90210: The New Class

The new 90210 is set and cast (for the most part) and the CW is already showing clips to get everyone excited (complete with the same 90210 theme song) is it worth the time to watch this new show of teens who are in real life 25?

Megan's Point : Have you seen previews? Well there is a brother and sister… but one is adopted and black and was “at risk”, aka Ryan Atwood. And they moved from Kansas… kind of like Minnesota. The mom, “Aunt Becky”, is a WAY hotter Mrs. Walsh so she looks more like a Kirsetn “Kiki” Cohan ala The OC. The spoiled girl or Kelly Taylor meets Summer Roberts, looks like she will sleep with her teacher… speaking of enter hot young high school teacher. We all know what hot young teacher will lead to or also known as my favorite “Dawsons Creek” story line where a precocious Pacey does the dirty with his sophomore English teacher. Then we have “Silver”, yes her name is Silver… (Any relation to David Silver??) but she is the hippie in the crew, I mean she is wearing a string around her forehead which is almost like wearing a homemade daisy crown… she also probably has a hemp backback, recycles and protests when someone gets caught drinking at prom and then told they will not graduate high school because it said in the “prom handbook” that if caught with booze they will not get to walk… I can already hear “Donna Martin Graduates!”. So pretty much what I am saying is that I can’t be more excited. They are using a formula that works and mixing 90210 with The OC meets Dawson’s Creek and the world will be a better place because this show exists. Now if only someone can get a job at The Peach Pit and hire Joe E. Tata to play Nat, everyone’s favorite waiter, we are set!

Barb's counterpoint: The new 90210, along with all other over-rated teenage melodramas will be a complete waste of time and will probably die a terrible death- much like the horrible car crash that killed Marissa (is that her name?). There are much better ways to spend one's tv time. For instance, while everyone else was watching the beautiful youngsters of West Beverly fall in and out of love, develop and recover from substance abuse, and sometimes even deal with their dad exploding in a car (that happened, right?) I was learning all the words to the newest Homey The Clown sketch. Then I got a little older and all the other kids started obsessing over the Dawson-Joey-Pacey-will-they-won't-they love triangle. I was obsessing over the Soup Nazi and the Close Talker. And finally, when all my friends started to wear mini skirts with ugg boots in an attempt to emulate the perfectly styled "effortless" laid back Southern Cali fashion of The OC (don't call it that*) I was starting to emulate the crippling neurosis of Larry David and his cohorts. So I guess what I'm trying to say is: I didn't care then, and I think I care even less now if that's possible. Does that make me some sort of traitor to my generation? Probably.

*if anyone gets this reference you win50,000 awesome points and a big kiss from me.

Megan's countercounterpoint : Are you saying you are too good for pointless teenage melodramas? Because while I was watching “Donna Martin Graduate” I was also discussing Fire Marshall Bill. While Pacey was sleeping with his teacher I was watching Jerry make his TV debut in a puffy shirt and while Seth and Summer were trying to find out if they loved each other I was… OK, so I never watched “Curb Your Enthusiasm” but I didn’t have HBO in college. The point is its pointless drivel that makes me feel like I don’t have it so bad since I have never experienced some chick copying my looks and then trying to kill me.

Barb's countercountercounterpoint: No, Meg. What I am saying is I don't care! Why are we supposed to care about the antics of another group of spoiled rich kids? Maybe if these shows were on HBO and showed full on sex and hardcore drug use like you would see at any real Beverly Hills High School, then I would watch. Until then, I'll stick with the classics on dvd, like my Strangers With Candy Collection.

Megan’s countercountercountercounterpoint: Make it DVD’s of ‘The State’ and I am in!

Barb's countercountercountercountercounterpoint: You got a deal. Omg, we are so much alike.

Point/Counterpoint

Oh snap! Ashley can’t stand Mary-Kate! Well at least that is what msnbc is reporting. According to a “source” they are going through a rough patch. Not sure what ‘going through a rough patch’ means since these are sisters. I have a sister and we don’t go through patches, we tell each other off and then head to the mall to bitch about the fact that we hate shopping because Romero’s aren’t skinny people. According to this source “Mary-Kate is tough to be around – even for a sister”. So when two things are feuding what is the only thing left to do…

Point/Counterpoint!

