"The O.C.": C/D

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The T.V. show, not the place. It debuted on Fox this week. It stars Peter Gallagher's eyebrows and a very attractive actress with very sharp teeth who the IMDB tells me is named Mischa Barton. It was created by McG and the pilot was directed by Doug Liman. It's about a kid from the wrong side of the tracks (and with a v. bad haircut) who ends up being taken in by a rich family from the O.C. Melodrama ensues.

― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 7 August 2003 15:55 (twenty years ago) link

I figure the reports will be far better than actually watching the show itself, so post away. Let me know if they ever try and talk about a local record store or restaurant in particular.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 7 August 2003 15:58 (twenty years ago) link

Classic, if only for the "Welcome to the O.C., bitch!"...

Ended up watching part of this on Tuesday and it ended up being far more enjoyable than I imagined. The lead seems way too old to be playing a teenager, but I guess that is the way of all great teen dramas (everyone on 90201 looked 37).

― Larcole (Nicole), Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:01 (twenty years ago) link

can't wait to see it
taped, but haven't watched it yet
(much kid-unfriendly)

mischa barton played
teen lesbian seductress
on 'once and again'

― Haikunym, Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:02 (twenty years ago) link

from the ads I've seen (don't watch anything else! when shows come on I flip around looking for ads. shows're too long!) it looks like crap.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:03 (twenty years ago) link

this was advertised during nearly every break for a month before it started and had, what?, coldplay and phantom planet songs playing over and nonsense/just crap dialogue in and stupid taglines [e.g. 'the O.C. is thousands of miles away...but closer than you think']. I hate it. even though I have never seen an episode and hope never to.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:04 (twenty years ago) link

I agree with Nicole. All I could think of was Ned in a drunken rage one night in a fight over which MBV album was the best. "Welcome to the O.C. bitch!" AS he uses his hair as an ancient ninja weapon.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:06 (twenty years ago) link

Chris V*n*t*i : future Oscar winner for best director of a suburban tv drama and generally pant-shitting.

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:09 (twenty years ago) link

B-i-n-g-o

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:10 (twenty years ago) link

Whats up with Peter Gallaghers son? Besides his Paul Weller poster.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:11 (twenty years ago) link

A Paul Weller poster? *thinks*...well there's a subset of Anglophile around here that would have that, I'll grant.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:18 (twenty years ago) link

peter gallagher's eyebrows look like two catterpillers doing a particularly tricky mating dance.

i sat through this whole thing (more people in the house = more votes to outweigh you in what gets put on the teevee) and felt psychically raped afterwards.

(okay, so it wasn't that bad, but the hosanna's this thing is receiving from "the critics" really makes me wonder how much worse tv has gotten since i stopped being able to watch it about a year ago.)

the lead looks disturbingly like russel crowe. mostly i just wanted to slap the "teenage" female lead for being such a pathetically toothy gamine stereotype.

"apparently in the 'o.c.' there are blonde ingenues standing on every corner waiting for trouble."

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:25 (twenty years ago) link

also the homoerotic tension between the runaway and the son will CRACK THIS SHOW IN TWO

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:25 (twenty years ago) link

Jess I think the "teenage" female lead is actually, like, 17. And the word is "toothsome." Also: crack in TWAIN. in TWAIN.

― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:28 (twenty years ago) link

Homoerotic tension is what keeps these shows going! See also: Smallville.

― Larcole (Nicole), Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:28 (twenty years ago) link

apparently in the 'o.c.' there are blonde ingenues standing on every corner waiting for trouble."

have you been to Newport Beach?

Also, I like how this show is like a non-reality novelty for FOX.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:28 (twenty years ago) link

Non-reality?!?!

(coughs, dies)

― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:29 (twenty years ago) link

thank god

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:30 (twenty years ago) link

i'll get a shovel

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:30 (twenty years ago) link

and some lime

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:30 (twenty years ago) link

and afterwards we can go over to my mothers...she's making peppers and sausage

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:31 (twenty years ago) link

yeah they had one of those once it was called "Undeclared" and it was brilliant. But it didn't involve guys eating 85 hot dogs, or some pathetic tit getting married to an ex-comedian so they axed it.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:31 (twenty years ago) link

Jess, tuck in your contempt.

― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:31 (twenty years ago) link

have you been to Newport Beach?

Don't be silly, Spencer. They don't WAIT for trouble, they go out and happily get into trouble!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:31 (twenty years ago) link

(coughs, dies)

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:34 (twenty years ago) link

It was a dumb joke suggesting that I took the show for reality, which Jess took as an opportunity to make a rather ~~fun~~ gratuitously meanspirited joke at my expense. Hi Jess!

― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:36 (twenty years ago) link

sorry, forgot the "heavens! ;-)".

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:38 (twenty years ago) link

"Hugs" etc.

― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:38 (twenty years ago) link

Spencer, Ned, you forgot about the part where they transmogrify into leather-skinned Republican Lizard Moms.

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:39 (twenty years ago) link

(otherwise, walking on the Balboa Peninsula in Newport Beach on a summer weekend is like dipping yourself in suntan lotioned overly tan blonde babe fondue)

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:39 (twenty years ago) link

also to TALK in CAPITAL letters when NECESSARY to denote attempted COMEDIC EFFECT. also to correct the way you died.

i love how cliche the rich people are. they talk like a mad magazine parody of high fashion hangers on.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:40 (twenty years ago) link

"Heavens! Welcome to the O.C., bitch ;-)"

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:40 (twenty years ago) link

"Support Our Troops! Check These Out! *tongue*"

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:42 (twenty years ago) link

i love how cliche the rich people are. they talk like a mad magazine parody of high fashion hangers on.

That's what makes it so great, though. If it were really good I don't think I would enjoy it as much.

― Larcole (Nicole), Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:44 (twenty years ago) link

Eep. I'll stick with my bad acting camp in 1 1/2 hour doses of standalone movies, too much and you OD.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:46 (twenty years ago) link

Welcome to the ODB bitch.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:53 (twenty years ago) link

Nicely done.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:59 (twenty years ago) link

CV's got an Old Dutch boner

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 7 August 2003 17:01 (twenty years ago) link

It looks like a windmill made of potato chips? Ew.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 7 August 2003 17:02 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah, and it's All Dressed on top of that. Ew To Thee MAXX.

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 7 August 2003 17:06 (twenty years ago) link

I actually have a wooden cock.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 7 August 2003 17:11 (twenty years ago) link

Priapus no!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 7 August 2003 17:15 (twenty years ago) link

Is that a lost lyric from Janet Jackson's "The Knowledge"?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 7 August 2003 17:23 (twenty years ago) link

To know her is to love her.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 7 August 2003 17:23 (twenty years ago) link

b-b-b-b-ut splinters! Ouch.

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 7 August 2003 17:44 (twenty years ago) link

Impotence... NO!/Priapus... NO!/Syphilis... NO!/Gangrenous... NO!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 7 August 2003 17:51 (twenty years ago) link

Undeclared was so good. I miss that show.

― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 7 August 2003 18:14 (twenty years ago) link

You know, the "ODB on parole" documentary is on VH1 tonight.

― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 7 August 2003 18:15 (twenty years ago) link

TS: ODB on parole vs ODB on parade

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 7 August 2003 18:16 (twenty years ago) link

I would think the TV show incorporates both.

― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 7 August 2003 18:20 (twenty years ago) link

A giant ODB balloon in the Macy's parade is U&K.

― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 7 August 2003 18:21 (twenty years ago) link

I've run out of Dawson's Creek episodes (that show really turned to shit for the fifth season). Is this worth watching or should I wait for whatever appears on the WB this fall for my teen-fix?

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 7 August 2003 18:42 (twenty years ago) link

It's as good as Dawson. Or as bad as Dawson.

― Larcole (Nicole), Thursday, 7 August 2003 18:46 (twenty years ago) link

The OC = Zen Buddhism?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 7 August 2003 19:01 (twenty years ago) link

If your dad's SUV collides with a tree in the San Bernardino National Forest with no one around to hear, does it make a sound?

― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 7 August 2003 19:05 (twenty years ago) link

San Bernardino, what crack are you on. Aim more locally!

If your dad's SUV ends up in the Newport Beach Back Bay because of the coke he was snorting at the time, do you care?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 7 August 2003 19:07 (twenty years ago) link

This show is good. A contender for new 90210 perhaps.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Thursday, 7 August 2003 19:19 (twenty years ago) link

Oh, it's 90210-esque? I hated that show.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 7 August 2003 19:34 (twenty years ago) link

so, heh, anyone besides me watching this tonight? i fully agree with the "new 90210" accessment, so if you go into it with that mindset it's golden.

― jason m. (jason m), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 00:35 (twenty years ago) link

milo you hated
90210 but loved
dawson's creek? oh wow

it's just a soaper
that's okay with me most times
(watch it with my wife)

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 00:50 (twenty years ago) link

It stars Peter Gallagher's eyebrows

Just peeked at the thread cause the show's coming on in a minute and I was curious if I should flip or put music on. Amateurist, I want you to do a commentary track for Short Cuts or something. "So, in this scene, I think what Peter Gallagher's eyebrows were going for was some way of conveying the events emotionally..."

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 00:55 (twenty years ago) link

TS: Peter Gallagher's eyebrows vs. Steve Buscemi's teeth

― amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 01:04 (twenty years ago) link

I shun the show for it is not a WB creation. However, I have just been informed that Gilmore Girl's Dave Rygalsky is Seth. What of Lane's budding relationship? Or are they just going to cut her out of the show altogether? They may as well, seeing as little use they make of her wonderful character. And when does Jess's new show start? Venice Beach, here we come? Or have they thought better of themselves and nipped that idea in the bud?

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 14 August 2003 18:55 (twenty years ago) link

I think the Jess show was cast aside.

― Larcole (Nicole), Thursday, 14 August 2003 18:58 (twenty years ago) link

last night's show was ace
that kid is so tortured! and
seth is such a dren!

< /joanie cunningham>

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Thursday, 14 August 2003 19:04 (twenty years ago) link

http://slate.msn.com/id/2086985/

Barton's gait distinctly evokes Gwyneth Paltrow's, but she also looks like a young Paulina Porizkova, and suspiciously like a runway alumna, though she started as a child stage actress. She's good. Her efforts to maintain her top-shelf high-school popularity even as she falls in with Ryan—greeting the old crowd, taking their cell calls, telling them all how much she loves them—seem right on. Her conversion from best girl to gun moll isn't happening overnight, and she clearly doesn't want to forfeit the prerogatives of insincerity too soon. Barton expresses this bet-hedging elegantly, without hamming it up.

See, a really good actress.

― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 18 August 2003 18:06 (twenty years ago) link

On the subject of Undeclared -- The creators (also of Freaks and Geeks!) are trying to start a new show along similar outcast-social-cliques. I s'pose the 3rd time is the charm.

― ModJ, Monday, 18 August 2003 18:59 (twenty years ago) link

Awesome. Those are two of my favorite recent shows.

― NA (Nick A.), Monday, 18 August 2003 19:13 (twenty years ago) link

that guy is cursed

― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Monday, 18 August 2003 23:37 (twenty years ago) link

Undeclared was ace. Last night the waif girl wanted to sleep with runaway hobo wife beater t-shirt guy. He even had on Jeff Buckley. He gave her scary eyes and she cried and left, all the while Billy Zabka sat in his pick up truck with the other guys from Kobra Kai dojo and watched her leave and wife beater t-shirt chased her. Billy Zabka got pissed and kicked some wife beater ass and then they burnt down a giant mansion. wierdo skateboarders mom wants to fuck the neighbor, its costing her one hundred thousand dollars for his financial planner penis. eventually peter gallaghers eyebrows get worked into the mix in an eyebrow and hair pie menage a trois.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 16:09 (twenty years ago) link

wife beater t-shirt spent the night in prison, a tatooed gent wanted to fuck him and skateboard kids mom when they came to visit. wife beater stepped up to tattoo and they fought. Hesitant perky tit skateboard kids mom decided to take wife beater home, for the 18th time. when they got home wife beaters REAL mother was there, looking like a 70's porno star. Peter Gallaghers eyebrows were also there. They decided to have porno mom stay with them for the night, clean her up and she goes to Vegas Night with the whole family. Tells wife beater t-shirt that she is not drinking anymore. When they get to Vegas night, waif girls SLUTTY camel toe mother is trying to find some cock. High comedy as porno mom gets drunk on 7/7 and falls down. Show ends with Turin Brakes playing, porno mom leaving, wife beater t-shirt making more scary eyes and a wave goodbye. Perky tits decided he can stay for good. Only took half the season already for this to be decided.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 11:02 (twenty years ago) link

Seriously, it's a good thing it happened last night, because they really couldn't draw that out any longer.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 19:35 (twenty years ago) link

now they are dragging out the impending hardcore fuck that muscle shirt and waif are going to have. get it over with already.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 12:49 (twenty years ago) link

This is TV, of course it has to be prolooooonged. For maximum dramatic effect, and to get full use of that particular facial expression the main character always uses. This show really does beat you over the head with the storyline.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 14:21 (twenty years ago) link

first saw mischa barton in the great sleeper indie gem lawn dogs. quiet little film about the horrors of suburbia with a smattering of magical realism.

saw it at the london int'l film fest in like, '96; it got a very limited release in the US. please, please do not be put off by the picture on the video rental box, kathleen quinlan's barely in it.

the film was also the first time i gave any notice to sam rockwell, and was of course, quite smitten.

― curtie slade (curtie), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 15:29 (twenty years ago) link

two months pass...

revive. fall premiere last night. i like this show.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 30 October 2003 15:41 (twenty years ago) link

great ep last night yeah,
no TV character
better than seth cohen!

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Thursday, 30 October 2003 15:48 (twenty years ago) link

they put a gag about PG's eyebrows in it!

― jones (actual), Thursday, 30 October 2003 16:07 (twenty years ago) link

since i have regained the option of watching more than fox i have lost all interest in this

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 30 October 2003 16:09 (twenty years ago) link

Given the option to kill everyone involved with this show, I'd need two seconds to decide.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 30 October 2003 16:10 (twenty years ago) link

sorry i spilled my incredulity

― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 30 October 2003 16:10 (twenty years ago) link

b-but the eyebrows!

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 30 October 2003 16:11 (twenty years ago) link

tv: the oc :: music : the darkness

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 30 October 2003 16:11 (twenty years ago) link

ned, you really need to make a cameo on this show.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 30 October 2003 16:15 (twenty years ago) link

i can't believe i said was going to bury amateurist ala goodfellas on this thread!

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 30 October 2003 16:15 (twenty years ago) link

i'm a spicy meatball

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 30 October 2003 16:16 (twenty years ago) link

i love this show so much. almost as much as 'gilmore girls.' the presence of a trapt poster in seth's room, though, seemed to me really off.

― maura (maura), Thursday, 30 October 2003 16:21 (twenty years ago) link

ned, you really need to make a cameo on this show.

Killing everyone.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 30 October 2003 16:22 (twenty years ago) link

"welcome to the OC bitch!!!"

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 30 October 2003 16:23 (twenty years ago) link

Now now, that would be tasteless and crude.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 30 October 2003 16:23 (twenty years ago) link

but fun

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 30 October 2003 16:24 (twenty years ago) link

ned will be opening for alex in nyc all week

― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 30 October 2003 16:25 (twenty years ago) link

Heavens! I kill you all ;-)

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 30 October 2003 16:25 (twenty years ago) link

"it's sort of an 'elephant'-meets-'the o.c.' thing..."

― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 30 October 2003 16:25 (twenty years ago) link

"monsters of rhetoric"

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 30 October 2003 16:26 (twenty years ago) link

I can't help but watch this show and marvel at how bad of an actress that lead girl is (the same girl in the new Enrique Iglesis video -- she's awful in that, too). Everything in the universe dictates that I should despise this show, but I watch it anyway. Perhaps I'm just a loser, I don't know.

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 30 October 2003 16:26 (twenty years ago) link

but fun

EXTREMELY good fun.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 30 October 2003 16:26 (twenty years ago) link

but you must admit she's a "really good actress"

― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 30 October 2003 16:26 (twenty years ago) link

or perhaps your secretly in love with peter g's eyebrows.... ;)

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 30 October 2003 16:27 (twenty years ago) link

side note: why do losers content themselves with the comings and goings of their social betters?

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 30 October 2003 16:27 (twenty years ago) link

they are hypnotizing

(best x-post ever)

― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 30 October 2003 16:27 (twenty years ago) link

so all the stars of 'sex lies and videotape' except andie macdowell are in prime time now. and don't forget 'karen sisco,' which probably wouldn't have been made without s. soderbergh's 'out of sight.' BIG TIME BABY

― maura (maura), Thursday, 30 October 2003 16:29 (twenty years ago) link

i don't think maura's last post is in english

― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 30 October 2003 16:30 (twenty years ago) link

last night's episode was the worst so far. too much phoney unnecessary drama. just finish the damn test motherfucker!

― ryan (ryan), Thursday, 30 October 2003 16:52 (twenty years ago) link

Ned, get your lines right:

NED: Heavens! This is the OC, bitch! I kill you now! [chuckles likes a baritone Popeye] But first, some My Bloody Valentine, so you may have at least a little beauty as you die! [Throws a CD-r into the stereo; programs it to play "Glider" at top volume. Stands before the cast for a few seconds, with an expression of bliss on his face. Then whips out his samurai sword, and starts slicing up everyone in the room.]

― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 30 October 2003 16:54 (twenty years ago) link

This is a beatific vision that I will adhere to for the rest of my days. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 30 October 2003 17:00 (twenty years ago) link

this show rules you fuckers! you probably hated 90210 too!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Thursday, 30 October 2003 17:41 (twenty years ago) link

Funny you should say that.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 30 October 2003 17:44 (twenty years ago) link

i hated 90210 with a passion. I like this show though.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 30 October 2003 17:44 (twenty years ago) link

I can't help but watch this show and marvel at how bad of an actress that lead girl is

Thank you Jeanne! God, she is the perfect example of the model-turned-actress. I can't see how she could win our hero's heart. And Carey, the son was doing those stupid hand gestures, overtime bitch!

I really want to like this show, but every time I watch it, it gives me the creeps.

