Friday, December 03, 2004
Nearly A Return to Glory
Thursday Night TV Report:
The OC
This episode had the best of what The OC has to offer and the absolute worst it has to offer. I loved it and I hated it.
The beginning was excellent, the stuff that makes the show fun to watch. By the way, how many episodes start in the pool house? A lot.
New Character Thoughts: Lindsay - Aside from her first name, she has a definite Lohan thing going on, which is good and bad. Also like Lohan, but not like a lot of people, she has a good side and bad side. Some angles make her a bombshell, some make her a dud. She is a lot like Anna from last season, she has Anna-type lines, except she's 10 times bitchier and less cool.
Ryan did something during the episode that does not happen nearly enough on TV. When he met Alex, the hot chick with female-Kramer hair thing who works at The Baitshop, he did a truly honest looking double take as she walked by. This never happens in TV, probably because the actors aren't just first meeting while shooting, so they already know what to expect. But Ryan played it perfectly, as if he had never seen her before. Little things, kids, it's the little things.
By the way, Ben McKenzie is getting much, much better at acting.
Seth Coen line of the show: (while talking to Alex, trying to get her to do the "group hang" with the "peel off" - more on that later) "Ryan's very anti-establishment..." Great stuff.
Other lines of note:
Julie Cooper: "I was trying to Google myself and I crashed the entire network."
Zach: "Okay, I'm going to go jump off the pier." It wasn't just the line though, it was the tone he used to say it. Funny.
Seth: "She was my shorty last year but then she got served."
Other Episode Related Thoughts:
First of all, thanks to them for reading my last OC blog entry and ending this episode with happy characters.
Second, the group and hang and peel off thing. That's what is cool about The OC, it takes things from real life like that, that aren't often verbalized or acknowledged, but things that everyone knows exists.
Third, we are now at the point where a "How will they write Marissa off the show?" conversation started in the 213 last night. She has nothing to offer to the show anymore. She came storming in last season with a burst, but now she's just burned out. And, Misha Barton is an atrocious actress, painful to watch. And this her and DJ thing? Just time filler. He sucks at acting as well. HOW ABOUT THEIR KISS AT THE END??? Worst kiss in TV history, close the books. It will never be topped. I often speak hyperbolic about things, but this is on the money. That was fucking horrible. Not believable at all. He was kissing her right corner of her mouth, her closed mouth, not moving lips. How do the show's producers allow this to happen? I need the inside story on that kiss. Wow. Talk about a boner killer.
Ideas to write her off? I think a suicide, or any kind of death would be too drastic for The OC and would kill a lot of the show. I think maybe Julie shipping her off to some boarding school, or Jimmy getting a great job somewhere and her moving with him, or maybe jail or something. She's either gotta change or has to leave.
Two things I'm excited about:
1) Seth with a special lady friend again. Should be comedic.
2) The Sandy Coen/Caleb Nichol thing, the mystery about what he's doing. And it's not an affair. I think he may have another daughter he never told anybody about and that is who this women is.
Last Note: How long is Kirsten going to let Julie call her KiKi?
Until Later.
The OC
This episode had the best of what The OC has to offer and the absolute worst it has to offer. I loved it and I hated it.
The beginning was excellent, the stuff that makes the show fun to watch. By the way, how many episodes start in the pool house? A lot.
New Character Thoughts: Lindsay - Aside from her first name, she has a definite Lohan thing going on, which is good and bad. Also like Lohan, but not like a lot of people, she has a good side and bad side. Some angles make her a bombshell, some make her a dud. She is a lot like Anna from last season, she has Anna-type lines, except she's 10 times bitchier and less cool.
Ryan did something during the episode that does not happen nearly enough on TV. When he met Alex, the hot chick with female-Kramer hair thing who works at The Baitshop, he did a truly honest looking double take as she walked by. This never happens in TV, probably because the actors aren't just first meeting while shooting, so they already know what to expect. But Ryan played it perfectly, as if he had never seen her before. Little things, kids, it's the little things.
By the way, Ben McKenzie is getting much, much better at acting.
Seth Coen line of the show: (while talking to Alex, trying to get her to do the "group hang" with the "peel off" - more on that later) "Ryan's very anti-establishment..." Great stuff.
Other lines of note:
Julie Cooper: "I was trying to Google myself and I crashed the entire network."
Zach: "Okay, I'm going to go jump off the pier." It wasn't just the line though, it was the tone he used to say it. Funny.
Seth: "She was my shorty last year but then she got served."
Other Episode Related Thoughts:
First of all, thanks to them for reading my last OC blog entry and ending this episode with happy characters.
Second, the group and hang and peel off thing. That's what is cool about The OC, it takes things from real life like that, that aren't often verbalized or acknowledged, but things that everyone knows exists.
Third, we are now at the point where a "How will they write Marissa off the show?" conversation started in the 213 last night. She has nothing to offer to the show anymore. She came storming in last season with a burst, but now she's just burned out. And, Misha Barton is an atrocious actress, painful to watch. And this her and DJ thing? Just time filler. He sucks at acting as well. HOW ABOUT THEIR KISS AT THE END??? Worst kiss in TV history, close the books. It will never be topped. I often speak hyperbolic about things, but this is on the money. That was fucking horrible. Not believable at all. He was kissing her right corner of her mouth, her closed mouth, not moving lips. How do the show's producers allow this to happen? I need the inside story on that kiss. Wow. Talk about a boner killer.
Ideas to write her off? I think a suicide, or any kind of death would be too drastic for The OC and would kill a lot of the show. I think maybe Julie shipping her off to some boarding school, or Jimmy getting a great job somewhere and her moving with him, or maybe jail or something. She's either gotta change or has to leave.
Two things I'm excited about:
1) Seth with a special lady friend again. Should be comedic.
2) The Sandy Coen/Caleb Nichol thing, the mystery about what he's doing. And it's not an affair. I think he may have another daughter he never told anybody about and that is who this women is.
Last Note: How long is Kirsten going to let Julie call her KiKi?
Until Later.
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thing i am looking forward to is when seth and ryan bring there new girlfriends over to the house for the first meet and greet with the coen's should be good for some excellent comedic moments with seth and sandy
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