Episode Report Card Maggie: D | 1144 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Sophomoric
By Maggie | Season 2 | Episode 1 | Aired on 1999.09.26
Then we get the opening credits with the same unintelligible and somewhat tuneless "low-dee-doe-dah" singing soundtrack with some new pictures of the cast. Keri Russell is still shown with long hair which makes me wonder if that will change in a few episodes when she gets her hair cut on the show. Scott Speedman still looks pretty crushworthy, even in the profile shot. The first time we see Amy Jo Johnson it is with her damnable guitar! I was waiting for it to get a credit too. Next is the fabulous Tangi Miller with super awesome and practically waist-length braids. Her hair does deserve a credit. I just get the feeling that she is going to kick ass and take names this season. Greg Grunberg and Amanda Foreman are featured in the opening, which I guess augurs that they both are going to get bigger and better story lines this year. Last and least, is Scott Foley, in an extreme nostril-cam shot. Before anyone sends me a snotty note telling me that the name of his character is Noel, don't, because I know that. However, none of the characters on the show seem to know it because they persist in pronouncing his name Knoll, with just one syllable. Don't try to stop me because I've been doing it since the beginning of last season. But I have to ask, um, where is Ian Gomez's credit? Let the season begin.
Okay, the next scene begins with Felicity sitting in the half-light, on the end of an unmade bed, taping a letter to Sally. We know this because she says, "Dear Sally," and proceeds to demonstrate that her new bed squeaks while telling her that it is weird to be back "for a million reasons, the first of which is my new roommate." Then there are a bunch of establishing shots showing the street outside of the dorm, and a different taxi driver taking Felicity's bags out of the trunk, while she tells Sally that when she first got back all she could think about "was Ben and Knoll and what it was going to be like to see them again." She goes on to talk about facing the "consequences of what I did last year," and how chaotic everything is while she is shown coming into the building. As she walks off the elevator in the dorm, in the voice-over she is telling Sally that she is comforted by the thought of being an R.A. this year which means that she is getting a single room. When she gets to the designated meeting spot, the only person there is a perky young woman who introduces herself as "Nancy, fourth floor advisor"; she tells Felicity that she has missed the meeting. Felicity starts muttering about her flight from San Francisco being late and she asks Nancy for the "Cliff's Notes version" of the meeting. Nancy informs her in a sort of Valley-girl voice that during the summer "they found out that Slater Hall had asbestos in it, like, more asbestos than oxygen," so as a result, people in single rooms have to double up and the people in double rooms have to "triple up," and it is a "disaster." Felicity states rather plaintively that she is supposed to have a single room and Nancy says, "that's what everyone was saying at the meeting." Felicity stares at her in disbelief.