Degrassi: The Next Generation - Here Comes Your Man pt. 2

Aight suckas, back for part two of the Degrassi: The Next Generation season premiere. Since Degrassi does an A plot/B plot format for their shows without fail, I'll just split the recap into storylines. I'm actually glad I didn't have to wait a week for part two, because part one really didn't have much to it. It picks up though. Trust me.

Sean's Back in Town(Cont.)
Peter, fresh from his illegal street racing victory over Jay, and his first run in with the cops, decides that he's "down" and sports the ever so stylish cholo look with the locs and the wifebeater. Skinny arms and a Canadian tan don't really help his fashion statement.

Emma still denies that she has anything for Sean but Manny calls her B.S. She immediately bumps into Sean who drags her into a dark and empty classroom, so he can give her some really fugly earrings. Damn, Sean Cameron make out with a chick and buying her bling already? What happened to tough, beanie-wearing Sean? So disappointing. Emma digs the earrings but plays the boyfriend card. She tries to let him down easy but Sean's like, "NAW" He calls Emma on her B.S. too, but it doesn't stop him from being Emo.

Manny still will not lay off the "So what's going on?" interrogation. So Emma comes clean about her make-out session. Manny is really pushing the argument with the "now that Emma's over her anorexia she has to keep dating a toolbox so she'll be stable" line of reasoning. What? Wouldn't Emma's self image actually be better off if she actually liked someone she was dating? I take it Manny won't be studying psychology in University next Fall. I hate Manny.

After school Emma is walking home when Peter pulls up and wants to go BACK to the races. Emma's made her decision with "I just need to be by myself tonight." Peter immediately flips out and asks if she's eating. She says she needs space and suggests a hiatus. The best part is that she says "sorry" so it comes out sore-ee. Ah, I love this show. Anyway, Peter immediately becomes an insecure mess faster than his car can hit 60mph. Key questions here: dumping me for Sean? did you have sex with him? Well you how that's gonna turn out. Peter is left with another Degrassi trademark move. Guys kicking stuff in frustration...

The next morning Principal Hotsauce (Peter's Mom) pulls Sean out of class and drags him to his locker. She opens it up and finds a big honking bag of weed! Welcome back Degrassi writers! It' only took y'all about 25 minutes to put another teenager through the wringer! Poor Sean, for someone who's supposed to be bad news for Emma...this doesn't look good for the custom car shop. So Sean's suspended from school. Emma tries to talk to him but doesn't believe that Peter could set Sean up like that...Emma=dumb...Emma doesn't think the weed was even planted. Damn, Emma pretty much calls him Scarface. Sean is obviously devastated and tells Emma to "Go to Hell" Word Sean, you bury those cockroaches!

Emma confronts Peter and he denies making the tip. He actually says "Maybe he ripped someone off in a drug deal or something?". Emma buys it because Emma=dumb. Anyway, cut to Sean kicking stuff in frustration 'cause that's how kids in Degrassi roll. He wants to go back to Wausega. Jay talks Sean into hitting Peter where it hurts...Illegal street racing. Jay's just put a NoS system in Sean's car to boot! For the uninitiated Jay is like the thuggier Steve Sanders of 90201. Nothing good can ever come from listening to the thug Steve Sanders. Ugh...if the planted drugs weren't enough for Sean.

So they find Peter and it's on bitch! They race and Sean's winning, but this is Degrassi...so naturally we have to add a swerving third car that comes out of nowhere and a jogger...that's right a Flippin' JOGGER!!! Sean nails him and they all freak out. Jay drives up and start yelling to Sean that he's 18 and could do hard time for this so he tells Sean to scram so Peter can take the rap. That Jay...

We cut to Emma's house. It turns out Peter has made bail. The jogger is in the hospital but is stable. They also know that Sean bailed. Emma goes to her basement room and finds Sean. Sean is distraught and turns to Emma since she's the only one who cares. She's like "Naw" She tells him she can't care for him after what he's done and to turn his ass in to the po po.
Sean gets the closing still, crying in the back of a cruiser. Those Degrassi writers really don't believe in things like happiness.

Ellie's Roommate

The B-Plot is pretty light compared to the destruction of the life of Sean Cameron. Ellie gets into the random housing draw and is paired up with this freakishly perky Asian Chick named Amberly. She greets Ellie with a scrapbook and smiles which is new for Ellie, the former Goth girl, who has gone through an alcoholic mother, a father overseas in the military, dating and falling in love with Marco who came out while they were dating, a cutting disorder, dating Sean who left her to go back to Wasauga with an apartment she couldn't afford, and her pet ferret got electrocuted. Hell, her new roommate has been on the screen for a minute and I'm already eyeing the sharp objects.
Anyway, it gets worse, Amberly hides a macarbre print of Ellie's behind the dresser and has already unpacked all of her clothes and arranged them on the shelves. Amberly then tells some sort of platitude from her grandmother which she ends with "Gran Gran knows everything". Well at least she didn't say ancient Chinese secret.
Ellie, following her journalistic aspirations, decides to try to submit an anonymous article about her new roomie to the school newspaper. The editor is stand-offish and typically skeptical of freshmen, but they're so hooking up in the upcoming episodes so of course he'll like it.

Turns out the article was printed but wasn't anonymous. Ellie's mortified but the editor was impressed enough to her cover the tuition rally and probably impressed by the fact that they'll be hooking up soon. Amberly is understandably pissed and throws all of Ellie's stuff out and votes her off the island. Yes, they actually used Survivor terminology. So Ellie is going to live with Marco and Dylan. It's nice to see Ellie's hag status survived graduation.

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