flirts with Alli a lot (because he now thinks she’s interested). But Alli only has eyes for Drew, who has his eyes closed while making out with Alli at the end of this plot.
It’s a good setup for Part 2, when we find out if Alli possibly breaks Dave’s heart while Drew possibly breaks hers.
You can CLICK HERE to see the episode descriptions for the first 12 episodes of Season 10, but here’s MSN’s descriptions for the rest of The Boiling Point (The description for 1024 isn’t up yet…I’ll post it when it’s available):
Aug 9 - 1013- You Don’t Know My Name (1)
Alli wants Drew to commit to a relationship; Holly J wants to regain her student council power.
Aug 10 – 1014 – You Don’t Know My Name (2)
Alli’s plan may backfire when she pretends that she is uninterested in Drew.
Aug 11 – 1015- My Body is a Cage (1)
Adam feels the pressure of trying to keep a huge secret.
Aug 12 – 1016- My Body is a Cage (2)
Adam sacrifices his own happiness by going back to being Chelsea to make everyone else happy.
Aug 16 – 1017- Tears Dry on Their Own (1) Jenna gets sick at her audition.
Aug 17 – 1018- Tears Dry on Their Own (2) Jenna’s biggest fear is realized; Dave and Wesley tell Mr. Simpson about Connor’s girlfriend.
Aug 18 – 1019- Still Fighting It (1)
Riley starts to understand the devastating effects of homophobia.
Aug 19 – 1020 – Still Fighting It (2)
Riley and Owen’s argument turns violent; Eli gives Clare mixed signals.
Aug 23 – 1021 – Purple Pills (1)
Fiona is stressed about testifying against Bobby.
Aug 24 – 1022 – Purple Pills (2)
Fiona’s attempts to medicate herself for stress relief could ruin her legal case against Bobby.
Aug 25 – 1023 – All Falls Down (1)
Bianca invites Drew to the boiler room.
MAIN PLOT: Riley’s hazing of Drew could lead to big trouble for Degrassi’s football team.
Before we can even blink, the Riley and Owen haze Drew at the beginning of the episode by tying him to the flagpole in front of the school. Drew’s mom is livid and wants whoever did it to pay. Though parents like this exists, it’s annoying that she’s the main vehicle for this plot because she’s more angry that her son isn’t the guaranteed starter than she is about the actual hazing.
It also slightly waters down the rivalry between Riley and Drew, because Drew keeps quiet about who did it, and he also drops the notion of outing Riley to the team. Basically the plot goes into a direction where it forces Riley to confess that he hazed Drew (Drew’s mom fulfilled her promise to complain to the school board), and he’s suspended for five games. Zane is such a great character because he serves as Riley’s reality check. Riley also implants a little hope that someday he’ll be able to come out to the world.
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SUBPLOT 1: Alli starts her own dance team.
Alli starts the “Big D Dance Crue,” and recruits new character Bianca. It turns out Bianca’s an experienced dancer, and she looks to whip the team into shape. The problem is Alli doesn’t want that; the whole point of the group is that SHE would become popular because of its existence…she doesn’t want to actually work for it.
The team quits on her, leaving her out to dry, but the episode ends with her and a bunch of random people humorously dancing around at the football game. The best part of this plot is the introduction of Bianca. The instant vibe is that she’s very Alex-ish…a blunt, no nonsense girl. But it’s also good that she’s played by an actress (Alicia Josipovic) who seems to fit into the role pretty naturally.
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SUBPLOT 2: Jenna finds out who has been calling KC.
You know that girl whose been calling KC’s phone so much lately? Well it’s KC’s mom. She’s out of jail, and she wants to see him. To be honest, the Jenna being jealous thing was pretty silly. Really Jenna, Marisol is calling KC during the middle of the schoolday knowing that you’ll probably be with him?
It still serves as a solid setup for the return of KC’s mom into his life. She’s nowhere to be found yet and KC’s already shutting down and pushing people away. I can only imagine how far he’ll spiral once he reaches his boiling point.
*hint* *hint* Each character will start tweeting more as their storyline grows throughout the season. For a complete list of Degrassi twitters (the characters AND the actors), they’re always available in the sidebar on the right side of the page.
MAIN PLOT: Drew is Riley’s competition for QB.
