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a) I put a Luke Kirby photo next to the extra. You're not crazy, he does look like Luke Kirby. b) both Kathleen Robertson and Luke Kirby were born in Hamilton, Ontario. Sure, she's five years older, and Hamilton has a population of, like, half a million people... but why should logic get in the way of anything? Clearly they were besties. c) In some photos from Lost and Delirious (2001) he looks thinner, sometimes he looks puffy. Who's to say he wasn't a bit rounder in high school? d) Hey, I finally learned the name of the actor who was the cute guy in Take This Waltz!

I don't know if it's just that (as Tara once said...) "In my heart, it is always the 90s", but I ... still like the floral-ish (like... don't go Laura Ashley on me or anything) maxi-dress and combat boots.... But perhaps something is REALLY wrong with me, because I ... kinda like Dylan in that "Canadian tuxedo". Well, as long as it is in stills. I imagine rewatching him and his "O woe! I miss my Moneyz!" would ruin it for me. But livin' rough Dylan ... sort of? ... makes all those wrinkles make some sense. Since unlike Luke Perry, Dylan never worked on road crews, sleeping on the beach explains the extreme wrinklage. Some. VAL! While I'm sad about the end of the ShanDo years, I like a lot about Val. Revisiting this I'm thinking it's not necessarily that ShanDo left, not that Val is what replaced her, but that no-one else left. (Brandon? Move to DC and spread your "wisdom" among multiple task forces and think tanks? David? Go on tour with Babyface forever.)

... I think that the first year of college has some occasionally decent Kelly ... or rather, some Kelly that isn't yet awful Saint Kelly. Saint Kelly arrives with the double whammy of dating Brandon and hating Valerie. I wish Donna more often got to play the role of telling everyone how stuff is done. The awful Walshes were meant to be the down-to-earth folk in this 90210 universe, but on those rare occasions that we get to see Donna play that role I think it's what she should have been all along. Less ... "stuff" ... more eyerolls at everyone else's idiocy.

CONFIRMED: Dylan goes from "I don't wanna go to college" to "I wanna go to Berkeley!". Also, he goes from "I've read all these books because I'm mad, bad and dangerous to know" to "I'm gonna write my own book because I'm mad, bad and dangerous to know". Re: an earlier poster's query on Donna's birthday.... Maybe she was relieved when we didn't notice them all doing Junior year for the second time. Because that really was the second time. Or third time. Or forty-third time. Hell, Donna voted for JFK okay?

My favourite is Nikki, but Jordan is probably a close second. Nikki was cool enough that she actually managed to rise above the fact that she was dating Brandon. Because... she's adorable. But Jordan is aces, and should have been in the whole season following Brandon around telling him when he was being a jackass. Or, you know Brandon Bray followed by cut to Jordan, eyes narrowed, I ain't got time for this shit look on face.

Oh yeah... So much a thing during exactly the right time in my life that I still have great affection for it. AND I can't throw out my cherry eight-ups because.... just because. In case someone has a 1993-themed fancy dress party? WAIT! I SHOULD HAVE THAT PARTY!

I think Nikki was probably my favourite 90210 character ever... Possibly because they avoided giving her "....stuff". Somehow the character even survived her later choice of boyfriend and remained cool.

I don't think it will take 30 episodes... I'm guessing that the appearance of Brenda's fake French accent will do the trick. And David's music "career". And Brandon Bran-splaining racism to racist Brooke. Without even going into the destruction of Kelly and Dylan. So... the summer episodes should do the trick.

a) This is fantastic. True dedication. b) I kinda love that Steve actually got the most votes along the way in season one. I feel like he's the character that changed the least over the series, but somehow became the most likeable by the end, when I actually couldn't stand him in the early days. c) Apparently the season one loser is actually the entire Walsh family - which makes the season one winner Minnesota, for getting rid of them. (And, especially, for escaping their threatened return at the end of Season one. Phew!)

Oh, I'm voting for the belt buckle. I had one of those belts and you could do a lot of damage with one of those. That said, Brandon's gum chewing always drove me crazy. I didn't even bother to make fun of it the way I did his "eyebrows of seriousness" that come to such prominence in the college years.

I'm kind of simultaneously horrified by the bridesmaid dresses and also think they're totally cute. Yeah, confusing. And I'm glad that Dave noted that, indeed, the next wedding is Andrea's. "Much like The Wire...." Foreshadowing! I guess you could read Dylan's pissy treatment of Jake (Jake: "Kelly! It's not going to be so easy to drop out of your life! At least... not until you come hang at Melrose Place. For ONE episode. But I'm heartbroken, really! I gotta stop painting houses with cute girls in them and become a bartender! Because I won't meet dangerous women in a bar!") as foreshadowing his attraction to Kelly?? The first time around I didn't really get to hate Kelly until Val arrived on the scene and she was just so superior about it all. Probably because that was also when Kelly really got paired with Brandon. KISS OF DEATH.

Even as I love Brenda's Day-One-in-Mexico outfit I'm kinda a massive fan of the red stripes outfit. But this is the lifelong allegiance I, as another dark brunette with pale skin, I have pledged to Red. That said, I can kinda recreate the other outfit so I should get onto that. Also, I remember watching Melrose with my mother in my early teens. Mum thought Grant Show was a very pretty man, though she was most amused by Andrew Shue. This was the first time I remember my mother crushing on famous men. Milestone? Oh smiley Dylan. Oy. Summer of deception, coming our way. And I for one can't wait... STAY OUT OF IT BRANDON.

Those raisin people have an excellent sense of humour. OFFICIAL FRUIT for the win. (I don't like raisins on their own. I accept them as an ingredient in certain dishes.) Also, seconding the birthday wishes to Tara. In your "honour" I conquered the world in a game of Civilization 4 (remember that game? ask your parents) when I should have been working on my thesis. While listening to Again with This. #ÜberNerdingout.

I know that Donna's hot pants are the famous outfit from this episode, but I have always remembered and appreciated Kelly's floral dress and over the shoulder bag. Who would have thought, when this show started, that Kelly Taylor would be the one to wear the most Angela Chase-like outfit? (granted, that would take the prescience to pre-imaged MSCL.) I mean, dye her hair not-red-it's-crimson-glow and your three-quarters of the way there. (Granted, that floral is very Sharon Chersky.) And, even with the scrunch socks, I think it's a cute outfit.

...I've been lurking too long and must join the fray. Especially in time for the Color Me Badd-orama + short-shorts-extravaganza! Hi everyone! Though of course the 2-days-you-have-PTSD! diagnosis is suspect, I do appreciate that this show brings in PTSD via this kind of experience, as television almost invariably associates it with soldiers. From my reading (not an expert!) my understanding is that large groups of sufferers come from survivors of sexual assaults and violent crime. Also, Shannon Doherty nailed it. And I thought it was nice that Andrea knew that Brenda wasn't doing so well (Rap Line! We obliquely see you again!), even if psychiatric stories are always way over-simplified on television. And Donna? Wanting to have more problems? Just you wait... Your drastically morphing look in the coming years might be indicative of some... "stuff". Though I like the idea of Felice putting the kibosh on psychiatry sessions, and imagine that having to come up with a "real problem" for Felice would be terrifying. "Mum... I'm kinda repressing all my problems out of fear of your judgement." I'm surprisingly neutral on the green-on-Brenda question (though... I'd still wear that top myself) though I LOVE the upcoming version of that look in red. (And this as someone with very similar colouring to SD, who has recently shifted allegiances from red to green in my own wardrobe after a lifetime of buying everything in red. ... now I'm buying in multiple colours.)