The Secret Circle: Stranger Danger!

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Welcome back to The Secret Circle! I hope you have decided to join. I had to create some rules, though so here they are:

1. The first rule of the Secret Circle is that you don’t talk about The Secret Circle
2. The second rule of the Secret Circle, is that you don’t talk about the Secret Circle

I mean, if we talked about it, it wouldn’t be secret. We’d have to call it the Hey Everyone Why Don’t You Join Us Circle or something. Then everyone would want to get involved because, you know, it’s called the HEWDYJU Circle and there would people lots of people complaining about false advertisement if we tried to insist the circle isn’t really for everyone.

So, I’m sure you understand the need for discretion. Unfortunately, there are always people like Faye who want the whole world to know she can do things like start hurricanes and accidentally break people’s necks.

…aaand now for the recap!

Episode 3: Loner

Recap:
Cassie has decided she did her part by getting everyone to bind the circle but now that it’s done she sees no reason to be buds with Diana and her troop. Faye is pissed because she can no longer open her locker without having to resort to crazy tactics like using the combination. So, of course she’s blaming Cassie for her lot in life. Apparently, now that the circle is bound they need to have at least 2 people around to do any kind of magic. This makes Cassie happy until some weird dude accosts her outside the Boathouse and starts flipping out because Cassie’s mom promised never to return to Chance Harbor.

This is the point where I would politely say something like, “Hey dude, in case you haven’t noticed, I’m not my mom so GTFO.”   Or I would do something to grab someone’s attention like yelling STRANGER DANGER at the top of my lungs. I certainly wouldn’t just stand there and let him freak out on me and try to choke me.

In the meantime, there’s a school dance to be attended! A regular Joe of the non-wiccan variety wants to go with Cassie. I am not sure why she doesn’t say yes right away, but he’s hot so eventually she agrees, but only if they meet there. And this regular guy is WAY hotter than the kind of sort of lanky emo Adam.  Don’t get me wrong, Adam is attractive, but the regular Joe is the kind of guy who would make me pant just watching him walk down the hall. I don’t know what Cassie’s hang-up is.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Melissa is totes over the whole FWB thing with Nick, especially since they aren’t really friends. She wants him to go to the dance and he flips out.  Diana notices Gale Harold and Principal Mom hang out a lot together (it takes lots of time to dispose of bodies, js) and he makes up some random excuse that they are dating. YAY!  Diana is SO HAPPY!

If there was even the slightest chance I had to be Faye’s sister and live in the same house with her, I’d file for emancipation.

The aforementioned Weird Dude flips out on Gale Harold about the whole witch thing. He hated what it did to Cassie’s mom (they were friends) and she just seemed to slip away and blah blah bad things happened blah.  He doesn’t want these awful things happening to people ever again, so of course the ONLY solution is 1st degree murder.

Just to reiterate, he is against violence in Chance Harbor, but he’s totally okay with murdering a teenager who has absolutely nothing to do with what their parents did years before.

The kids in the circle all leave the dance at the same time so no one will notice they are gone. Weird Dude is stalking Cassie through the halls of the school so he can kill her, while everyone else sneaks into the principal’s office so they can go through the student records from when Weird Dude, Amelia, Principal Mom and Gale Harold were all in high school.  They even had ALL of those records easily accessible on the computer! They didn’t have to use the microfiche machine or anything. It’s all so convenient, otherwise they couldn’t have figured out Weird Dude’s plan in time to save Cassie from certain death. Which they do. And everyone lives happily ever after

My Take:
As much as I make fun of the show, it’s actually really good. There’s enough hot guys to keep me interested, even though it kind of makes me feeling like a creeper, and there are enough questions and mysteries unraveling to keep me tuning in the next week. Of course, I have big questions about what the heck these kids did and what it is they are trying to make happen with the young’uns doing magic. I’m also curious how they plan to keep it going after the season, which I’m pretty sure there will be another season. Kevin Williamson isn’t an idiot. He knows how to keep a tv show going, even when it’s past it’s prime *cough*DawsonsCreek*cough*

So, catch up while you can and tune in again for the next episode recap!