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Blind Faith is one of my favorite episodes of the entire series. Ephram/Amy were dynamic in this one. Their fight in this episode needed to happen. Every scene they had in this one was a set up for the bigger picture. The dance they had together about melted me. The scorching chemistry between Greg/Emily was so thick I felt like I had to wipe my eyes from the fog known as intensity. Only Everwood could create an episode like this one that on one hand in the near future, was heartbreaking for Ephram/Amy, yet on the other hand, basically all but admitted they were endgame. Seriously, it was both tear-jerking and joyous all rolled up into one. I loved it.
The Ephram/Madison kiss at the end sucked… I developed the biggest lump in my throat while viewing that mess, let alone Amy seeing it. I couldn't believe that Berlanti was actually going there. I saw the signs such as Delia basically being abandoned at times due to the weird flirty crap between Ephram/Madison while Madison was supposedly working. But I still never thought it'd go this far. Once this episode happened, I knew Berlanti was going there and it wasn't a fun reality. Little did I know that she'd haunt the series until the very end and would have continued had we been given a S5. At any rate, this episode rocked because of Ephram/Amy and the meaning behind where they were going when the timing was right. We hear Amy discuss timing during their classic mountain picnic scene later on. |
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Amy's feelings for Ephram were evident. Bright's feelings for Ephram were evident. Turning point in Amy/Ephram's relationship due to bad timing. Andy's interest in Linda was evident. Madison!!!! THis is also one of my favorite episodes of the entire series. |
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The dance floor seeing EA and AN together also showed the future pairings. I almost feel like this was a gift from Greg Berlanti to the fandom. He gave us this to show the future, the two future pairings, Bright and his role as a good supportive friend to Ephram, decent brother to Amy, his new maturity. We see a glimpse of the future but not before enduring some tough future times with pairings not meant to be and Ephram/Amy not physically around each other much until the end of S2 big payoff. Berlanti showed us the future while also saying tough times ahead until then. |
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Blind Faith is def. the best of the season so far, I also really enjoyed the season 2 premiere.
I thought this was a decent episode. Wish we had more of Nina tho... 208: Linda/Andy are okay. Kinda boring to me. I do get her hesitations with getting involved. Glad she told her mom too about her disease finally. Poor Edna crying over her daughter, that was sad, but a good scene. Dude Amy is feeling so down, like why the hell can’t Harold just freaking listen to her??? Its starting to piss me off. The way he speaks to her is just uncalled for and annoying. Im glad he signed for the pills FINALLY! Not the best way to go about it but oh well. Saying he was disappointed she was taking them was so weird to me. He's way too worked up over this imo. The whole Madison SL was so lame. We dont care Madison did a great job rejecting him but then she goes and lets him kiss her like what??? I really dont get what the show was trying to do? Did they find the stoyline sexy or was it supposed to be wrong? lol. Cuz the actors dont look too far apart in age so it feels like they are trying to make it sexy. i think it would be less weird if Ephram was 18 or something when they did this SL but hes 16??? Like, thats so icky. She's quite a bit older. Ughhhhhh. I mean it doesn't matter how much she likes him or is crushing on him, she simply needs to back off. (can i say, ephrams speech was hella cute but mistplaced. The reasons were so valid so whyyyy push it god lol) Delia glaring was too much glaring at Andy in the window. Child chill. Top 5: This one was SO hard beacuse I didnt love anyone in this episode tbh. 1. Linda 2. Amy (even though she was very out of it I found her SL interesting) 3. Ephram 4. Andy 5. ??? I guess Linda or Rose? idk. |
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Like it. I’d include Edna in there as well, maybe at 3. Glad Harold’s not in there. Sorry, Harold, you’re sitting this one out. |
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My ears are bleeding from hearing Madison sing! She's awful! She makes Katie Holmes sound like Adele! I think I deserve hazardous pay for having to watch Madison! __________________
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I found this episode to be rather lackluster in comparison to the last episode, as it followed a theme about what a burden the truth can be. We saw that theme manifest itself as we met a mechanic named Phil who sold a reluctant Ephram a car that he really didn’t like at Andy’s insistence, who felt burdened by a psychic ability that he had, and we saw that Linda Abbott was harboring a secret that in that particular time was seen as a death sentence as her feelings for Andy Brown became more and more prominent.