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 30 October 2003 17:45 (twenty years ago) link

like studying in the nude.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 30 October 2003 18:00 (twenty years ago) link

You studying in the nude does not give me the creeps as such.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 30 October 2003 18:01 (twenty years ago) link

sometimes i wish i could watch this show, but i think the episodes conjured in my head are better anyhow.

― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 30 October 2003 18:30 (twenty years ago) link

they're screening at the forum des images soon anyway

― s1utsky (slutsky), Thursday, 30 October 2003 20:21 (twenty years ago) link

Seriously, though, I try to come up with a solid, rational reason for why I tune in, and I can't do it. Pop culture has me by the privates. Sad.

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 30 October 2003 20:24 (twenty years ago) link

6 months for a kiss. cripes, i would have been knee deep in ass by now.

― Chris Hungus (Chris V), Thursday, 6 November 2003 13:53 (twenty years ago) link

Is that illegal?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 6 November 2003 14:04 (twenty years ago) link

probably.

― Chris Hungus (Chris V), Thursday, 6 November 2003 14:51 (twenty years ago) link

This show is 1000 times better than 90210. I will never go out on a Wednesday again.

I still see no hand movements, Mary. We need to watch this together with a laser pointer.

― Carey (Carey), Thursday, 6 November 2003 17:07 (twenty years ago) link

is it just me or is the ken-doll cheating ex boyfriend by far the most interesting character in the show? it seems very deliberate.

(and by "far" i mean his character demonstrates rudimentary conflicts of emotion and as many as two dimensions to his personality.)

― ryan (ryan), Thursday, 6 November 2003 17:13 (twenty years ago) link

oh his crying scene was high comedy all the way. they couldn't have rubbed some hot peppers in his eyes to make it more believable.

― Chris Hungus (Chris V), Thursday, 6 November 2003 17:16 (twenty years ago) link

besides i dont like the teenage girl bait of Ryan being some sort of solid, "whatever you desire", puppy dog for the boring lead girl.

― ryan (ryan), Thursday, 6 November 2003 17:17 (twenty years ago) link

but he was mean! he did a bad thing

― s1utsky (slutsky), Thursday, 6 November 2003 17:23 (twenty years ago) link

i like the girl that helps Seth out much more than that Summer chick.

― Chris Hungus (Chris V), Thursday, 6 November 2003 17:23 (twenty years ago) link

Carey, G. calls them *wrist* movements. Do you see now? This show always ends great. The kiss on the ferris wheel ride, the good music, etc. It's the stuff btwn the opening credits and the final scenes that sucks.

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 6 November 2003 17:26 (twenty years ago) link

peter gallagher shouldn't have taken that case. bad move peter gallagher.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Thursday, 6 November 2003 17:31 (twenty years ago) link

don't worry, we'll get through this. there's a reason we're together

― ron (ron), Friday, 7 November 2003 02:47 (twenty years ago) link

I only caught the last 20 minutes last night. But they played Leaves when they were going to fuck.

I hope Seth goes with the Pittsburgh girl. Or both as we see in the previews.

― Chris B. Sure (Chris V), Thursday, 13 November 2003 13:48 (twenty years ago) link

arseholes.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 13 November 2003 13:57 (twenty years ago) link

Mischa Barton's face is set on permanent half-smirk. She's like the girl van der Beek.

― Keith Harris (kharris1128), Thursday, 13 November 2003 14:39 (twenty years ago) link

Except she doesn't have a head like a juice box.

― Keith Harris (kharris1128), Thursday, 13 November 2003 14:40 (twenty years ago) link

or the chin.

― Chris B. Sure (Chris V), Thursday, 13 November 2003 14:40 (twenty years ago) link

Now that I think about it, she's got much more of an Andrew Shue expression--there's a vacant incredulousness to the smirk.

― Keith Harris (kharris1128), Thursday, 13 November 2003 14:45 (twenty years ago) link

my friend's brother is picking the music for this show starting with last night's episode. Only spoiler he has leaked is that the parents go to a key party on the New Year's Eve episode.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Thursday, 13 November 2003 15:17 (twenty years ago) link

i like some of the score-type music. specifically the poignant piano bit which seems to play during the last 10 mins of drama in each episode

― ron (ron), Thursday, 13 November 2003 15:39 (twenty years ago) link

They didn't have sex yet!!! What about SWEEPS???

― Carey (Carey), Thursday, 13 November 2003 23:12 (twenty years ago) link

i have a feeling the female lead would crack like a wishbone if she actually had sex

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 13 November 2003 23:14 (twenty years ago) link

That might be the most accurate thing about the show.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 13 November 2003 23:18 (twenty years ago) link

gives a whole new meaning to "menage a tois"

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 13 November 2003 23:19 (twenty years ago) link

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 13 November 2003 23:19 (twenty years ago) link

hee hee

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 13 November 2003 23:22 (twenty years ago) link

I made a bet last night about ten minutes in that they'd have sex by the end of the episode and I was under the impression that they were at the end, so I claimed I won. But my friend said no. I guess we'll see!

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Friday, 14 November 2003 00:12 (twenty years ago) link

I just found out that Mischa Barton, the lead, was the little draino girl that could in the 6th Sense.

http://members.aol.com/forexcap/sixtrail2.JPG

― Carey (Carey), Friday, 14 November 2003 00:24 (twenty years ago) link

This show is bad. It's like "The Heights" level bad. Like "Models Inc" bad...

― Keith Harris (kharris1128), Friday, 14 November 2003 04:59 (twenty years ago) link

hee hee "the heights"

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 14 November 2003 05:01 (twenty years ago) link

How do YOU talk to an angel, fiddo?

― Keith Harris (kharris1128), Friday, 14 November 2003 05:04 (twenty years ago) link

mmmm jamie whatshisface. he was dreamy.

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 14 November 2003 05:08 (twenty years ago) link

i think he became a born again. like vanity.

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 14 November 2003 05:08 (twenty years ago) link

Sooner or later, Jesus snatches 'em all up.

― Keith Harris (kharris1128), Friday, 14 November 2003 05:16 (twenty years ago) link

[insert Mase photo here]

― oops (Oops), Friday, 14 November 2003 05:24 (twenty years ago) link

This show is very good at the little things, warm humorous moments where the Gallagher family sits around the breakfast table and makes fun of each other. Where it falters is in its need to introduce at least one, often more than one, melodramatic plot twist into each episode. Seth is proving to be a much more charming leading man than the other kid -- I don't really see why they need the other kid at all. If this show was on the WB it might have the ooportunity to achieve greatness -- to develop slowly and find its stride. As it is, Fox network will likely suck every last blast of inspiration from it and it will be cancelled by next year. Also, it really simplifies things by having such a dimwitted female girl cast. The audience's sympathy cannot stray from Seth and the other boy.

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 28 November 2003 00:23 (twenty years ago) link

is seth the guy with the black hair? the guy from gilmore girls?

― amateur!st (amateurist), Friday, 28 November 2003 00:26 (twenty years ago) link

That's what I'm calling him anyway, though I could be wrong. And yes, farmboy has a disastrous hairstyle. Modern America really must decide what it to be done about male bangs.

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 28 November 2003 00:28 (twenty years ago) link

seth is dreamy.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 28 November 2003 01:21 (twenty years ago) link

the parents rule

― s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 28 November 2003 01:54 (twenty years ago) link

drunk mom on the thanksgiving episode was awesome: "fresh margs!"

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 28 November 2003 01:58 (twenty years ago) link

I think peter gallagher has really hit his stride with this show

unfortunately I missed that thanksgiving episode! everyone told me it was awesome though

― s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 28 November 2003 02:00 (twenty years ago) link

awesomeness slightly detracted from due to seth's awful girlfriends, though. mary is right - get some new ladies in there!

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 28 November 2003 02:37 (twenty years ago) link

I have a theory that summer is what's-her-face from that '70s show's daughter

― s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 28 November 2003 02:56 (twenty years ago) link

I missed Drunk Mom -- though the ladeez at 'arobilates' coudn't stop talking about her. These particular parents really aren't so bad, as far as TV parents go, they may be the tops. I'll have to think about this some more. But Mom was looking a bit more haggard than usual, at first I thought it was just the hangover, but it seemed to last throughout the episode. Seth was such a cutie-pie on Gilmore Girls -- I just bet Lane will never get a boyfriend again. Also, he seemed to have his wrist/hand motions in check last episode.

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 28 November 2003 03:45 (twenty years ago) link

Mary, why must you taunt me like this!

― Carey (Carey), Friday, 28 November 2003 10:47 (twenty years ago) link

I know, it must super suck to be traveling throughout Europe and not have any access to the O.C. I hope you at least taped it?

― Mary (Mary), Sunday, 30 November 2003 03:08 (twenty years ago) link

one month passes...

I think this show jumped the shark last night, and you know it pains me to even use that phrase. But really: two, *two* Members Only jackets, gratuitous irony, over use of already played out on the web "young women like the Golden Girls" meme from like four months ago, and generic cheese faux indie band featuring a Coppola as the main "event". Even Mr. Slopey-Haired Oliver seems flown in from a John Hughes film. The solution to this is more stories about the adults (and I am probably only saying this because I am OLD).

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Friday, 9 January 2004 00:16 (twenty years ago) link

I take it you're not a Roony fan then

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 9 January 2004 00:19 (twenty years ago) link

Who the fuck are Rooney? Is this an LA thing? AMG tells me they were formed last year and already have an album out on Geffen.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Friday, 9 January 2004 00:21 (twenty years ago) link

What is it you're all talking about again?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 9 January 2004 00:24 (twenty years ago) link

@d@m will never be a REAL Californian

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Friday, 9 January 2004 00:26 (twenty years ago) link

I feel that last night requires me to have an opinion on Rooney in order to be cool but I cannot quite gather up the willpower to care

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Friday, 9 January 2004 00:27 (twenty years ago) link

@d@m will never be a REAL Californian

He is probably fortunate in this regard.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 9 January 2004 00:46 (twenty years ago) link

Who's the dark-haired boy with the choked-off voice that makes me want to pull my brains out? I guess you could call him my ultimate guilty pleasure because coming to the realization that I think he's hot has been one of the most frustrating things about my relationship with pop culture lately. God I hate to love him!!!

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 9 January 2004 00:57 (twenty years ago) link

you speak of Seth Cohen, Eric, he is the "secret boyfriend" of every girl I know. yet I hear the actor is as annoying as he seems.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Friday, 9 January 2004 01:02 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.soapsite.com/oc/images/individuals/seth05.jpg

Don't fucking talk about my boyfriend like that.

― Carey (Carey), Friday, 9 January 2004 01:03 (twenty years ago) link

God, his voice sounds more plugged up with his own self-satisfaction than John Mayer's! (I really really hate loving him.)

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 9 January 2004 01:05 (twenty years ago) link

It's like this: he's probably one of the only celeb dudes I find attractive that makes me feel like a straight girl for loving him, instead of a gay dude.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 9 January 2004 01:05 (twenty years ago) link

(uh... I mean... love ya, straight girls!)

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 9 January 2004 01:11 (twenty years ago) link

i think seth cohen is funny. and his mom is hot. peter gallagher was pissed off cuz he wanted to walk around wearing nothing but his eyebrows and smear bagels all over his wifes ass, but alas hot moms sister did not go out. Petey was pissed.

― Chris V (Chris V), Friday, 9 January 2004 12:31 (twenty years ago) link

Does anyone else think the prop department uses Gypsy Moths as Peteys eyebrows?

― Chris V (Chris V), Friday, 9 January 2004 14:00 (twenty years ago) link

Ha! The bagel fixation was interesting. I've sort of forgotten about Peter Gallagher's eyebrows (to the extent that it's possible) because of his character.

I think Seth Cohen rocks.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Friday, 9 January 2004 20:17 (twenty years ago) link

I like Peter Gallagher when he takes a chainsaw to all the furniture in Short Cuts.

Am I to understand that he is now among the cast of a popular television program? What is it called?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 9 January 2004 20:19 (twenty years ago) link

see thread title

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 9 January 2004 20:21 (twenty years ago) link

I'm still not sure I follow.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 9 January 2004 20:25 (twenty years ago) link

the show is called the OC! and it's great!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 9 January 2004 20:32 (twenty years ago) link

*shrugs in incomprehension*

Somebody should start a thread about it.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 9 January 2004 20:34 (twenty years ago) link

(I'm kidding s1ocki - I just keep missing it, so I have to exaggerate my ignorance of it in order to cement over my obvious disappointment)

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 9 January 2004 20:36 (twenty years ago) link

How about the scenes from the next episode where Oliver like, loses his shit?! Oh the dra-mamama!! I can't not watch this show. And wtf is up with the jock now being a "regular" dude?? Seth Cohen's cool with me, even though there's a fucking reference to Death Cab for Cutie in every goddamn episode.

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 9 January 2004 20:40 (twenty years ago) link

(and I would happily bone his TV mom.)

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 9 January 2004 20:40 (twenty years ago) link

i saw Tate Donavan (Jimmy Cooper, Marissa's dad) just last week when i was in NYC

i also saw Vincent Gallo and Chris Noth (Mr. Big from Sex and the City)

― JaXoN (JasonD), Friday, 9 January 2004 21:42 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah the show is overflowing with MILFs. I can't wait for Gilmore Girls to rerun the Dave scenes with Adam Brody.

― Carey (Carey), Friday, 9 January 2004 22:22 (twenty years ago) link

i have yet to see "l'o.c." posters here, sadly

― amateur!st (amateurist), Saturday, 10 January 2004 17:51 (twenty years ago) link

I like Peter Gallagher when he takes a chainsaw to all the furniture in Short Cuts.

That was Peter Gallagher? How he has fallen.

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 12 January 2004 08:45 (twenty years ago) link

this show is crack.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 02:57 (twenty years ago) link

seriously, it made me so happy tonight, you don't even know.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 04:19 (twenty years ago) link

I want to kill Oliver what an annoying little fuck. Luke = Ian Ziering

― Chris V (Chris V), Thursday, 15 January 2004 13:09 (twenty years ago) link

Chino needs to dump Marissa, aside from a nice pair of shoulder blades she now has no redeeming qualities whatsoever.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Thursday, 15 January 2004 18:54 (twenty years ago) link

marissa and that creepy eddie haskell fuck deserve each other. like i said, the young ladies on the show are total duds! it makes me want to weep when i think of poor, sweet, adorable seth saddled with a shrill bottle-blond who has no idea how to wear plaid. it really does.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 15 January 2004 18:58 (twenty years ago) link

So what's the deal with Oliver? He has some dark secret that we don't know about, right? And he's transferring to the OC high school. I hope Ryan gives him a big frickin beatdown. And dude, seeing Seth in old-man pajamas was more annoying than either those chicks.

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 15 January 2004 19:51 (twenty years ago) link

Luke = Ian Ziering
YES. Scary YES, at that.

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 15 January 2004 19:55 (twenty years ago) link

four weeks pass...

ok this show is going to jump the shark as soon as Luke bangs Marissa's mother. And why oh why didn't they shoot Oliver.

― Chris V (Chris V), Thursday, 12 February 2004 15:26 (twenty years ago) link

Cohens mom is looking hotter and hotter every show. I'd like to redecorate her office if you know what i mean....

― Chris V (Chris V), Thursday, 12 February 2004 15:31 (twenty years ago) link

I was surprised that this thread wasn't revived yet.

They handled the Mrs. Robinsonesque plotline better than I expected (I was thinking it was going to jump the shark too). But Luke is such a fucking idiot. That whole thing with Marisa's mom is dumb.

And Seth got some! His conversation with Ryan about it cracked me up. Fish sex!

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Thursday, 19 February 2004 20:47 (twenty years ago) link

i don't want to talk about the fish sex. i'm still angry that seth is with that tramp.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 19 February 2004 22:12 (twenty years ago) link

what you saying?!??!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 19 February 2004 22:12 (twenty years ago) link

I like how Seth threw on a vinyl copy of Ryan Adams covering Oasis. Why buy Ryan Adams on vinyl? Or cd for that matter. I seriously thought it was one of the best episodes i've seen so far though. I really wish Sandy was my father, he's a funny.

― Chris V (Chris V), Friday, 20 February 2004 12:28 (twenty years ago) link

NOT EXACTLY MY THING but I think my venemous gonowhere thread was mainly cos the main guy looks a LOT like the Guardian guy

― Silly Sailor (Andrew Thames), Friday, 20 February 2004 12:41 (twenty years ago) link

One Tree Hill catching up on the O.C.

These two shows always get mixed up in my mind anyway. They should do some sort of cross-thing, like Seth goes to N.C. and hooks up with Peynton. Too bad they're not on the same network.

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 20:20 (twenty years ago) link

Actually, I am most confused by the similarity of the two ditzy brunette, best-friend side kicks who end up stealing the affection of the leading men:

Brooke
http://www.thewb.com/THEWB/Images/Dynamic/i44/OT-SBush-A_1x1_72.jpg

Summer
http://www.fox.com/oc/pictures/images/summer3.jpg

Not to mention this Joey Potter–manque, Haley
http://www.nepatoday.com/images/content/100703wbprimetimes.jpg

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 21:00 (twenty years ago) link

some fun facts: the role of ryan on the o.c. was first offered to chad michael murray, who passed to be lucas on one tree hill because he thought it was more well-written. also, the role of solid, working-class uncle keith on the latter show is played by craig sheffer, who many years ago was the rich kid villain hardy jenns in some kind of wonderful.
brooke is terrible, but perhaps not quite as irritating as summer.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 23:13 (twenty years ago) link

what the heck is one tree hill?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 23:20 (twenty years ago) link

An abomination. Just take my word for it.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 23:20 (twenty years ago) link

is it a good abomination?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 23:37 (twenty years ago) link

These parallels are muy interesting. I can't believe CMM passed on the O.C. He will be floundering in WB-obsuritie foreva. My mom say the O.C. version of CMM on a talk show--said he was cuter on the show that on the O.C. From VA I think, C'ville? One Tree Hill grows. The cinematography is very good. I don't think they know what they are doing lately so ever episode is like, storm, near-death, hurricane, car crash, near-death, etc. If I had to choose between Brooke and Summer I think I would choose summer. Looks like CMM lost out again. Maybe Bertolucci will keep him in mind for his next movie. Bertolluci should direct a WB–series.

