Watch This! Angry Zach vs. Meek Reese

What the hell with the continual angry!Zach going after Reese, people? It's getting old. I know the show is probably setting them up BFF style like Bianca and Leo but the more mature business professional version but he needs to stop yelling at her when he gets frustrated.

Although this episode gave me a lot of hints as to character development for Reese. Honestly, she's lucky to be with Bianca because Binks is probably the nicest character in Pine Valley overall and she's not a fan of the yelling. The way Reese sort of shrunk back and took Zach's anger just reinforces my previous belief her parents judgmental behavior went back for years and years, since she was a child, and she's not very well suited to defending herself in personal situations. She kind of sits back and takes it. Which is good that Bianca is so not like that because Reese could very easily be emotionally devastated if she fell in love with the wrong kind of person who would take advantage.

Think I'm exaggerating? Check out her reaction 7:13 in when she starts contemplating what she would be like should something happen to Bianca? Tamara Braun is playing this for all its worth. Very nice stuff. I have a feeling, well, at least that's how I'm going to write it in fanfic, that Bianca is so important to Reese because she did work through a lot of her emotional insecurities with Bianca, that Bianca helped her get past them, and because of that she does believe Bianca loves her completely and she never believed that before with someone and it's huge given the way she never really felt confident that her parents loved her and she never let her friends see totally who she was.

Annnnnd, enough of my analysis. Clip away!

Watch This! The Elf Dance

It's official, Reese is made of cute. lol. This episode had a lot of great scenes but the highlight had to be Reese finally having an active scene with Miranda who is also made of so much cute it kills me and doing the start of something that she and Bianca call the elf dance.

Of course, the scene ends with Zach catching a conveniently tripping Reese and leaving because he freaks out about holding her and Binks walking in on the aftermath but, hey, you can't have everything be made of the cute. Sometimes they have to be made of the ominous oh shit are they going to ruin my perfect lesbian couple with one of them running back to boystown hints.

The first time I watched the scene I winced because, oh lord, Zendall fans and their doom and gloom predictions Zach will end up falling for Reese coming to life but you know, on second viewing it's not like that to me. I think he freaks out that he's having fun and it's not with a Kendall shaped female and he is filled with much guilt these days. Besides, I can't see Tamara Braun and Eden Riegel signing on for that kind of story twist given how they've been pimping the fact they agreed to this storyline due to the coupley treatment Reese and Bianca would be getting. Having Reese cheat on Bianca and go back to boystown with their sperm donor daddy doesn't really fit into that.

Greenlee can't take the lesbian PDA! lol. I was amused how she averted her eyes when they kissed. What's the deal with that? Too bad she doesn't stick around because I liked her conversation with Reese.

For some reason the above clip doesn't include Kinks hospital bonding. Kinks shows up 5:04 into the video and awww, Binks with the sniffling and the tears and the guilt and I will hate it if their relationship is ruined by Bianca's one moment of not angelic out of character stupidity with the sperm donor situation. They're the best sisters ever.

ETA: WTF with this YouTube search function embedded? They are getting so weird, y'all.