Joining Jericho as a show that’ll be able to air its season in its entirety come the new year, whether or not the strike is resolved is Kyle XY.

The second half of the second season of Kyle XY (10 episodes) was completely written and filmed before the writer’s strike began, according to TVGuide.com.

So Kyle and Jessi return Jan. 14 to ABC Family.

Truth be told, I’d wondered when it was going to return, long before the strike happened. I’d hoped that all the episodes were in the can, but wasn’t sure.

It’ll be on at 8 p.m. Mondays, as it was the first half of the season.

NOTE: This entry originally was posted Oct. 14 on our temporary site.

Wednesday’s episode of Bionic Woman was a vast improvement over the week before. I read somewhere that originally the second episode was two separate eps merged into one and it all made a lot more sense that way, actually. It seemed pieced together and like a lot was missing, as I said at the time. The whole attack on Paradise and the resolution seemed so rushed it wasn’t even funny. Now that I know it was supposed to be its own episode, I feel a bit better.

But then again, why did they combine the two eps into one? Was it to get Jaime doing Bionic-y things sooner rather than later?

Anyway, the show redeemed itself a bit last week, I thought. Lots of Sarah Corvus and some show mythology — as we thought, Sarah’s bionics are older and therefore not as advanced as Jaime’s. Jaime can heal faster, and it seems maybe can save Sarah’s life. I can’t say that I blame Jaime for not being willing to go along with Sarah to Will’s dad, but I don’t know why she thinks she can trust Jonas & Co. They haven’t given her much reason to yet.

Love the idea that she can shut off the remote trace at will. Of course, it does takes its toll on her and her nosebleed is a dead giveaway if you know what you’re looking for. How many times can she do that before it causes real damage to her, though?

Jaime is still only just realizing the very edge of her abilities, and I think Jonas, Jae and Molly are as well. And I think they would do well to be frightened.

And as throwaway as it was, the subplot of Jaime basically babysitting the spoiled rich girl was fun. First off, the actress is the girl who plays Andy in Kyle XY, so I like her work. She played the annoying teen quite well. But the psychological testing that Molly put her through plus the “shut up”s she got from Sarah really put her through the ringer — never mind having been targeted for death by the Serbians. Seeing Jaime and Sarah kick some bad guy butt knocked some sense into her. (And was fun for us, watching, too!)

Looking forward to this week; I think things are starting to pick up.

Wow. A big day of Kyle XY news, and the show’s not even on the air right now. TVGuide.com has just reported that ABC Family has ordered a Season 3 of the show.

The network said:

ABC Family has ordered Season 3 of the original drama Kyle XY, a series that has become the network’s signature show, from ABC Studios. Ten episodes have been ordered. A start date has not been determined yet as the show is currently in production on the back 10 episodes of Season 2.

Just as Adam Baylin is Kyle XY’s genetic father, Jessi XX has a genetic mother. I say genetic, because Adam isn’t really Kyle’s biological father, as he donated his genetic material, not just his, ahem, seed.

Don’t forget, either, that whoever Jessi’s genetic mother is would be Adam Baylin’s lady love, so that means she is still alive.

Jessi’s g-mom has been cast, according to Michael Ausiello of TVGuide.com — she’s Ally Sheedy.

I’m not exactly sure how to react to this. Sheedy can be a little uneven, but she also can be quite good. Here’s hoping she’s more of the latter.

There we all were, “Kyle XY� fans trying to enjoy the second-season finale (Part 1), the contents of which my coworker Amy Vernon blogged about yesterday, when we were distracted the whole time by an annoying “bug� about “Lincoln Heights.� Say what? A dadgum stamp announcing the following day’s debut of the next season of the ABC’s Family series took up an obnoxiously large portion of the our screens’ lower-right-hand corner.

If the net deemed the plug absolutely necessary, why not just put it there for just a few minutes instead of the whole dang hour? Oh, I forgot: How about FX, shoving promos for “Damages� down our throats until we were ready to choke.

What happened to the days of unimpeded views of TV shows—back when networks’ logos weren’t planted on the screen for the duration of every show. Yes, I know that there is such a glut of cable channels that the stations want to help channel surfers find them in the fray, but, goodness, do I miss the era when stations simply followed the FCC requirement to do a station ID on the hour and on the half hour.