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 26 February 2004 01:35 (twenty years ago) link

(PS: One Tree Hill is on after Gilmore Girls, which, as we all know, introduced to the world to the O.C.'s Seth.)

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 26 February 2004 01:36 (twenty years ago) link

gilmore girls tonight was awesome!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 26 February 2004 05:13 (twenty years ago) link

I saw about 10 minutes once and thought it was the most painful TV I'd ever seen. WTF?

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 26 February 2004 05:24 (twenty years ago) link

(Yeah, I hated 90210 too.)

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 26 February 2004 05:24 (twenty years ago) link

you talking about the OC?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 26 February 2004 05:25 (twenty years ago) link

punk?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 26 February 2004 05:25 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah, the OC. Never seen Gilmore Girls. How can anyone like this? I can't even look at the characters for very long, let alone sit through their 'dialogue'.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 26 February 2004 06:02 (twenty years ago) link

Is One Tree Hill more Dawson's Creek-esque?

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 26 February 2004 06:13 (twenty years ago) link

(than the OC)

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 26 February 2004 06:15 (twenty years ago) link

this thread makes me more homesick than anything somehow

i think mary is correct, bertolucci's destined to be a w.b. teen drama director and would be damn good at it, plus then we can have the inevitable rory gilmore/jean-louis trintigant showdown

― amateur!st (amateurist), Thursday, 26 February 2004 08:08 (twenty years ago) link

"You're dating that emo geek?"

har har

Theresa rules over Marissa, btw.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Thursday, 26 February 2004 08:11 (twenty years ago) link

You guys can talk all the shit you want about O.C., G.G., and similar, but you have to at least respect the ability they have to make a guy like me wanna go out and murder some white people

― Le Coq, Thursday, 26 February 2004 08:18 (twenty years ago) link

yeeps!

sundar you should make sure you watch some of the scenes with peter gallagher.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 26 February 2004 15:24 (twenty years ago) link

What happened on G.G.? I missed it.

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 26 February 2004 19:18 (twenty years ago) link

Lorelai's mom freaked out about feeling like she hadn't achieved anything in her life. Luke loaned Lorelai money. Dean, predictably, still has a thing for Rory, and seems to be feeling a bit overwhelmed in his marriage. I don't remember what else offhand.

Is One Tree Hill worth seeing?

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Thursday, 26 February 2004 19:40 (twenty years ago) link

I've started watching One Tree Hill almost religiously because Peyton is a dead ringer for my girlfriend, which makes the show kind of creepy and surreal.

I think that's neither endorsement nor criticism.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 26 February 2004 19:45 (twenty years ago) link

Is no one else weirded out by Moira Kelly and Craig Scheffer playing characters old enough to have teenage kids? That adds to the surrealism for me, that's for damn sure.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 26 February 2004 19:48 (twenty years ago) link

yeah, i think that's freaky. as i mentioned upthread, the last time i remember seeing craig sheffer he was terrorizing the nerdy kids in teen movies so his new role is a bit strange to me.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 26 February 2004 20:03 (twenty years ago) link

Definitely, give One Tree Hill a try. I think G.G. should come up with some new challenges for Lorelai besides the money thing. We all know that her parents will bail her out in the end, even if it was Luke who did the loaning this time. I like Moira, but Craig, no offense, but he looks a little . . . is part of his face paralyzed or something?

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 26 February 2004 20:07 (twenty years ago) link

in the wtf! dept, has anyone noticed that peyton's webcam/site is called punk and disorderly?

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 26 February 2004 20:12 (twenty years ago) link

Haha, yes I noticed, but I just got the full signif now!

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 26 February 2004 20:18 (twenty years ago) link

The "Arrested Development" parallels are getting a little thick... now not only are they both Newport Beach McMansion shows, but "The OC" is working in a construction business scandal plot... ("AD" is much better of course.)

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Thursday, 26 February 2004 20:22 (twenty years ago) link

moira kelly with a teenage kid? why just yesterday she was skating/falling in love with db sweeney

but you know me, i was freaked out by martin donovan having teenaged kids in 'pasadena'

― amateur!st (amateurist), Thursday, 26 February 2004 21:07 (twenty years ago) link

hahah amateurist makes a cutting edge reference! i knew it i knew it!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 26 February 2004 21:36 (twenty years ago) link

dude i copied that sucker off the tv!

― amateur!st (amateurist), Thursday, 26 February 2004 21:38 (twenty years ago) link

Cutting Edge is exactly why it freaks me out!

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 26 February 2004 21:45 (twenty years ago) link

one month passes...

(From Page 6) Luke may not return:

ONE of the hot young actors on Fox's "The O.C." might not be back next year. Chris Carmack, who plays Luke Ward, declined to sign a contract with the series - not due to money concerns, as some people were saying, but because producers refused to guarantee him airtime in the upcoming year. "It's not about money," Carmack's rep, Jerry Shandrew, said. "They gave him a generous raise. They just refused to give him a guarantee. He's bummed people would think he would leave the show because of money. Chris has a lot going on. He couldn't sign a contract without a guarantee. He is doing a movie with Dennis Hopper for USA, 'The Last Ride,' and has some other things on the table. Chris decided to keep on working without a contract and pursue other roles." Other actors on the series, including Benjamin McKenzie, Mischa Barton, Peter Gallagher and Adam Brody, are said to already have signed contracts that do give them guaranteed airtime.

― Mary (Mary), Sunday, 28 March 2004 20:46 (twenty years ago) link

He's "bummed" because they've totally turned him into Ryan's bitch.

― c. (synkro), Sunday, 28 March 2004 20:57 (twenty years ago) link

one month passes...

God bless bittorrent. Now I get to catch up with you all.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 30 April 2004 16:20 (twenty years ago) link

Where should I look for OC Torrents? Is suprnova the best for TV?

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 30 April 2004 16:22 (twenty years ago) link

It is for me.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 30 April 2004 16:24 (twenty years ago) link

were the beastie boys on the oc??

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Friday, 30 April 2004 16:26 (twenty years ago) link

I'm embarassed to say I know this, but their new single was featured prominantly in this week's episode. The BB themselves were not in the episode. This was the first episode I've ever watched and it sucked.

― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 30 April 2004 16:28 (twenty years ago) link

I'm embarassed for the Boys. How sad.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Friday, 30 April 2004 16:29 (twenty years ago) link

I'm embarrassed for the O.C.!

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Friday, 30 April 2004 16:36 (twenty years ago) link

it was the best ep ever!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 30 April 2004 17:29 (twenty years ago) link

I'll let you know in a couple of weeks.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 30 April 2004 17:30 (twenty years ago) link

i have been informed that there was a catfight in the pool. But I haven't seen it yet because I was busy that night.

I kind of thought this show jumped the shark with the Rooney episode but it's regained it's footing by focusing on the adults more. Oh how I wish Marissa would choke on something though.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 30 April 2004 17:50 (twenty years ago) link

The blonde girl is taking the news that her boyfriend knocked someone up well.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 6 May 2004 00:22 (twenty years ago) link

Oh god they just played Iron & Wine.

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 6 May 2004 00:38 (twenty years ago) link

maudlin last episode but all in all CONGRATULATIONS OC & THX FOR A GREAT YEAR!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 6 May 2004 02:10 (twenty years ago) link

I wonder if farmboy will return to the O.C. fold next year? I hope modelgirl leaves too.

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 6 May 2004 05:05 (twenty years ago) link

i don't know who you're talking about, but that dour preggers girl has got to go pronto!

oh you're talking about luke? apparently he left because he wanted more money!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 6 May 2004 05:19 (twenty years ago) link

oh no, dour preggers girl is the best!

I like how Ryan reverted to his Chino uniform (wifebeater, shitty jacket) when he moved out.

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 6 May 2004 05:37 (twenty years ago) link

she's the worst!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 6 May 2004 05:39 (twenty years ago) link

marissa is the worst! with her tiny teeth and shoulder blades like fins!

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 6 May 2004 05:40 (twenty years ago) link

dour preggers girl sucks the air out of every scene she's in and also she looks like she's 37

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 6 May 2004 05:41 (twenty years ago) link

and she took ryan away!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 6 May 2004 05:41 (twenty years ago) link

she is hawtttt

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 6 May 2004 05:42 (twenty years ago) link

i like how, just because ryan has maybe a 50/50 chance of being the father of this baby, it means he has to move all the way to chino for her first trimester. to do what, exactly?

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 6 May 2004 05:43 (twenty years ago) link

i know! i think she kidnapped him!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 6 May 2004 05:43 (twenty years ago) link

they really piled it on with that closing "hallelujah" montage, didn't they?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 6 May 2004 05:44 (twenty years ago) link

I assume the hidden meaning is that Seth will DROWN

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 6 May 2004 05:45 (twenty years ago) link

When will S1 be released on DVD? I haven't seen any before this.

I already had to restrain myself from buying the first season of Gilmore Girls today

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 6 May 2004 06:02 (twenty years ago) link

Hem hem, can a moderator put SPOILERS!!! in the thread title for us Brits who are only on episode 5 please?

I do not think one single girl on this show is good looking, but it doesn't matter because my heart spends each episode having a rowdy punch-up with itself over whether it prefers Ryan or Seth. I think Seth clinches it at the moment. ROWR. Sparrow shoulders should run off with lantern jaw and good riddance to them, I say.

Fans of Camera Obscura might like to listen out for one of their songs, which I hear will be used in an episode some time soon.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 6 May 2004 09:35 (twenty years ago) link

Yes, they played Iron and Wine and I almost threw up. I love the show but dont do this to me.

Does Seth really intend to sail to Tahiti on a catamaran? They'll probably spin off the show into Castaway 2. Seth and Captain Oats get stuck on a island and eat Death Cab cd's for 2 years.

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Thursday, 6 May 2004 09:50 (twenty years ago) link

LESSONS LEARNED, SEASON 1 OF OC:

1. Jeff Buckley's version of "Hallelujah" is the best song ever.
2. Peter Gallagher's eyebrows are cool.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 6 May 2004 11:54 (twenty years ago) link

3. All the moms are hot.
4. Hailey needs a hard fuckin.

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Thursday, 6 May 2004 12:11 (twenty years ago) link

yes, this thread is lacking in comment on the eyebrows. where have they been all season?

― amateur!st (amateurist), Thursday, 6 May 2004 13:32 (twenty years ago) link

They should have Fox-debuted "Irish Blood, English Heart" as Seth left home to chase after Ryan.

Mom was doing some serious crying--I felt moved.

Props for shadowing Dawson's Creek, but they can't top Season's 3 climactic Pacey/Joey boat trip.

What happened between Seth and Summer? (I haven't watched for a while.)

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 6 May 2004 15:28 (twenty years ago) link

Nothing really, she swore off sex with him.

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Thursday, 6 May 2004 15:30 (twenty years ago) link

This episode sucked. I wanted a big, rollicking wedding smash-up!

I liked the Jem song, strangely.

I'm finding the adults much, MUCH more interesting than the kids at this point. I hope the next season is mainly about them.

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Thursday, 6 May 2004 15:32 (twenty years ago) link

damn it. i missed last night's finale due to cinco de mayo margarita excess. sounds like a lot happened in 60 minutes. i heard something about this seth sailing away thing... what's up with that? if my boyfriend is leaving the show, then i'm going to be very unhappy.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 6 May 2004 16:03 (twenty years ago) link

that JEff Buckley rendition of Hallelujah is godsend. One of the most beautiful recordings I've ever heard. then again, I love the entire album anyway.

― uh (eetface), Thursday, 6 May 2004 16:04 (twenty years ago) link

album as in, Grace, not O.C. soundtrack :)

― uh (eetface), Thursday, 6 May 2004 16:04 (twenty years ago) link

It'll be cool when he returns all muscly and tanned and bearded and rock-eating insane and Summer's all like "muy macho" and he's like "SAY WILSON MY BEST FRIEND SOCCER BALL, WHAT SAY YE?".

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 6 May 2004 16:06 (twenty years ago) link

jeff buckley hallelujah used in this show reeks of unearned pathos

― amateur!st (amateurist), Thursday, 6 May 2004 16:10 (twenty years ago) link

they earned it pal!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 6 May 2004 16:50 (twenty years ago) link

i will die if anything happens to seth! oh, god... the thought of it makes me shudder.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 6 May 2004 17:08 (twenty years ago) link

maybe he's going to become a pirate!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 6 May 2004 17:10 (twenty years ago) link

I might actually watch the O.c. next season, since Angel will be no more.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Thursday, 6 May 2004 17:13 (twenty years ago) link

Okay, so I watched this last night and WOW did it suck gigantic moose nuts! Why is the "tough guy" the wimpiest thing on television since Wimpy? Why is his romantic interest an escaped animatronic doll from "It's A Small World After All"? Why is the "girl" he knocked up played by a 45-year-old drag queen? Why is Peter Gallagher played by a 65-year-old drag queen? Is there anyone on the show who shouldn't get beaten with bricks?

I am never watching this again (until the reruns start).

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 May 2004 17:17 (twenty years ago) link

Is there anyone on the show who shouldn't get beaten with bricks?

On that front, the depiction of many OC people is refreshingly realistic.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 6 May 2004 17:18 (twenty years ago) link

I liked the Jem song, strangely.

TRULY OUTRAGEOUS etc etc.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 May 2004 17:19 (twenty years ago) link

You picked the worst possible episode to watch, Dan!

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Thursday, 6 May 2004 17:26 (twenty years ago) link

seriously

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 6 May 2004 17:58 (twenty years ago) link

Huh. I think I've seen 1 1/2 episodes. I missed last night's because I was too busy watching the silly BEHIND FRIENDS 2-hour long episode during which I faked crying and stared at the TV as though as though I was watching it all ironicly.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 6 May 2004 18:01 (twenty years ago) link

Okay, so I watched this last night and WOW did it suck gigantic moose nuts!

For reals. What a gross let-down. And the end scene of Seth Cohen sailing away on his dinghy into the sunset??? What the fuck? It was Dynasty bad.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 6 May 2004 18:41 (twenty years ago) link

For a second it looked like he was on a windsurfer; just how far does he plan to get on "Endless Summer."

And he really dissed Summer when he told her that she wouldn't be enough for him if farmboy wasn't around. She was trying to be supportive, "we'll get through this," and he was all, "I just need to be alone right now."

It will serve him right if they go DC style and she takes up photography when he's gone and makes a new life for herself with the ones who were left behind.

Why does Marissa have to live with Mommie now? She actually looked a tiny but closer to normal last episode--I think it was the low shoes and dorky cropped pants they had on her.

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 6 May 2004 20:22 (twenty years ago) link

Is Marissa the animatronic Fembot?

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 May 2004 20:46 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah, Pretty much, Dan. She is painfully skinny.

Yeah, I'm jealous.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 6 May 2004 20:48 (twenty years ago) link

I forgot to mention I'm hooked on this show. I can't believe I only started watching it now. Oh, all the wasted hours I could've been watching this!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 6 May 2004 20:49 (twenty years ago) link

Complicating matters is that I think this show sucks.

― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 6 May 2004 20:50 (twenty years ago) link

she has to live with mommy because stepdad threatened to ruin her father if she didn't. although with stepdad's legal problems now I don't see how he has any leverage.

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 6 May 2004 21:00 (twenty years ago) link

Watched this just once last month. The debutante ep where Marissa's dad gets punched out by Irate Money-Owed-To Guy. Thought it was mondo average, reckoned they should crossover with Dawson. Or Gilmore Girls.

The worst part is Mischa helped make Lawn Dogs one of my most cherished movies of the last decade. But this is not right.

― Barima (Barima), Thursday, 6 May 2004 21:02 (twenty years ago) link

mondo average

That's actually a very good description of The OC.

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Thursday, 6 May 2004 21:04 (twenty years ago) link

You say GG or Dawson's crossover like it was a bad thing!

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 6 May 2004 21:09 (twenty years ago) link

Thx, morris.

I like Lorelei, but GG committed the heinous sin of hiring professional teenage twunt, Milo Ventimigliavenus or whatever it is. As for DC, I still only treasure Dawson and Jen.

― Barima (Barima), Thursday, 6 May 2004 21:14 (twenty years ago) link

She was actually kind of good as the lesbian interest on Once and Again (thanks for C. for that). If I am remebering correctly, she dismayed a smidgeon of personality during her brief tenure on that show?

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 6 May 2004 21:41 (twenty years ago) link

Did I coach her on being a lesbian interest?

― Carey (Carey), Thursday, 6 May 2004 21:43 (twenty years ago) link

I believe that is what they retained you for.)

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 6 May 2004 21:47 (twenty years ago) link

fembot girl always looks sleepy in photos

i do think her face has a harsh kind of beauty though, and she has funny sharp teeth à la sarah polley

― amateur!st (amateurist), Friday, 7 May 2004 06:29 (nineteen years ago) link

i love those kind of teeth! seriously

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 7 May 2004 14:42 (nineteen years ago) link

ESPN.com's Bill Simmons/'The Sports Guy' bashes Friends and praises the OC on yesterday's Page 2.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Saturday, 8 May 2004 06:17 (nineteen years ago) link

three months pass...

yeah, sorry, I like this.

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 16:14 (nineteen years ago) link

that's because it's good.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 16:16 (nineteen years ago) link

when is it coming back? I miss my OC friends!

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 16:17 (nineteen years ago) link

so do i. i'm also missing my pals over on one tree hill.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 16:19 (nineteen years ago) link

'californ-YAAAH...'

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 16:20 (nineteen years ago) link

is it still unsafe to say that i think the skinny girl is hot?

― amateur!!st, Wednesday, 25 August 2004 16:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Bring back the wrath of Julie Cooper!!

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 16:22 (nineteen years ago) link

is it still unsafe to say that i think the skinny girl is hot?

ew yes

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 16:22 (nineteen years ago) link

I've been thinking about this show lately, too... come back, "OC"!

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 16:23 (nineteen years ago) link

who sings that theme song?

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 16:23 (nineteen years ago) link

is it still unsafe to say that i think the skinny girl is hot?
ew yes

-- kyle (akmonda...), August 25th, 2004.

(slinks back to "white girls with fat asses" thread...)

