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[Ciria]

Tori Goes Platinum
Summary: Tori gets an opportunity to sing at a high-profile music awards show and agrees to a total-image makeover, but after doing so begins to regret it and soon she has doubts.
Air-date: May 19th, 2012

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Make it in America
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I, knowing the history of promos, refuse to watch anymore except the one I saw on television. But, right now, I really like the plot of this and the potential Bori moments. It's not original, but interesting nonetheless.

About the song, eh...Victoria wrote it herself, but I don't really like it.

Thoughts?

[Tara]

I really enjoyed this. I liked the song Make It In America and Victoria sang it very well. I enjoyed the music video too. But I liked the song she sang in the audition more. I think that that style of music suits her better vocally.

Jade's audition was awesome as well and I liked Cat's too. Cat's addiction to bibble was amusing too.

I adored all the Tori/Beck moments. Like how he was one who automatically knew that she wasn't changing my choice. That being said, I like that they didn't kiss. Tori didn't want to kiss her 'friends' ex-boyfriend and that was very mature of her.

I have to say that this was one of the better episodes. One of my new top faves.

[cameddie]

I can't help feeling that they're trying to force the whole Jori thing down our throat.

[sameoldstory]

I really didn't like this episode. Tori felt even more irritatingly OOC than usual. If she was okay with kissing Daniel, the boyfriend of one of her best friends, why wasn't she okay with kissing Beck, the ex boyfriend of someone she's barely friends with? And of course, it inspired Jade to stop cruelly jumping at the chance of a lifetime and instead give the spot to the superior St. Tori. I honestly liked Tori better when she was spraying hot cheese on Cat/Daniel, because she was so much more flawed and human. Her song was pretty mediocre too imo, but of course, it changed the producer's mind.

Also, maybe it's the old, fading Tandre shipper in me, but I have trouble believing that Beck is the only one who would care enough to look into Tori's strange behavior. I no longer care who Tori ends up with, honestly, because I don't find her recent characterization likable at all, but it felt really OOC for Andre.

Cat's subplot made me cringe. I'm really tired of Cat's strange addictions. It was funny when she was addicted to the Skystore products, but now, it's just boring. Can't Dan think of anything better for her to do?

The only thing I really liked was, predictably, the small Cade moment.

[theMidnightRainfall]

Since I'm actually here for once, I figured I might throw my two cents into this conversation.

Hated, hated, hated, hated, hated this episode.

The Bori killed me because it seemed completely out of nowhere. I would really like to know where this sudden romantic interest in Tori came from. Throughout the entire episode, it was just Beck being friends with Tori, Beck helping Tori, while Andre was never around, even though it's been shown time and time again that Tori and Andre are best friends. But I guess the hot guy has to be with somebody, doesn't he?

I just don't get it. You finally have a chance to develop the robot of the series away from his girlfriend (or, ex, I should say) but instead you choose the easy way out and try to turn dynamic characters (which were very well developed in season one) into flat, basic tropes. Beck is now, for all intents and purposes, the hot guy. Robbie's the nerd. Jade's the mean girl. And Tori's the princess who gets whatever she wants and is almost never the bad guy.

The song could have been better. Victoria's voice just didn't shine in this song at all. (If you compare it to Freak the Freak Out, for instance, Make It In America just doesn't seem to have any passion.) But I won't start critiquing her.

Honestly, I don't even remember what Robbie and Andre were doing in this episode.

Cat's bibble problem was probably the only humorous part of the episode. I did enjoy the moment where Jade gave her shot up for Tori, just because it proves that Jade isn't a slimy witch that she keeps getting painted as.

I'm also tired of Cabbie. Little hints keep being placed everywhere, but it's a little too late for me to be interested in them like I was in season one. Robbie is rude to her (and just a tad bit creepy in his interest) and I just don't think their relationship would be very healthy.

You could say that overexposure to Liz has turned me into a Candre shipper.

Anyway, I'll stop here before I start going into a Bade rant (I'm sure that's what you guys were waiting on, right?) because then I'll never shut up.