OC Friday Morning Hangover: Season Finalepisode

Josh Schwartz reads the Brew City Beat! At least parts of it. How else can a random fan of the show hit the bullseye on so many fronts? I'm not speaking about the couple "Bold Predictions" I made that actually came true. Yes, I appear to be correct about Jimmy being a regular again next season and Trey dying, but I was wrong on all the other ones. But, clearly Mr. Schwartz has been reading these posts because he made an honest effort to have Julie Cooper-Nicol-Cooper mention her long lost youngest daughter (who has been at boarding school with no Christmas, Easter or Spring break). And for a brief second, I thought he was going to finally address my theory of Trey being 21 and Jess being 17 when she had her routine "barge into Trey's apartment" scene, and began talking about graduating. Most HS grads are 18. If that would have been the case, I would have been calling Mr. Schwarz asking him for a position on his staff because I seem to be on the same page. But, onto the rest of the finale...

As I mentioned earlier, it appears as though Trey died. In the final scene of the final Season Two episode, Ryan goes to his big brothers apartment to "finish things with Trey once and for all," because Marissa told Summer about what Trey did to her and Summer told Seth and Seth confronted Ryan about it. Ryan Atwood from Season One re-emerged. Trey pulled a gun on Ryan, only to have Ryan pull the ole fake walk away into the lunging bulldog takedown and start beating his bro into a pulp. But a fight scene isn't a fight scene with one guy dominating the entire thing, just ask Vince McMahon. So Trey eventually overpowers Ryan and puts a nasty chokehold on him. Marissa enters the apartment screaming that Trey is going to kill Ryan. Trey apparently didn't care, because unless he was going to let Ryan make a last phone call, he was prepared to bust his brother in the chops with an old phone right to the temple. Marissa grabbed the gun and shot the elder Atwood in the non-heart side of his back. Trey rolls over motionless, Seth and Summer enter, Ryan slowly gets up and WHAM, Season Two is in the books.

It was a great ending to a mediocre season. When the show ended, I couldn't help but think about how if Marissa actually did kill Trey, how will that mess with her mind next season? And what will it mean for Ryan and Marissa? I realize that Trey was on the verge of killing Ryan, but brothers are brothers.

The sub headline for the show read, "Kirsten is intervened by her family and checks into an OC Betty Ford clinic." Her drinking finally got a little two out of hand at the gathering after Caleb's funernal, when she was stumbling around with just the bottle of vodka, ala 2004 Thursday night 1 a.m. Cody, yelling at Sandy. The Cohen's (and Ryan) brought in a Dr. from the clinic to have an intervention with their drunken family member. They all stated their case as to why Kirsten needs help. She begrudgingly accepted she needs help. I'm telling you, there's still hope for a show that doesn't suck called "The LaX." 'Nuff said on that.

The re-emergence of one James Cooper was a welcome sight. I think I first realized how much I liked Jimmy's character when he was back this week. And apparently he and Julie are going to try to make amends and reunite to become an actual family again.

Hailey's return was a welcome sight as well. And let me state, she and Jimmy shared the funniest part of the episode. Remembering that Hailey stared in the Fox show "North Shore," which followed The OC last fall, their encounter went something like this:

Hailey: "You moved to Hawaii, how is that?"
Jimmy: "Beautiful, the north shore is great."
Hailey: "So I've heard."

Clever. Very clever. Maybe that was all the OC faithful needed to become diehard The NS watchers shortly.

So that does it folks. Apparently I need to start being insightful about the world of sports again, because I'm not going to post about OC RR's all summer long. But does anyone happen to know what song was playing while Trey was shot? I was kind of digging it.

Mad Town Beat

It seems as though a radio station has deemed Justin adequate for employment. How did he get hired you ask? Thin applicant pool. But in all honesty, he's now got himself a job, which I do not, thus moving him above me on the pegboard. But his job is in Madison, so I now wonder if he will fly away from this weblog and start his own "Mad Town Beat." We shall see. If so, I'm looking forward to him getting to the bottom of all of the UW scandals and figuring out once and for all who is "the" girl causing all the problems to UW athletic teams.

That's all I got for now. But this may have been my most sports based post in the last month.