― amateur!!st, Wednesday, 25 August 2004 16:23 (nineteen years ago) link

I got all verklempt
when I saw the ad where they're
all in formal wear

I can see this show
dealing with some deep dark things...
then again, no way

(phantom planet, from their first record, theme-wise)

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 16:24 (nineteen years ago) link

I hate US ilxors, what with their season 3 pinings and their their complicated shoes.

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 16:27 (nineteen years ago) link

wait a minute.. there's no one tree hill in the u.k., is there?

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 16:31 (nineteen years ago) link

um, there is on E4 (sattelite-only) I think.

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 16:32 (nineteen years ago) link

seth is pretty dreamy.

― cºzen (Cozen), Friday, 27 August 2004 16:10 (nineteen years ago) link

seth and rory from g.g. is one of the cover of some teen magazine this week, so i discovered at border's yesterday

― amateur!!st, Friday, 27 August 2004 16:12 (nineteen years ago) link

my reactions watching this show are basically two-fold: i. woah (those eyebrows or one of the 1000 moments of drama in these kids' lives) and ii. you so dreamy!

― cºzen (Cozen), Friday, 27 August 2004 16:18 (nineteen years ago) link

When can I kick Ryan's ass?

― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Friday, 27 August 2004 19:54 (nineteen years ago) link

i read that as "lick"

― amateur!!st, Friday, 27 August 2004 19:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Ha ha cozen I want Seth's babies too.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 28 August 2004 06:47 (nineteen years ago) link

new episodes in November (in the US).

― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 28 August 2004 06:47 (nineteen years ago) link

This thread is dirtied by mentions of the gilmore girls.

― Nellie (nellskies), Saturday, 28 August 2004 15:31 (nineteen years ago) link

I never watched beyond the first episode of the OC, I see they are advertising the second series, 2pm on a Sunday afternoon I do believe. I still think the main guy looks like Lance from Neighbours.

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 28 August 2004 15:34 (nineteen years ago) link

It's not really the second series they're advertising on channel 4 - they cut the first US series in half so they'd have more airtime to show Big Brother in. : (

― cis (cis), Saturday, 28 August 2004 15:54 (nineteen years ago) link

I thought it might be something like that! I remember the first episode was only on in late feb...it was a very cold day, I had spaghetti, bacon and peas for dinner and sat by the gas fire in the kitchen and watched the O.C.

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 28 August 2004 15:57 (nineteen years ago) link

OMG that yogalates bit on 'the secret' was one of the most classic tv dialogues I have seen in ages. I love this show.

― Nellie (nellskies), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 12:32 (nineteen years ago) link

one month passes...

its back.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 5 November 2004 12:54 (nineteen years ago) link

It's still here.

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 5 November 2004 12:57 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm still in it.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 5 November 2004 13:20 (nineteen years ago) link

I watched this for the first time last night. That bit about the pony with alopecia was fucking GREAT! Is this show a worthy investment of an hour a week? Guess I should actually read the thread.

― quincie, Friday, 5 November 2004 13:35 (nineteen years ago) link

On DSTV's 'teen channel' Go, Adam Brody is in some pre-OC show where he's friends with 3 teenage idiots. Hi jinks ensue. A month ago, The Daily Mail's Saturday magazine supplement hailed him a style icon. Last week, I saw him in American Pie 2. The other night, he was getting Punk'd.

Guess who's slowly becoming irritating in my book?

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Friday, 5 November 2004 14:01 (nineteen years ago) link

I still love it.
Marisa's teenage fit was freakin' perfect.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 5 November 2004 15:20 (nineteen years ago) link

Not knowing that Season 2 actually premiered last night, I caught the OC for the first time yesterday (my friend, recently hooked, had rented the last DVD of Season 1). Having lost Buffy, Angel and 24 starting only in January, I might have a new reason (excuse) to watch TV again (though this is purely rebound after those devastating blows).

― alex in montreal, Friday, 5 November 2004 15:35 (nineteen years ago) link

I used to think that the greatest thing about this show was the interplay between Seth and Sandy, but I now think that it's all about RACHEL BILSON and her brilliant line deliveries. Huge Swoony Crush.

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Friday, 5 November 2004 16:31 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm going to refer to sporty people as "Chino" from now on.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 5 November 2004 16:32 (nineteen years ago) link

BILSON
http://www.the-oc.org/images/rachel/mags/08.jpg

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Friday, 5 November 2004 16:33 (nineteen years ago) link

and jeanne OTM

and apologeez for the cheezcake picture, she is actually (if the "making of the o.c." show this summer is any evidence) a really smart person and i think a great actress. but shit damn motherf*cker is she hottttttt

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Friday, 5 November 2004 16:35 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm sure they're not, but the way that vest is tucked under her boobs makes them look a bit saggy.

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 5 November 2004 16:36 (nineteen years ago) link

even better! they might actually be real!

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Friday, 5 November 2004 16:38 (nineteen years ago) link

the seth/ryan plotline is SUCH a love story!! holy shit!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 5 November 2004 18:05 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah, it's pretty tender.

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Friday, 5 November 2004 18:13 (nineteen years ago) link

I broke down and bought season one on sale when I got Grand Theft Auto. I needed something to complement my Dawson's Creek and My So-Called Life DVDs.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Friday, 5 November 2004 22:20 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm through episode 4... this show is so good.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 05:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Still in season one over in Oz (Steve Sanders just crashed his car after the troll-queen got engaged to gramps). The best thing at this stage is definitely Seth/Summer. I love them so much.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 13:42 (nineteen years ago) link

two months pass...

The lez plot begins tonight. We discover Alex's ex is a chick. This is hot stuff, folks.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 20 January 2005 20:44 (nineteen years ago) link

There is My So Called Life on DVD? Shall I buy it and re-live fond memories of my HUUUUUGE crush on Rayanne? I still hold a candle for that girl.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 January 2005 20:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Ew.

― world's best grandpa (deangulberry), Thursday, 20 January 2005 20:46 (nineteen years ago) link

"candle"
xp hahaha

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 January 2005 20:46 (nineteen years ago) link

she was cool and fun and slutty and she did drugs and stuff.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 January 2005 20:47 (nineteen years ago) link

and when you get older, you will understand.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 January 2005 20:47 (nineteen years ago) link

Rayanne was tres hot.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 20 January 2005 20:54 (nineteen years ago) link

good. good.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 January 2005 20:56 (nineteen years ago) link

very good.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 January 2005 20:56 (nineteen years ago) link

adam, i think the little lady has the My so Called Life on DVD. if you promise not to defile it, you can borrow it

― Hella Fitzgerald (JasonD), Thursday, 20 January 2005 20:58 (nineteen years ago) link

I promise nothing!

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 January 2005 21:00 (nineteen years ago) link

oh my the black keys and matt pond tunes in the oc. what to do. and marissa and the hot blond bisexual almost rubbed beans to interpols "evil".

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 28 January 2005 18:47 (nineteen years ago) link

marissa marchant?

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Friday, 28 January 2005 18:50 (nineteen years ago) link

oh that would have been hot. imagine the emu noises.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 28 January 2005 18:51 (nineteen years ago) link

I heart the FOX lez action

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 28 January 2005 18:51 (nineteen years ago) link

I heart the weirdness of FOX embracing the comics sexy-cool thing. I think the lez action is necessary to balance it all out (the producers are all, "Okay, comics, sure, I see your point, but only if girls take off their tops together.")

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 28 January 2005 19:00 (nineteen years ago) link

i just hope marissa dies in one of these episodes, she's driving me nuts. only after she lezzes up.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:02 (nineteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

The kiss in Quicktime. I LOVE THE INTERNET.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 17 February 2005 19:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Man, not-Marissa looks old (comparatively) without her electroclash hair.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Thursday, 17 February 2005 19:41 (nineteen years ago) link

this show is sooooooo terrible now. i used to love it last season. everyone's just a fucking stereotype of themself. i used to love seth and now he's just a whining joke. it's all too obvious

― Tito JaXoN (JasonD), Thursday, 17 February 2005 20:04 (nineteen years ago) link

the mountains are visible, some snowcapped. blue, then deeper blue ridges.

― youn, Thursday, 17 February 2005 20:09 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, even though I still watch every week, this is becoming really old.

― alex in montreal, Thursday, 17 February 2005 20:21 (nineteen years ago) link

wheres your messiah now?

― latebloomer: HE WHOM DUELS THE DRAFGON IN ENDLESS DANCE (latebloomer), Thursday, 17 February 2005 20:42 (nineteen years ago) link

I have all the post-Xmas episodes Tivoed but I can't get excited enough to watch them. The first part of the season was weird and more soapy than I like (it went from being self-knowing and funny about its 90210ness to just plain 90210). Too many characters with too little to do and too little personality.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Thursday, 17 February 2005 21:01 (nineteen years ago) link

dud.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 17 February 2005 21:07 (nineteen years ago) link

tonight, the family might FALL APART!!

possible custody! sex scandals! streaked hair!

― scout (scout), Thursday, 17 February 2005 23:36 (nineteen years ago) link

the oc is turning into a major dud. I enjoyed it last season but now it is just a mess. Like a girl on girl kiss is supposed to be SCANDALOUS? Plus, Marissa is obnoxious. All the storylines are completely boring and stupid. Watch Veronica Mars instead. It has class wars, teen drama AND crime solving.

― gunther heartymeal, Thursday, 17 February 2005 23:48 (nineteen years ago) link

i hope marissa kills herself while listening to the black keys. cunt.

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Thursday, 17 February 2005 23:56 (nineteen years ago) link

nonono, see they did a really smart thing here: they managed to introduce two characters even more annoying and difficult to look at than marissa, thus making here seem more watchable/less likely to induce nausea.

that fake tattoo/fake purple streak/point-faced girl has gots ta go. ditto for the pseudo-melissa-joan-hart/linday lohan clone.

bring back the salad days of summer and seth!!

― scout (scout), Friday, 18 February 2005 00:28 (nineteen years ago) link

could this have been any worse? </chandler>

the spiderman kiss scene made me kick in my tv.

this is seriously turning into party of five.

― LaToya JaXoN (JasonD), Friday, 25 February 2005 05:55 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah, that was really embarrassing. I started groaning the minute he slipped off the roof.

― gunther heartymeal (keckles), Friday, 25 February 2005 05:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Amusingly, someone on my Oasis list posted to say, "Hey, there was a cover of 'Champagne Supernova' at the end of the episode!"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 25 February 2005 06:00 (nineteen years ago) link

"Hey, there was a cover of 'Champagne Supernova' at the end of the episode!"

i would like this show a lot more if a secondary character had actually uttered this line in the episode

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 25 February 2005 06:03 (nineteen years ago) link

This might be the worst S1-S2 falloff in TV history

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Friday, 25 February 2005 06:08 (nineteen years ago) link

You guys have no heart. Pretty indefensible, but I thought it was cute.

― alex in montreal, Friday, 25 February 2005 15:41 (nineteen years ago) link

they wrapped up everything in this episode, it was lame. also, starting your show with fucking BLIND MELON is not a good idea!!! WTF is this, 1996?

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 25 February 2005 16:53 (nineteen years ago) link

You people are all mental. There was so much lezzing in that episode last night that I didn't know whether to shit or go blind.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 25 February 2005 16:55 (nineteen years ago) link

the lezzing on this show is like forcing your sister's barbie dolls to make out.

I hope next week it is revealed that Julie Cooper did porn.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 25 February 2005 16:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Um, you are so very very wrong.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 25 February 2005 17:33 (nineteen years ago) link

"go blind"

― LaToya JaXoN (JasonD), Friday, 25 February 2005 18:46 (nineteen years ago) link

This week was actually good. Characters with personality, closing up pointless storylines, humor! Punk-grrl stops being a caricature and starts to approach being a real person (and they've dumped some of her truckload of makeup and the harsh lighting).

Maybe the writers finally noticed that this season was going badly and decided to change things.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Monday, 28 February 2005 07:11 (nineteen years ago) link

I was very amused that out of the "The O.C." soundtrack cds (three so far!), there are a number of bands that some friends follow. In fact, it could be argued that there's a significant subset of bands between their record collections and what's played on the show. There was some article in the NY Times where the show creator/writer guy gave some tips on what new albums to watch out for.

I really want to pretend to be the amazon recommendations by going to their apartment, looking at their music, and recommending "The O.C. Season 1" on dvd.

― mike h. (mike h.), Monday, 28 February 2005 20:26 (nineteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

sweater vests and white t-shirts are not a good combo

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Friday, 18 March 2005 20:29 (nineteen years ago) link

dude, it's getting so painful to watch.

― The JaXoN 5 (JasonD), Friday, 18 March 2005 21:16 (nineteen years ago) link

A fluke good episode a couple of weeks ago and then back downhill. The Alex-Marissa breakup was terrible, Seth is just annoying. Ryan getting excited about the possibility of fighting a grrl was funny, though. Julie Cooper does porn - also good.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Friday, 18 March 2005 21:41 (nineteen years ago) link

the julie cooper porn this is the only good thing this year. that woman is so porny looking anyway that when she tells caleb he should be all "uh, yeah, DUH" about it.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 18 March 2005 22:09 (nineteen years ago) link

I watched about half of it for the first time ever. Great show. Futureheads, Pixies, Husker Du etc etc Mischa Barton etc What's not to like?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 18 March 2005 22:10 (nineteen years ago) link

all the break-ups on this show are so forgiving. the dumpee is always like, yes, "go be with that other guy because you belong together. i'm not sad because it's more important that there be true love." this show needs more bitterness.

― crly, Friday, 18 March 2005 22:12 (nineteen years ago) link

What's not to like?

Mischa Barton

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 18 March 2005 22:14 (nineteen years ago) link

She is incredibly beautiful and seems charming.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 18 March 2005 22:16 (nineteen years ago) link

my friend just said she couldn't act her way out of Chino

BWHAHAHA

― The JaXoN 5 (JasonD), Friday, 18 March 2005 22:34 (nineteen years ago) link

she has been quoted as saying the worst, most awfully bitchy things over the past year though.

I find her a repulsive stack of bones. I think if they reveal that she is really a DEAD GIRL at the end of the season, all will be redeemed.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 18 March 2005 22:48 (nineteen years ago) link

this show should just be seth and summer shooting one liners back and forth for an hour and abandon all pretense of plot. or, kill all the kids and make it about peter gallagher and kiki.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 18 March 2005 22:50 (nineteen years ago) link

I'll miss Alex. WTF is up with Ryan's hair?? There's so damn much of it.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 18 March 2005 22:50 (nineteen years ago) link

dude has a chino mullet

― The JaXoN 5 (JasonD), Friday, 18 March 2005 22:54 (nineteen years ago) link

I saw Mischa Barton at a party last weekend, she is anything but a repulsive stack of bones - you're just going to have to trust me on this one: she is HOTTT.

I also think Peter Gallagher should have played Patrick Bateman 12 years ago.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 18 March 2005 23:08 (nineteen years ago) link

Mischa Barton was actually kind of hottt in last night's episode. She didn't look as bony and angular as usual. Still completely wooden, though.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Saturday, 19 March 2005 00:00 (nineteen years ago) link

five months pass...

Season premier tonight. Does anyone give a shit?

― *crickets* ƒur¥ (Je4nne Fury), Thursday, 8 September 2005 16:55 (eighteen years ago) link

I totally give a shit. mmm, escapism.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:10 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm hoping it's an improvement on last season, so I'll give it a few episodes.

But if it sucks, my teen-TV loyalties are going to "Supernatural" on the WB.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Emma and I will be watching this with eagerness, and popcorn. We'll probably have to rewind it when my wife gets home, and start all over again, and that will be okay. I LUV YOU RACHEL BILSON.

― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Thursday, 8 September 2005 20:13 (eighteen years ago) link

Also: The Sports Guy talks wih The O.C. Guy today, and there are some good previews and insights and stuffz.

― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Thursday, 8 September 2005 20:14 (eighteen years ago) link

FUCKIN' CLASSIC, ive been re-watching season 1 - soooo good

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 8 September 2005 20:28 (eighteen years ago) link

Too bad S2 was soooo bad.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Thursday, 8 September 2005 20:29 (eighteen years ago) link

I think maybe I was too hard on Marissa's lesbian love, the season got even worse after they wrapped that up.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Thursday, 8 September 2005 20:31 (eighteen years ago) link

I like that Amateurist started this thread.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 September 2005 21:15 (eighteen years ago) link

heeeeyahhh i love the OC! its all pretty n glittery n shit.

― sunny successor (he hates my guts, we had a fight) (katharine), Thursday, 8 September 2005 22:57 (eighteen years ago) link

Bill Simmons makes my eyes bleed.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Thursday, 8 September 2005 23:01 (eighteen years ago) link

trey did the right thing. julie is still evil. summer is still hotttttt. all is right with the world.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 9 September 2005 00:17 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't like it when they make Julie really-really evil. She's better running a stupid magazine and joking about lesbian flings. Mildly evil.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Friday, 9 September 2005 00:19 (eighteen years ago) link

This was the most anti-climactic season opener of any show ever!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 9 September 2005 11:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Although I'm looking forward to Mrs. Eyebrows' blonde-on-blonde recovering alcoholic lesbian makeouts with that actress woman whose politician husband got in all that trouble for dirty stuff.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 9 September 2005 11:23 (eighteen years ago) link

con: x-post - no shit. bad boy, apparently not angry some chick put a bullet in him despite history of hissy fits triggered by the smallest events, writes written confession and conveniently leaves town. still buttoning shirt as he boards bus to vegas. law officials blindly accept written confession witnessed only by attempted murder suspect. good job! the down side? no princeton for richest girl in newport. what the fuck does she need princeton for??

pro: marissa looked flat out fox in that candy striper get up.

future notes: less boats, more cap'n oats.

― sunny successor (he hates my guts, we had a fight) (katharine), Friday, 9 September 2005 12:03 (eighteen years ago) link

The best part was when Julie was like "I'm a grieving widow, here" and the lady looked over at Jimmy and was all "uh HUH".

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 9 September 2005 12:06 (eighteen years ago) link

dude, that was a man!