I am going to take Ashley because she is the goody-goody who hasn’t been to rehab which is exactly the type of person I am naturally and since Barb has been to rehab for her addictions it would be best to take Mary-Kate, I mean right?

Question: Who is better Mary-Kate or Ashley Olsen?

Point:
Duh! Ashley is way better. She hasn’t been to rehab, although it is the thing for every starlet to do she shows how cool and hip she is by not going. Such a non conformist! And as an actress Ashley’s talents clearly outweigh (literally, zing!) that of her sisters. When she was forced into the industry at 8 months old I think we all saw that twinkle in her eye as she sat in a playpen chewing her foot. When she was old enough to talk and said “You got it dude!” I really got it! And lets not forget episode 416 of ‘Full House’. An award winning performance like that comes from Ashley Olsen not Mary-Kate.


Counterpoint:
Ok, so apparently MK is being a total celebutant diva. It's about time! I was soooo sick of hearing about how "sweet" and/or "down-to-earth" these two were. At least one of them is finally acting the way we all wanted her to in the first place. Ordering people around, making out with any/everyone, being a total snatch to her sis. I mean, they have like a trillion dollars in the bank and they've still got their whole lives ahead of them to ruin. What are they waiting for? Are we headed for a Britney style train wreck? One can only hope.


Rebuttal:
Really, you are going with that. MK is better because she heading down the Brit Brit track? Strong case there Barb, strong as Mary Kate resisting an all you can eat buffet... wait that is pretty strong. Strong as (enter something not strong).

Rebuttal Rebuttal: "Woah baby!" Enough said.

This wraps up another installment of Point/Counterpoint. Pretty sure this teaches us nothing on who is a better Olsen, ‘til next time!

Point/Counterpoint.

Welcome to our first instalment of Point/Counterpoint. Enjoy!

It's a question for the ages. Something I know I will struggle with days, weeks even years to come. Growing up in a small town in West Virginia I never thought that this sort of question would come into my world and haunt me like the ghost of my Christmas's past. I hope my children never have to ask themselves this question because the answer is too difficult...

Which is better Facebook or Myspace? Because Barb has no original thoughts of her own and can only write on the subject after I have blazed the way. I will take Facebook and Barb can kiss my ass.

Point:

Facebook, first created for college students to chat and meet people from various classes is like the Harvard of social websites, Myspace is basically Cal State East Bay*. First started as a secret society (if you will) because one needed an academic email address to join, no .com or.tv would get a page in the esteemed Facebook only the .edu was your entrance exam. This way the crazies were kept at bay. "OMG, wasn't that test so hard. Mr. Smith sux!" were popular comments on the Facebook "wall". It was a place to vent your frustrations from the day with fellow classmates who understood where you were coming from and could commiserate with you. But the real reason Facebook is better than Myspace... It's not blocked at work.

Counterpoint:

Oh Megan, so simple and so misguided. The very reason what you think makes Myspace inferior is precisely what makes it better! As you stated, Facebook (at least when it started) keeps "the crazies at bay." What good is the Internet if not to talk to/hook up with crazy people?? Myspace offers an outlet for all of us to release our "inner crazies." Rather than just being a forum to complain about lame professors, Myspace is a way for people to truly express themselves. Let out your inner slut! Call someone a douche bag! Add songs to your profile that you would never admit you actually liked! You don't even have to use your real name! Your name can be a lyric from your favorite song (to prove how cool you are) or a line from a poem (to prove how smart you are). Personally, if I am on a social networking site, I want to stay as mysterious as possible. Isn't that the point?

So in summation,

Facebook: LAME!

Myspace: STILL THE SHIZ

Rebuttal:

Wow Barb your rambling incoherence almost passed as a well thought out counterpoint... let's see if I Super Poke you later.

Rebuttal Rebuttal:

Fine, don't Super Poke me. I am sooo posting a bulletin about this.

And there you have it folks! Tune in next week when we take another topic and make it seem important.

xoxo

Meg and Barb

*I ain't here to put down schools or whatever but that is a pretty lame name for a college. Papa Romero did go to Cal State Hayward so I'm not gonna front but once you change the name of a college after the side of the bay I grew up on, well then you lost me my friend.