As far as non-season finales go, this was quite good.

Non-season finale, you ask? Well, that’s because they filmed another 10 (dubbed the “back 10″) episodes that won’t air until early 2008. This way, we’ll get a little bit of Kyle every six months or so, instead of having to bear almost a year without our bellybutton-less friend.

So, would that be a season non-finale? Or a semi-season finale? Or a season semi-finale?

Oy. I think I just gave myself a headache.

Anyway, that’s neither there nor here. Fact is, last night gave us some interesting answers and some tantalizing new questions.

So, here’s my thoughts, in a Cliff’s Notes-sorta version:
• Does Foss know that Adam is alive? It sure seemed that way. If so, why all the subterfuge? Why couldn’t Kyle be told? Or is that even Adam? Is it another XY project, perhaps the first one, never taken out of stasis, now nearly the same age as Adam?
• What is Adam’s girlfriend’s first name? We know it starts with an “S.” Did he or she remove the song from the diner’s jukebox? Does she live in the cabin? Has she been keeping “Adam” in stasis?
• How was Adam able to tell that Jessi had stolen from Kyle’s brain? What exactly did she steal from his brain?
• We know (c’mon, no one has to tell you this) that Jessi survived the jump. She had to have. What is she going to do with this information extracted from Kyle? Is she going to turn it over to the bad guys? Will she be captured and it extracted from her unwillingly (I find that hard to believe)? Will she turn over the information so that Emily and her daughter are not hurt?
• I think Emily was being somewhat honest with Foss and I don’t think she was that disappointed when Madacorp lost the trace on Kyle. How exactly did they get that trace? Was it some sort of signal from Foss’ phone to Kyle’s that then pinpointed Kyle’s location? Or was the red dot that disappeared on the screen Foss’ phone?
• How cool was the map inside the stone?
• How happy are you that the Traegers will finally know what’s up with Kyle?
• Raise your hand if you think Lori should have cut Declan some slack, especially after she was finding out that there’s WAY more to Kyle than meets the eye. Sheesh.
• Just how cool is Tom Foss? I mean really.
• Do we really have to wait another six months for the rest of this?

This is what Matt Dallas had to say to TVGuide.com about the final 10 eps of the season:

The first episode of the back 10 is huge. A ton of stuff is revealed. It’s also a whole lot of Kyle coming back to the family and having to explain where he’s been and what happened to Jessi.

Oh, and Dallas keeps pitching the idea to the show’s writers that Kyle lose his virginity.

If that were to happen, here’s the million-dollar question: Amanda or Jessi? Discuss.

Finally! The Traegers are putting the pieces together.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again — I appreciate that Kyle XY doesn’t make viewers wait forever for various plot points to be resolved. They’re always creating new mysteries and secrets, but they don’t get dragged out forever and ever and ever.

Case in point: Amanda got over her “I can’t trust men because of Charlie” freakiness and remembered that Kyle is Kyle and isn’t going to cheat on her. If he says he’s not cheating, she can take that to the bank and cash it.

OK. I’m really busy today, so I’m gonna go fast on this one:
• Andy started to really annoy me, for the first time. I’m glad she got over herself, made up with Josh and realized she has to let people in for a change. She and Josh are a cute diversion from the usual Kyle-ness of the show.
• Good for Steven for checking things out and finding Foss. It wasn’t clear if he realized that the guy talking to Foss was Brian Taylor, but either way, he knows that something serious is going on and that Kyle’s in danger.
• I liked Hillary for a change, and she was absolutely right about the pity party between Lori and Declan. And she was actually starting to make headway; Declan and Lori just were both too pigheaded to let her.
• I have to admit, I was very happy to see Declan and Lori make up. I’m a sap, OK, fine.
• Kyle’s really learning to use his brain. Now he just needs to find out what’s in there that Jessi can pull out.
• Jessi, fortunately, is well aware that Madacorp is trying to use her as a weapon against Kyle. She and Kyle, I think, will be a formidable weapon to use against Madacorp. I don’t think Madacorp’s plans will come to fruition. Just a hunch.
• I’d thought that Madacorp was following orders from Brian Taylor and his folks (whoever they might be), but that doesn’t appear to be the case. Taylor and Madacorp seem to be working toward some of the same goals, but with different endgames in mind. To Taylor, it’s just as important to keep Kyle alive as it is to get the info from his brain. To Ballantine, Kyle is utterly unimportant. Is Kyle so important to Brian because he’s the reflection of his old (and betrayed) friend, Adam Baylin? Who, really, is Brian working for?
• Exactly how strong is Foss? How did he manage to break loose of his bonds after going through that torture in the chair? And even with only one hand free, it took what, two or three guards to break his grip on Taylor’s throat? There’s more to Foss than we’ve ever imagined.

