I think it is seriously time to call it quits on this show and with the abysmal ratings The O.C. received yesterday, quite a few people feel the same. Not going to lie, this show was one of my must-watch during its first season. It was genuinely interesting enough for me to give the show the benefit of the doubt for seasons two and three, which didn’t really live up to the standard set by the first. So what went wrong?
- Marissa is stupid. While Mischa Barton was hot, her character was in some of the worst love triangles I’ve ever seen on television. I mean, please, Johnny, Oliver and that gardener guy I don’t remember are some of the worst characters ever conceived. They’re boring, one-dimensional and poorly acted. Volchuk was somewhat interesting but I think it was only because the writers got confused as to what they wanted him to be and in the end, he ended up as ridiculous as all the rest.Of course, she’s dead now so we no longer have this problem. Wow, that sounds cold.
- Ridiculous plot twists. Now there’s interesting…and there’s ridiculous. Ridiculous gives the viewer either a sense of frustration over its stupidity or is just plain boring. Marissa is a semi-lesbian but not really? Summer is now a hippie? Ryan is a cage fighter? Right.
- Everything has been done. When is the last time they had a story that we haven’t seen before? This was the problem with Smallville that made me stop watching it despite the fact that Superman is usually pretty awesome. Every episode is the same. Someone is a dick. That someone almost finds out about Clark. Clark goes to fight him. The black kid, Lex and the reporter chick help. Lana is in danger. Clark saves the world and then goes to save Lana. The guy who’s a dick dies before he can tell everyone about Superman. Lana and Clark have their “moment” in the barn where she tells him to open up and he says he can’t in a scene of incredibly bad acting and cliche.Isn’t this what we’re seeing in the O.C.? Nothing seems surprising anymore and that which is, is usually so stupid that it’s not even in the realm of possibility. Where’s something hilarious along the lines of Luke’s Gay Dad or Melinda Clark sleeping with her daughter’s boyfriend? …actually, bring Luke back altogether. That dude was much funnier than some of the idiots currently on.
- Willa Holland. Now, some of you are saying, how could a hot girl be a bad thing for a show. Usually it isn’t but every time she is on screen, I get the feeling I’m a dirty, dirty, dirty, dirty, dirty old man. She is 15. No, I’m not kidding. Last season, she was 14. That’s just not right. Even Mischa Barton was 16 or 17 when she started on the show…and that makes me feel slightly less dirty. Shit, Holland is in Grade 9, dammit. You should all be ashamed of yourselves.
- There’s better shows on TV. The O.C. wouldn’t be as terrible as it is if there weren’t much better shows to watch in on the day it airs. On Thursday, there’s The Office, CSI: LV and Scrubs. Now that it has moved to Tuesday, it might have a better shot but I prefer The Unit, which is an underrated drama, in my opinion.
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It’s been a good run but unless the writers come up with something that we actually care about, this is most likely the last season for the rich kids in Orange County. Most people have simply moved on and it would take a lot to get viewership back to what it was a couple years ago. Maybe it’s a good thing though…so Willa Holland has a chance to get legal before she’s back on TV.
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>The Office, CSI: LV and Scrubs
The Office (us version) is just lame, the humor is more slapstick and overall I think it is way too dry. I’m not one that enjoys slapstick or the majority of low rate dribble peddled by most channel, but the Office (us version) pails in comparison to the UK version that it attempts to replicate. CSI, I’ve never been able to watch this show, Scrubs seems funny but honestly I just don’t feel like watching it for the very fact that by now its probably far into its seasons and I really don’t feel like trying to keep up (which is the same reason I’m not following Lost).
I agree with you on the OC being quite bad now, I stopped watching after the 1st season ended and only started watching (off and on) for the 3rd season which is unbelievably bad. Either way, I really enjoyed the show when it was in its first season – and I liked how fast paced the show was going, but by the end of the season I knew that the show would have to slow down at an abysmal pace – and would have to ‘jump shark’ and come up with all sorts of stupid love triangles and plots. The absence of Marissa actually makes the show quite boring, not that she made the show anything special (with her horrible action), but rather that her character seemed the most interesting.
The show will fall into a cycle of repetition, Mrs. Cooper finds some boy-toy, controversy over her fling begins – her husband suspects she’s cheating, but instead of outright asking her – he has a fling of his own. Meanwhile, Rian and Seth slowly patch up their relationship (in a rehash of the first season) with both boys trying to cope in a new and changed Newport. Meanwhile, the youngest cooper tirades around Newport slutting it up and being generally evil and malicious to her friends, family and peers. Throw in some lesbian love triangles, some over exaggerated drug usage, some sexual overtones and then have Seth or Rian hook up with her, Summer decides on whether she’ll continue dating Seth or whether she’ll look for greener pastures in college. Various girlfriends/boyfriends and nemesis will appear and fade as the OC heads for a very bump hiatus this season.
The only redemption available to save the OC, is to pander to the lowest-common-denominator: sexualize Willa Holland as much as possible. They need to ensure that the girl appears in a bikini or some skantly clad form on every episode, and throw in as many sex related scenes as possible. The prepubescent male teen audience will flourish and they’ll find the show’s salvation in this manner. Sex sells, and lack of it kills!
The first season was the best. Long live, Oliver!