― sunny successor (he hates my guts, we had a fight) (katharine), Friday, 9 September 2005 22:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Oooh, season of the evil Aryans. Are they all going to a public school now or will the couples split up? Or will they find out that Aryan Dean is boinking a student (Taylor?) and bust him?

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Friday, 16 September 2005 01:04 (eighteen years ago) link

I love all the new Evil!
I hope they do home schooling. In the pool house.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 16 September 2005 01:21 (eighteen years ago) link

i gave up watching once marissa played the black keys in one of her 10am morning alchohol fits....

― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Friday, 16 September 2005 08:54 (eighteen years ago) link

I hope jocks start picking on Cohen again now that Ryan's not around.

― alex in montreal (alex in montreal), Friday, 16 September 2005 12:17 (eighteen years ago) link

oh it's knives out on cohen...and on summer too, for all her past indiscretions before she turned "nice and indie." great plot twist!

― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Friday, 16 September 2005 12:31 (eighteen years ago) link

aw, marissa's a woman.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Friday, 23 September 2005 04:23 (eighteen years ago) link

Who was that covering "Baby Blue"?

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 23 September 2005 05:14 (eighteen years ago) link

The Aryan Dean is so busted.

Has ILE abandoned the OC? Do we not find Julie Cooper's poverty compelling? Ryan dropping out to work in the man's world (again) compelling? Where's the love people?

This season's shaping up good. The only dud is the Jeri Ryan scam subplot, but everything else is working (not enough Sandy, of course), and I figure Ryan dropping out will be resolved as soon as the Aryan Dean is caught mid-nookie with his jailbait.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Friday, 30 September 2005 04:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, almost all the episodes in Season 3 so far have been better than anything in Season 2.

I don't think there was much ILE love for the O.C. in the first place.

― alex in montreal (alex in montreal), Friday, 30 September 2005 11:20 (eighteen years ago) link

well, i missed last week but im assuming the following happened: julie found out caleb was broke, jimmy made a run for it, kirsten came home, marissa and ryan got booted from private school.

im not loving this whole rehab scam buisness at all. id be more interested in a kirsten relapse. is everyone in the OC going to be poor now? i like looking at pretty things. although julie looked hot collapsing on the seedy motel bed wearing two double strand diamond tennis bracelets + leaking crazy eyes.

i dont know about the whole freaks and geeks direction marissa is taking either. summer w/ white and pink flowers in her hair had better save the day, but not before marissa cures all the public school kids hate with an under the sea themed dance.

― sunny successor (he hates my guts, we had a fight) (katharine), Friday, 30 September 2005 16:37 (eighteen years ago) link

BASEBALL?? WTF!

― sunny successor (he hates my guts, we had a fight) (katharine), Thursday, 6 October 2005 23:10 (eighteen years ago) link

Criminal Minds?? WTF.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Thursday, 6 October 2005 23:17 (eighteen years ago) link

two months pass...

I'm iced in and there's nothing on TV, so I finally watched an episode of One Tree Hill - it's good! At least as good as the average OC episode. And the wannabe fashion-designer girl has a Descendents record in her vinyl stack.

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Thursday, 8 December 2005 02:17 (eighteen years ago) link

i haven't watched it at ALL this season

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 8 December 2005 03:23 (eighteen years ago) link

the OC

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 8 December 2005 03:23 (eighteen years ago) link

you should! after a slow start this season has shaped up to become much better than the previous one, which most oc fans would agree was very disappointing.

julie cooper still rules this show. i love her.

― Lovelace (Lovelace), Thursday, 8 December 2005 03:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh my God, the OC is sooooo lousy this season. Don't watch it Slocki, it will only tarnish your positive memories of earlier episodes.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Thursday, 8 December 2005 04:10 (eighteen years ago) link

what's happening?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 8 December 2005 05:31 (eighteen years ago) link

oh, not much. what's happening with you?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 8 December 2005 06:06 (eighteen years ago) link

dont even try to tell me youre not excited about christmukkah bar mitzvahka

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 19:21 (eighteen years ago) link

maybe a little.
But, man, it really is boring this season. I have fully gotten up and made dinner/cleaned the apt/otherwise occupied myself during every single episode. Yet, obviously, I have managed to see every one. It's because of hope, hope for the old O.C. ways.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 19:32 (eighteen years ago) link

i dont mind this season at all although i wish theyd hurry up with a marissa makes out with/drunkenly boffs/falls in love with seth plotline. everyones a little too comfortable in their relationships for my liking.

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 19:35 (eighteen years ago) link

The constant Ryan/Marissa friction has gotten old.

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 19:48 (eighteen years ago) link

IM SMARTT NOW I AM GOING TO BOVINE UNIVERSITYY WITH U

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 20:13 (eighteen years ago) link

haha

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 20:20 (eighteen years ago) link

i just read that anna is coming back to the show! whatever i get for christmas nothing will be better than this news. she was always my favorite charachter and i had such a crush on her. that good bye scene in the airport with seth was so heartbraking(really).

― Lovelace (Lovelace), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 18:53 (eighteen years ago) link

so my big return to the OC was for the chrismukkah episode... and it SUCKED!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 19:14 (eighteen years ago) link

johnny needs to die...

i can't believe marissa is falling for that "i just wanna be friends with you" thing for the THIRD time in THREE seasons (oliver, trey, johnny)

― alex in montreal (alex in montreal), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 19:21 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah it did suck. marissa looked hot though and julie in trailer park mode is fantastic, so that helped.
you could see the ryan in white knight mode tears off from a big richie rich to do scene coming from a mile or 10 away. why is it all these primetime teen soaps have all these gorgeous people in them but the lead guy is always so-so. ryan, dawson etc. i dont get it. is he the one were supposed to 'relate' to?

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 19:29 (eighteen years ago) link

oh and my god! that last scene with all the arms and the swaying! WTF?!?

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 19:33 (eighteen years ago) link

james van der chin

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 12:39 (eighteen years ago) link

four weeks pass...

ho-hum ep last night. still, i guess we know how the writers are getting Seth out of going to Brown.

when are marissa and seth going to drunkenly boff so ryan has an excuse to go steal a car in chino and summer gets to be bad girl again?

i still dont get what happened with the AA chick and with the reappearance and disappearance of marissa's dad.

if mischa barton wasn't so delightful to look at and the julie character didnt rule, i might have abandoned this show at the beginning of the season.

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 20 January 2006 15:58 (eighteen years ago) link

I thought yesterday's ep was almost a return to form! But, yeah, not quite there - but Caitlyn (is that Marissa's sister's name?) looks promising as a character. They should've kept on with the Summer's Dad + Bitchy Mom dating and extended the money-stealing bit - which would also mean more Julie Cooper-Nichol! I guess they have something figured out for "drama" for the rest of the season? Maybe Marissa's dad will come back again once Julie's with Summer's dad and happy? I'd be fine if they all went off to university and most of the show took place in the summer and during breaks, hey why not.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 20 January 2006 16:29 (eighteen years ago) link

Pot smoking! Someone's going to a state university...

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 27 January 2006 02:56 (eighteen years ago) link

everytime i see julie cooper-nichol, i think julie copper nickel.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Friday, 27 January 2006 03:17 (eighteen years ago) link

Me too! It always pleases me when julie finds another rich guy.

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 27 January 2006 05:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Is it bad that the first thing I thought when Johnny fell to his death was 'Woah! That operation sure was a waste of money.'?
I'm glad Julie finally scored Richie Rich. The whole invisible Gus schtick was getting beyond lame.

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 3 February 2006 04:07 (eighteen years ago) link

aw man they turned the TVs off at the YMCA right before the end of the episode... did he really die?!?! dang!

― killy (baby lenin pin), Friday, 3 February 2006 04:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Well, he fell anyway. Who knows if he's actually dead, Marissa shot Trey through the heart and he was up and about in a few months.

― reddening (reddening), Friday, 3 February 2006 11:21 (eighteen years ago) link

you heard that tequila bottle smash on the rocks, man! plus all the teary, no makeup, fetal position marissa scenes in the promo for next week and OMG! she doesnt want to do anything for valentines day! he must be dead! either way, that operation was a waste of non-jewish fake bar miztvah money, goddammit!

OC forecast:

i can feel a seth + marissa romp-a-roo on the horizon. marissa and whathisface are on thin ice as it is. now johnny is deadybones (probably), marissa will boohoo for an episode and whathisface will try to help but, man, he cant understand her pain! meanwhile, seth is getting high all the time and summer thinks thats 'ew'. chance meeting between seth and marissa on the pier = sex on the beach and more teen angst than you can shake a surfboard at.

OC wish scene:

johnny's mom blames OC crew for johnny's demise and subsequently gets all stabby with an uninvolved character. probably kirsten.

Two Questions:

how many eps left?

have ryan and marissa, or for that matter seth and summer, had sex since the first season? what the hell?

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 3 February 2006 14:49 (eighteen years ago) link

i haven't watched this show in awhile, and i tried to watch it last night. let me get this straight: Seth was having a drug problem with weed?!?

― JD from CDepot, Friday, 3 February 2006 15:09 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah. hes smoked it three times now and hes already managed to fuck up his college career and alienate his girlfriend and parents. i hate to think what would happen if he dropped acid.

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 3 February 2006 15:17 (eighteen years ago) link

next thing you know he'll be rubbing his pecker on peter gallaghers eyebrows.

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Friday, 3 February 2006 15:39 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, I think that some of the writers must've quit or just gotten bored or into coke&hollywood or something. I can think of several simple ways the pot issue could've been dealt with in a more entertaining (second-season) way. This show has lost its pacing really, and I'm kind of sad about it.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 3 February 2006 15:46 (eighteen years ago) link

i haven't been watching this all season but i caught the last 15 minutes of last night's ep and it was pretty good!!

i'm glad they got rid of glum surfer dude!!

seth cohen was not a convincing stoner!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 3 February 2006 16:52 (eighteen years ago) link

really. zero paranoia.

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 3 February 2006 19:19 (eighteen years ago) link

hed be a much better coke addict

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 3 February 2006 19:20 (eighteen years ago) link

that's what I said! All his 'weed symptoms' looked a helluva lot more like coke to me. Talking non-stop, jittery, a little pasty/sweaty.

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Friday, 3 February 2006 20:49 (eighteen years ago) link

I just bought the season one, i am enjoying but progressively less so as it goes on. I still think i will buy season two.

― jeffrey (johnson), Friday, 3 February 2006 21:45 (eighteen years ago) link

Season 2 seemed bad at the time, but it was definitely more interesting than this season. I look back fondly on Marissa's days of Sappho and cheap beer.

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Friday, 3 February 2006 22:13 (eighteen years ago) link

those new characters in season 2 were such duds

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 3 February 2006 22:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Nowhere near as dud as the surfer and his pals.

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Friday, 3 February 2006 23:30 (eighteen years ago) link

I miss the whole comic book thing. And Ryan being into architecture. And they haven't gone to see a band in ages. And the clothes lately have been boring too. c'mon, TV, do better at being TV.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 3 February 2006 23:42 (eighteen years ago) link

did you guys notice the "I'm not listening to them anymore" comment with regards to death cab for cutie after they played them on the valley(the fictional tv show that the oc characthers watch). surely that was them poking fun at people who say those kind of things when after their favorite indie bands play on the oc.

and i'm getting so fucking tired of ryan and marissa constantly having fights, and they're always so stupid! i really want them to be happy together :)

johnny's cousin is hot!

― Lovelace (Lovelace), Sunday, 12 February 2006 00:52 (eighteen years ago) link

I think they should spend less time making self-conscious pokes at their position in the pop-culture landscape and more time writing plots and characters that don't suck.

It was great how all the parents didn't seem too concerned that their children had watched a boy fall off a cliff to his death.

― reddening (reddening), Sunday, 12 February 2006 03:15 (eighteen years ago) link

And how quickly Ryan was ready to get it on. Marissa was OTM for the first time ever with the "You're glad he's dead! And now you're horny!" line - which just sent Ryan into the arms of the hot artsy girl. With any luck they'll stick to the path of trashiness, I'm tired of all the po-faced stuff lately.

I'm glad the Marissa's younger sister is gone - how did no one comment on the creep-factor of the high-school senior surfer making out with a 14-year old?

I think the woman from Serenity has gotten a nose job or just lost a bunch of weight, neither of which was a good decision.

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Sunday, 12 February 2006 05:01 (eighteen years ago) link

The path of trashiness is the only way forward for this show. I will gladly walk down that tv path.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Sunday, 12 February 2006 06:24 (eighteen years ago) link

no OC for at least 3 weeks? what the hell??

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 15:45 (eighteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

ryan and marissa finally broke up - THANK GOD.

i find that boy that is stalking marissa oddly appealing. he looks like a tiger cub or something.

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 10 March 2006 16:08 (eighteen years ago) link

They cast him well - he just looks dislikable. Sadie's definitely a step up from Marissa, but you know that it's going to come back to some kind of Ryan/Marissa drama in the end.

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Friday, 10 March 2006 22:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Ryan/Marissa drama is so dumb - there has never been a spark, only brooding and eck. okay okay, and as silly as this show is, I think it does show some interesting teenage-like relationship developments - mostly in how Ryan gets along with girls - it's kind of different that.

Marissa totally deserves to get hot and heavy with tiger-cub guy who's already lamenting his lost youth at 19. They can be all Drama Together.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 10 March 2006 22:28 (eighteen years ago) link

IS OLIVER BACK YET???? Does Seth still talk about DEATH CAB??? Yeah, I havent watched this since the first season.

― gunther heartymeal (keckles), Friday, 10 March 2006 22:45 (eighteen years ago) link

what happened in the promo for next weeks episode?

― Lovelace (Lovelace), Saturday, 11 March 2006 20:33 (eighteen years ago) link

How is this doing in the ratings? It still seems popular but is no longer the "hot" show that everyone seemed to watch.

― Cunga (Cunga), Saturday, 11 March 2006 21:46 (eighteen years ago) link

7.44 million people tuned in, which is pretty crap when you consider that it came on right after American Idol BUT it is an improvement for this season though cause the ratings have been around 5 million until the last episode.

― Lovelace (Lovelace), Saturday, 11 March 2006 21:55 (eighteen years ago) link

Boy does this show suck. I hope they fire Ryan and Marissa next season. Just make the show Seth, Summer and Taylor, with more time for Sandy and the drunk.

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Friday, 24 March 2006 04:33 (eighteen years ago) link

i really liked last nights episode. i want them to find out sandy's boy partner has been shooting coke all this time.
im also intrigued by the line from that guy who keeps following marissa around. something like 'if you want to take a break from whats going on in your head, ive got something'. i really loved when he was outside he trailer and she came home and did that almost closed the door then pushed it wide open move like 'fuck it, lets fuck.' best acting from mischa yet.
seth and summer, sadie and ryan. eh.

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 24 March 2006 13:43 (eighteen years ago) link

yes, the open trailer door was the best part. and that it's a trailer.

the whole thing with Ryan and Jess, the blonde girl, was boring and predictable though. And holy crap, do teenage couples really ever in real life lose their sex drive??? I MEAN O COME ON. Find one better idea for plotline, srsly. (okay, some might, I understand that anything is possible, but still... IT"S TV>)

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 24 March 2006 16:32 (eighteen years ago) link

i hadnt seen any of these people have sex since the first season until last night. suddenly everyone was boffing.

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 24 March 2006 16:38 (eighteen years ago) link

haha, yes, it was the boffing episode! like the writers/producers suddenly realized "holy shit, this is a show about teenagers (mostly) and they haven't been having sex and they even live in California omg wtf what the HELL were we thinking?? how will we redeem ourselves??" Hence, this. I get the feeling that producer guy was maybe going through a dry spell, luv-wise. And now he's back on the horse. good for him.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 24 March 2006 16:44 (eighteen years ago) link

it would have been great if marissa boffed sandy's lackey AND her stalker in one episode.

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 24 March 2006 16:47 (eighteen years ago) link

OHGOD that would've been the best! Why is this show trying to be PC this season (and, well, some of last season too, i suppose), that's what I want to know. btwn the pot-smoking ohnoes and the no sex and ryan not wanting to fite anymore and people going off to brown, it's become a show written by PARENTS. Not good, LA, not good.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 24 March 2006 16:51 (eighteen years ago) link

i hadn't paid much attention to this show since the beginning of the season, this jess thing is fucking dumb, my god, they are really struggling for storylines aren't they? where is julie cooper?

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 24 March 2006 17:32 (eighteen years ago) link

a show around julie i could see. even caleb. but sandy and blondie. zzzzzzzzzz. maybe they'll start introducing younger characters. the next harbor high junior class or something.

and, yeah, I can just picture that intense production meeting where they're analyzing the recent ratings plunge and someone suddenly jumps up and says 'OH MY GOD! WE FORGOT SEX!!'

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 24 March 2006 17:36 (eighteen years ago) link

julie is on a cruise with summer's dad getting proposed to, hence next weeks sister spats between summer and marissa

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 24 March 2006 17:37 (eighteen years ago) link

if 'slut spiral' isnt the best thing ever said on primetime tv, i dont know what

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 31 March 2006 15:59 (eighteen years ago) link

So Ryan is the stupidest character in television history, right?

― Big Willy and the Twins (miloaukerman), Friday, 31 March 2006 16:02 (eighteen years ago) link

That was a good episode! I mean, the "dates" that Ryan and Sadie kept having were hilarious in their distance from reality, with her inexplicably running off after 5 minutes and Ryan, yes, being SO dumb, but I don't look to this show for reality. + Julie back in a mansion AND insulting the staff, Marissa back on the sauce AND doing "bumps"!! haha, keep it up, The O.C.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 31 March 2006 16:11 (eighteen years ago) link

xpost

oh hes stupid alright. actually, since ryan hasnt stopped boffing and/or trying to boff that oregon girl for the past two episodes, my respect for him is edging upward.

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 31 March 2006 16:14 (eighteen years ago) link

bumps?? like cocaine?? how did i miss that???

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 31 March 2006 16:15 (eighteen years ago) link

haha, yeah, on the beach TigerCubBoy was all "Wanna do some bumps?" and she did the shy/coy thing and said she wasn't into that kind of thing. Which of course meant that by the end of the show she'd be well into that kind of thing. OHNOES!

