As we mentioned in our earlier post, Monday: November’s Play, Pass and Trash, there are only two reasons that we tune into to 90210. One, to see Naomi confront her rapist, Mr. Cannon. Two, to see where the Teddy’s gay plot line ends up. Both plots played a big role in this week’s episode and yet at the end of the episode we felt disappointed.
This week’s episode of 90210 was dry despite having juicy and socially relevant plot lines. We never quite connected with Teddy or Naomi’s story even though we were drawn to watch the show because of these characters and the issues they are currently facing. 90210 dealt with both of these story lines in such uninteresting way during this episode. By the end of the episode we began to wonder if we should give up on this series and move it to our permanent pass list.
Naomi Presses Charges against Mr. Cannon:
Naomi was raped by Mr. Cannon during last season’s finale. All year Naomi has been dealing with the emotional issues as a result of her rape. She has been struggling with feelings of shame and guilt and has gone back and forth on whether she should press charges against Mr. Cannon.
During last week’s episode, Mr. Matthews’ learned about the rape and came forward with information that could help bolster Naomi’s case. Mr. Matthews told the police that he saw Naomi and Mr. Cannon in the classroom on the night Naomi was raped. He said he saw Mr. Cannon close the blinds and thought it was odd but did not put two and two together until he heard Naomi’s rape allegations.
Mr. Matthews’ information bolstered Naomi’s case but the cop in charge of her case told her it did not make it air-tight. Naomi was still hesitant to move forward but Mr. Matthews told her that it was a fight worth fighting for and urged her to take on the case. Naomi was encouraged by Mr. Matthew’s words and by her friends, who came down to the precinct to support her, and decided to press charges.
Naomi and Mr. Cannon face off:
Of course, Mr. Cannon did not take well to being charged with rape. He told Naomi she had no evidence, would not win the case and threatened Naomi with a defamation suit.
Read more about Naomi and Mr. Cannon and see what happened between Teddy and Ian during this week’s episode after the jump.
Naomi and Oscar decided to search the internet to see what Mr. Cannon was hiding. In one of the worse product placements of all time Naomi and Oscar used Bing.com to discover the truth. After multiple searches (we bet google could have done it in one), Oscar and Naomi learned the truth.
Naomi and Oscar discovered that Mr. Cannon was wanted for sexually assaults in Dagenham and that his real name is Mr. Douglas Atherton. Naomi and Oscar took the information to the police. The police got an extradition order but it was too late, Mr. Cannon had already fled.
Silver and Ade told Naomi she should be happy he was gone and it was over and while Naomi took solace in that fact, we knew better. We expect to see Mr. Cannon returned at any point this season and fully expect him to seek revenge on Naomi.
Final Thoughts on the Naomi and Mr. Cannon Plot:
The reason this plot did not work for us this week was that there was no real meat in the storyline during the episode.
We fully expected for Mr. Cannon to flip out when he was charged with rape and try to publicly embarrass Naomi, but that didn’t happen. He settled for the creepy threatening whisper approach.
We expected a long yet juicy trial to ensue but it is clear that Mr. Cannon will not be facing a jury anytime soon and even when he does get caught he will end up being extradited to England.
The drama we did get was boring. When Oscar learned that Mr. Cannon was not from Chelsea we expected that he and Naomi would break into the school’s private records or a database or even Mr. Cannon’s house to learn the truth. Instead the kids took the safe and responsible route and used bing. Bing solved the puzzle and that was the end of it.
>Even Mr. Cannon’s flee away from justice was not enticing. Mr. Cannon just left. No police chase, no hostage situation, no creepy note to Naomi saying, “I’ll always remember our special times.” Nothing.
