SPOILERS AHEAD!!!!!!!!!!
I’m an absolute sucker for dogs with floppy ears.
So, let’s get right down to it: I skipped reviewing the first 6 episodes so everyone could catch up and get addicted, and now I’m gonna jump in where it matters! Episode 7 “To Seek a Foe” delivers what we’ve all been begging for since the pilot… Roman-Emery epic makeout scene!!!! Like these Grayson-Emery kisses have been acceptable and cute, but just… meh. Even Julia isn’t excited about it in “best friend role”. And if best friend doesn’t care, then the viewers sure as hell don’t.
Let’s compare…
Episode 6 left us with this “I can’t breathe” moment… it was almost Leo – Claire through the fish tank for my feels:
Guys, nothing is hotter than face taken into both hands like that. It just screams for follow through. So this scene happens, Roman peaces out to go save the kidnapped Grayson, and Emery heads into her own dangerous situation in order to desperately try to keep cyper’s healing powers a secret from the media (and the world at large).
After inadvertently destroying her kind-of-boyfriend Grayson’s life by getting his mom arrested, Emery has a before school BFF chat with Julia, who until this week seemed to have used up her “round character” development. While Julia tells her to not feel bad about outing Grayson’s mom as the terrorist she is, Emery quickly moves the conversation onto what matters. She admits that ALL THE THINGS have changed because Roman has explained his feelings whilst grasping her face in his hands for emphasis and instant turn-on (paraphrased). She tells Julia that she’d “rather have someday with Roman than now with Grayson.” #hot
Julia asks what he said to her once she told him that she felt the same swoony way for him, and Emery is all, “I’m on a CW drama, why would I have admitted that to him yet? Geez, Julia! Longing looks first. Telling the obvious truth later.” As all great friends would, Julia drags her ass towards the Atrian sector so that she can head off Roman as he leaves for school… unfortunately en route Grayson shows up on her doorstep in need of some friendship. Julia leaves (it was awkward, in her defense) and Emery there-theres Grayson on her couch and says he can stay with her family until he figures his home life stuff out (you know, with his mom imprisoned and his dad also a terrorist #NBD). She’s all looking at the clock wishing this emo lump would take a depression nap already when in the background Roman is about to knock on her front door (clearly it’s an all glass door). He takes in the scene and walks away crushed at Emery’s cozy situation with Tousled Hair (who is the son of the leaders of the Red Hawks, the Atrian hate group). I let out an angsty groan as it cut to closing credits.
(also: that 2 seasons ago Forever XXI shirt is NOT in dresscode. I hope she has a cardigan for school.)
BUT NOT THIS WEEK.
This week they go for a walk in the woods and it ends a hell of lot better than Edward Cullen’s “Come and take a walk with me” did. Well, at least until they run into crazypants trag Zoe who’s sporting a samurai sword. #AtrianEbay
Not to fret though, Roman sends Emery to blow up the deadly-only-to-humans black cyper plant so he can take on Zoe with a giant branch. Obviously he didn’t win this one:
Luckily the sexy guy on the show (aka Greg Finley, aka Drake, aka #unf) was on his way already and sends Roman to save Emery from the black plant of doom. A scene that played out like this for me watching alone on my couch:
CUT TO:
INT. ABANDONED BOATHOUSE – DAY
Emery WATCHES in horror as the spores of the black cyper plant RELEASE into the air while she is still standing by the plant’s epicenter. The homemade bomb TICKS behind her. In the b.g. Lorena yells at her television the words ‘Don’t breathe, Em!’ with such conviction that she is certain Emery heard her. Roman ARRIVES at the entrance to the boathouse and assesses the situation.
ROMAN
Hold your breath.
Roman RUSHES into the boathouse and CARRIES Emery onto the dock. As the bomb EXPLODES the boathouse and black cyper plant, together they LEAP into the lake. Emery needs to breathe, but they cannot surface until it is safe, so Roman PULLS her towards him and PRESSES his mouth to hers to give her air from his second set of lungs.
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FADE OUT:
LORENA (FROM COUCH)
No!!!! MORE!!!!!!
Thankfully I could fast forward since I DVRed it. After the commercial break they closed out Act Four with the most epic makeout we have seen yet on this show. I squealed with delight. I mean, it was so hot that Emery momentarily forgot that her best friend Lukas was on his deathbed and she had the cure in her shirt pocket.
Grayson, who?
So…what else happened in this episode?
Lukas almost dies due to black cyper that was intended for Taylor. It was actually scary because I don’t know if this is another CW kills off people you like shows.
Sophia explains that Atrians are pan-sexual and Lukas is all like… “Great, can we date then PLEASE?” (note: this happens pre-almost dying) At the end it’s Sophia who saves Lukas’ life, so perhaps she’s changed her mind on how she feels about him. Especially since Taylor is kind of spoken for…
Taylor and Drake finally have a real conversation about feelings and he comes through for her in a way she doesn’t yet understand. #ILoveDrake
Eric and Julia bond over Bruce and trig… Who would’ve thought Eric could ever not look like a total dick?
I’m Too Sexy For My Overtly Inappropriate Cleavage teacher finally reveals that she is studying cyper and tests Emery and Julia’s DNA to see if either has cyper in their blood. #UhOh “I’ve got a vein full of cyper, and a city full of secrets.” (er, sorry, Phantogram lyrics reworked).
Romery make out AGAIN! OMG when her hand pushes up his elbow like that. #cannot
They also discuss that now that they’ve saved the world and she knows all the secrets of cyper, trags, death threats, the taste of Atrian saliva and they are super into each other and can take on all the things because they are young and in love, they can finally be together.
Of course Grayson is creeping behind the wall nearby eavesdropping on the whole conversation #weirdo. He looked surprised, but… I think he’s now going to “turn bad” or something. Lame.
Next week Emery goes to meet Roman’s mom… dun dun dun. Think we’ll see Terri again soon? I actually kind of miss her after so much annoying Zoe screen time. So glad Zoe is dead. You think the other three in the Atrian 7 will get names this season? Are Taylor and Drake gonna have a real relationship or just have sex a lot? Hope they’re being safe…
*Totally calling you out, Derek.
