Ring-a-ding-dinger

[cactuswatcher]

If I were a Carpenter and you were a lady vampire slayer... I have to say the treat of the night was Buffy socking Josef, the vampire from Moonlight. If you thought of it as Siobhet socking Mr. Carpenter, it's just a soap cliche and not so fun. It does lead to an interesting mind game. If you had a male English teacher in high school, how would you react to them being at a swank party, being punched by the hostess and being ordered out of the house? I had two male English teachers. I can't really imagine either at a really swank party. Both were good conversationalists, but not of the swank party type. Can't imagine either of them doing anything to get tossed. Mr R was somewhat athletic and it would have taken at least a fraction of Buffy's strength to stagger him with a punch. On the other hand they probably would have had to throw cold water on Mr G, before Siobhet could tell him she was throwing him out.

Next week on Ringer: Bridget will accuse Juliet of stealing her ring. Andrew will accuse Juliet of stealing his scarf. Juliet will accuse her girlfriend of sleeping with Mr C. Siobhan will take the ring to an appraiser and discover she now has a giant piece of cubic zirconium set in a ring that will soon turn her finger green. She will secretly return the ring, causing Bridget to feel horribly guilty. Bridget will then weepingly apologize to Juliet, who temporarily ran away to Brazil, and admit to Andrew, who locked himself in the bathroom for a week, it was she who borrowed his scarf. Juliet will secretly swap back the real ring she stole a month ago and Andrew will remain totally clueless.

Meanwhile Siobhan will tell the truths-of-the-week to Henry. That is - Bridget murdered Gemma and has fled the country. In fact, Siobhan does not love him and never did. However she, the woman standing in front of him, is, in fact, their triplet sister Elvira and that she has alway loved him and has currently been secretly pregnant with his baby for 12 months. At the end of the episode she will beg him to help her murder Siobhan so they can steal Andrew's money and then run away to Paris where she can be with both her boyfriends. She probably will be sorry she mentioned her second boyfriend. But we won't know until the following bewildering episode of Ringer!

Comments

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

I have bailed from Ringer. Was there a new episode?

[cactuswatcher.livejournal.com]

Last night. New time, an hour later. Maybe it was just one episode, but the show looked a little more flush with money, and the writing seemed a little better, which means I probably won't watch it very much longer.

[dlgood.livejournal.com]

Confused? You won't be, after you tune into the next episode of Soap...

The takeaway for me is that SMG throws a better punch now than she did 7 years ago.

[atpo-onm.livejournal.com]

You know, I thought the writing was just a mite better in this ep also. Perhaps (gasp!) they are finally figuring out where this thing is supposed to go?

But then, that reminds me of Tru Calling. It floundered badly for nearly an entire season, then in the last few episodes it started to have a purpose and make sense. (They had finally hired a head writer who genuinely had talent.)

This huge improvement continued into the beginning of the next season and the show became both interesting and enjoyable to watch.

And so of course, it was promptly cancelled.