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 31 March 2006 16:17 (eighteen years ago) link

aww..i love marissa and her slut spiral

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 31 March 2006 16:18 (eighteen years ago) link

also: what was up with matt getting beat up? who did that?

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 31 March 2006 16:36 (eighteen years ago) link

I assume that was orchestrated by the hospital admin guy (doctor?) or whoever he is who Sandy questioned earlier and mentioned that Matt had "dirt" on. The O.C. is a dangerzone!

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 31 March 2006 16:44 (eighteen years ago) link

oh! is that why they asked sandy to fire him?

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 31 March 2006 16:55 (eighteen years ago) link

The writing on this show is so lazy. Yeah, yeah, soap opera, etc., but why didn't Sandy just add on two sentences ("It wasn't me." + "I'm trying to punish the guy who did it.") and solve everything? Why did Cohen do the dumbest thing possible? Cheap drama is boring.

― Big Willy and the Twins (miloaukerman), Friday, 7 April 2006 02:40 (eighteen years ago) link

i have no idea whats going on with sandy and matt right now. ive been watching but i think my mind is just blanking out those parts. all i can tell is that sandy is doing something semi-shady and kirstens pissed because he is turning into her father. i dont know why matt is beat up or why the girly matt was chasing just disappeared. is that her father Sandy is threatening to sic the DA onto?
the seth thing, i dont know. i guess they have to stretch the drama out til the end of the season. obviously, he'll confess to summer and his parents and summer will be all 'oh cohen, you lied for me again! youre such a sweet goofball!' and sandy will be all 'yay now you can go to berkeley!' and summer will be all 'im going whereever youre going cohen you sweet goofball!' and then marissa and ryan will be all 'hey! what a coincidence! we're going to berkeley too!' see you in september.

i think im going to miss taylor.

most classically lame quote of the episode: 'Oh, by the way, I lied. Your forehand sucks!' Burn!

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 7 April 2006 13:58 (eighteen years ago) link

The Sandy and Matt plotline is thus: Matt was dating Maya, the daughter of the business guy with the inadequate forehand. But Sandy pressured Maya to talk to her father about their hospital proposal. She did, and they got the hospital, and she broke up with Matt for "using" her. The father was so irate at Matt for hurting his precious baby girl that he told Sandy to fire Matt or the hospital deal was off. Sandy fired Matt, Matt threatened to blow the whistle on both Sandy and the other business guy, and Sandy unwisely went to the business guy and said "Hey, Matt says you're awash in criminal activities, that's not true, is it?" Guy says no, of course not, let me take care of silly misguided Matt. Cue Matt getting his face and big-screen TV smashed in by goons.

I hate myself for knowing all this.

I wonder if the kids are even going to get as far as Berkeley before the producers yank them back and send them to a local college. Otherwise how are they going to keep Julie/Sandy/Kirsten involved?

― reddening (reddening), Friday, 7 April 2006 20:35 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah, ive been wondering about that but as summers daddy said berkeley is only a short motorbike ride away.

the matt/maya thing: there was a scene before kirsten and julies first big hook up ball where kirsten took maya to lunch to try to get her to go. she admitted matt was after her for the hospital and maya said she didnt care, that she had had a crush on him forever and was going to take him anyway she could get him. flipflopper!

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 7 April 2006 20:44 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't think Kirsten ever openly said that Matt was just after the hospital. Maya was mad about something else - and then it all came to a head when Sandy pushed the hospital on a double date with Matt/Maya. (Oh, the shame of knowing this.)

― Big Willy and the Twins (miloaukerman), Friday, 7 April 2006 20:51 (eighteen years ago) link

YOU LOVE IT

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 7 April 2006 20:55 (eighteen years ago) link

I just watched this week's: I'm curious as to how they're going to keep the team alive as well when they all go off to college. I'm guessing they're ALL going to go to Berkeley. And what, much of the show will exist only during vacations home? They should change the name to The O.C.B. I do find myself wanting too see more of Sandy's move to the dark side of O.C. real-estate/mob life. Kirsten looked like she was going out for a DRINK.

The sweatshirt party was indeed LAME. But also very HIGHSCHOOL.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Saturday, 8 April 2006 15:38 (eighteen years ago) link

Will Julie Cooper move to Berkeley and sleep her way through the faculty?

― Big Willy and the Twins (miloaukerman), Saturday, 8 April 2006 15:47 (eighteen years ago) link

of course not! they arent rich enough.

― sunny successor (katharine), Saturday, 8 April 2006 16:35 (eighteen years ago) link

My prediction for the old folks: last ep (or close) of this season Sandy blows up about real-estate shenanigans, quits his job gets and hired as professor of teh law (or maybe Dean of Law) at UC-Berkeley.

― Big Willy and the Twins (miloaukerman), Saturday, 8 April 2006 17:22 (eighteen years ago) link

gasp! i just checked the spoilers.

― sunny successor (katharine), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 16:26 (eighteen years ago) link

Was I right?

― Big Willy and the Twins (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 17:35 (eighteen years ago) link

its not too clear on that but promises an 'explosion' in the cohen family. and also where seth ends up getting accepted. we were all wrong about that. and the return of someones kid and i have no need to miss taylor despite her frenchie U sweatshirt last week.

― sunny successor (katharine), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 17:50 (eighteen years ago) link

Where did you read them?

― Big Willy and the Twins (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 18:07 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.spoilerfix.com/theoc.php

― sunny successor (katharine), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 18:25 (eighteen years ago) link

must. not. read. must. not.
okay, i'm fine now.

I've been watching Rome and am totally amused by the similarities btwn Atia and Julie Cooper-Nichol. It's pretty awesome.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 20:34 (eighteen years ago) link

http://shopimages-ll.alloy.com/images/products/2b7708_large.jpg

― sunny successor (katharine), Thursday, 13 April 2006 22:17 (eighteen years ago) link

O. M. G.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Thursday, 13 April 2006 22:33 (eighteen years ago) link

you know you want it

― sunny successor (katharine), Thursday, 13 April 2006 22:34 (eighteen years ago) link

I like how these t-shirts are so made for teenagers.

http://www.theocinsidershop.com/kernel/imageload?table=cat_images;ttl2=15;key1=25125_l_EN_;key2=25125_l_EN;key3=25125_l;key4=-100_l_EN;key5=-100_l___oc;key6=-100_l

It's a surfboard, not an I!
I like the non-irony of it all.
okay, i want them both.

haha, xpost!

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Thursday, 13 April 2006 22:36 (eighteen years ago) link

And the boffing don't stop.

― Big Willy and the Twins (miloaukerman), Friday, 14 April 2006 02:16 (eighteen years ago) link

roffleboff.

Tonight's ep was pretty boring. I don't know, maybe I was distracted. Okay, but it made me be distracted. Except for the stupid Seth-breaking-Summer's-Heart part. THAT MAKES NO SENSE. And was sad(ish). Marissa was good at saving the drugged girl and then going home and thus ending That Phase. And not enough Julie. Though she did say "cardiobar" at one point.

I think the best thing was the preview at the end for that new movie about GYMNASTICS - "Stick It" - YES.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 14 April 2006 04:07 (eighteen years ago) link

"its not called gymNICEtics"

ryan is turning into such a boy slut. its great. im finally gaining a little respect for his character.

i dont know why seth's biggest worry is summer. has he forgotten his parents still think he got into brown??

and what about that list he wrote on the cocktail napkin a few weeks back? the list of everything bad he has done that his parents dont know about. wasn't the deal that summer could give it to his parents if he ever lied again?

kirsten sure caves to the alcohol easily. ooo! im alone for two nights in a row. better get drunk! i like how ryans mom called her kerr-sten.

also, i liked marissa's gray shortsleeve over black longsleeve party get up. so much hotter than those paris hilton dresses she usually wears.

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 14 April 2006 12:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Why are the ratings down? This show is still a big draw at my house. Tivo only caught the last seven minutes last night due to power outage:(

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 14 April 2006 16:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Two best characters these days: Summer (natch) and Taylor (still comin' on strong). Next week's ep looks to be much improved yay.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 14 April 2006 16:51 (eighteen years ago) link

i realized last night that not only do all the cohens have the same cellphone as me but they also have the exact same house phone! its so hot to be hollywood in arkansas.

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 14 April 2006 17:01 (eighteen years ago) link

alright. so i guess we know how everyone is staying in newport now:

seth will get into his art school but not til next year

marissa will take a year off because shes not ready

summer will find out about seth not getting in to brown and trying to get in to brown and getting in to art achool instead. she will put off brown for a year so she can do the whole 4 year with him in RI.

i thought ryan was going to stay to be theresa's baby's daddy but he isnt theresa's baby's daddy. maybe they'll hook up again and he'll stay with them for a year. how does anyone go from destitute to affording a fulltime live in nanny that quickly?

im still not sure why kirsten is so mad at sandy. is it mostly because he's not around much? i think if he says 'hospital' one more time it might be acceptable motivation for spousal homicide.

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 21 April 2006 12:47 (eighteen years ago) link

it's because omg he's turning into her dad by becoming all tied up in work and kind of ignoring her, as well as possibly getting into not-so-honest dealings with work.

i was surprised about teresa's nanny too....maybe she won the lottery?

this show isn't as entertaining as it used to be, but i keep on watching it anyway...

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:07 (eighteen years ago) link

well she claimed 3 promotions which i guess isnt impossible over 2 years but she did have a kid somewhere in there

im so happy kirstens drinking again. she looked so bored sober.

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 21 April 2006 17:26 (eighteen years ago) link

"how does anyone go from destitute to affording a fulltime live in nanny that quickly?"

I suspend expectations of reality when "The OC" is on.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 21 April 2006 23:03 (eighteen years ago) link

WHAT!?!?!

― sunny successor (katharine), Saturday, 22 April 2006 00:25 (eighteen years ago) link

Was Anna always that skinny?

― milo z (mlp), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 03:05 (eighteen years ago) link

She looked really unhealthy, a lot worse than she did on Entourage. Maybe it was the extensions and bad makeup?

― svend (svend), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 03:37 (eighteen years ago) link

she looked really, really weird.

― Lovelace (Lovelace), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 09:46 (eighteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

shes probably doing a lot of coke right now. give her a break.

so who is going to die next week? im thinking sandy but hoping ryan.

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 12 May 2006 13:11 (seventeen years ago) link

it wasn't it a new one last night, right? i wasn't home to watch - and t0rrent sites only show ep 24 (man of the year ep). so i'm guessing it wasn't on or was a repeat. and next one is on may 18.
ohgod, i like tv too much; it's out of hand.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 12 May 2006 14:13 (seventeen years ago) link

last night was the behind the scenes farewell that 70s show thing. next week is 70s show finale followed by OC finale.

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 12 May 2006 14:17 (seventeen years ago) link

the original promo saying 'one of these people wont survive' flashed over images kirsten, sandy, ryan, marissa, julie, summer's dad, summer, seth and i think maybe even marissa's thug ex. now theyre only showing sandy, ryan, marrissa, seth and summer. also, i read they filmed 5 (?) different deaths for this last show. I guess those were the ones.

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 12 May 2006 14:23 (seventeen years ago) link

xxxpost re: anna: i thought i saw her in a restaurant in LA a few months ago, but then i realized it was just a nastier-looking version of her. now i'm not so sure! she looked nice in that TJ Maxx commercial. or Kohl's. whatever the fuck.

― killy (baby lenin pin), Friday, 12 May 2006 14:27 (seventeen years ago) link

finale already!
and a main character's going to DIE? oh geez. my guess: SETH. but probably SANDY. everybody on tv be dyin these days.

(i haven't watched that 70s show in ages. but there were two good seasons, i mean, where i laughed at it, and then lost interest. it's good to know they're finally saying farewell, though maybe a season too late? aw, tv...)

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 12 May 2006 14:28 (seventeen years ago) link

definitely a season too late. i love that 70s show. its about the only show that makes me laugh out loud. i hardly watched the current season though.

i think its sandy. since taylor is becoming a regular, 3 girls + one guy seems a little offkilter. also, kirsten will have a great excuse to get back to the business of drinking.

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 12 May 2006 14:35 (seventeen years ago) link

whats TJMAxxx

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 12 May 2006 14:36 (seventeen years ago) link

There's a fairly clever SPOILER here (scroll down). I needed IMDB and about 10 minutes to work it out.

― Sentenza says, You're not digging (witchy), Friday, 12 May 2006 14:50 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, that 70s show totally made me laugh out loud all the time!

having no sandy around will be weird. but then, seth will have to stay home for at least a year and take care of her poor drunk self. and hijinks will ensue etc

i am not looking at spoilers.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 12 May 2006 14:51 (seventeen years ago) link

please do be explaining that spoiler. I assume it has something to do with royally foiled, but I'm too lazy to figure it out.

― milo z (mlp), Friday, 12 May 2006 18:24 (seventeen years ago) link

i dont get it at all

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 12 May 2006 19:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Do CTRL+A to read the spoiler (hope this works):

(in case not, LOOK OUT SPOILER BELOW)

They're saying that Peter Gallagher will be reprising his role in While You Were Sleeping (so no full-stop death, apparently, at least not yet).

― Sentenza says, You're not digging (witchy), Friday, 12 May 2006 21:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Damn. Sorry rrrrrrrrrrobyn!

― Sentenza says, You're not digging (witchy), Friday, 12 May 2006 21:10 (seventeen years ago) link

that's okay. when i say i'm not looking at spoilers it means i'm not looking at spoilers for the next five minutes. then i'm probably looking at spoilers that tell me something about sandy and his heart.
+ it's only the O.C., it's not Lost, I'm not all super invested and crazed.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 12 May 2006 23:42 (seventeen years ago) link

i suddenly feel so alone

― sunny successor (katharine), Saturday, 13 May 2006 13:40 (seventeen years ago) link

+ it's only the O.C., it's not Lost, I'm not all super invested and crazed.
by which i mean i WILL NOT miss an episode. and oh i will talk about it. but it hasn't been getting my heart racing. not enough scandal and weird lately! but i wouldn't leave it, oh no.
(until i move into my geodesic home and eschew tv etc. hahahahahaha. my geodesic dome is going to be so EQUIPPED.)

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Saturday, 13 May 2006 14:07 (seventeen years ago) link

so does marissa bite it tonight or what ppl

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 18 May 2006 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link

sandy i think

― sunny successor (katharine), Thursday, 18 May 2006 21:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Ugh... Marissa needs to die die die.

― LOL Thomas (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 18 May 2006 23:36 (seventeen years ago) link

I am opposed to attractive women leaving television shows, no matter how annoying the character is. (Moms Cohen, still the hottest OCer)

― milo z (mlp), Thursday, 18 May 2006 23:38 (seventeen years ago) link

well there you go.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 19 May 2006 00:23 (seventeen years ago) link

here's a possible spoiler. obv not sure if it's true.

not that i give a fuck. this show is terrrrrrrible now.

― jäxøñ (jaxon), Friday, 19 May 2006 01:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Moms Cohen, still the hottest OCer

otm

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 19 May 2006 01:14 (seventeen years ago) link

moms cooper-nickel-roberts is hotter

has cali not seen the ep yet?

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 19 May 2006 01:18 (seventeen years ago) link

if you're into the Carol Burnett on Wisteria Lane look

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 19 May 2006 01:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Moms CNR is hotter now than when she was evil. (really, I think they just started shooting her and Marissa in softer light so they don't look as angular)

Kind of anti-climactic, but enjoyable. Lots of bad dialogue to fast-forward through.

― milo z (mlp), Friday, 19 May 2006 02:07 (seventeen years ago) link

How many season/series finales have ended with a version of "Hallelujah"? This was the worst one yet.

― milo z (mlp), Friday, 19 May 2006 02:09 (seventeen years ago) link

there goes the pretty

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 19 May 2006 03:53 (seventeen years ago) link

ok, I missed it - who bit it?

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 19 May 2006 04:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Ugh... Marissa needs to die die die.

-- LOL Thomas

nailed it

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 19 May 2006 04:22 (seventeen years ago) link

bah. im still mad. that 70s show could have done without the bang at the end too.

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 19 May 2006 09:17 (seventeen years ago) link

still mad

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 19 May 2006 12:50 (seventeen years ago) link

they never just pull the car over.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Friday, 19 May 2006 14:02 (seventeen years ago) link

right.

marissa: 'pull over! PULL OVER!!'
ryan: 'where??'

uh. the side of the road?

am watches the oc. thats gold.

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 19 May 2006 14:08 (seventeen years ago) link

recap pls

― adam (adam), Friday, 19 May 2006 14:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Jeff Buckley

Date of birth (location)
17 November 1966
Anaheim, California, USA
Date of death (details)
29 May 1997
Memphis, Tennessee, USA. (accidental drowning)
Trivia
His body was found on June 4th 1997, a week after he drowned, in the ... (show more)

IMDbPro Professional Details

Filmography as: Miscellaneous Crew, Composer, Himself, Archive Footage

Miscellaneous Crew - filmography
(2000s) (1990s)

Lord of War (2005) (singer) [= 'Hallelujah']
Fetten Jahre sind vorbei, Die (2004) (singer)
... aka The Edukators (Australia) (Europe: English title: festival title) (USA) [= 'Hallelujah']
"The O.C." (2003) TV Series (singer: "Hallelujah")
"Without a Trace" (2002) TV Series (singer: "Hallelujah") (episode "Fallout, Pt. 2")
"The West Wing" (1999) TV Series (singer: "Hallelujah")

― Enrique IX: The Mediator (Enrique), Friday, 19 May 2006 14:18 (seventeen years ago) link

from tv without pity:

The kids finally graduate from Harbor, and even Dawn Atwood gets to see it. She's so proud of Ryan that she gives him a car to celebrate. But you know what they say -- if a car appears in the first act, it will be in a tragic accident in the third. But more on that later. Kaitlin comes back to town to see her sister graduate, as well as announce her plans to stay in Newport and rule over Harbor High in her sister's place. Then she plays some rap music and throws posters of men's abs on the walls and makes it almost impossible to like her or look forward to her return in any way. The kids cement their future plans, with Seth (whose arrest for arson last week leads nowhere and is quickly dealt with and forgotten about) getting accepted into the Rhode Island School of Design for its spring semester, Summer is still going to Brown, and Ryan to Berkeley, and Marissa forgoing college for the thrill of the open seas, working as part of the crew on the boat her father is captaining. Unfortunately for her, Crazy Volchok will do anything to get her back -- including driving his new car and running her and Ryan off the road. Despite his section of the car being completely smushed, Ryan survives the crash with nary an injury, making him well able to carry Marissa's body out of the car before it dramatically explodes. And wow, it looks just like all those other times he's had to carry her body around, as we see in a montage celebrating this show's love of repetition instead of creativity. And as a barely-awake Imogean Heap sings "Hallelujah" over and over again, Marissa DIES. She dies! And even more pointlessly than she lived.

