Why do you put Ivy & Dixon on such a pedestal? Of Dixon's 3 IR on "90210", Ivy & Dixon is the 1 I care about the least.
Having discussed the show with other brothas who watched the show a few years ago, I get the same sentiment.
I was so passionate about the potential of DIVY because their relationship developed so naturally . . . they were friends for five months before they began to truly date and that gave them such credibility because teenagers do develop like that when its really real love. Go watch the last three episodes of season 2 on NETFLIX and tell me that DIVY's teen relationship felt forced, rushed or artificial like ADDIXON of season 4 who basically ignored one another for three whole seasons???
The reason it probably didn't resonate with most people was because it was so poorly produced after the season 2 finale. If the original executives of 90210 had been miraculously restored to power then the Dixon & Ivy build off that planetarium scene and Dixon keeps Ivy safe and secure all summer in AUS. Ivy's mom Laurel is such a liberal she lets them share a luxury suite at the Sheraton in Melbourne and/or Hilton in Sydney. Basically what I'm getting at is they were CLEARLY sabotaged by Rebecca Sinclair and her writers as Dixon was emasculated, denigrated, and humiliated deliberately to make the other guys look better - he abandoned Ivy in AUS because his parents were breaking up?? For 91 days she was left at a luxury summer resort where in the best scenario dozens of dudes would hit on her in his absence . . . worst scenario Ivy becomes the next nightly feature on "Nancy Grace Live" as the new Natalie Halloway!!
Basically Dixon violated his core values (his libido was an essential aspect of his identity in season 1 & 2 remember?? So by the fourth or fifth night they fucking or the second week of sharing a luxury suite together as teenagers with natural hormones are apt to do right?) and all his suffering and misfortune stemmed from a choice neither he nor any other healthy heterosexual black teenager would make (plus he turns 18 over that senior summer and Ivy doesn't fly back to Beverly Hills for her boyfriends big, birthday?? She clearly has the money to make the mission as the aforementioned episodes make apparent)
They introduced the unforeseen love triangle with a white guest star (recurring motif most recently seen on Life Sentance) and his teenage sex drive is in full throttle while DIVY foresakes an unbelievable opportunity to consumate their newly declared love for one another at the first major UNSUPERVISED house party of the school year where multiple luxurious bedrooms are first come basis (Naomi gets one where she stripteases three dudes). Teddy walks in and breaks up the festivities before a drunken gangbang ensues but what if when Naomi comes knocking she finds that room already occupied as Dixon is dick deep in Ivy's abdomen as she chases the biggest wave of her life while riding her boyfriends big, black surfboard??
See the lost potential that was purposely omitted by Rebecca - 90210's EP. She wanted you to grow disinterested in DIVY so she made them lame & boring whereas her predecessors Gabe Sachs & Jeff Judah wouldn't have short-changed DIVY or sabotaged them in favor of a misguided personal agenda. I long for the potential that was so apparent over those last three aforementioned episodes of 90210's second season . . . and because Dixon never recovers as a major character on the series on which Gabe & Jeff cast him from Mike on "The Wire" to be the "Black Brandon Walsh" and male lead of the first season *sigh*
Of all his loves . . . Ivy Sullivan clearly loved Dixon Wilson the MOST . . . a teenage love so deep she would shame most black girlfriends if faced with the same hardships . Silver swallowed all Dixon's boys . . . ran thru his whole crew and even his brother too (remember Marc ??) Where was the love or even respect when Silver was fucking and sucking everyone ?? Ivy never did Dixon like that she respected him all summer and even after they broke up she didn't fuck his friends and family plan like Silver did to taint the memory of SIXON
