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Somewhat boringly but hey, it's leading to Bianca/Marissa bonding, and I sort of like how because of AMC's weird stance against recasting Reese she's never actually there, she's just spoken about and eluded to. Which makes this divorce and custody battle a little easier to deal with in terms of viewer bearability.
10:06 in is when Bianca/Marissa scene starts.
Their scenes continue at the start of this video then begin again at 5:27 and 10:45.
I sort of wonder how much Marissa knows about Bianca's past. Specifically the rape and the whole debacle with Mimo's origins, her birth, and subsequent kidnapping by her long lost twin sister. It's par for the course with everyone in Pine Valley treating Bianca like she's some sort of wilting flower when in reality she's been through more horrible shit than most people in that town who are twice her age. I think it's the fact Bianca never seems to get bitter with the world and cynical is why everyone feels this instinctive need to protect her and it leads to them thinking she can't handle bad things.
Which history shows us just isn't the truth. Bianca has proven time and time again she can deal with the worst parts of life and the fact Marissa is trying to treat Bianca with kid gloves with details of the divorce/custody battle makes me think she doesn't really know all the horrible shit Bianca has gone through. I wonder if they'll ever broach that on the show. I honestly hope they do. I really love when soaps incorporate their massive and rich histories into new storylines and we never got to see Reese deal with finding out about Bianca's rape and Miranda's origins. I'd like to see that with Marissa.
But that's just my love of drama speaking. Scenes continue yet again at 3:07 and 7:21 in this last video.
And ohhh, prophetic, Mimo and AJ are already acting like siblings! lol. Too bad they're SO destined to date each other when they get SORAS'd. It's them or AJ and Gabby. Or maybe Gabby is with Kathy. Ah, soap kids. Moving on! Reese is going for full custody. Knew she was going to do this, not surprised, need a battle for soapy story elements, right?
However, her digging up stuff on Pine Valley and Bianca... just... so not cool. I know they're trying to villify Reese off screen, I'm not stupid. It's easy, make her the bad guy, have Bianca turn to Marissa for comfort, bingo! Shiny new ship. I get it, I get it, but still I can't help a natural "you asshole" reaction to anyone trying to find bad things about Bianca. I don't buy into the Bianca as the Patron Lesbian Saint of Pine Valley but honestly, she is genuinely one of the nicest and sweetest characters on this show and the idea of anyone setting out to ruin her irks me. Especially trying to take Mimo away. I swear, the rape/murder/babyswitch trilogy was awful but so powerful in acting and characterization. But with it you saw how Miranda saved Bianca's life and brought her back and anyone trying to take her from Bianca whether it's Babe and Krystal or Reese is just a huge fucking asshole, imho.
Onto shipping analysis. OMG, seriously, Bianca doesn't want Marissa to use the fact that Reese isn't biologically related to Miranda and Gabrielle to win custody because it could effect Marissa's custody of AJ with JR? They aren't even together and Bianca is already being protective girlfriend about Marissa. Also, Marissa's confused look of cuteness on hearing Bianca's reasoning. It's like she's been with JR too long that she doesn't comprehend someone thinking of her first and is confuzzled over it. Then Marissa being all "I won't let you ruin your chances for me" and Bianca being all cute and stubborn and fucking Bianca because she always digs her heels in when she thinks she's right and it's so adorable. So what does Marissa do? Call Kendall!
Hahah, they're so girlfriends, I mean, Marissa already knows that Kinks is true love and only Kendall can sway Bianca in times of crisis. This is fantabulous. I can't wait for tomorrow's episode. There's more bonding.
10:06 in is when Bianca/Marissa scene starts.
Their scenes continue at the start of this video then begin again at 5:27 and 10:45.
I sort of wonder how much Marissa knows about Bianca's past. Specifically the rape and the whole debacle with Mimo's origins, her birth, and subsequent kidnapping by her long lost twin sister. It's par for the course with everyone in Pine Valley treating Bianca like she's some sort of wilting flower when in reality she's been through more horrible shit than most people in that town who are twice her age. I think it's the fact Bianca never seems to get bitter with the world and cynical is why everyone feels this instinctive need to protect her and it leads to them thinking she can't handle bad things.
