Someone at MTV must be insanely eager to get this season of Laguna done with already to have randomly shown two new episodes back-to-back just one week before the season finale. This season may have been significantly more contrived and frustratingly less absorbing than Season Two, but come on, you can’t just get all hasty on us at the very end of the season like this. The road trip to Open Air Stereo’s life-changing (that is, for the band members themselves, not the aurally offended people who had to hear them) concert, thanks to some extensive producer-arranged circumstances, brought together nearly the entire cast (Rocky stayed back in Laguna to nurse her recently healed relationship with Alex) to celebrate the season’s imminent end and, well, really bad music.
Lexie’s father took the entire anti-Tessa block out on his comfy boat, where the reflective girls discussed the careless dating habits of Tessa and Breanna’s status with Derek with whom she claimed not to be involved. The subsequent Cami-Kyndra-Breanna in-car performance of “Barbie Girl” may just rank up there with the prom limo “Goodbye to You” belting of Season One and the “Toxic” sing-along of Season Two and certainly outranks the horrid performance of Open Air Stereo. As Chase jumped around the stage, exuding his pseudo-grunginess, Tessa had some one-on-one time with Derek just inches away from a prowling (though she’d never admit it) Breanna.
Communally boasting about what they believed to have been a stellar performance, Open Air Stereo soon gathered around Chase waiting for the call. Yes, that’s right: The Call. In a scene that felt like ‘The Ashlee Simpson Show’ (minus the perfection), the boys took in the news that they’d be signing with Epic Records. The entire situation reeked of some obvious suspicions and those to whom Chase and Kelan told the news gave extremely casual responses that seemed illegitimate (Tessa went on seconds later to discuss her denouncement of the opposite sex).
Rocky and Alex had a couple of their typical dinners where every other word is happy or unhappy and we never actually see food ingested. Rocky stuck up for Tessa when Alex asked her about the whole Derek thing (Cami totally wouldn’t have done that for Kyndra, but that’s what makes her so amazing), yet it felt like Alex was the one who was actually interested in maintaining the relationship. Alex was strangely excited about getting back together with Rocky, while all Rocky could talk about was how she missed being friends with Breanna. Can anyone say poignant best friend reunion season finale? And, no, that does not refer to Jessica and Kristin. Though I’m quite sure we all wish it did.
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