I loved Riley’s storylines in Season 9, and nothing much has changed so far. Riley still hasn’t “come out” to the entire school, and he has no plans on doing so. So he asks Zane to cool it as far as their interaction in public goes. But Zane joins the football team, and Riley’s frustrated because he doesn’t want his “cover blown.”
It’s unintentionally blown anyway, when Drew finds out about Riley and Zane, and since he wants to be QB too, he threatens to tell the team Riley’s secret if Riley doesn’t “step aside for QB 1.” Drew isn’t homophobic: blackmailing Riley with his sexuality is just what he can use to get what he wants. I love this plot’s cliffhanger; Riley suggests to Owen that they do something to Drew, and Riley’s face as the screen cuts to black indicates Riley has no intentions of holding back.
I love the acting of Argiris Karras and Shannon Kook-Chun. And I love how they’re both gay, but have completely different perspectives on their sexuality.
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SUBPLOT 1: Alli tries to join the Power Squad.
Alli is quickly falling down the ranks of favorite characters in my eyes, because her level of shallowness (which was cute in Seasons 8 and 9) has reached a level of ridiculous in Season 10. She tries to join the Power Squad, hoping it’ll make her part of the cool group at school.
But she fails. And her way of retaliating is by creating her own squad (which she’ll do in Part 2). If I were Clare, I’d punch Alli in the face. Alli spends the entire episode whining about how she doesn’t want her high school years spent being an outsider, and wants to have cool friends….and she says all this to Clare. I’m offended for Clare (even if Clare thought of her self as being boring/lame, don’t complain to your best friend about wishing you had cooler friends).
It’s an ok setup, but I expect things to improve once Alli actually creates her dance team.
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SUBPLOT #2: Jenna starts getting jealous of the attention KC’s getting.
No much happens in the subplot, but there really is no rush. KC’s getting good grades, and joins the football team. Suddenly he receives attention from other girls, and Jenna doesn’t like that.
While they’re sitting together, KC’s phone rings…and rings…and rings. He doesn’t answer it, and Jenna thinks it’s a girl. Well it is…but it’s not the kind of girl she’s thinking of.
I love how Degrassi is taking advantage of all these extra episodes, and taking time to slowly build up to some of the plots instead of having to jump right into the middle of them. 99 Problems 1 and 2 are the setup for KC’s plot in Better Off Alone….genius!
If I had a dollar for every time someone has viewed this website...
Dang…that’s a lot of views man.
Yeah I know there’s a lot of sites that get a million hits per day, but this surpasses anything I ever expected to come from creating this website.
I started this blog in June of 2008. It only got 10 ten views that entire month.
I did a few more posts after that, but eventually got bored with the site and literally abandoned the site for almost an entire year. I didn’t start posting on a regular basis until June 2009. The site slowly grew, but didn’t really take off until the day after Degrassi Goes Hollywood aired on TeenNick.
I can’t even put into words the amount of gratitude I have for all of the people who have contributed information and posted comments here. My primary goal was for this to be a website where all of the Degrassi info out there could be found in one place (The awesome Degrassi-Fans was the only regular Degrassi news site out there when I started…all of the other fansites that I’d loved over the years were either inactive or had been completed deleted). Now this has become a place for literally nonstop, 24/7 Degrassi conversation. Let’s be honest: this place would be boring if it weren’t for you guys. :-)
Blog views per month since the site started (July 2008).
Not only has it broken 1 Million views overall, but before the end of this month (July 2010) the site will have racked up 1 Million views in less than 12 months. Degrassi: The Boiling Point has been massive…100,000 views last week alone, and the site will end up with over 300,000 views for the month of July.
Why am I throwing out all these stats? Because they (on top of the show’s ratings boost) point to the most important thing of all….that fans are EXTREMELY EXCITED for Degrassi, and they’re hungry for any information about Degrassi that they can get their hands on.
I hope that Stephen Stohn, Stefan Brogren and any other person in Degrassi’s front office read this post, and take it into account when talking with the networks about future seasons of the show.
WE (the fans) STILL LOVE DEGRASSI!!! Our love for the show keeps growing….and I’ve got the stats here to prove it.