I didn’t like how Andy basically forced Ephram to get a car that he didn’t really like and he once again refused to listen to him, but Ephram seemed comforted a bit when Phil told him that a girl he liked would like the car. I never heard the term clairaudient before this episode as Phil told Andy what his gift (or burden) was, and it was interesting to see Phil’s predictions play out in this episode. It was so sad to see Amy in this episode fully in the throes of her situational depression, as she couldn’t bring herself to go to school as she lingered in the parking lot and watched the students happily file in to their classes, and her situation escalated as she forged a prescription after she stole a prescription blank from Linda, who was trying to help her using meditation, and Harold and her harshly lashed out at each other when he discovered what she had done, and at that point, Amy truly was lost and despondent, but Harold’s stubborn pride and his refusal to see how sick Amy was furthered a growing rift between them as they both said some really hurtful things to each other. It was so heartbreaking to see Amy tell Linda that she wanted to feel nothing in their meditation session, and Emily VanCamp did an incredible job in depicting how deeply depressed Amy was. There is one word that perfectly described what went on in every interaction that Ephram and Madison had in this episode: creepy. I hated every scene that they were in, as Madison vacillated with her conflicting feelings about a 16 year old boy that she shouldn’t have ever thought about in a romantic way. One minute she was making moon eyes at him as he helped her with her music, and the next minute she was talking down to him and calling his feelings for her a crush. One minute, Ephram and Madison are bickering in front of a clueless Andy and a prescient Delia, who saw what was going on, as she saw through Ephram’s offer to help Madison with her band, and the next minute, they’re kissing by his car, which, fulfilling Phil’s prediction, she said that she liked. It was creepy seeing Ephram get so upset when Madison kissed Jay, her angry and moody band member/boyfriend, because he had no right to be so upset because Madison wasn’t, and should have never been, his girlfriend. I was really revolted watching every single scene that they were in and watching all of their scenes together again just reinforces how wrong they were for each other. I also am bleeding from my ears as I was forced to her Madison’s God-awful caterwauling that the writers tried to pass off as “singing.” Madison should have listened to her own advice when she said that some maturity comes with time and she never should have led Ephram on like she did. We saw Andy and Linda’s relationship progress as Edna, playing matchmaker, encouraged both of them to express their feelings for one another and act on those feelings, and Andy did just that as he helped Linda move. I liked the scene where Andy and Linda talked and she revealed the things that were special to her, and she told Andy that he was a kind man, but when Andy went to kiss her, she turned away from him. We then found out that Linda hesitated in expressing her reciprocal feelings toward Andy because she was harboring a secret that she tearfully revealed to Edna: that she had HIV, a disease that was still viewed as a death sentence at the time that Everwood aired, and that diagnosis would have far-reaching consequences not just for Andy and Linda, but for her entire family. I liked Andy’s conversation with Phil, and I thought that Phil was right when she said that he felt burdened by his gift of telling people the truth, because people don’t really want the truth, and that they just wanted good news. I thought it was funny that Andy told Phil to predict an avalanche instead of a flood the next time. I liked seeing Andy’s honesty with Linda as he expressed his feelings to her, but then he saw Delia’s death stare in his rear-view mirror as Phil’s predication about a broken promise was coming true. Overall, this was one of the weaker episodes of the show for me, as two relationships, one that I liked and one that I truly hated, progressed and set the tone for future episodes. __________________
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She is so right about how Katie changed acting styles for Joey in the later seasons. |
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