This
next sentence is going to sum up Monday’s episode of Switched at Birth: knife,
field hockey, movement, jerks, expulsion, and art. That is what happened in a
very vague nutshell.
Let’s
start with the knife. We’re going to throw it back here a little bit and go to
the end of last week’s episode when Emmett figured out that it was Matthew who
slashed all the tires and broke those windows. Firstly, I think his reasoning,
“deaf pride”, makes no sense. You know that someone is already trying to get
rid of those kids, so don’t make it worse by slashing tires. I highly doubt
they would assume it was them, and they’d probably end up actually
investigating the situation. Then they would find out it was you, you’d get
expelled and all your friends would hate you for slashing their tires. It’s
also extremely racist of you to assume that those kids would slash tires and
vandalize things like that. It was racist of the school to expel Sharee for having
a knife in her locker, even though she had a perfectly stable alibi that would
have been easy to check. So yeah, that wasn’t good. I honestly thought Daphne
and Sharee were starting to be actual friends after everything Daphne went
through to get her on the team, and then she reversed her expulsion. Honestly,
if Sharee didn’t want Daphne to get her back at the school, then she should
have said so instead of letting Daphne drag her to Principal Rose’s office and
fight to get her back. Sharee was right about all the things she said after
that; about how Carlton is a little racist and that all Daphne cared about was
the field hockey game, because it was. Daphne just wanted to get John to be
proud of her for once in this very long while, and her primary motive was not
getting her friend back but getting John to be proud of her. And so, Sharee
doesn’t seem to matter anymore for anything but created drama for Daphne.
Seriously, they need to get their sh*t together.
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Field
hockey is a lot more dramatic and stressful than I thought it would be. I’ve
never played the game and I have no idea how it works, but I don’t think it’s
supposed to be that dramatic. Daphne put a lot more on what John thought of her
field hockey skills than I thought she would. I get that she wants him to be
proud of her, but maybe talking to him about her feelings like she did near the
end of the episode would have been a better idea. Making everything about field
hockey and his impression of it, and her skills, was not a good idea and put a
lot of stress on her and a lot of strain on her relationships with Toby and
Sharee. Actually, field hockey in general made Toby stressed out, just because
they both landed themselves in detention for fighting in the halls and they had
to forfeit. On a little sidenote here, I think Toby has the same feelings about
John and field hockey that Daphne does. He wants him to not hate him for once,
after everything with the elopement and all that Nikki stuff. That scene that
Daphne and John had at the end of the episode was really cute, though. I’m
happy that they’ve finally moved past their issue and can actually get along
again.
So now
we have arrived at the movement. I’m actually super glad that Toby decided he
needed to move out, and that he refused to accept his mother’s
charity/extravagant efforts to keep him in stone’s throw of the house. If it
was available, she probably would have liked him to move into the guest house,
and come back to the house for meals and stuff. Basically, he would have just
slept there. I’m glad he decided he needed to be fully independent and chose to
buy an affordable place for himself in Edgewater than a townhouse his parents
were going to pay for in Mission Hills. He’s right, he’s married now and he
needs to be totally independent of his parents. Kathryn really needed that reality
check John gave her. She was turning into her mother, and we all know how much
she would have hated that.
Now we
have Regina and her seemingly unnamed restoration friend. There’s some definite
romantic chemistry there, and he definitely has a crush on her, even if she
doesn’t like him that way, which she definitely doesn’t. I think they’re going
to make a good team; her fire combined with his hot head should definitely be
interesting. I’m excited to see whether he actually asks her out or not, and
what she’ll say if he does. That scene they had on Monday was the best, the one
in the design office. Regina’s sass was out of this world and I loved it. I
think they’d make a wonderful power couple, you know, if she wasn’t married to
Angelo so he didn’t have to be deported. I know she loves him and everything,
but does she really want to be married to him, or did she just do it as an act
of charity? I don’t know.
Ah, my
favorite part: Matthew’s expulsion. He had that coming so bad, and I’m happy it
happened. I don’t care that he hates Emmett now, he can just leave. Which he
will. He must have known that getting caught and potential consequences was a
possible outcome of his little slasher fest. He had what was coming to him, and
karma bit him in the ass so bad.
And
lastly, the art show. That was definitely interesting to see Bay have to
encourage her art teacher to keep making art even though it should be the other
way around. She was definitely a little drunk back in that scene, but
everything she said was true. For her. She and Bay are totally different
people, and things might work out differently for Bay. I’m glad that Bay
decided that no one unhappy will decide her happiness, and that’s totally a
good philosophy to have. I also enjoyed see the Bay/Tank character relationship
development. I definitely think they make awesome friends, but nothing more. I’m
still a hardcore Bemmett shipper.