Next week is the “Season Finale.” I put that in quotes, because they actually filmed 22 episodes; the remainder are scheduled to run sometime “midseason.” I put that in quotes because what the heck is a midseason anymore with new seasons of programming going on the air about every five minutes?

In my continuing post-vacation catchup, I present you today with a double Kyle XY recap, looking at the last two episodes.

Again, one of the things I enjoy most about Kyle XY is that it doesn’t let mysteries linger too long. We don’t sit around forever wondering what’s going on or if Kyle’s going to figure out his connection to Jessi or if he’s going to be able to open the box or if he’s going to figure out Ballantine got his ring.

All that got resolved in the past two eps.

The first episode featured a fun threesome — Kyle, Foss and Declan. Foss and Declan had a nice “I hate you but I’ll work with you for Kyle’s sake” vibe and Kyle used his extraordinary brain power in a nifty way to get his ring back. Loved how Declan knew how to disable the automatic elevator door opener from having watched “Macgyver.” Brilliant.

The Amanda storyline got a bit annoying, though. Her whole, “I want to go to conservatory in New York but I luuuuuuvvvvv Kyle” got old fast. C’mon, Amanda, man up. You kicked butt in Elektra. You can hang onto Kyle who’s followed you around like a puppy ever since the first time he saw you.

Then this week with her whole, “I’ve been deceived by a boyfriend before and I don’t know if I can trust you with hot, bellybutton-less Jessi-without-an-e-at-the-end-of-her-name.”

So was Jessi’s predecessor in Adam Baylin’s life his wife/girlfriend/sister/neighbor? OK, it’s obvious they were more than mere acquaintances or relatives, but it’s still a mystery. Interesting. I mean, I guess we should have seen it coming; if Kyle was modeled on Baylin, it stands to reason Jessi would have been modeled on a real person. Was Baylin unaware of this?

One would think, as in talking to Brian he indicated that Kyle was the last experiment he’d do. But then why would he have put the photo of himself and the pre-Jessi in a specially locked box in a safe in his office?

Brian, speaking of, took an even more evil turn this week. Just exactly who is he working for? Is he responsible for Adam’s murder? What is it that he’s trying to extract from Kyle’s brain?

And speaking of brain extraction, I can’t quite figure out what it is that they’re doing to Foss. It just seemed weird. And it seemed weird to Daddy Traeger, too. I think the subplot of Lori suspecting an affair between him and Emily will be coming to a close, as he obviously is very suspicious of what’s going on with Madacorp now. All he has to do is see that Foss is the subject and the jig’s up.

Next week’s the summer finale. The second half of Season 2 will be aired in the beginning of next year; I’m betting on a Season 3 pickup for next summer, too. Kyle might not get good ratings when “repurposed” for ABC, but it gets good ABC Family ratings.

I hear that the summer finale brings everything to a head and the Traegers are finally brought in on some of Kyle’s secrets. Again, I like that this show doesn’t insist on keeping huge secrets forever and resolves small plot points on a regular basis.

Stay tuned.

Now that summer’s rapidly drawing to a close (yeah, yeah, it doesn’t officially end until late September, but find me anyone who doesn’t consider Labor Day weekend to be the end of summer), I’ve finally caught up on some of my summertime DVR selections and, well, let’s just say I’ve freed up a lot of space without having to watch an awful lot of it.

That’s not to say there hasn’t been some highlights and even some spectacular shows. Read more of this entry »

Verrrry interesting.

Jessi’s reboot seems to have taken; she’s totally focused on Kyle right now, much to the chagrin—ah, heck, let’s just call it what it was, anger—of Amanda. Declan’s kind of baffled by her change of heart, but also sees that she’s totally wacked out, so he’s not so sure that’s a bad thing.

