90210: Sit Down You’re Rocking the Boat

This week’s 90210 was a fun little episode that provided some laughs, some catty fighting and some great escapist television.  It progressed the storylines of the Annie vs Naomi battle as well as the Adrianna/Navid/Teddy love triangle, as well as continuing the aftermath of Silver and Dixon’s break up.  At the start Navid is proclaiming his new mission to be overly nice to the 30-something high school student Teddy to prove he isn’t jealous, as Dixon sets off on a quest to find his “Female Dixon”. 
 
Busy with his news paper duties love triangle Navid loans Dixson his Lamborghini to get pizza where he meets a hot, fun older woman who shares his love of baseball and music.  The two appear to hit it off so, in the great tradition of many classic 90210 plots, Dixon lies about being a high school student and pretends to be an executive in the music business.  The two setup a date for that weekend, but coincidentally both end up on Teddy’s yacht for a party Dixon is invited to and she is DJing before their date. 
 
At the party are a sea-sick Navid, still trying to prove he isn’t jealous, and Adrianna who is busy with Teddy giving Navid a reason to be jealous I in the first place.   To her credit she is for now taking the high road and turning down Teddy’s advances.  I really enjoyed how these scenes played out, with Navid starting to think Teddy isn’t so bad as he gets to know him and Teddy meanwhile making good on the threat Navid thought he imagined.
 
Also on board the yacht are Naomi, Annie and Liam continuing their (now played out) drama and throwing poor Silver in the middle of it.  I must say I am starting to like Annie this year, she is going back and fourth between being a victim and the aggressor in tormenting the irrational Naomi.  It is far more interesting than her dull, aw-shucks girl-next-door personae from last year.  Liam is still the one completely to blame for this for A) sleeping with Naomi’s sister and B) not coming clean about it when Naomi incorrectly blames Annie for her sister’s trespasses.  These scenes took on a great soapy ridiculousness as Annie first gets the boy from the sexting to prove Naomi sent it out to Silver.  However, after clearing her good name Annie goes strictly on the offensive by lying to Naomi that she’s been sleeping with Liam since they got together as Liam stands there looking dumb and pretty.  The cliff-hanger to this is Liam breaking into some basement and looking at blueprints, I can’t imagine what his plan is now.
 
 
 The only other really interesting development is whether or not Kelly Taylor is going to try and steal Principal Harry Wilson away from Aunt Becky.  It will be really interesting to see where they are going with this plot in the future, but my guess is that it could just be a red herring plot that won’t go anywhere because the Wilson’s just don’t feel like a couple headed for affairs and divorce to me.  Yeah, and also I’m just waiting for Naomi’s sister to be revealed as the one who stole her boy away, my real hope is that once this happens Naomi kicks her out of the house and over to Melrose Place because train-wreck could use somebody as coldhearted as her.