Ahhh, the first week of The Boiling Point has flown by! Because the storylines this season are happening over the course of 2, 3 or 4 thirty-minute episodes, I’ve been reviewing each individual episode…so basically I’ve been reviewing sections of the storylines. But not all sections are created equal…it’s also important to look at each of this week’s storylines overall:
Fiona posted her black eye on twitter. Seriously: http://twitter.com/FifiCoyne
Fiona’s Abuse I rank What A Girl Wants as the 3rd best season premiere ever (behind When Doves Cry and Standing in the Dark), and part of that is thanks to Fiona’s storyline. It started off slow, but once the wheels started turning it didn’t hold back. I like how the story wasn’t all about the actual abuse all the time, like Bobby smacking her around every two minutes. There was the abuse, then they started focusing on Fiona’s breakdown.
Now I know a lot of people who have been fans of the show since the originals around are sort of comparing this abuse storyline to Terri’s back in Season 3. I actually prefer this one better: Rick was super controlling, but Bobby is an absolute monster. You could argue that Rick put Terri in a coma, but it’s not as if he INTENDED to push her down on the rock. Bobby intentionally threw Fiona down the stairs, and showed no remorse for his actions.
I was *this* close to hammering this storyline at the end, because I thought they might’ve been dropping the storyline cold in Breakaway Pt. 2…however, we found out Bobby will be returning later in the season. Let’s hope that whatever happens is equally as good as what’s happened so far.
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Things go from nonexistent, to good, to GREAT, and back to nonexistent.
The Election/Sav & Anya
This is my favorite storyline of the season so far. The writing for it is amazing. To sum it up briefly, I like how Sav, Anya and Holly J build up such a huge web of lies. Basically they’re all lying and using each other, and using the lies for their own personal gain. I just love the irony of how the lies bring success in some cases, failure in others, but in the end it everything comes crashing down and they’re all back right where they started.
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LIARRRRRRRR!!!!!!
Holly J Desperate For Cash
I don’t count this as part of any other storyline, even though her money issue was established in the first episode. I don’t know what’s happening, but Holly J’s reverting back to the unlikable, “holier than thou” character that dominated Season 7, and most of Season 8. I don’t like that.
I also don’t like that her primary reason for doing all this is Declan. Yeah the idea of going to Yale is up there, but she wants to go because he’s going there (I’m sure if he decided to go elsewhere, she’d probably follow him). Someone should tell her that relationships on Degrassi have an extremely low success rate.
The Fiona/Holly J friendship is one that’s necessary to the show I think, but this plot didn’t feel like any type of setup for anything since Holly J was forgiven so quickly. Besides, Holly J’s issues are going to revolve around Declan later in the season.
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Dave/Alli
"I don't want your vote....I just...I...I want you."
This storyline just sat there, and wasn’t interesting. That’s shocking to me, given that I LOVE both Dave and Alli as characters. In a way, they remind me of when JT was trying to date Manny in Season 3…that plot made me cheer for JT to get the girl. I really feel indifferent toward Dave’s quest because I just don’t feel the chemistry between him and Alli.
Maybe it’ll win me over at some point, because Dave doesn’t plan on giving up.
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Clare’s Rumor
.........LOL!
This storyline made a SPECTACULAR recovery in Breakaway Part 2 after a super slow start in Part 1. The best parts are (of course) Wesley grabbing Clare’s boobs, Clare telling off Jenna and the introduction of Eli.
I think I’m giving up on the idea of Clare and KC. Clare’s going to end up with Eli, and from the opening credits to the character galleries over at MuchMusic, Bianca and KC look they could be a hot item.
On a side note, I don’t know about you but one of the things I’m loving about the beginning of this season is how they’re introducing the new characters. Bianca’s had one line so far…Ms. Oh’s had a couple as well. Drew’s been around, but it’s just him casually bantering with Sav. Eli wasn’t introduced until the end of an episode. They’re gradually working them into the fold instead of immediately tossing them into the spotlight/giving them storylines on day one.
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NEXT WEEK on Degrassi The Boiling Point (thx ACESOnline!):
MAIN PLOT: Holly J is desperate to take an SAT class to improve her chances at getting into Yale. As mentioned in the video review a disappointing part of this episode is Fiona’s staying in Toronto, so it feels like the abuse storyline has been dropped (that’s not the case though, since this article says Bobby will be returning later in the season). Either way, the story shifts to an underlying issue for Holly J that was established earlier in the season.
She’s broke.
