"The O.C.": C/D

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).

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

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."

have you been to Newport Beach?

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

(coughs, dies)

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

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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.

i miss the OC

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!

i also miss the OC

i miss the OC, is there a club i can join?

I miss Dawson's Creek.

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?

Look, they shouldn't have killed Marissa. Thats it.

Dawsons Creek is on at 8am every weekday morning

I've seen all those, I need new ones.

(OC on every afternoon on the Soap Channel, BTW)

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.

oh they always had tragic stuff - marissa oding in tj etc

(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.'

I think maybe "boringly" is the key word in my post there. Marissa ODing in TJ was kind of hilarious.

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.

I had stopped watching it by the time Marissa died, but wasn't it really weird to kill her off?

I suppose. I never really understood if Mischa Barton wanted off the show, or what.

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)

Yeah, definite shades of McLean Stevenson. Also, TV's not shy about killing off characters in general these days.

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.

Am I the only person that keeps reading this as "The OCD"?

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."

kaitlin really was the best character during the last season, with julie and, yes, ryan coming in a close second and third

"I mean, I make fun of everyone. Usually 'cause I'm high."

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.

Kinda miss this show.

Can't believe this shit isn't available on Hulu, Netflix or Amazon Prime.

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.

peter gallagher was really terrific.

and julie cooper.

melinda clarke. is her name. she was great.

lololol i thought this thread was 64 posts i'll get out of underdog-championing tone

point is i own s1 and 2 on dvd

Thursday, August 7, 2003 10:55 AM (11 years ago) Bookmark

i miss this show, i think i have seasons 1-3 on DVD tho

Shailene Woodley was the original Kaitlin!?!?

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.

Yeah, but she really didn't get much screen time at all until her "return" as the bad girl. (xpost)

First ep is free w/ commercials on Amazon, it's holding up pretty well

Forgot how good "Into Dust" is used in the pilot

well

Now up on Hulu along with Dawson's Creek.

Just realised that they are different things.

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!

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/

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.

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