I think I'm going to start another blog titled "The Orange County Beat" because I just realized that basically all of my posts deal very little with sports and a lot with this show. We'll see how that shakes out. But our OC faithful finally decided to have themselves a prom! Unless I've miscalculated, they are seniors now and should be getting ready to graduate. But I guess that's the beauty of TV, a second year of junior year for the stars and nobody gets called a super senior later.
I was partly correct about how prom would pan out. The O. Sea saw Summer let the boys decide who would take her, and it turned out to be Zach. But he didn't technically win. Enter George Lucas, to meet with one of the two comics geeks on the same night of the prom. Zach and Seth both wanted to go with Summer, but they both wanted to meet George Lucas. A coin flip to determine who does what later and Zach got to escort the girl while Cohen got to ask about light sabers. Problem being Zach didn't really want to be with Summer and Cohen didn't really want to be with Lucas. Zach leaves prom and Cohen arrives to find Summer standing alone on stage as Prom Queen with no King (it was Zach). As predicted, Seth produced a very Coheny speech which won over Summer all over again. I'll proclaim it proudly, unless something drastically goes south in the finale next week, the lovable two will enter the offseason together.
Caleb died. I first now realized I should have probably put this paragraph first. But it was from a natural heart attack and not a Julie induced pain killer overdose. She actually thought better of it. Of course Caleb dying didn't help Kirsten struggling effort to stop drinking. Telling Sandy she'll rid the house of all booze only to have him find a flask of vodka in her purse and then have her old man pass won't help. The episode concluded with Kirsten and Sandy exchanging verbals about her problem, then finding out about Cal and Kirsten snatching her flask and walking off. Maybe she was walking to a Betty Ford clinic. Hey, even Billy Joel gave it a try.
The plot involves Mr. Ryan Atwood and his quest to discover what was going on between Marissa and Trey. Instead of going too in depth about it, I'll try to lay it out a different way: He believes Marissa, then he believes Trey, then he runs into Theresa (remember her?) in Chino and she tells him to believe Marissa and he does. I've never seen a classier prom get up than Ryan Atwood in a hooded sweatshirt. Perfect. Oh by the way, Theresa wouldn't let Ryan in the house because her (their) kid was inside. Hmmmmm, a whole season of that one lying dormant like everyone's favorite volcano and now the finale is next week? Why stop shitting on Ryan now?
Buckle up for the finale next week folks and include me in your thoughts. After next week, I'll actually have to start posting about sports again.
QUESTIONS FROM THE COUCH:
1. Do we even know for certain that Theresa's kid is in fact Ryan and not that creepy Eddie guy's?
2. What can Cohen do next week to piss off Summer?
3. Will Carter come back next week because Kirsten's father passed away?
4. If Filzen had become a lights out marimba player as a youth would he have fallen for David Bell and now be applying to be the Philly Phanatic?
5. Will Ryan and Marissa ever truly get back together? I'm beginning to have my doubts.
BOLD FINALE PREDICTIONS:
1. Jimmy Cooper will come back onto the program as a regular starting next week (the preview showed us that) and stay for next season.
2. Marissa will come clean with Ryan about Trey but they will not end the season as a couple.
3. Sandy and Kirsten are this season's couple to end on the outs. I'm not predicting a divorce, but they will not be the happy couple from long ago and there will be serious doubt surrounding them for the OC OS (offseason).
4. The preview of Kirsten flipping out will be directed at Jimmy, not Sandy.
5. Trey dies.
Friday, May 13, 2005
Tuesday, May 10, 2005
Hoop Dreams
In my opinion, one of the greatest films ever made is finally released on DVD today. Hoop Dreams was groundbreaking at the time for it's unconventional documentary style and for the way it exploited recruiting of young men and the way young inner city african americans are exploited. It focuses on Aurthur Agee and William Gates. Gates as many of you remember went on to play at Marquette, but knee injuries derailed most of his potential. If you are a basketball, documentary or drama fan by all means go out and buy this movie. To all fans of this movie, rejoice beacause a sequal is being produced as we speak
Friday, May 06, 2005
The OC Friday Morning Hangover: The 2 hourpisode
Two hours of all new OC goodness. And what happened over the made for TV movie this week? Plenty. For the record, it wasn't a made for TV movie, but two hours is the going length for one of those glorious "movies." Still with me? Good. I believe we were left off two weeks ago thanks to our President's ill timed press conference with Ryan and Marissa locking lips. Two hours later, we're left with Trey snorting blow ala his 17-year-old hot skank and apparently thinking that raping Marissa is a grand idea. Now before you get your panties all into a bundle, he didn't actually rape her on the beach, but that's because Marissa grabbed a large piece of driftwood and greeted him with a haymaker to the forehead. That gave her enough time to finaggle herself free and flee.