What I liked most about last night’s episode is that it answered an awful lot of questions:
• Foss did indeed leave the X-ed out photo of Lori for Declan, but did it just to frighten him off. (We already know that Jessi was Lori’s attacker.)
• Foss is truly trustworthy.
• Kyle’s ring (the Latnok ring that Madacorp honcho Ballantine bought from the pawn shop) is the key to open Baylin’s secret box.
• Andy has cancer.
• Brian Taylor is the bad guy.

I was surprised, yet not surprised by the turn of events with Brian. I think he truly loved Baylin as a brother, but as anyone with a brother or sister can tell you, sibling rivalry can be a bitch. He gets sucked in by Prof. Kern to believe there is a greater good to be done by allowing the project to continue.

I don’t think Taylor is 100 percent bad, because Ballantine at Madacorp seemed truly surprised that Kyle was still alive. Brian knew Kyle was still alive; it stands to reason that Madacorp would have been informed by Brian.

Brian also knew that Foss had killed Kern and where Foss was, yet no harm came to Foss. Could Brian have been culpable in Baylin’s shooting death? Possibly, but that still doesn’t make sense given the points I just made above. Hmm.

As for Andy’s cancer, I was kind of annoyed. Isn’t there enough primary plot drama going on? I really like Andy’s character. I don’t want to start pitying her now. Harumph.

So these are my questions du jour:
• How much longer is it going to take Kyle to figure out Jessi also came from Zzyzx?
• How much longer is it going to take for the Traegers to demand some answers from Kyle (SPOILER ALERT: Not much longer, I understand.)
• How much longer is it going to take before Declan and Lori get back together?
• How much longer is it going to take for Josh to volunteer to take Andy to chemo treatments?

For these and other answers, stay tuned.

Meanwhile, check out this article. We’ll discuss it later.

Kyle XY is picking up steam and took a few interesting twists last night.

First off, I have to admit I didn’t see Jessi as the attacker until Lori revealed that her Declan necklace had been stolen. Then it became exceedingly obvious.

Jessi’s evolution through the episode was interesting. She only lacked empathy because she didn’t know she should have empathy. As soon as she realized she lacked it, she was devastated. Filtering Jessi’s evolution through the prism of being a teenager is an interesting mechanism.

Kyle was far more innocent, as he was an empty vessel, so he really never was a teenager in the sense that Jessi is. They imprinted her mind with everything she needed to know about being a dangerous weapon as well as being a teenager and they’re coming into conflict. I tend to think her genetic stuff is closely related to Kyle’s and that her “evil” side is at odds with her greater being.

Emily’s ambivalence about Jessi continues to grow interesting, as well. She alternates between not caring because she’s too worried about her own daughter and feeling pity for this, well, creature who is masquerading as her younger sister. Read more of this entry »

There’s no real reason I should have liked last night’s episode of Kyle XY. Heavy on the cutesy personal drama, light on the deeper, darker, more mysterious stuff.

But I loved it. I thought it was a great episode.

Part of the reason, I believe, is because the show is so good at not dragging plot lines out for 40,000 years. (WARNING: SPOILERS FOLLOW.)

To wit:
• No Sam & Diane here; Kyle pined for Amanda through one season and just a few eps into the second, he gets the girl.
• Andy & Josh get past all the goofy pretending not to like one another stuff and admit they have a “thing.”
• Declan & Lori have gotten together, broken up, stopped speaking to one another and achieved friendship (though there’s still hope for a reconciliation).
• Kyle realizes he needs to trust Declan, that he’s a true friend.

Most shows would have dragged out any one of these storylines forever. But last night’s ep was fast moving, cute, touching and fun.

