Ashley Greene. Credit: G155 (Gerald Geronimo) (Flickr Creative Commons)
Pan Am must not be in such dire straits as a lot of people think, because they have hired a prominent actress!
According to Entertainment Weekly, Twilight actress Ashley Greene is going to play a debutante that has a past with Ted. Her arc will play out over the course of three episodes, starting December 4.
This is great for the show! Of course, the cynical answer is that they’re doing the “guest star” syndrome that a lot of flailing shows go through when they are giving their death throes. However, I think that for this show, it shows that it still has a lot of internal power enough to convince the higher-ups to go through the trouble of hiring a prominent actress like Greene, especially considering her Twlight credentials. Also, it’s mighty shrewd to get an actress with such a rabid fanbase for Pan Am. Some of the thinking behind this might be the idea that Greene will attract new fans to the show.
Also, I need to point out something I’ve pointed out before–Pan Am has a serious problem with subplots that last over three episodes. Every subplot on this show–aside from the ones that explain the characters on this show, like Kate feeling left out from her mother’s love (however, even that got resolved a bit in the second episode)–never lasts more than three episodes at the max. Why is that?!
And what exactly could the debutante want with Ted, I wonder? I’m intrigued. This storyline does show more of Ted being a rich, privileged person who might not understand the “other half,” as it were. Will it finally show us what a racist, harassment-approving weirdo Ted is? I hope so. Maybe she’ll give him what for.
Make sure to read my post about this at ShockYa!
(As a note–I know it’s quite ironic that I like/don’t like Ted when I like/love Draco Malfoy, who is probably even more of a racist, harassment-approving weirdo than Ted is. I think for that is just because there’s still not a lot about Ted that’s ultimately redeemable. I did feel bad for Ted not being able to become an astronaut like he dreamed, and I felt angry at his father for being selfish and not reopening the case about Ted’s crashed aircraft, but while I find sympathy with Ted at points, I still find that he hasn’t learned from the areas of his life he has control over, such as mistreating women or thinking of them as just a plaything that have no feelings except the constant need to look good and wear high heels. He just hasn’t had that big A-HA moment like Draco has–when he was confronted with killing Dumbledore and deciding that the Death Eater life just isn’t for him.)
