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Degrassi: The Next Generation 6.9 - "What’s It Feel Like To Be a Ghost? Pt. 1"
Wednesday, January 10th, 2007 at 2:00 PM - by Carly Milne
"What's It Feel Like To Be a Ghost? Pt. 1"
Airdate: Friday, January 5th
Cut to Spinner, Marco, Dylan, Jimmy and Ellie listening to Craig sing songs and play guitar while Manny sits in the corner looking at her watch, wondering when she's going to get time with her man. I have news for you, Manny: when your man is a musician, there's only time for one person in his life. Himself. (Not that I know anything about this... I'm just speculating. Ahem.)
"We were supposed to run lines last night � I forgot," the familiar voice says again, and Manny allows him an excuse, which goes to show it's easy for her to be a hard-ass with Emma and her man problems, but when Craig comes to town, it's mushville. After running a couple lines she allows him to pay for her cab to her audition.
Plotline two!: Mia's daughter is ill, she can't finish a school project... what's a girl to do? Ask JT to babysit! Too bad Liberty just watched the whole exchange...
Meanwhile, Craig bursts into Ellie and Marco's place and tells them how Manny nailed her audition for some serial of some sort, which � naturally � Ellie bags on. "An earnest teen drama with woefully bad writing," she snarks as Marco talks her into knocking off the verbal backhanding to go upstairs and watch Saved By The Bell... which, if memory serves, is hardly superior programming in its own right. Craig continues to talk Manny's performance up, to which she admits she could recreate it so she could feel the buzz again. "Man, I love that buzz," he tells her, waxing poetic about his desires to connect with the audience listening to him. Pay attention, kids � this whole metaphor will come in handy later when Craig and Manny aren't kissy-facing.
The second!: Mia shows up at The Dot for her hot thanks-for-taking-care-of-my-daughter date with JT, only to be met by Liberty... who feels the need to dish about her own instance of JT-induced motherhood. Naturally, she splits. Naturally, JT hunts her down at her place. Mia basically tells him to take a hike. Still, my money is on JT to make it work somehow.
Manny, along with Emma and Shawn, shows up at the club Craig is playing his gig at nattering on about how excited he must be and all that jazz. I could recount how Manny is going on and on about how she and Craig connect and understand one another so well, but that would take attention away form Shawn's biceps.
Mmmmm... Shawn's biceps...
Oh, sorry. Of course Ellie and that whole crew are there, causing Manny a momentary bout with snappishness until she decides, "Tonight, nobody can bring me down." She heads to the back to see Craig before the gig. Opening the door, she sees Craig hunched over a table. He whips around and says he's happy to see her, but Manny's eyes are focused on something else... the drug paraphernalia sitting on the table he was just crouching over. It seems Craig has taken up skiing since he last saw Manny, if you catch my (snow ) drift.
Craig plays his gig. Manny's brain is elsewhere, obviously. As he finishes up he gets sucked into some Ellie adulation, causing Manny to start fleeing. Craig grabs her. "It was so great that you came back stage, and I don't want you to think for a second that I do that," he tells her. Uh... huh. Manny tells him she has spirit squad in the morning and has to go.
Deux!: The next day at school, JT accosts Mia and tries to make things right, then tells her he's going to pitch a daycare at the student council meeting.
Meanwhile, Manny fills Emma in on what's going on:
Manny: Craig? Is not the same.
Emma: He seems like the same old rock star, just a little more sure of himself.
Manny: Yeah, that's the problem.
They back and forth a bit until Emma delivers the line of the episode: "You want the guy, take the flaws... see Cameron comma Shawn." Manny keeps beating around the bush, so Emma keeps giving her the pat answers she wants to hear... but that doesn't stop her from going around Ellie's to talk to Craig. She asks him why he's doing... you know, the skiing thing, and he tells her it's a confidence booster when he's nervous. Um. Isn't Craig already on some prescribed confidence boosters? Anyway, Manny accepts his BS and tells him she didn't get the part, so Craig invites her for a dinner party Ellie is throwing... which sounds to me like the bad idea to end all bad ideas.
Dos!: JT pitches the daycare, Liberty shoots him down, the sky continues to be blue.
At Ellie's dinner party, everyone is talking all smarty smart, leaving Manny in the dust. After a sparring match with Ellie, Manny makes a move to leave until Craig tracks her down to convince her to stay. "I think I just need a little boost," she says. "Where is it?" Craig tells her no. Manny insists it'll help. Craig relents. Cut to the two of them sitting at the dinner table talking a mile a minute, giggling like retards. And the plot thickens...
Two steps back!: JT confronts Liberty about trying to hold him down because he's happy and she's miserable. Score one for JT!
Ellie, carrying two coffee cups, runs into Manny running down the stairs. "I'm late," she says on her way out the door. "And so much less chatty than you were last night � shocking," Ellie says to herself. Craig sits up in bed and grabs a Kleenex to blow his nose as Ellie offers him coffee. She looks at a mirror laying on a table next to the door. "Is this... what is this?" Craig looks at her blankly as she picks up a baggie. Realization dawns on his face. "El, I don't know how this happened," he says softly. Ellie wants to know what the hell he's talking about. He looks at her doe eyed. "I never thought it would get bad so fast." "Craig, are you doing coke?" she asks. Craig takes a breath. "Manny is."
Ouch. Demerits for throwing your girlfriend under the bus, buddy. Tune in next week when Craig utters that typical line: "I'm not an addict! I can stop whenever I want!"
iTunes Links
Degrassi: The Next Generation - Series
Degrassi: The Next Generation - Season 6
"What's It Feel Like To Be a Ghost? Pt. 1"
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