I watched the ep, and I know I promised some commentary to
CKD and
Mystic0, so here goes:
CKD, after watching the Kendall/Bianca scenes I definitely felt she knew what Bianca was talking about. In addition to the points that were already brought up earlier today, one thing in particular struck me: the way Kendall shut Bianca down at the end, the spiel that starts with "Now I want you to drop this." Now, we have seen Kendall arguing with Bianca before, trying to talk her into or out of something or other, occasionally just ordering Bianca to do something, but there was just a quality about this time, a certain rude dismissiveness. Since Kinks became close, Kendall has never spoken to Bianca like that. But it was born of desperation. And I noticed a flash of irritation in Bianca's eyes over it, before she decided to not push Kendall and to just let her believe that Bianca was dropping it. Awww, Binks doesn't like fighting with Kendall. Notice how later in the courtroom Kendall tells Bianca (in her normal nice-to-Bianca way, this time) that she shouldn't be at the trial, Bianca just sidesteps it and asks Kendall how the trial's going.
Mystic0, you really, really weren't kidding about the Door Lean of Flirty Enticement. When I saw that, my reaction was, "DAMN, Bianca's body language is just screaming, 'Jump me!'" Yowza. Did you notice that when Bianca first goes to the door and then turns around, Kendall was moving forward, thinking that Bianca was going to have the door already open? And Bianca's just casually blocking her way, almost, with the look and pose. And then she does open the door and lets Kendall past, does a second Door Lean that's even better than the first (but unfortunately too short), and then moves forward towards Kendall. You were so totally right about the "on a date" vibe that whole bit had. My screen was just smoking when they were standing there doing their farewells, because if that was a non-related couple on a date, that's definitely the moment where they'd then kiss.
I was also amused to see that Bianca took her usual pains to cute herself up for Kendall in the courtroom. Blue looks nearly as good on her as black, and it looks like she's wearing a black top underneath her cute blue jacket. Yum. And good call on the "girlfriend" vibe Eden brought in that scene.
I think Eden's comment about Alicia's eyes just slams the lid on everything we've been saying. Alicia putting the Kinks promo on her site, Eden gushing over Alicia's eyes--Kinks is soooooooo doing it. And Alicia and Eden are soooooo playing up the perviness. Insanely flirty walk to the door, indeed. And man, Eden knows how to bring it, what with the DLoFE. If she had just been dressed in something better, I think Kinks would have become canon, because no way could Kendall have resisted the DLoFE if Bianca had been in something black and lowcut. That said, I was hella pleased with Kendall's googly eyes of love and the way she said "I love you" earlier.
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2deadcows, I did know what I was writing with that "it's gotta be coming" bit. I was wondering if anyone would pick up on it, but on this board, I need not have had any doubts.)
ETA: I actually once did a google search on Kinks, in the hopes someone had created a page for them. (Answer: Not yet.)
I caught that the first time around. It seemed to me that Lena needed to vent. But, Skiffy, in Binky's defense, her mind was elsewhere at the moment.
Remember, Naggie was there. I didn't get the impression that Lena was about to open up, not after her rather disastrous recounting to Maggie of her suicide attempt. There was clearly some pain in Lena's eyes, but she also said it in a reasonably light tone of voice. And, Bianca wasn't thinking about herself, she was thinking about Kendall, who is on trial for her life, after all.
I'm not going to get into a long defense of Bianca, but I do think that she has, with Lena, done her usual thing of worrying about other people more than doing the right thing for herself. I'm not saying she went about it in the right or best way, but she has definitely tried to protect Lena throughout all of this. She's kept secret all the details of Voldemort that would be especially painful to Lena. She didn't let Lena see too much of her in her broken state, knowing how much more that would hurt and guilt Lena. She tried to give Lena her freedom to go find a girlfriend who isn't a mess and can have sex and be in a relationship.
And finally, I seriously doubt Lena's nightmares are as horrific as Bianca's. Bianca gets to relive her rape in her nightmares as well as in her flashbacks when awake. Lena can only imagine what Bianca went through.