Prom Wrecker
In this episode, Tori is a heartless monster.
The episode starts with Andre making out with his girlfriend. This is maybe the B-plot or the running joke of the episode or something, I'm not sure yet because I've paused the episode 8 minutes in.
Anyway. Tori says "blah blah blah prom???" and someone else says "no we don't have one of those" so she immediately makes it a divine crusade to throw a prom despite no one really wanting or caring about one. Even Sinjin (the rapist) seems like he's taking a pretty casually averse stance on it.
So she starts up a prom but lo and behold- the only day she can throw it on is the same day that Jade has a big performance planned (at the exact same venue). Jade expresses her feelings to Tori, who blankly refuses to change or allow Jade to do the performance she had planned for weeks.
The prom.. happens, I don't know. They say earlier "But that only gives us five days to prepare!" and yet everyone in the school bought dresses and suits and got tickets and dates already? Is this what wealth is like?
Jade plays some avant garde horror clip montage on a big-screen in the background of the prom as revenge. For a show made for 7 year olds it is fairly uncomfortable to watch. If I was 7 I would be like "holy shit". But that's irrelevant. So after a bit they just like.. turn it off. Tori continues to bully Jade, and Jade continues to mildly inconvenience Tori.
After a bit the antagonist of this episode (Tori) makes a large nearly nude man assault Jade. Then she does an autotuned song and dance written by a 10 year old. That's it. That's the episode.
It's okay. The little mini-plots between Robbie and Cat and Andre and his girlfriend are fun, and the episode is pretty good on a micro minute-by-minute basis. It's just weighted down by the conflict. Jade is reasonably upset, but the episode never opens any channel whatsoever for Tori to feel guilt or empathy- and none of the other characters give their perspective on it either. Especially after the events of Wok Star where we learn Jade is so passionate simply because she wants to impress her father Tori ruining her performance to throw her personal prom feels pretty irredeemable.
Sinjin (the rapist) has some funny lines though. 8/10
Side Notes:
- Beck isn't in this episode again. While I appreciate Beck more than I thought I would, his absence is always hard to notice.
- Jade has her Gears of War bag again. I guess they really want her to have it.
- Ariana Grande does one scene really well (her giving an idea for the theme to the prom). Not anything specific here- I was just surprised.
- This is also the episode where we really see Cat's giraffe for the first time, which she dissociates to in the same way Robbie dissociates into Rex.
- Sinjin (the rapist) has tiny legs. They're like two stilts.
- A fedora makes a return in this episode. I've missed them so.
Why is Tori always a monster???? Do you just hate the actress or something? Also it's not a children's show, it's a Teens show hence why it was on Teen Nick. Also also why assume horrendous behavior by some of the characters, like don't get me wrong Sinjin is a whole new level of weird throughout the show but to consistently call him a rapist because of the one scene from wifi in the sky. Calling out Robbie as schizophrenic everytime something happens with Rex isn't right either, they have plenty of episodes with scenes where Robbie IS a normal teen at the school and doesn't have the dummy. Like don't get me wrong so far I've liked reading your reviews but so far every review you completely shit on Tori and justify every single character being better off without her. I mean according to your reviews it shouldn't even be called Victorious, we should be calling it Tori the heartless Monster.
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