A couple of wrinkles, though:
• Kyle and Jessi are so drawn together that it may be impossible to keep them apart. She likes his bathtub. She can fix things, even though she doesn’t know why she can. The static electricity between them over a bowl of Sour Patch kids (my least favorite moment — awkward product placement that sounded like an ad, not at all natural for Sour Patch Kids Extreme) was not just an accident; there is an actual electricity between them and I think more than I did last week that that earthquake last week wasn’t caused by the tectonic plates shifting, but rather by Jessi and Kyle’s proximity to one another (I can’t explain why there hasn’t been an earthquake any other time they’ve been nearby, but I just believe this). I do, however, believe they may be made of the same genetic material, more or less, so romance would be kind of icky.
• Emily, I think, is too flirty with Steven. Her object is to destabilize Kyle’s world. What better way than to cause a rift between Mom & Dad?
• Emily, speaking of, went all “My Name is Luka” on Jessi. Now, we all know why she freaked out. But acting like a bat-guano crazy woman and hurting your “sister” in front of her therapist and said therapist’s family isn’t exactly the way to go to insinuate yourself into their lives. Unless you’re hoping for them to report you to social services. If Emily does much more of this, Madacorp’s going to have to figure out a new way to get at Kyle.
• Speaking of, Steven really can’t figure out what the heck it is that his new employer does. Sooner or later, he’s going to be asking questions he won’t get the answers to.

What did y’all think?

Photos courtesy of ABC Family.

First off, excellent title. Any sci-fi fan could tell you that’s a riff off the classic Philip K. Dick short story “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” that was the inspiration for the classic Ridley Scott film, Blade Runner.

Last night was so much better than last week’s bridge episode, it’s hard to even put it into words. So I’m going to start off with the small things and work up to the big — huge — reveal from last night.

So, Josh finally figures out that Andy’s the one for him. Hello? Bueller? Bueller? Bueller? It’s about time. I’m glad they didn’t drag it out all season, though. I like Andy’s character a lot and I think she’s going to become a key player on the show. She doesn’t let anyone get too high on themselves, but knocks people down in a way that’s not nasty. Overall, it was a cute side plot that didn’t waste too much time.

Declan and Jessi, now, that’s another issue entirely. First off, where does Jessi suddenly have all these social skills? She still acts like some sort of android, but she seems to be becoming a typical teenager rather quickly. She’s disobeying her older sister and sneaking out of the apartment at night to meet up with a boy. She’s sucking face with him.

CBS won the ratings war on Friday. What was playing? A re-run of the Jericho season premiere. (A rerun of the Ghost Whisperer ranked a wee bit higher and was the lead-in for Jericho.)

Thanks to SyFy Portal for the news.

Jericho earned a 3.2 rating/6 share at 9 p.m. Friday, beating Smackdown! on The CW, a Las Vegas rerun on NBC, a Standoff rerun on Fox and the “repurposed” Kyle XY on ABC (it was a rerun, having run on ABC Family on Monday).

This is good news. CBS wants more people to watch Jericho. These may be summer re-runs, but people are watching.

We’ll keep our promise, CBS. Now you keep yours.

First, the news. ABC is no longer going to “repurpose” episodes of Kyle XY, airing them on Friday nights on the mother network, according to TV Week.

What does this mean? Not much, if you watch the show on ABC Family. If you watch it on ABC, well, you were among about 5 people who did, so get cable or have a friend record it for you. George Lopez repeats take over the 8 p.m. slot on Friday this week and “Set for Life,” the new game show, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, takes over the slot next Friday.

OK, got that out of the way.

Now, the recap.

OK, before I comment on anything else, there’s this:

How great is it to see someone balancing 200 pounds of concrete on his shoulders, while hopping from untethered upright piling to untethered upright piling (or whatever they were) WHILE DOING DRILLS OF HIGHER MATH?

Kaplan should look into it as a new SAT prep course.

OK, so that brings us to the focus of last night’s episode, Balancing Act.

First off, given the above picture, don’t you love the double meaning? Kyle’s having trouble balancing his family life and his secret life (don’t we all?) AND he’s having trouble balancing while carrying heavy weights and squaring impossibly large numbers. Get it, get it?

Sorry. Pre-holiday goofiness.

So Foss is totally bonkers in pushing Kyle; I’m assuming it’s because he cared so much for Adam that he doesn’t want to see Kyle suffer the same fate. And on top of that, he used to be a drunk who ended up killing his wife and young daughter 10 years earlier in a crash, so he is trying to escape his own skin.

To be honest, I don’t think they needed to give Foss that sort of depth. It was unnecessary. He’s proven himself to be a good guy, capable of doing very bad-guy things (blowing up Zzyzx, for example). He actually was rather multi-dimensional. Giving him the burden of having killed his family just seems like overkill to me. Unnecessary.

