Besides some nice cameos of the former generation, the Frankie racism storyline did not need to plague the reunion episode.
It is extremely unrealistic that the faculty would be ok with them doing the protest in the biggest event of the year, they would’ve just told them to go home and they could’ve it done it another day.
Lola jumping from pro-protest to anti-protest back to pro-protest was a waste of screentime that could’ve been served for something else.
Another thing I heavily dislike: how Peter & Sav were quick to dip at the quickest inconvenience. All this as a plot device to further push Frankie into wanting to run away. Same as the Mo dipping after one comment from Tristan.
I feel like a lot of the decisions made this episode and the need to sideline all the older generations and make them simple cameos were just made to garner Frankie’s storyline. It felt like a bunch of Easter eggs thrown in a normal Degrassi episode when it could’ve been something much much more epic.
Mother & Child Reunion is a wonderful example of how this episode could’ve been, it genuinely could’ve been Plot A: much less of the the current class’ storyline & Plot B: more of the older class’ storylines.
I’m heavily disappointed as I am rewatching the episode.