Which history shows us just isn't the truth. Bianca has proven time and time again she can deal with the worst parts of life and the fact Marissa is trying to treat Bianca with kid gloves with details of the divorce/custody battle makes me think she doesn't really know all the horrible shit Bianca has gone through. I wonder if they'll ever broach that on the show. I honestly hope they do. I really love when soaps incorporate their massive and rich histories into new storylines and we never got to see Reese deal with finding out about Bianca's rape and Miranda's origins. I'd like to see that with Marissa.
But that's just my love of drama speaking. Scenes continue yet again at 3:07 and 7:21 in this last video.
And ohhh, prophetic, Mimo and AJ are already acting like siblings! lol. Too bad they're SO destined to date each other when they get SORAS'd. It's them or AJ and Gabby. Or maybe Gabby is with Kathy. Ah, soap kids. Moving on! Reese is going for full custody. Knew she was going to do this, not surprised, need a battle for soapy story elements, right?
However, her digging up stuff on Pine Valley and Bianca... just... so not cool. I know they're trying to villify Reese off screen, I'm not stupid. It's easy, make her the bad guy, have Bianca turn to Marissa for comfort, bingo! Shiny new ship. I get it, I get it, but still I can't help a natural "you asshole" reaction to anyone trying to find bad things about Bianca. I don't buy into the Bianca as the Patron Lesbian Saint of Pine Valley but honestly, she is genuinely one of the nicest and sweetest characters on this show and the idea of anyone setting out to ruin her irks me. Especially trying to take Mimo away. I swear, the rape/murder/babyswitch trilogy was awful but so powerful in acting and characterization. But with it you saw how Miranda saved Bianca's life and brought her back and anyone trying to take her from Bianca whether it's Babe and Krystal or Reese is just a huge fucking asshole, imho.
Onto shipping analysis. OMG, seriously, Bianca doesn't want Marissa to use the fact that Reese isn't biologically related to Miranda and Gabrielle to win custody because it could effect Marissa's custody of AJ with JR? They aren't even together and Bianca is already being protective girlfriend about Marissa. Also, Marissa's confused look of cuteness on hearing Bianca's reasoning. It's like she's been with JR too long that she doesn't comprehend someone thinking of her first and is confuzzled over it. Then Marissa being all "I won't let you ruin your chances for me" and Bianca being all cute and stubborn and fucking Bianca because she always digs her heels in when she thinks she's right and it's so adorable. So what does Marissa do? Call Kendall!
Hahah, they're so girlfriends, I mean, Marissa already knows that Kinks is true love and only Kendall can sway Bianca in times of crisis. This is fantabulous. I can't wait for tomorrow's episode. There's more bonding.
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Plus there's the added rare bonus that Kendall appears to actually like Marissa. Even in those five minutes Maggie had her sit figured out I don't think Kendall ever gave a damn about her, and that's the closest I've ever seen to Kendall liking anyone dating/close to her sister.
I'm intrigued by how well Bianca handled the day. Sure it's her daughter's birthday, but that day also has horrible memories tied to it (eventually washed away, of course, when she realized Miranda was alive, but those typically have to be literally washed away with booze or some sort of crazy adjustment methods... for those of us not immensely awesome and decently human like Bianca). It's great that she can look back the obvious similarities between Babe and Marissa and see her new friend instead of the negativity from the past--though I guess Binx probably burried the hatchet before Babe died (left the show during that time frame), plus she has experience dating twins and separating the two.
I'm continually frustrated that ABC doesn't do previews for AMC like they do all the other soaps. Each time I try to get back into the show I typically catch the end and then kick myself as I realize it won't give me anything for seeing what is to happen the next day.
Okay, rambly post done. Just had to get all this out there to someone who watches the show and could at least pretend to care about my ramblings :D
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The recast of Marissa has been fantastic for this development. I'm convinced the show had this story planned for awhile and that's why they ended up not renewing original recipe Marissa's contract when it ran out and went with a recast. They've been reworking Marissa's personality and she definitely has chemistry with Bianca.
Also, so agree, part of the reason I love this ship when it's not even in infancy yet is the fact that Kendall likes Marissa. Kendall has never had a decent relationship with any of Bianca's love interests. Her getting along with someone Bianca is dating and really liking them is like another notch onto the adult relationship stage for Binks.
Then there's the fact they're both mothers and AJ/Miranda having been buddies for so long along with JR drama... so good. I'm excited.