And now that she’s lost the election, she’s in desperate need of something to help her get into Yale. Ms. Sauve offers her information about an SAT Prep Course, but Holly J can’t afford it.
She’s then subjected to Fiona unintentionally showing off her money as she purchases furniture that costs around $4000. Fiona doesn’t even mind that Holly J knows the password to her bank account, and Miss J decides to (without Fiona’s permission) pay for the SAT course with Fiona’s money.
Fiona’s mad at first, but then forgives Holly J the next day. Fiona’s instant forgiveness is frustating. They’re two girls that are desperate, but for different reasons: Holly J about Yale, and Fiona needing friendship. After what we’ve seen so far this season it’s hard to believe the plot in this episode will stand out. What are you likely to remember: Fiona getting thrown down the stairs, or this plot that supposed to be a test of Fiona and Holly J’s friendship (but not really because they sorta need each other)?
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SUBPLOT 1: Sav and Anya have relationship troubles…again. With the election out of the way, the plot is given more time to focus on Sav and Anya’s relationship….and their fake pregnancy. The pregnancy is quickly dispatched by Anya, who lies to the entire school and says she had a miscarriage.
Sanya hits a rough patch when Sav’s mom catches Sav and Anya together in Sav’s living room. Sav goes back to being the Sav we all know and are frustrated with: he refuses to come clean about his relationship with Anya.
Anya doesn’t put up with any of that, and ends things between them. Lies, lies, everywhere…everyone has lied in this plot since it began in What A Girl Wants, and it’s ironic how they ended right back where they started.
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SUBPLOT 1: Clare confronts Jenna about starting the rumor about her. Interesting. Funny. That’s how I’d describe Clare’s plot in this episode, a MASSIVE improvement over the plot in Breakaway Pt. 1. The guys from the nerd squad nominate Wesley to find out if Clare really got the boob job. Hilarity ensues as Clare genuinely thinks Wesley wants to touch her “tender” eyes, and Wesley awkwardly grabs her boobs instead.
Though Clare still comes off a little too nice when she confronts Jenna about starting the rumor, but I’ll take it because she reminds Jenna that she’s still a legitimate threat Jenna and KC’s relationship.
Oh, and we get to meet Eli. Though brief, we know Clare’s going to be seeing a lot more of him.
MAIN PLOT: Fiona’s plot to expose Bobby doesn’t goes as planned. The Fiona drama slowly ramps down because Fiona finally decides she’s gonna let the world see what Bobby’s done (by posting pictures of herself with a black eye on the internet). The problem is no one believes her, not even Declan. The only person who doesn’t think Fiona is being overdramatic is Holly J.
Upon learning that Holly J actually showed concern, Fiona randomly hops on a plane and shows up at Degrassi. Fiona doesn’t want the cops or lawyers involved; she just wants the situation to go away. So the next thing we know we’re left wondering whether or not Fiona’s mom is going to drag her back to Manhattan. Besides Fiona’s impromptu trip to Toronto (which seemed really weird), this plot maintains its solid pace.
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SUBPLOT 1: Sav and Holly J battle for Student Body President. Word gets out about Sav and Anya’s “pregnancy,” and it actually helps Sav’s campaign instead of hurting it like Holly J anticipated. Overcome with guilt thought, Anya confesses that the pregnancy is a lie, and instead of being angry Sav is relieved.
Sav wants to tell the truth, but Anya convinces him to keep up the pregnancy lie since it’s giving him an advantage. The best part is Holly J can’t do anything about it: if she rats Sav out, Anya will make sure the world knows the fake pregnancy was Holly J’s idea. Sav wins the election and Anya’s left with two victories: she’s got her man back, and she stuck it to Holly J.
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SUBPLOT 2: Jenna starts a rumor about Clare. Jenna overhears Clare and Alli talking about an upcoming surgery Clare is having, and Jenna automatically assumes it’s a boob job.
She blabs to KC and the rest of their grade 10 crew (Connor, Dave and Wesley). I know they’re stuck in classes together, but it still bugs me that Clare doesn’t just rip Jenna’s head off everytime she sees her. This part of the plot (which will continue in Breakaway Pt 2) feels lame…it doesn’t feel like a storyline where a rumor’s been started about someone. Watch the Season 1 episode Rumors and Reputations…now THAT is a rumor episode.