It was also a little goofy that not 5 minutes after Kyle tells him to text him *** if he ever was in trouble and needed Kyle, Foss almost breaks his neck, manages to get the three asterisks off before dropping his phone and Kyle races back to the rescue. Of course, further alienating the Traeger family in the process.

How cute were Josh and Andy? TCFW. I’m glad he’s got a girlfriend, and not the totally geeky or impossibly attractive type, either. A relatively sane girl who’s pretty and is way too mature for her age. But I like her. She’ll be a good addition.

As for Amanda, she was totally wrong for taking her anger at Charlie out on Kyle. But at least she recognized that. She should at least give Kyle credit for trying to tell her. And the main reason he didn’t anyhow was that Charlie interrupted them.

Meanwhile, over in Emily’s scheming brain, Nicole spills coffee all over Jessi’s “big sister” and offers to pay for the dry cleaning. Turns out Jessi has some serious issues relating to her “parents” (if Nicole only knew!) and badly needs a therapist. Seeing as Daddy Traeger’s out of a job (um, wasn’t he a VP or something? wouldn’t he have known his company was for sale?), Nicole figures what the heck, maybe she’ll take on some private clients, too.

And finally, we have Declan and Lori. I, for one, am tired of Lori moping, moping, moping. Geez. Snap out of it, girl! Didn’t you love her trying to learn to play guitar, seeing Kyle pluck away, think he finally isn’t good at something and then suddenly he’s playing beautifully (according to BuddyTV, Matt Dallas had to learn to play guitar for this season).

But here’s what I’m left wanting to know:
• Who left the X-ed out photo of Lori in Declan’s car? It couldn’t have been Foss; Declan was watching him. Was it the Zzyzx people? Was it Brian Taylor?
• Where did Foss get those pilings?
• How did Kyle and Daddy Traeger get the car from Foss’ warehouse to their home? And what did Dad think about going there and getting it? Didn’t he wonder a) how Kyle knew it was there and b) why they were allowed to just take it?
• When will Andy kiss Josh?
• Will Lori learn to play the guitar well and will she start dating the guitar teacher?
• Will Daddy Traeger ever get another job or is he going to stop shaving, sit at the computer playing solitare all day and scratch himself?
• About how many seconds is it going to take Jessi to fall in love with Declan next week and how jealous is that going to make not only Lori, but also Kyle?

For all this and more, stay tuned for next week on “As Kyle XY Turns.”

So, Lori & Declan are named best couple — even though they just broke up. Hillary is no longer the biggest slut, an honor bestowed upon Charlie instead.

Amanda’s crushed that Charlie cheated on her. Lori and Hillary “re-virginate” (while getting drunk in the “sex shack” on the beach? There’s a bizarre sight). Kyle accepts his label of “extraordinary.” Jessi becomes normal — but it looks like she’s not so much of a computer-like automoton as Ballantine, over at Madacorp, believed.

OK, this is my brother-in-law’s prediction: Emily will turn all Han Solo and eventually become a good guy (or girl, as the case may be). I think it’s a pretty good guess (as good as any, anyhow). She already is concerned for Jessi — and that’s not just her “job.” She sees Jessi as a naif being used by greater forces and I think she suspects that Jessi is not so easily downloaded and erased as Madacorp folks believe.

She’s going to come to care for Jessi, and I suspect, the Traegers and Kyle.

I think my b-i-l is onto something here. It may take some time, but Emily will turn out to be not such a bad person.

Oh, and I totally, utterly had forgotten that Kyle did indeed know about Charlie cheating on Amanda. I’m kind of glad they got that all out of the way by the end of yesterday’s episode, though, because those storylines where someone knows a bad secret about a boyfriend or girlfriend and they keep it from their friend, etc., yada yada yada, get so boring after about 15 minutes.

I had to give Hillary some newfound respect for admitting she’d slept with Charlie and for her and Lori trying to talk Amanda out of finally sleeping with Charlie.

