TREACLE! OUR FANDOMS HAVE COLLIDED!

[blamebrampton]

It is quite probable that only treacle_tartlet  will understand why this made me bark with laughter.

Kat: Think of it as Defence of the Hip-Hop arts! You're Hermione.
Sammy: Why am I Hermione? Why not Harry?! Okay … at least Ron …

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[shu-shu-sleeps.livejournal.com]

Haven't seen it all, and seem to have missed a few key episodes (Ethan and Tara breaking up, what happened to Abby after she collapsed in the exam, what's the deal with Ethan and choreography, Tara's accident) but what I've seen has been kind of fun :) The female teacher just reminds me of a younger Cornelia Francis and none of the teachers are anything like any ballet teacher I ever had.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Well ...

Christian asked Tara why she was going out with Ethan, and then made a move to kiss her. Tara ducked out of it, but later found herself inches away from his lips and was unable to help herself. Petra, the convenient German exchange student, caught a photo of the kiss.

When Natasha and Mr Karamakov stayed in Europe rather than come back for Kat's birthday, Kat took matters into her own hands and held a party at her harbourside home, and invited everyone.

Tara was trapped behind at private classes with Miss Rein, trying to get her fouette turns right. Kat was desperate to talk with her, and in her absence, turned to alcohol. Her sleazy boyfriend whose name I never bothered to learn took her upstairs and began to force his attentions onto her, which she rebuffed.

Sleazy kept going, until hauled off by Christian, who had come up to check on Kat -- worried that she was wasted, and sent packing.

Meanwhile, Abi and Sammy were dancing downstairs with Petra -- who had been drinking jelly shots. She asked Abi to take a photo of her and Sammy, and when Abi went to do so, she noticed that the previous shot was Tara and Christian, and was unable to resist an evil impulse to send a copy of the image to Kat.

Tara finally arrived at the party, in time to see Christian comforting Kat, who went the snog. She reacted badly to this, which might have escaped notice had she not been standing with Ethan at the time and had not Christian spotted her in wide-mouthed horror before she fled.

Christian ran outside just in time to get in a fight with Kat's horrible boyfriend. Meanwhile, Kat pulled out her phone to call Tara and found the photo, alas, Ethan was standing beside her. Which is how they all ended up on detention and with a broken up Tara and Ethan.

I think this may require two comment replies ...

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

After Abi collapsed, she was forced to stay home and rest, then put on a diet with the nutritionist to make sure she took in enough calories, and sent to a therapist to talk about her control issues. Her friendship with Sammy bloomed as he helped her through recovery.

Ethan's father, whose name may be Sergei Karamakov, is a famous choreographer who travels the world shouting at people, from what I can gather.

Tara's accident occured after she and Christian had an afternoon off and went to Clifton Gardens together, where they started off playing beach cricket and ended up snogging wildly. They were on the late ferry back, and ran in time to get back for their gala performances, not knowing the performances had been brought forward and thus they had already missed their chance.

Just as they made it to the wharves, Tara missed her footing on a step and fell. Now I must say that having had both one of the injuries she sustained and several of the types of accidents she did it in: I call bullshit. She could have dislocated her patella falling that way, but there is no way she could have broken her femur.

Also, when Christian carries her into the school, she has her knee bent sharply at first, then out straight later. When someone changes the position of your knee while you have a dislocated patella, you both scream a lot and cause them physical pain, as an orthopaedic specialist in Royal Sussex County Hospital can attest, having worn my other pointe shoe in his ribs.

And Miss Rein is Tara Morice! I had no idea! (Their little Russian character teacher is exactly like one of mine -- it's spooky!)

I recognise that my encyclopaedic knowledge of this show is tragic, but comfort myself in the certainty I will forget it soon enough ;-)

[shu-shu-sleeps.livejournal.com]

Thank you for catching me up - but frankly, Ethan is the better catch (well duh, blond for a start). And I so totally would not have recognised Tara Morice..... my ballet related accidents were much less exciting, overuse injuries because (to quote Ronald Quirk) while the perfect dancer's body is a freak of nature, I am soooo beautifully normal :) But I nearly spit tea out all over the keyboard reading about your adventures with a dislocated patella.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

And he's so pointy and smiley!

I did not recognise her, either, but as it turns out she is several years older than I thought. And that poor doctor ... it was involuntary! He took it very well and said he would remember to remove patients' shoes in future.