matt on the rebound?

he's totally not in love with kris. if he was he would've tried to get her back. junior constantly tried to get her back (except when he was engaged to that girl whose name escapes me) but even then he knew in his heart that he loves kris. matt on the other hand is just acting like a jack@$$. he would've been the bigger man if he told them congratulations even though he doesn't like it.


He was engaged to Cory Matthew's lost sister. I'm glad Matt did congratulate Junior last night. I don't think he was just acting like a jack ass, he just couldn't get over what he thought was love. He could have easily vetoed Jean and Pablo's decision to let Wildfire race, but he said he wasn't going to let his feelings get in the way. He was justified to be pissed. Last year, the way Junior acted was messed up with him firing Kris when she was working for him after shen and Matt got together and then punching her (even though it was accidentally) in a club. I remember in the beginning of the series hearing Junior say that if Matt wanted to throw away the friendship, it was fine with him so Matt's anger was justified especially since he and Junior made up.

While I think Matt was justified for being pissed and like him with Dani better than Kris, I never though Kris was a gold digging whore. My problem with Kris is that she seems to always be going into border line Joey Potter mode (she hasn't gotten into that level of annoyance yet). When I say Joey mode, she's written as the sympathetic character who can do no wrong. When Junior (or Matt for that matter) wants Kris, they can't have her b/c it's not the right time, the Ritters won't approve, she doesn't want to come between Junior and his dad, and every reason under the sun. When they are unavailable that's when she wants them or gives them the guilt trip. As much as Tina Sharp was a beeyotch, Kris did try to make Matt feel guilty for his decision to date her and then she all of a sudden becomes attracted/connected to Matt once again when he's with Gillian. I'm not going to throw in Dani since she was only pissed at Matt for training her horse along with Wildfire for a race in season 2. With Junior, she kind of made him feel guilty when he was dating the blonde in season 2 and got on his case for not telling her that they moved in together and then when he's about to get married to the congressman's daughter she all of a sudden regains the feelings for Junior. Then to make Kris much more sympathetic, they have to make it a point to make every female dating Matt/Junior act like a complete byotch so when Matt/Junior break up, Kris looks good and not like a homewrecker or the chick who doesn't know what she wants.
Back on the subject of Matt, I never thought he was on the rebound for Kris, I always thought of him as the guy who never really knew what/who he wanted in life. First he starts off broken up with Dani, then he's hooked on Kris, Dani (when Kris returns from jail after the 90 days for stealing Wildfire), broken up with Dani and hooked on Kris, wants to leave Raintree and is into music, hooked on gambling, hooked up with Tina Sharp, back on gambling, back with Dani, still wants to leave horse racing/Raintree, broken up with Dani, dating Gillian Parsons, torn between helping out with running Raintree and traveling with Gillian, finally with Kris, then broken up with Kris and back with Dani. With Junior he knew what he wanted which was Kris, getting his own rep built w/o his father's support, and a quick bull riding hobby. Neither of their ways are wrong, Junior just has more stability than Matt. I also thought Matt had more of a connection with Gillian than with Kris. I am glad that they're ending the show with the right couples being together Matt/Dani, Kris/Junior and none of them bitter towards the other. And as much as I don't want to see the show end now, it's better this way than to do 2-3 more seasons and then possibly have the quality of the show go to crap by having repetitive storylines of Kris bouncing from Junior to Matt and then making Dani bounce from hateful to loveable character.