But does either Trey or Marissa tell Ryan about it upon his return from Miami? Of course not. Because the younger Atwood always gets shat on. He and his brother appeared to have things in order and Trey trys to rape his girlfriend. Then when he and Marissa are finally having some much needed Season One pool house action, she starts having flashbacks of Trey forcing himself on her and mistaking Ryan for Trey. She stops the makeout session and tells Ryan, "This can't work, it's been too long, too much has changed." Enter puzzled look upon Ryan's face. So if you're doing the math, his brother has attempted sexual assult upon his girlfriend that in turn left him as a result of that. I'm really starting to feel bad for this kid.
Kirsten kissed Carter, rather passionately while Sandy and the boys were in Miami. And then when he actually rather gracefully exited to take a better magazine job in The NYC, Kirsten became an alcoholic. She put down her glasses of wine and picked up her giblets of vodka and made them strong enough to satisfy Bobby Huggins. When Sandy suspected her of drinking too much and it having something to do with Carter, Kirsten lied and said nothing happened. She then went to a bar and was overcome with the feeling of losing Sandy, so she took off the necklace Carter gave her and left her third freshly shaken dirty martini untouched at the bar, drove home, called Sandy on his cell and wept how she's been wrong and she loves him. She apparently didn't hear him say to stop driving and he'll pick her up because the two hour OC romp ended with Kirsten's ride getting lambasted by a dump truck, flipping the car over. I guess the writers of the show like to throw drunken car crashes in near the end of a season. (Remember Luke in Season One?)
Seth and Summer (did you like how I buried my first reference to my favorite couple a few paragraphs into this bad boy?), well mainly Summer, decided she needed a timeout from Cohen, which when placed over the same time frame as his jaunt to Miami, probably wasn't the best idea. Seth gets conned into doing one of those MTV "guy licks whipped cream off body of token drunk girl" bits and of course Summer is tuned in back in Orange County. And she oh so conviently happened to be having dinner at Zach's house at the time. Upon seeing her favorite Jewish high schooler making an ass of himself on TV, she commenced making out with Zach on the spot. Ok, I'm not as upset as you might think, because I'm pretty sure almost everybody saw that one coming. What was hilarious was watching Zach officially admit he's going to stop being nice to get Summer back. They now have a war going on between them and neither is winning because Summer said she's picking neither of them. Ok, but I guess she will seeing as next week is prom and they're all in their second year of being juniors.
Caleb filed for his divorce from Julie and fired her. I thought it was a pretty funny scene watching Caleb systematically tear down his wife, with the same precision Filzen showed G. Williams the door, telling her he's had people following her sexual exploits since she was humping Luke. "It was her ex-boyfriend," she said. I thought it was funny.
I'm sure I've left some things out because there were two hours worth of fun last night. But I think that covers the gist of it. I have high hopes for the final two episodes, mainly because I don't think the producers can have another season end with Seth and Summer AND Ryan and Marissa on the outs. Catch you next week, but only for an hour.
QUESTIONS FROM THE COUCH
1. Who will Summer pick for the prom? My guess is Zach, but Cohen will get her back. The stage is set for Cohen. Prom night, c'mon on. It seriously say's Seth all over it. (If I'm wrong on this one, I'll be devastated.)
2. AM I STILL THE ONLY ONE NOTICING THAT TREY IS 21 AND SKANK BLONIE IS 17?
3. Did Marissa's little sister die? I know she was only in like, two episodes thoughout two seasons, but when Julie always refers to saying, "me and my girls will have nothing," only to have Caleb say, "and I want you and your daughter out of the house in a week." I think I may have caught a production error.