But here are the issues that remain (for me, anyhow) after watching last night’s episode:
• How, exactly, is Kyle able to not get burned. There is a difference between mind over matter and not burning your feet while walking across hot coals and not getting even singed when your clothes are all but burned off your body. There’s more at work here than simple mind power. Foss has no idea.
• What exactly, is the link between Jessi and Kyle, other than the fact that both were gestated at Zzyzx? They are exceedingly aware of one another when they are in close proximity, even if they’re not aware that they’re aware specifically of one another).
• Why does this new girl Andy (or Andi?) like Josh so much? You’ve gotta admit, she’s gotta be kind of a weirdo to be sitting in a stall in the boy’s room (um, yuck) just to play a computer game. He’s a weirdo, too, of course. Eating in the boy’s room (um, yuck). OK, so they’re both weirdos who like the same computer game. I suppose it’ll be sweet, though, for Josh to finally have a real-life girl who likes him. He’s not as much of a geek as he feels he is.
• Is it just me (and my b-i-l), or does the relationship between Nicole and Kyle just seem a little weird and, well, creepy? Just sayin’.
• Is this really ABC Family? Sex, a shirtless Kyle, revirginization. All seems a little un”family”-like. Again, just sayin’.

Photos courtesy ABC Television.

To be honest, I didn’t realize that Madacorp (owner of ZZyzx) didn’t know Kyle was still alive. I forgot that all the skulking around and spying on Kyle that seemed so sinister ended up being Foss keeping tabs on Kyle at Adam Bailen’s bidding.

That was the big surprise — to me, anyhow — from last night, and also explains why the “bad guys” wouldn’t know to just go to the Traegers to find him.

This is still the big question that I have — why did Zzyzx want to terminate the XY experiment in the first place? It seems even Madacorp folks didn’t know why.

(By the way, anyone else notice that the guy who played Ballantine is the same guy who played Morgan on Sci-Fi’s “The Dresden Files“? Yes, I am such a geek.)

So back to the beginning — Jessi kills a bad guy who threatens her with a pretty nasty knife. This is ABC Family? Very dark. Cool, but quite un-Family-like.

Jessi-with-no-’e’ is where Kyle was at the beginning of last season, but doesn’t have the luck to end up in the bosom of the Traeger family and instead meets up with a Deliverance-era hunter. That’s gotta screw up a childhood. Such as hers is, anyhow.

Very interesting, though, her intangible connection to Kyle. She immediately connected to him upon just hearing his heartbeat (talk about eagle ears) and he obviously felt some sort of connection as he ran by, stopping to look around, not even knowing why he was stopping.

That’s got to cause some complications in the future. Kirsten Prout, who plays Amanda, tells TV Guide that Jessi and Amanda will come into conflict over Kyle.

Sure, seeing as Jessi’s mission supposedly will be to “dispose of” Kyle. And Amanda’s still with Charlie? I was nearly as disappointed as Kyle was to find that out. Charlie’s a slimeball; cheating on her. I hope she finds out soon. I’m sure she will. It is television, after all. Her new ‘do looked better on screen than it had in still photos, however.

I felt really badly for Declan. He really has put himself on the line for Kyle. Though I understand Kyle’s feelings (and Foss’), I think he’s not doing right by Declan. For someone I started out disliking at the start of last season, he’s become a rather clutch character; someone with true character.

By the by, there are 23 episodes for this season 2, so we’re in for a much longer ride than last year. Cool.

Episode thoughts, anyone?

Now, as weird as I feel about enjoying any show native to ABC Family, I fell instantly in like with the channel’s “Kyle XY” last summer. It returned last night and gave us some real answers and a bit of violence (nice explosion). Was this really on ABC Family?

Ah, but then came Kyle’s sweet homecoming to the Traeger’s house. Yeah, a bit of treacle, a little too sickly sweet, but in a good kind of way.
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Jessi XX wakes up in the woods, covered in pink goo, just like Kyle XY. But her creators program her to kill Kyle. I guess because she has no belly button, she becomes Lori Nicole (thanks, Aimee, for that catch!) Trager’s newest patient.

That’s what we have to look forward to when the new season starts at 8 p.m. June 11.

Jessi XX will be played by Jaimie Alexander. It looks like Declan becomes even more important this season, as Jessi becomes distracted from her mission to kill Kyle once she meets Lori Trager’s boyfriend.

While last season had a “moral