"The O.C.": C/D

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.

-- gear (speed.to.roa...), May 19th, 2006.

OTM!

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...

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."

Completely OTM. Whenever she was on-screen it felt like someone tied a boat anchor to the show and threw it over a bridge.

please let next season be all DIABOLICAL and overthetop please.

-- s1utsky (parrisactava...), October 30th, 2003 12:41 PM. (slutsky) (link)

clearly!
sometimes i wish i'd been around here in 2003.
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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.

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.

rrrobyn - do it

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i had no idea julie was so tall. maybe sandy and kirsten are just teenytiny.

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.

also I was really hoping ryan was getting it on with julie cooper but alas.

(whoa, what up with ilx highlighting spelling 'mistakes' in red?? new coding! funnnnnyyyy)

i cant even remember who killed marissa. i keep thinking oliver but that was like season 1, no?

haha, that guy who she was going out with, the scruffy blond guy, did it. i think his name starts with b.

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.