Friday Morning Quarterback: The OC

Let me first state that I've never written about TV shows before. Ever since high school it's been basically all sports. But then again, I've never followed a TV show, along with several of my friends, with such feverish devotion as The OC. After last nights episode, in which any true fan of the program probably either did cartwheels upon its conclusion or rewound their VHS and watched the final seven minutes over and over again, it seemed like the best time to infiltrate some entertainment into this blog. Then again who wouldn't now that Seth and Summer and back together!

After watching The OC last night, I came to realize two things: The episodes featuring covers of Oasis songs are the best ones. Think for a moment back to season one when Seth played Summer the Ryan Adam's cover of "Wonderwall" at the end of "The Heartbreak." Arguably my favorite episode from season one. And now at the conclusion of last nights show, over the span of the last seven minutes of the show we hear a cover of "Champagne Supernova" while all the pieces of the puzzle fall into place. This worries me however, because Oasis doesn't have that many more good songs.

Secondly, I wish it were raining outside right now.

In a nutshell, the episode from last evening was the exact same as the last month worth of shows until the glorious last few minutes of the show. I remember thinking at about 7:30pm CDT that the show had gone absolutely nowhere and I was growing extremely bored, which may have been a first as far as me and this show is concerned. I mean, could the writers and producers put a more annoying and ridiculous scene into their show than Lindsey hacking her way through some classical oboe music? I don't know if anyone could film a more annoying actor with a more annoying instrument than that scene. By the end of the episode she left for Chicago, and I hope she finds a windy city man and leaves Orange County alone. I don't think anybody really cared if she was with Ryan or not.

The other part that made me want to throw my bottle of Leine's Red at the screen was when Seth drops by Summer's room (again) only to walk out after saying something along the lines of "hope you and Zach have fun having sex overseas," (again). How many times will it take the guy to actually tell the girl he's still in love with her and it burns him up every passing moment he's not with her? Well to everyone's delight it happened about 25 minutes later in the show when he called her only to be denied, but Summer had that look in her eye like Seth had finally broke through. His voicemail he left her at the airport was the clincher. Or was it Summer seeing the little kid playing with the horse at the airport? The kid honestly must have been related to Adam Brody in real life because he was a spitting image. I've never been so excited during the shows one and a half seasons thus far as I was when Summer left Zach, who of course took everything in perfect stride, to go to Seth's house only to find him dangling upside down from his roof trying to fix the satellite in a driving rain storm with his water proof spiderman mask on. It didn't take a genius to figure out where that was going, but you know what? I loved it! Absolutely loved it. I wanted to applaud. In fact, I probably did.

The other significant occurance was that Sandy's ex-Rebecca finally left. Good riddance. Nobody liked you anyway and Kirsten's much better looking.

So that's about it. Like I said, I'm no expect on entertainment writing and don't aspire to be. I just like this show. Now that Seth and Summer are back together and the writers are blatantly foreshadowing at Ryan and Marissa getting back together after her lesbiansim stint comes to a close, who knows what will happen next?

Let me close by saying that last night was Seth Cohen in his prime. The scene of him discovering his ex-Alex and Marissa were dabbling in the lesbian pool was one of his best ever. Vintage SC. An instant classic.

In two weeks when The OC is a new episode again, I'll try to hack my way through one of these again, but it will be tough for the next episode to top this one.