I got the chance to watch the chapter five, or mid-season three finale, of Greek yesterday. It was … interesting. There were some “giant” aspects to it, plots that towered right up there with some of the memorable stuff that they’ve given us thus far. And then there were stories that just didn’t turn out how I’d write them. Isn’t the audience small enough that they could poll us all?
The episode opens a week after the final scene in this past week’s, so there’ll be no Casey pulling back from Cappie in the middle of their kiss and running up the stairs; that night’s over and done. But the episode does, of course, deal with the consequences of the kiss. And boy are there consequences. WARNING: MINOR SPOILERS AHEAD.
Greek also doesn’t forget that my favorite couple, Dale and Rusty, are feuding over a geek science grant. Dale is back for the finale, and the issue that now lies like a gulf between the two friends is at the forefront of things. In the moment I was consumed with other thoughts, but in hindsight the plot put some cold truths about Dale into perspective. And it gave me a Malcolm in the Middle season one flashback.
And in other flashback news, the sorority SongFest competition turns the clock back to the early 1980s for most of the girls, which is before any of them were born. Wow … is that true? I guess so — my sister-in-law is graduating college this coming May, and she was born in 1988.
Anyway, SongFest also puts Casey at a crossroads: does she pick her future over her sisters? And it begs the question: do you get Olesya Rulin’s casting if you barely know what High School Musical means?
The show’s been adding a random pop reference theme to each of its episodes lately (The Goonies and Elmo, for example.) This week’s? I don’t think I’d be ruining anything for you by revealing that it’s Harry Potter. Now that I think about it, the Amphora headquarters does look a bit like potions class….
And in fraternity land, the scribbling the KTs did when breaking into the Omega Kai house during their turkey hunt was not idle defacement of property. Since there’s so much hatred between the two houses, and Cappie and Evan were at odds for so long, I wonder why they haven’t had an ongoing war going between them, as opposed to one-time pranks and fights. That would have made for some fun undercurrent these last few seasons, no?
And don’t think that the Tripp-led Omega Kai rebellion is over just because it had a week off. Evan is still battling to be accepted as he now is by his brothers, and as a result there’s more of that loud-mouth Tripp to be suffered through. But can they really depose Evan? And does he truly believe that his leadership is in danger?
The finale leaves us in some interesting places. Some I’d like to see more of, some I’d like to see ended, but most all places I’m anxious to visit when the show returns in January (I believe). And in the middle of all of that drama? Nerd trash-talking … it’s worth the price of admission.
Clacked by Aryeh S.
on Oct 29, 2009 @ 14:00 EST5EDT
