The Yearning

The episode "The Changeling" six episodes before this one was supposedly about Elizabeth struggling with growing up, but it was so ridiculously written and acted, that they should have just not made the episode at all. This episode, "The Yearning" was a MUCH better story of a young girl learning that she is becoming a woman and struggling with how to go about it. It was a little sappy at times, but a 13-year-old's first love is generally a pretty sappy time in the kid's life, so it worked. It was handled with such empathy and delicacy, both by the characters and the actors. It reminded me so much of when I was at 13 and my first love didn't love me back, and I was as heartbroken as Elizabeth, but now, it has been long enough that I can sympathize more with John and remember the pain in a much duller, sweeter fashion.