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Synopsis:

Snowmaker

Crap! I was so focused on Earl and Office tonight, I forgot about this one.

LorenzoL

Thanks for starting the season opener thread. Looking forward to see how it all develops from the season finale.

LiquidSky

I just finished the season one DVD. Looking forward to the new season.

Snowmaker

Interesting twist with Hilda's dead fiance. I called it before the big reveal.

I thought maybe because Drive got cancelled they wrote him back in.

mdc3000

Well, since I had seen 'Shark' earlier this week, I knew that Santos was a goner. A decent opener overall but man does that fat suit look fake on Amanda!

Snowmaker

Yeah, she's the main reason I tune in. Was sad to see her looking like that.

riley_dude

Thats what I thought but I had read somewhere that Hilda was going to start dating this season so...
Sad though.

Great episode. Full of some good laughs. I knew they were going to try to bring Justin back to Mode because he worked well in that setting.
Interesting twist with Alex at the end too.

Amel

I love this show, but the way they've been ending on the down-notes is getting old. It's 45 minutes of whimsical fun and then wham! - sadness. They did this too much the second half of the 1st season for me.

critterdvd

I really enjoyed this season opener, and I have to say the Santos storyline broke my heart. Since DRIVE was canceled I was sure he was coming back, but at the big reveal I actually teared up a little.

andicus

I wasn't teary... I had something in my eye!

Seriously, though, I was so happy for her and Justin, and then WHAM! I really didn't see it coming, or maybe I didn't want to see it coming.

Other than that, I really enjoyed it. Marc is a riot.

And, not to state the obvious, but this show really has an abundance of hot women! Even if one of them now thinks she's a man. That is indeed a bizarre twist. Although, even if she has lost her memory of being Alexis, she should still have her memories of wanting to be a woman, so maybe it won't be such a big deal to her. Yeah, as if waking up and being the opposite sex than what you're used to wouldn't be a big deal.

Snowmaker

My wife did too.

Something just didn't seem right more and more each time they showed them, never leaving the room. And finally when Hilda was saying "Just one more day. Just one more day.." I knew it wasn't for real.

Jadzia

I started to think something was up about 30 minutes into the show, since they hadn't left the room or talked to anyone else yet. I thought "Wow, that would be really cool if she was just imagining this" but I didn't think this show would do something like that.

Weird that Justin doesn't seem that broken up about his dad, but I guess they had a difficult relationship last season.

jonnyquest

Good point; maybe he shoulda been more broken up, but this was 3weeks later, so perhaps enough time passed to be less broken up. But I thought last season showed great improvement in their relationship. Early in the series, Santos was VERY much put off by Justin's "swishyness", but gradually began to let it go and even began to support/embrace his interests.

andicus

That's what made it all the more sad, particularly at the end of last season when he didn't make it to the performance.

Patman

Wasn't as into this season opening for Ugly Betty, though the opening in Spanish was cute. I had already known about Santos and Hilda (saw Shark last week as well), so the big reveal didn't have the same impact on me. Overall, a clearing of slates for some, and a few more twists to come for the Alex/Daniel dynamic.

movieking

I knew that Santos was a goner as well, but I thought that it was done very well.

Chew

For those who also watch Desperate Housewives:

MrX

I enjoyed it.

Mark and Amanda were great as usual. "Mother, if that's your real name"