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 19 May 2006 14:24 (seventeen years ago) link

i like how he carried her limp body just to the edge of where they wet the pavement down so they could safely blow up his sweet vintage land cruiser.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Friday, 19 May 2006 14:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Instead of a car accident, they should have just ended the episode with "Note: Marissa died on the way to her home planet".

― The Mercury Krueger (Ex Leon), Friday, 19 May 2006 15:17 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.dirtyoldshirt.com/oc1.jpg
"donna martin graduates" t-shirt

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 19 May 2006 15:59 (seventeen years ago) link

what happened in that 70s show?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 19 May 2006 16:08 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm morbidly curious about that as well. please tell me fez died.

― gear (gear), Friday, 19 May 2006 16:20 (seventeen years ago) link

fez got aids, dark foreboding like the swastikas at the end of "cabaret"

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 19 May 2006 16:21 (seventeen years ago) link

oh it wasnt a gun bang or anything. eric came back and it was nye 1979. the end was shot from the empty basement and you could hear them c ounting down to midnight. 3...2..1...BANG. that was the trunk getting slammed on the vista cruiser, i guess, because the number plate is taking up the whole screen and THE REGISTRATION YEAR IS '80' OMG.
Anyway, that bang was really unsettling for some reason.

fez is doing jackie. first mistake of the 80s.

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 19 May 2006 16:29 (seventeen years ago) link

that show jumped when og laurie forman was let go

― gear (gear), Friday, 19 May 2006 16:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes, that was so so wrong.

― The Mercury Krueger (Ex Leon), Friday, 19 May 2006 16:31 (seventeen years ago) link

and when kelso became a cop (training was good though) and had a baby and hyde got a sister and a lame record store

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 19 May 2006 16:32 (seventeen years ago) link

if i can do one thing in my life, it will be to spearhead the career comeback of lisa robin kelly

― gear (gear), Friday, 19 May 2006 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link

if i can do one thing in my life, it will be to spear~~head the career comeback of~~ lisa robin kelly

― gear (gear), Friday, 19 May 2006 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link

if i can do one thing in my life, it will be to spear~~head the career come~~back of lisa robin kelly

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 19 May 2006 16:35 (seventeen years ago) link

uhh except keep the "the"

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 19 May 2006 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm sorry, i thought i could improve on your joke. and i fucked up. bad.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 19 May 2006 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link

wait, marissa DIED? wtf kind of move was that?? i'm never watching that show again!

― killy ii (baby lenin pin), Friday, 19 May 2006 16:41 (seventeen years ago) link

marissa got leukemia and died, growing more beautiful as death approached

― gear (gear), Friday, 19 May 2006 16:42 (seventeen years ago) link

NO:

http://img370.imageshack.us/img370/5074/lissa13st.jpg

YES:

http://img397.imageshack.us/img397/5784/lisa8gu.jpg

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 19 May 2006 16:44 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.featheredback.com/modern1/lrkwings.gif

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 19 May 2006 16:45 (seventeen years ago) link

high

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 19 May 2006 16:45 (seventeen years ago) link

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6305/956/1600/racist.gif

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 19 May 2006 16:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Did Mischa Barton want off the show? If not, I have a sneaking suspicion that she undie in the fall to rise Buffylike from the ashes.

I don't love Marissa but she's easy on the eye--there's no reason they had to kill her. Unless she is to difficult/costly to maintain.

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 19 May 2006 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link

i think they've been trying to get rid of her since the first season!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 19 May 2006 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link

that show jumped when og laurie forman was let go

-- gear (speed.to.roa...), May 19th, 2006.

OTM!

― late to the bloom to the er (latebloomer), Friday, 19 May 2006 17:35 (seventeen years ago) link

"Did Mischa Barton want off the show?"

I can't think of any other scenario. She's the most high profile/popular actor on the show, why would they want to get rid of her?

I hate them for killing her. Why couldn't she just go to Greece to be with her dad? :( I'm seriously annoyed with this! Everything this show does have to be over the top. But...this was actually one of the few episodes where Mischa Barton's performance didn't suck. Atleast I think so...

― Lovelace (Lovelace), Friday, 19 May 2006 18:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Her little sister manages the feat of being far more annoying than she is.

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 19 May 2006 18:34 (seventeen years ago) link

im with lovelace on this

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 19 May 2006 18:55 (seventeen years ago) link

okay, watched it just now. yeah, i too wonder why they had to kill her off? i can't see any reason for it within the show itself anyway. i felt the most for ryan, who was just getting back in the business of being confident and awesome. rrgh. he's totally not going to berkeley right away now. and prob summer will also defer for a year at least. way to keep the show going guys... BUT i'm looking forward to marissa's sister being a big huge teenage biatch!!

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 19 May 2006 20:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Did Mischa Barton want off the show?

More to the point, I think the show wanted her off. Barton has been somewhat vocal about wanting to be off the show to do other things and I think everyone involved was just tired of the whole thing. c.f. Shannon Doherty and 90210.

As I was watching last night's episode I was wondering how they were going to get rid of her until the "oh, duh" realization about the Land Cruiser. As it was run off the road, I was "OK, this is how they're going to get rid of her" and then when it caught on fire I though "wow, they REALLY want to get rid of her."

― LOL Thomas (Chris Barrus), Friday, 19 May 2006 21:03 (seventeen years ago) link

her character was incredibly unpopular and dull. no loss

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 19 May 2006 21:17 (seventeen years ago) link

her character was incredibly unpopular and dull. no loss

Completely OTM. Whenever she was on-screen it felt like someone tied a boat anchor to the show and threw it over a bridge.

― LOL Thomas (Chris Barrus), Friday, 19 May 2006 21:23 (seventeen years ago) link

her boring storylines and generally unbearable character were the main reason i basically quit watching the show all season. I don't know why they didn't just turn her evil like her mom was (looks like they'll do that with her sister), she would have been more interesting.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 19 May 2006 21:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Redemption before (her) death DO YOU SEE

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 19 May 2006 21:56 (seventeen years ago) link

this thread is about 1000000x more entertaining than the show.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 19 May 2006 23:24 (seventeen years ago) link

i love how the season finale/marisa's death-o has brought out all the closet O.C. watchers of ilx. i knew it!

please let next season be all DIABOLICAL and overthetop please.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Saturday, 20 May 2006 01:02 (seventeen years ago) link

i used to be a very UN-closeted OC watcher but honestly i haven't kept up since it got all lame in season 2 when they introduced "lindsay" and electroclash girl!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 20 May 2006 01:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Season 3 would make you pine for the glory days of electroclash girl.

― milo z (mlp), Saturday, 20 May 2006 01:26 (seventeen years ago) link

this show rules you fuckers! you probably hated 90210 too!

-- s1utsky (parrisactava...), October 30th, 2003 12:41 PM. (slutsky) (link)

clearly!
sometimes i wish i'd been around here in 2003.
xpost

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Saturday, 20 May 2006 01:34 (seventeen years ago) link

(i mean "clearly!" as in you were UNcloseted. but it also works as an agreement to yr point.)

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Saturday, 20 May 2006 01:36 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm not a closet watcher; it was my first time

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 20 May 2006 01:43 (seventeen years ago) link

right.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Saturday, 20 May 2006 01:54 (seventeen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

i bought season one and two on ebay last week. Ive only watched 5 episodes but heres what i have noticed so far:

trey is played by a different actor in the first scene (than in the second season). hes blonde and rough looking.

caitlin is about 10 years old.

julie is really critical about marissa's appearance. 'wear this dress. its much more forgiving' 'i thought we agreed you would wear your hair down. it softens your angles (??)'

mischa barton is cute as all get out in the early episodes. all golden brown hair and a whole lot of freckles. adorable!

summer? nowhere near as cute as she is now.

they seemed to be trying to create some hip youth phases since some weird one keep getting repeated 'i didnt mean to salt your game' and 'hes mad dogging me!' wtf?

sandy is a much more appealing character in the early episodes. sarcastic in a happy way. caleb is fun too.

― sunny successor (katharine), Monday, 12 June 2006 13:48 (seventeen years ago) link

also, a whole lot of cocaine.

― sunny successor (katharine), Monday, 12 June 2006 13:53 (seventeen years ago) link

season 1 is still great.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 12 June 2006 14:57 (seventeen years ago) link

aye

― jeffrey (johnson), Monday, 12 June 2006 18:53 (seventeen years ago) link

I put it in my Netflix queue last week, still waiting for the first discs to arrive. Part of the cuteness discrepancy is lighting. Summer and Julie were semi-villains for the first half of the season, I guess, so they get bad lighting. You left out the best part of S1 - Anna.

Watched the second season from BitTorrent, up until the last ten episodes it really wasn't bad. The lesbian love triangle was better than I remembered, or maybe the third season was just terrible.

― milo z (mlp), Monday, 12 June 2006 19:57 (seventeen years ago) link

i dont know. anna is little too easy for my liking. no personality conflict at all.

― sunny successor (katharine), Monday, 12 June 2006 20:09 (seventeen years ago) link

now, in a way, all i want to do for the next few days is watch world cup during the day and season 1 of the o.c. at night.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Monday, 12 June 2006 22:43 (seventeen years ago) link

do it.

― jeffrey (johnson), Monday, 12 June 2006 22:45 (seventeen years ago) link

ALSO, lots of scenes with ryan and seth biking and skateboarding the pier with big smiles on their faces and adoring glances at each other. i almost expect the theme from 'courtship of eddies father' to kick in.

rrrobyn - do it

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 12:31 (seventeen years ago) link

i am going to do it except swap watching the world cup part for lying around and playing videogames.

― jeffrey (johnson), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 21:35 (seventeen years ago) link

first marissa-less OC promo shot?

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/4571/oc2lr.jpg

― sunny successor (katharine), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 13:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Heh, it's embarrassing that I know this, but that's an old shot: my sister had a poster of the four "teens" in that exact same pose, with Marissa to Ryan's left. Looks like they edited her out and slapped the adults next to Ryan. Produces a weird effect; they all look so nonchalant about the death of one of their own!

― reddening (reddening), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 23:52 (seventeen years ago) link

they're in shock you heartless monster

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 15 June 2006 02:03 (seventeen years ago) link

your 'sister'. riiiight.

i had no idea julie was so tall. maybe sandy and kirsten are just teenytiny.

― sunny successor (katharine), Thursday, 15 June 2006 13:03 (seventeen years ago) link

WOAh check out my post from May 19th, 2006 12:45 PM. that .gif WAS lisa robin kelly shaking her farrah wings. now im scared.

― sunny successor (katharine), Thursday, 15 June 2006 13:05 (seventeen years ago) link

24 episodes in to season 1 now. More stuff I've noticed:

sandy is clearly the star of this show in the first season. a much more humorous sandy than the season 3 perpetually pissed off sandy. dialogue between sandy and seth and sandy and caleb is unfailingly gold.

they sure talk about death cab for cutie A LOT

i had forgotten how goofy the luke character became following the whole school finding out his dad is gay. like goofy to the point where everyone is embarrassed by him.

the whole oliver ordeal was a bore.

kirstens drinking was already being made a point of early in the first season. when did she end up going to rehab? the end of season 2?

it seems they are using some kind of hook em in device which involves two characters repeating a, generally offhand, exchange word for word that two other characters had 5+ episodes before. i wonder if it was noticeable when watched weekly.

if this was early 2004 I'd be saying please get rid of jimmy and hailey but since its mid 2006 i already know that they did. thanks!

in the few moments that ryan isnt running around either punching people or saving them, he is actually really likable.

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 13:45 (seventeen years ago) link

I liked Jimmy up to the point where he just became the whipping boy - if all nothing else works, have him fail/get beaten up/etc..

― milo z (mlp), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 21:04 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, he's a bore. plus this whole high morality road he takes when julie boffs the richest guy in town or her daughters ex-boyfriend. noone seems to be particularly offended that he embezzled a bunch of money. i did enjoy calebs 'ha ha you sure know how to piss people off, jimmy!' reaction though.

― sunny successor (katharine), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 14:14 (seventeen years ago) link

four months pass...

this episode was better than the entirety of last season (which admittedly I only watched part of).

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 3 November 2006 14:57 (seventeen years ago) link

And all it took was cage fighting.

― lindseykai (lindseykai), Friday, 3 November 2006 15:05 (seventeen years ago) link

also marissa's little sister = 10000x more interesting than marissa. although i've forgotten who luke was and hence who the two twins are supposed to be.

also I was really hoping ryan was getting it on with julie cooper but alas.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 3 November 2006 15:09 (seventeen years ago) link

I HAVENT WATCHED IT YET. i fear marissa not being there. is julie a drug addict yet?

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 3 November 2006 15:18 (seventeen years ago) link

it was totally good! could've been a bit darker - it'd only been 5 months since marissa's death after all - but it was sufficiently dark. ryan changed his mind re: coming back to pool house a bit too quickly really. but made up for that by agreeing to julie's revenge plot. julie cooper-nichol-roberts still awesome.

(whoa, what up with ilx highlighting spelling 'mistakes' in red?? new coding! funnnnnyyyy)

― rrrobyn, the situation (rrrobyn), Friday, 3 November 2006 15:25 (seventeen years ago) link

do you have the new version of firefox? that highlighting started happening for me when I installed it. doesnt happen in the explorer browser at work.

i cant even remember who killed marissa. i keep thinking oliver but that was like season 1, no?

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 3 November 2006 15:30 (seventeen years ago) link

haha, yes, i just realized this minute that it's b/c i upgraded firefox. okay, i turned that option off.

haha, that guy who she was going out with, the scruffy blond guy, did it. i think his name starts with b.

― rrrobyn, the situation (rrrobyn), Friday, 3 November 2006 15:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Marissa's little sister much less hatable this season.

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 3 November 2006 15:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Volcek ran them off the road.

rrrobyn OTM about Ryan changing his mind. Why do they resolve issues so quickly? They did the same thing last year with Ryan's brother; he left town at the end of the season premiere. For such a melodramatic show, there's almost no tension because you know exactly what will be resolved each week. The writers need to learn how to work a cliffhanger.

― lindseykai (lindseykai), Friday, 3 November 2006 16:48 (seventeen years ago) link

right, Volcek - i was thinking Bolcek or Bolduk or something for some reason.

those patent leather buckled kneehigh boots marissa's sister was putting on were crazy for a 14 yr old. wait, is that how old she is? this show...

kind of sad about summer and seth too. but roffles about summer going environmentalist at brown.

― rrrobyn, the situation (rrrobyn), Friday, 3 November 2006 18:04 (seventeen years ago) link

ok, i finally watched this. listen, why does ryan always run back to chino every time something goes wrong? julie is from the hood too but she opts for pills and landscaping like any normal person would. and that whole thunderdome scene. i dont know. kinda gay.

and i just cant see a scenario in my mind where miss 'eww!' summer would suddenly care about caged chickens. obviously its not going to stick, but still.

i think caitlin is going to be a lot of fun. not sure what the twins are there for.

i bet summer's dad smells like potatoes.

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 14:53 (seventeen years ago) link

I loved the first two seasons of this show, thought last season was okish, but that season opener was complete garbage. I think it officially jumped the shark when Surfer Johnny jumped off the rocks, but I'm on the verge of abandoning it for good. Summer a hippie? Cagefighting? WTF? Although, the Summer storyline was at least good for the "It's your turn to jam on the didj" line.

― jonviachicago (jonviachicago), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 15:17 (seventeen years ago) link

this show can only get better the more preposterous it becomes

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 15:20 (seventeen years ago) link

julie is the ultimate milf. I want her so bad.

― Lovelace (Lovelace), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 15:22 (seventeen years ago) link

what was up with those deliberately faked out photos of taylor in france? i thought i was watching a wes anderson film for a minute there.

and TWO EPISODES THIS WEEK! Wed and Thurs. wee!

― sunny successor (katharine), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 01:18 (seventeen years ago) link

whoa, how is this on tonight? ok it is.
and hottness factor up! :
1) taylor shows up in summer's dorm room! in her bed! wearing black lacey thing! has nice new hairstyle. says "do you wanna come in and snuggle!" hahaha. summer says "eww" of course, but in a nicey way.
2) tia freakin relic hunter carrere appears to be the new highschool headmistress!

so far no new hott guyz though. but then, i never expected that really from this show. plus, am not the target market. well, maybe a sub-target market.

i agree that it's been going downhill since beginning of season 2 but it still has many entertaining qualities.

hahaha, i bet summer's dad smells like potatoes and disinfectant and some kind of expensive cologne that julie buys him that smells more like girls than guys.

XPOST! yaay!

― rrrobyn, the situation (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 01:21 (seventeen years ago) link

wait...TONIGHT??

― sunny successor (katharine), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 01:39 (seventeen years ago) link

well, here... on a local channel. i will not post any spoilers until tomorrow! looks like the second one is on on thursday.

― rrrobyn, the situation (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 01:45 (seventeen years ago) link

UNFAIR

― sunny successor (katharine), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 01:50 (seventeen years ago) link

where is this utopia you live in that prioritizes the o.c. over election result coverage?

― sunny successor (katharine), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 01:55 (seventeen years ago) link

THE FAIR LAND OF CANADA!

haha, tv just told me they're showing US election coverage at midnight. (and prob already on other channels but i only have local channels b/c i am antenna/airwaves-only person.)

― rrrobyn, the situation (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 02:03 (seventeen years ago) link

i agree that it's been going downhill since beginning of season 2 but it still has many entertaining qualities.

I dunno, the second season (esp. lesbo plotline) was a bit of a recovery from the Oliver episodes.

Then it sucked again when Ryan's bro showed up.

― milo z (mlp), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 02:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Gay dad always trumps slutty mom.