4. Will Julie actually kill Caleb to get a slice of his money?
5. Will Filzen walk away from his Steve Sax Yankee's now that they suck?
6. Who in the hell will Ryan believe about what happened between Trey and Marissa?
But does either Trey or Marissa tell Ryan about it upon his return from Miami? Of course not. Because the younger Atwood always gets shat on. He and his brother appeared to have things in order and Trey trys to rape his girlfriend. Then when he and Marissa are finally having some much needed Season One pool house action, she starts having flashbacks of Trey forcing himself on her and mistaking Ryan for Trey. She stops the makeout session and tells Ryan, "This can't work, it's been too long, too much has changed." Enter puzzled look upon Ryan's face. So if you're doing the math, his brother has attempted sexual assult upon his girlfriend that in turn left him as a result of that. I'm really starting to feel bad for this kid.
Kirsten kissed Carter, rather passionately while Sandy and the boys were in Miami. And then when he actually rather gracefully exited to take a better magazine job in The NYC, Kirsten became an alcoholic. She put down her glasses of wine and picked up her giblets of vodka and made them strong enough to satisfy Bobby Huggins. When Sandy suspected her of drinking too much and it having something to do with Carter, Kirsten lied and said nothing happened. She then went to a bar and was overcome with the feeling of losing Sandy, so she took off the necklace Carter gave her and left her third freshly shaken dirty martini untouched at the bar, drove home, called Sandy on his cell and wept how she's been wrong and she loves him. She apparently didn't hear him say to stop driving and he'll pick her up because the two hour OC romp ended with Kirsten's ride getting lambasted by a dump truck, flipping the car over. I guess the writers of the show like to throw drunken car crashes in near the end of a season. (Remember Luke in Season One?)
Seth and Summer (did you like how I buried my first reference to my favorite couple a few paragraphs into this bad boy?), well mainly Summer, decided she needed a timeout from Cohen, which when placed over the same time frame as his jaunt to Miami, probably wasn't the best idea. Seth gets conned into doing one of those MTV "guy licks whipped cream off body of token drunk girl" bits and of course Summer is tuned in back in Orange County. And she oh so conviently happened to be having dinner at Zach's house at the time. Upon seeing her favorite Jewish high schooler making an ass of himself on TV, she commenced making out with Zach on the spot. Ok, I'm not as upset as you might think, because I'm pretty sure almost everybody saw that one coming. What was hilarious was watching Zach officially admit he's going to stop being nice to get Summer back. They now have a war going on between them and neither is winning because Summer said she's picking neither of them. Ok, but I guess she will seeing as next week is prom and they're all in their second year of being juniors.
Caleb filed for his divorce from Julie and fired her. I thought it was a pretty funny scene watching Caleb systematically tear down his wife, with the same precision Filzen showed G. Williams the door, telling her he's had people following her sexual exploits since she was humping Luke. "It was her ex-boyfriend," she said. I thought it was funny.
I'm sure I've left some things out because there were two hours worth of fun last night. But I think that covers the gist of it. I have high hopes for the final two episodes, mainly because I don't think the producers can have another season end with Seth and Summer AND Ryan and Marissa on the outs. Catch you next week, but only for an hour.
QUESTIONS FROM THE COUCH
1. Who will Summer pick for the prom? My guess is Zach, but Cohen will get her back. The stage is set for Cohen. Prom night, c'mon on. It seriously say's Seth all over it. (If I'm wrong on this one, I'll be devastated.)
2. AM I STILL THE ONLY ONE NOTICING THAT TREY IS 21 AND SKANK BLONIE IS 17?
3. Did Marissa's little sister die? I know she was only in like, two episodes thoughout two seasons, but when Julie always refers to saying, "me and my girls will have nothing," only to have Caleb say, "and I want you and your daughter out of the house in a week." I think I may have caught a production error.
4. Will Julie actually kill Caleb to get a slice of his money?
5. Will Filzen walk away from his Steve Sax Yankee's now that they suck?
6. Who in the hell will Ryan believe about what happened between Trey and Marissa?
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