Joan of Arcadia 3/4, Or Joan is Framed!

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From what I can tell, Goth God eggs Price’s car, and Joan, while picking up the mess, is caught by Price, who assumes she egged his car, and sentences her to community service. There’s something about Lily too.

See you at 9pm!

Well, Goth God didn’t egg the car – he did egg on Joan, though. :smiley:

One question – at the very end, when

Grace led what’shisface, Joan’s brother who isn’t Kevin, into the restaurant, blindfolded

what was that about?

Friendman and Glynis won a science contest over Luke (Joans Brother) despite the fact that Lukes project was a far more important discovery. One of the prizes was dinner at that restaurant. After Luke’s enlightenment (it isn’t about the glory, it’s about the work - I think), Grace took him there.

I enjoyed this episode very much. More so than the last few weeks. There seemed to be a little more depth to this one. It may just have resonated with me more than the last few though…I guess that’s a possibliity.

sorry, that should be Friedman

Ah, okay. I realized that that was the restaurant, but I thought there was something more to it – that someone was there or something. Thanks.

I also thought is was a pretty good episode – but I find Joan so freakin’ annoying when she acts like, you know, a teenage girl who talks to God. :smiley:

I might have been hallucinating, but I don’t think I was…

At the very end, did Joan’s boyfriend

call her JANE??? :confused:

Merhouse

Someone can correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe that after Joan spent her summer at ‘Camp’ she asked Adam to call her Jane as sort of a fresh start thing.

Best episode in a while, I think. Being Duff-free probably helped.

I like the fact that Joan never really learned all the postive things her unjust punishment set into motion. I am, however, becoming increasingly worried about her and Adam. :frowning: However, I was glad to see Kevin and Lilly hook up

BTW, Adam has always called her Jane, since they met. At first it was not intentional, but it became his pet name for her.

Thanks folks… I guess I wasn’t hallucinating after all.

Here’s where I admit that I’ve seen almost every episode of the show. Accordingly, I conclude my ability to concentrate on details like names needs a little help :smack:

I loved this episode. The last scene was particularly well done. It summed up the whole theme of the episode – that our actions impact others everyday in ways we may never realize – in a very moving way.

I think endings have become the show’s forte as of late. I’ll watch half an episode and not really get into the show until then.

This one came together nicely, especially in the last few minutes. Things got set in motion quite well, and Joan may never know that she had something to do with it.

I do think Joan overreacted when she saw Adam on the street. No wonder he needed a night to himself. I wouldn’t like it if someone else had to know where I was every minute of the day.
However, I was a bit concerned that he might fall for Bonnie once he got a look at her mural. It could still happen.

Of all the Gods, I dig Goth God the most. :slight_smile:

Maybe I was reading to much into it, but there seemed to be a lot of weird energy (I hesitate to call it sexual tension) between Bonnie and Adam. And didn’t she say earlier in the ep to Joan that she already knew who she was. Maybe she’s been carrying a torch for Adam?

I’m worried two-fold. 1)I don’t want Adam and Joan to break up and 2)Introducing a third party into their relationship (Iris, Roger, Stevie) is getting a little old.

Did anyone catch that the kids were playing rock-paper-scissors as Joan and Adam walked down the school steps, discussing the trip to Rhode Island?

Price is an ass. I liked how Joan looked so uncomfortable when Lily was dissing Homeless God.

The interaction between Kevin and Lily during the fender-bender was great. Those two have definite chemistry. But I realized during this episode that the actor who plays Lily must be a tiny little thing. She was shorter than Amber!

No police story this time.

I loved Luke and the scene with the vampire teeth. That was classic.

I do agree that the tone of this show was more subtle than of late. Actions have consequences, and you may never know what those consequences are, or make the connection. I liked how Joan is trusting God more, that she’s content (after a bit) to do what He tells her to do and that it will turn out okay.

I missed most of this episode, only tuning in when Lilly and Joan were arguing at the shelter.

It does seem that my prediction after the concert episode was correct. Now that the subject of IT has been let out of the bag, it is going to keep, ah, coming up. Joan and Adam are going to have to resolve it one way or another.

Also, nice to see Austin Pendelton, an actor I’ve always liked, as the once-bright-young-thing-now-old-has-been physicist.

Curiously, after JOA last night, I turned to the History Channel and saw a brief clip of physicist Phillip Morrison, one of the last surviving members of the Manhatten Project. I was struck by the resemblance.

I was just very “meh” on this whole episode, but I did like Homeless Guy God, and I liked Kevin and Lily getting together.

I loved it. Wonderful episode. Great scene with Joan talking to Lily about God with Him standing right there. That conversation was about faith — Joan saying that Lily should have some. And then God at the end telling Joan that so should she. And I think she did. Really beautiful.

I liked the episode in general, but I have to say that it’s damned annoying to see everyone AROUND Joan growing as a person while she most definitely does not. For all the assignments for God she’s done, she still shows a remarkable lack of insight and a petty, self-centered streak. I know she’s a teenage girl, but she’s a teenage girl that TALKS TO GOD and does his laundry. You’d think a year and a half of that would give her a bit more depth.

I dunno, RikWriter, I was thinking about that last night – in some ways it seems so perfect that this young woman has been, knowingly, talking with God for a year and a half – and yet she’s a typical self-absorbed teenager. I like that she hasn’t turned into a saint – and when she tries to be, as she did last night with the smoking thing, etc., she totally effs it up. (“He thinks I’m a narc!”)

She doesn’t have to be a saint to show a little depth…a little more UNDERSTANDING. After all the people with whom she’s dealt, you’d just think she would be able to read people better.