― milo z (mlp), Friday, 10 November 2006 01:58 (seventeen years ago) link

What about gay dad's drummer?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 10 November 2006 02:13 (seventeen years ago) link

this show can only get better the more preposterous it becomes
-- kyle (akmonda...), November 7th, 2006.

It's just about topped out, then.

― From the Moon to Pluto Back Down to Earth (Rrrickey), Friday, 10 November 2006 12:48 (seventeen years ago) link

It was all OKish until they did that comic book montage presentation. And Summer is officially the most unbelievable character on television and anyone's interaction with her only makes everything even more unbelievable (wtf Ryan brushing everyone off except Summer, just because?)

― alex in montreal (alex in montreal), Friday, 10 November 2006 15:01 (seventeen years ago) link

i like how julie insinuating that summer's dad leave means 'they broke up' and the easy plot device of moving to seattle allows julie to keep the house and prob a big divorce settlement/alimony and we get to start all over again with her!! haha, tv!

but seriously, i want to see more messed up behaviour - i mean, marissa DIED. maybe julie will start seeing a therapist and get it on with him? i also think taylor is going to mellow a bit and then she and seth, y'know.

but the whole show is still a bit stuck in 2004. and that's the first thing that needs addressing.

― rrrobyn, the situation (rrrobyn), Friday, 10 November 2006 15:13 (seventeen years ago) link

is it just me, or is ryan's new haircut making him look a little:

http://cocoblogueaparis.hautetfort.com/list/rat_de_bib_/tintin.3.gif

― sunny successor agrees: gay dad always trumps slutty mom (katharine), Friday, 10 November 2006 15:17 (seventeen years ago) link

haha, yes! too short on sides
i want to see seth with a short haircut. then we'll see what happens to his indieboyness. or like shaved head and beard.

i love how hairstyles on this show are like a driving force. clothes not so much lately - they need to get back to understanding the real motivators for the show, c'mon.

― rrrobyn, the situation (rrrobyn), Friday, 10 November 2006 15:25 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...

GOODBYE

― groovemaan (groove nihilist), Thursday, 4 January 2007 11:27 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/01/04/tv.the.oc.canceled.ap/index.html

I'm shocked

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 4 January 2007 14:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Such a good show this season as well. Better than Veronica Mars, which probably deserves cancelling at this point.

― milo z (mlp), Thursday, 4 January 2007 15:01 (seventeen years ago) link

i saw it coming, what with last season being so terrible, but yeah, this season has been so great! sad :(

― rrrobyn, breeze blown meadow of cheeriness (rrrobyn), Thursday, 4 January 2007 15:22 (seventeen years ago) link

sad about 'the o.c.', i blame the bilson/brody breakup

also confused as to how i can disagree with virtually 90 percent of milo's aesthetic opinion's, but he's right that this year has been kgreat in newport

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Thursday, 4 January 2007 15:27 (seventeen years ago) link

pour one out

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Ridiculous Area 51 rave scene was worth it for the comic book geek recognizing Seth.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:22 (seventeen years ago) link

i don't see how they're going to wrap stuff up satisfactorily. I am surprised the ratings have dropped so much but it must still have more viewers than, say, the war at home, right? (I guess it costs much more to make though).

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:28 (seventeen years ago) link

and for god's sake i just found out that charmed lasted 7 seasons!! maybe more? i don't know but i saw there was a charmed season 7 dvd set

― rrrobyn, breeze blown meadow of cheeriness (rrrobyn), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:30 (seventeen years ago) link

but there's something to be said for syndication, i guess

― rrrobyn, breeze blown meadow of cheeriness (rrrobyn), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:31 (seventeen years ago) link

rrrobyn, I don't want to make things worse, but there were actually 8 seasons of charmed. There really is no justice in the world.

Really annoyed they cancelled the O.C. since this season has been amazing.

― The Ultimate Conclusion (lokar), Thursday, 4 January 2007 20:24 (seventeen years ago) link

(there are unsubstantiated rumors about a move to the CW)

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Thursday, 4 January 2007 20:29 (seventeen years ago) link

8 seasons! wow, fanbase power

wait, is teh CW a channel or a place?

― rrrobyn, breeze blown meadow of cheeriness (rrrobyn), Thursday, 4 January 2007 20:36 (seventeen years ago) link

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/4571/oc2lr.jpg

Never noticed how tiny Peter Gallagher is.

― milo z (mlp), Thursday, 4 January 2007 20:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Josh Schwartz now has a pilot at NBC. Not sure what that means for any future seasons. They seem keen on just ending it on a creative high.

― The Ultimate Conclusion (lokar), Thursday, 4 January 2007 20:55 (seventeen years ago) link

i'll weave you guys something a-sap!

― sunny successor agrees: gay dad always trumps slutty mom (katharine), Saturday, 13 January 2007 03:33 (seventeen years ago) link

For rrrobyn:

http://www.ocfiles.com/extras/calebchase.html

― sunny successor agrees: gay dad always trumps slutty mom (katharine), Saturday, 13 January 2007 03:34 (seventeen years ago) link

haha i love it when the caleb heads split into two caleb heads!

oh, the o.c., what will we do without you

― rrrobyn, breeze blown meadow of cheeriness (rrrobyn), Saturday, 13 January 2007 03:43 (seventeen years ago) link

"Hesitant perky tit skateboard kids mom decided to take wife beater home, for the 18th time."

Chris should write for televisionwithoutpity.

― milo z (mlp), Saturday, 13 January 2007 03:48 (seventeen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

holy shit!

http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/3576/imageloadee5.jpg

― sunny successor agrees: gay dad always trumps slutty mom (katharine), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 18:54 (seventeen years ago) link

for the ladies;

http://www.wbtvshop.com/kernel/imageload?table=cat_images;ttl2=15;key1=40230_l_EN_;key2=40230_l_EN;key3=40230_l;key4=-100_l_EN;key5=-100_l___wbtv;key6=-100_l

― sunny successor agrees: gay dad always trumps slutty mom (katharine), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 19:02 (seventeen years ago) link

i don't see how they're going to wrap stuff up satisfactorily.

now you know: EARTHQUAKE!

― sunny successor agrees: gay dad always trumps slutty mom (katharine), Friday, 2 February 2007 13:12 (seventeen years ago) link

i was hoping they would just get increasingly more ludicrous week by week but they haven't, really. they are rushing through the storylines awfully quickly though (like, when did julie and frank even have a relationship? they were revealed to have been seeing each other, then he was gone next episode, now they're practically married). but earthquake = good

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 2 February 2007 18:16 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't know, that whole "Look! A psychic!" bit was pretty ludicrous. And last week when Taylor spied on Ryan in a giant groundhog costume. And the week before that when Seth went on that spirit journey and talked to his inner otter.

I like that, for Julie, turning down a genial racist billionaire in favor of a former child abuser represents character growth. I get that they didn't have a lot of time to set up Frank and Julie, but still, WTF?

― reddening (reddening), Saturday, 3 February 2007 00:52 (seventeen years ago) link

they need MORE otter costumes and crazy shit like that

i still can't really believe this show got cancelled but it must be expensive

― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 3 February 2007 00:55 (seventeen years ago) link

i love the fact that the psychic was noted as working from a kiosk and apparently not expecting a fee.

― The Ultimate Conclusion (lokar), Saturday, 3 February 2007 02:08 (seventeen years ago) link

bullit's a racist??

― sunny successor agrees: gay dad always trumps slutty mom (katharine), Saturday, 3 February 2007 13:47 (seventeen years ago) link

omg so in love with flashback sandy cohen!!

otm re: more crazy shit - and more comedy music/score - i love that.
am fine with the frank&julie love - if this show does get renewed with another network, we will see tumultuous action btwn them for sure

i really want to eat a corndog right now :/

― rrrobyn, breeze blown meadow of cheeriness (rrrobyn), Saturday, 3 February 2007 16:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Okay, maybe Bullit's not a racist, but he's definitely got that charming casual bigotry going on. Remember when he invited himself to dinner with Sandy and Kirsten and Julie and regaled them with his opinions on the Great Jewish Media Conspiracy? "Hold on, He-bro!"

Anyway, I still like him for being so great with Kaitlin. I like Kaitlin way more than I thought I would this season.

― reddening (reddening), Saturday, 3 February 2007 23:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Anyway, I still like him for being so great with Kaitlin. I like Kaitlin way more than I thought I would this season.

OTM

I figured I would hate her. I bout gave up on it all last season when Kaitlin said that shit about "ruling Harbour". She's been good, though.

Bullitt is adorabley clueless. "He-Bro" was probably my favourite moment of the season. All very sweet, though. Which is nice.

― The Ultimate Conclusion (lokar), Sunday, 4 February 2007 05:25 (seventeen years ago) link

oh blah wahtever it is the OC - the sweetness is both love and comedy and tv soap-drama jugular - sure i fall for it but bc it's tv

― rrrobyn, breeze blown meadow of cheeriness (rrrobyn), Sunday, 4 February 2007 10:36 (seventeen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

last episode ever tonight! :(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(

― sunny successor, Thursday, 22 February 2007 18:46 (seventeen years ago) link

dudes, C'MON

briefcase or no briefcase = gold

― sunny successor, Friday, 23 February 2007 20:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, it was pretty good.

― Gukbe, Friday, 23 February 2007 20:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Tobias: The OC Disorder.
Michael: Don't call it that.

― nickalicious, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:01 (seventeen years ago) link

it was good, but super rushed like the whole season has been. but still, nice way to go out. it was almost affecting! also, flapjacks!

― akm, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:34 (seventeen years ago) link

awww...flapjacks

― sunny successor, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:35 (seventeen years ago) link

pancakes - immaculate conception?

― sunny successor, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:35 (seventeen years ago) link

"The Valley? That show is still on?"

― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 24 February 2007 05:22 (seventeen years ago) link

oh, the o.c. ;__;

― rrrobyn, Saturday, 24 February 2007 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Lock thread.

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Sunday, 25 February 2007 10:20 (seventeen years ago) link

three months pass...

i miss the OC

― sunny successor, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 14:34 (sixteen years ago) link

I started watching the show a couple months ago and am now almost done with season 3. (I have been reading this thread piecemeal along the way.) I think the show reached a high point early in season 2: it was funny and self-aware and I appreciated how the two power couples (Ryan/Marissa and Seth/Summer) spent most of that season apart from each other, since it made for more interesting tension than the stupid conflicts they had when they got back together. The downfall probably began with Kirsten's alcoholism: when season 3 begins, with her away in rehab, things just feel sort of off. Can't wait for Marissa to die!

― jaymc, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 14:42 (sixteen years ago) link

i also miss the OC

― rrrobyn, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 14:48 (sixteen years ago) link

i miss the OC, is there a club i can join?

― Dy, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 17:58 (sixteen years ago) link

I miss Dawson's Creek.

― milo z, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 19:06 (sixteen years ago) link

I never really watched the OC but it seems to me the show was considered good when it was a spoof of crappy teen dramas and went downhill when it actually became a lousy teen drama. Is that right?

― Cunga, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 19:09 (sixteen years ago) link

Look, they shouldn't have killed Marissa. Thats it.

Dawsons Creek is on at 8am every weekday morning

― sunny successor, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 19:10 (sixteen years ago) link

I've seen all those, I need new ones.

(OC on every afternoon on the Soap Channel, BTW)

― milo z, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 19:14 (sixteen years ago) link

I don't think it was ever a spoof per se, just very self-aware (cf. references to The Valley). One problem is the way the show began to make its sensational elements boringly tragic rather than breezily fun.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 19:18 (sixteen years ago) link

oh they always had tragic stuff - marissa oding in tj etc

― sunny successor, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 19:21 (sixteen years ago) link

(OC on every afternoon on the Soap Channel, BTW)

yeah! i got excited when i saw the first ep on soap but when i went to make a series recording i thought 'duh - dvds.'

― sunny successor, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 19:22 (sixteen years ago) link

I think maybe "boringly" is the key word in my post there. Marissa ODing in TJ was kind of hilarious.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 19:36 (sixteen years ago) link

four weeks pass...

After three months, I'm done with the show. Watched the finale last night.

I don't know what you people saw in Season 4. Kaitlin was awesome, but I couldn't bring myself to care about Taylor or her and Ryan's relationship at all. I guess I just missed Marissa drama. :(

Also, the finale was pretty silly with the exception of Ryan walking around the empty Cohen mansion, all Kirk Cameron in the Growing Pains finale, which totally made me tear up.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 19:23 (sixteen years ago) link

I had stopped watching it by the time Marissa died, but wasn't it really weird to kill her off?

― I know, right?, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 19:27 (sixteen years ago) link

I suppose. I never really understood if Mischa Barton wanted off the show, or what.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 19:36 (sixteen years ago) link

I suppose. I never really understood if Mischa Barton wanted off the show, or what.

She was being a pain in the ass to work with. Showing up to filming late, partying, commenting "uh, I don't know if I want to keep doing the show", etc. No great surprise that when they got around to dealing with her, they didn't just send her character away but killed her off. (my reacting to when the car exploded: man, they really want to kill her)

― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 21:03 (sixteen years ago) link

Yeah, definite shades of McLean Stevenson. Also, TV's not shy about killing off characters in general these days.

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 21:32 (sixteen years ago) link

No great surprise that when they got around to dealing with her, they didn't just send her character away but killed her off.

Yeah, they could easily have sent her off with Jimmy so she wouldn't have to appear in Season 4, anyway. I kind of liked how the first few episodes of Season 4 were all about Ryan and Summer and Julie dealing with the aftermath, and taking their time doing so. It was only when Taylor became one of the core characters, someone we were supposed to care about instead of a goofy guest star, did the season start sucking.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 21:38 (sixteen years ago) link

Am I the only person that keeps reading this as "The OCD"?

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 21:40 (sixteen years ago) link

Also, Che stuck around a few episodes too long, too. He was fine as the impetus for Summer's activist streak at Brown, but his arc should've ended when he got Summer kicked out of school. There was no absolutely no need for him to come to Newport and go on stupid adventures with Seth. And his appearances in Ryan/Taylor's coma dream and as Summer's champagne-fueled hallucination could've been fun if they didn't scream "9-episode contract."

― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 21:44 (sixteen years ago) link

kaitlin really was the best character during the last season, with julie and, yes, ryan coming in a close second and third

― rrrobyn, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 22:14 (sixteen years ago) link

"I mean, I make fun of everyone. Usually 'cause I'm high."

― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 22:18 (sixteen years ago) link

Evil Kaitlin was awesome. Kaitlin With A Heart, less so. (Kinda like Evil-then-Needy Taylor, awesome; Main Character Taylor not so much) I still haven't watched the last five or six episodes.

― milo z, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 22:52 (sixteen years ago) link

three years pass...

Kinda miss this show.

― a cross between lily allen and fetal alcohol syndrome (milo z), Friday, 24 September 2010 03:22 (thirteen years ago) link

two years pass...

Can't believe this shit isn't available on Hulu, Netflix or Amazon Prime.

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Saturday, 24 August 2013 22:58 (ten years ago) link

iirc s4 and 5 of this just went straight camp (not an oxymoron) to get away from the awful melodrama of 3, but 1 and 2 were genuinely sweet and funny teenpulp. i was in high school and i wasn't ashamed.

― one yankee sympathizer masquerading as a historian (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 25 August 2013 04:53 (ten years ago) link

peter gallagher was really terrific.

― one yankee sympathizer masquerading as a historian (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 25 August 2013 04:53 (ten years ago) link

and julie cooper.

― one yankee sympathizer masquerading as a historian (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 25 August 2013 04:54 (ten years ago) link

melinda clarke. is her name. she was great.

― one yankee sympathizer masquerading as a historian (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 25 August 2013 04:57 (ten years ago) link

lololol i thought this thread was 64 posts i'll get out of underdog-championing tone

― one yankee sympathizer masquerading as a historian (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 25 August 2013 04:58 (ten years ago) link

point is i own s1 and 2 on dvd

― one yankee sympathizer masquerading as a historian (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 25 August 2013 05:03 (ten years ago) link

eleven months pass...

Thursday, August 7, 2003 10:55 AM (11 years ago) Bookmark

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 20:57 (nine years ago) link

i miss this show, i think i have seasons 1-3 on DVD tho

― Bus Sex Teen Busted After Queef Beef (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 21:33 (nine years ago) link

Shailene Woodley was the original Kaitlin!?!?

― Randall "Humble" Pie (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 21:36 (nine years ago) link

Somewhere in storage I've got tapes of at least the first mini season complete with all commercials left in. What a fascinating time machine watching them would be.

― Randall "Humble" Pie (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 21:39 (nine years ago) link

Yeah, but she really didn't get much screen time at all until her "return" as the bad girl. (xpost)

― Bus Sex Teen Busted After Queef Beef (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 21:42 (nine years ago) link

First ep is free w/ commercials on Amazon, it's holding up pretty well

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 21:43 (nine years ago) link

Forgot how good "Into Dust" is used in the pilot

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 21:47 (nine years ago) link

well

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 21:48 (nine years ago) link

one year passes...

Now up on Hulu along with Dawson's Creek.

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Sunday, 8 May 2016 15:56 (seven years ago) link

Just realised that they are different things.

― Daithi Bowsie (darraghmac), Sunday, 8 May 2016 16:01 (seven years ago) link

It's been ages since I watched or rewatched a network melodrama. There are so many episodes, holy shit. Ryan and Marissa have already broken up for the first time and it's barely halfway through the first season. Seth and Anna have a relationship for three episodes!

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Saturday, 21 May 2016 03:50 (seven years ago) link

two years pass...

Apparently the Cohen house burned down during the Woolsey Fire last year. Seems about right for plot line.
http://www.iamnotastalker.com/2019/04/19/the-cohen-mansion-from-the-o-c/

― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 19 April 2019 21:00 (five years ago) link

Adam Brody shows up in Shazam btw as the adult superhero alter ego of one of the kids. I hadn't seen him in so long it took a while (and the credits) for me to feel confident it was him.

― akm, Friday, 19 April 2019 21:07 (five years ago) link

four years pass...

Ryan Atwood’s book on crypto grifting is out today.

― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 18 July 2023 17:37 (nine months ago) link

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