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And he really does. I think it showed most when he was lying on the bonnet of the car with Annie and kept talking about life and death. Total oddball. But more interesting than guest stars in other TV shows recently, so I can't complain. 90210 seem to at least pick interesting GSs.

Was it my imagination or did he look younger today? It must be something to do with the soft lighting, because he didn't look 16 but then he didn't look 31, either.

Mayberry

He looked a little younger. You know, like 28.

starlette318

Sasha was definitely more tolerable, I wasn't disappointed w/ anyone's screen time, everyone got the right amount to me. It's not a big deal w/ the size.

Teddy looked 28 or 29 today. That's improvement.

Oh and someone please explain to me the gay student in rollerblades that Harry said "hey" to. Is that not the gayest student you ever seen in your life?

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I didn't really notice if he looked younger. I tried not to pay too much attention to his face.

I didn't see that. I thought the episode was really Dixon/Cougar lite, which I was thankful for. Scene in the bed, scene in the car, finding the porn. Only three real scenes for them.

eternalnoob

I forgot to mention how much of a jerk Navid comes off all the time. This show gives me more motive to hate him than understand him, tbh. Adrianna cheating on him didn't bother me for the reasoning of "Oh he's her boyfriend, why would she cheat on him"...it was more of "why cheat on your boyfriend with HIM? Ew. That's like a step behind necrophilia with how old that dude is, Adrianna". His whole disappointment speech to her pissed me off beyond belief. Like, way to throw back in her face your "selfless" acts of ~love just because she wants to pursue her dream. You of all ppl should know just how far she's come since you practically claimed to be the wind that started the tsunami of Adrianna's change revolution. So not only are you a jerk but you're arrogant as well. Good job. I can't quite imagine why she's wanna cheat on you.

Chastidy

I thought he looked younger too. Nothinkg groudbreaking, still old enough but not as old.

Mayberry

Yeah, but even Ade was worried that her acting would have a bad effect on her. And honestly, I think they're setting something up there....

eternalnoob

I don't see her relapsing, honestly. Of course she always can with how this show loves to make their characters regurgitate the same things over and over but IDK, I don't get the feeling she will.

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I wanted to slap Navid in that fight scene too.

Mayberry

I think it will. Her mom's pressuring, her agent's pressuring her, she turned to Teddy for some type of comfort...that's a lot to handle for a recovering addict.

eternalnoob

I didn't hear her agent pressuring her. Her mother's pressuring isn't like last yr's pressuring where they needed it to survive. Plus Adrianna had a clear choice. Had she wanted to remain a normal teen she could've just let the audition go and not worried about her agent bouncing but she decided to do it because as she said, acting's her passion. I didn't really see as much pressuring as more her contemplating her choices and her future. No one can make her do anything she doesn't wanna do. She went to the audition, she decided she didn't wanna have her agent drop her, she loves acting. It's not like she doesn't have the love for it anymore and they're making her do it. She went willingly. So the whole "she's a recovering addict and it's PRESSURING!".....pressure can come from school as well. Is that to say that if she starts doing some blow in the bathroom she can't come to school? No. She's obviously shown maturity and self control and knows now enough to not let the weaknesses of the past get to her the way they did.

Mayberry

Her agent said that if she didn't audition, she was dropping Adrianna. I understand it's business, but that's a huge amount of pressure to do something. Why couldn't the agent wait? She doesn't know Adrianna's recovering? And why would her mom tell her at all if that was Ade's wish?
Why didn't Adrianna call herself if she had that drive?

Adrianna already told her mom that she didn't want to do it (said to Naomi and Silver in the premiere and tonight), but Constance kept pressuring her.

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I saw her asking why she hadn't called and then informing her what the agent said.

eternalnoob

The agent couldn't wait because just like your second sentence said, "it's business". Her agent doesn't have to and shouldn't wait. That agent is making money off Adrianna and if Adrianna's not acting then that agent isn't making money. It's not about friendship or being nice. It's business so it's not about pressure, Adrianna knows exactly how the business is as she alluded to in her comment to Navid as to why it's not so easy to just get a new agent at the drop of a hat.

Constance bugging her about it in this instance just isn't pressuring to me because there's nothing to pressure her with. Their living isn't dependent on Adrianna's income as it was in s1. They're much more stable this time around but Constance is and always will be a stage mom. She's gonna always bug her about upcoming roles and whatever but now Adrianna has a CHOICE in not taking them. It's not like before so Adrianna could've cut this whole thing tonight by not auditioning and instead she made her own choice and went. Neither Constance nor her agent put a gun to her head, she went on her own.

Mayberry

Then, drop the agent. Simple as that. If she can't respect Ade's wishes, someone else will. Oh, right, making money off Adrianna? That's an incentive for Ade to go back to that particular agent? Psh. I'd rather get dropped than be a meal ticket, which is what Ade was to her mom last year. And look who's also pressuring her again? Mom. Looks a lot like last year, right?

Exactly, Ade has a choice. She chose not to act at the beginning of this year until Constance was all "let me check your fingers, why haven't you called the agent, honey?" Constance, of ALL people, should let Adrianna breathe. Ade has done enough for her in the past.