One thing that I’ve noticed
a lot of networks doing this year is that they are advertising the final
episode of TV shows (mainly dramas) that will air in 2012 as the show’s
mid-season finale or the fall finale. Another thing that I’ve noticed about
episodes of a TV show that have been promoted as the mid-season/fall finale tend
to go all out and make the episodes full of excitement and cliffhangers if it’s
a drama to get the viewers excited for the shows to return in 2013. I don’t
know if the networks’ executives are telling producers for TV shows to make the
episodes big and full of excitement, or if it’s simply the writers of shows
such as Grimm, Once Upon a Time, Revenge, Revolution, or in this case 90210 who
are deciding to make the episodes have enough excitement, drama and
cliffhangers in them to rival the show’s season finale. That being said, I
thought that this was a great fall finale for 90210. It was full of excitement,
interesting plot developments and some rather exciting cliffhangers at the end
of the episode.
While I enjoyed pretty much
all of the storylines in this episode, my favorite storyline was definitely
Liam’s storyline where he was working with Annie to figure out who has been blackmailing
him after he got another anonymous note from his blackmailer demanding that he
give them $500,000. Although, one thing that has really bothered me about this
storyline was the fact that given the writers have been acting like Liam has
become one of the hottest and most popular actors in Hollywood right now, it
seemed a little odd to me that he would be struggling to come up with that much
money. Plus, he also owns The Offshore, so he definitely has to have some money
coming in from that. Maybe I don’t have all the facts about how much money Liam
has made from his acting career, but for a show where the writers have acted
like Naomi has an unlimited amount of money at her disposal to spend ever since
she got her trust fund back in season three and the writers are now acting like
Annie’s equally loaded with cash from the settlement she got from Marla’s
family, it seems weird to me that they would act like Liam doesn’t have $500,00
to pay his blackmailer when he’s a movie star. If I had to guess, I’m guessing
the whole thing with Annie giving Liam the money is simply a plot device on the
writers’ part as way of having Liam and Annie slowly (slow for 90210 anyway)
move closer and closer to getting back together. After all, Liam and Annie have
been spending a lot of time together in the past several episodes. As much as I
love Annie and Riley as a couple, words can’t describe how much I want Liam and
Annie to get back together.
The other thing that I
really liked about Liam’s storyline is the fact that they tied it Annie’s
storyline with Riley where she was thinking about going to Scotland for writing
program that would apparently last two years. It looks like the writers are
indeed doing something with the idea of Annie exploring the possibility of
being a writer after all, which they set up at the end of the 100th episode
when she created a blog and was writing about her relationship with Patrick during
her time as an escort last season. What I don’t understand is why the writers
are acting like the only place Annie could possibly go for a writing program
would be another country. I can pretty much guarantee that there plenty of
opportunities to take writing classes right in Beverly Hills. For example, she
could always major in English at CU with a concentration in creative writing
like I did when I went to UNL. My guess is that the writers are using the idea
of Annie going to Scotland for two years for a writing program as another way
to set up the idea of Annie and Riley breaking up with each other.
