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it was sad.

are you serious? it was the lamest episode ever. total cop out, bs, waste of an hour. so when ryan goes to chino, he has to wear a wife beater under a hoodie? what the fuck. the final montage was too long and made me think of shrek. lame lame lame.

sujan - you make some valid points. ryan's chino outfit was ridiculous, but it had him dressing like he did in the first episode. it sort of tied the whole thing up in a way that makes the show totally forgettable. a week from now THE OC will have disappeared from my brain and i won't have to think about it until late october/early november when it returns. that's a lot of waiting time. and there were no real cliff hangers - but come on, didn't you ooh and ahh when marissa raised the vodka bottle to her lips?

i really loved this episode so much... i thought the whole return to the beginning of the OC was a bit heavy handed, but man, the montage at the end killed me. it was actually sort of artfully done too?? and there was just the right amount of drama. i thought it was a really nice end to the season.
bravo, oc!

I think I'm basically with Cheryl. It was sad and really not much fun, and certainly not the evening of thrills I'd picture in my mind for a night of Cinco de MayO.C. But it was a nice tie-in to the beginning of the season, and I think it will set up some really interesting things for the second season. So, on the micro level, not the best show ever, but in the larger scheme, not so bad.

Now I want to know what's up with North Shore. It's not even listed on imdb yet.

no real cliff hangers? the whole episode was chock full of them. nothing super dramatic but what will happen to the newport group? what will happen to cal and juju? what will happen to chino? eddie? theresa's baby? will seth get swept out to sea? wll marissa be in rehab season 2 episode 1? where's luke?

i didn't like how the return to chino was just so hammered so. WE GET IT. grey hoodie = chino. button down = the oc. i also thought it was a bit out of character for seth to act so pouty. after oliver, didn' he say he'd always have chino's back? the episode just bummed me out. i guess now we know that richies have their problems, just like the chinos. agh!!!

and do you think they chose to use jefffbuckley's version of hallelujiah cause he drowned and that matched well with seth's nautical adventure?

i think flashy cliffhangers would have been really typical of a show like this; it was kind of refreshing that some minor but pretty interesting things happened but no one was left staring at a pregnancy test and there was no big car crash (i guess they had those pretty well covered already anyway). sometimes i forget that this show is actually bad and that i shouldn't expect too much of it. with that in mind, i thought the episode really delivered. i liked the returns to the first episode (wifebeaters, marissa standing by the driveway where he first saw her, [ i was just relieved no one mentioned bright eyes eight times again]). also the fact that this was an
O (C)inco de mayo gathering made the episode better cause there was so much beer and so many margeritas. thank you alcohol!
marc gets big props for being a really good sport about the ten people screaming in the background every five minutes. good thing you have the episode DVRed, marc! but when marissa picks up her stupid bottle of vodka, i was happy to hear marc giggling too.

I suggested at the show's conclusion that maybe Ryan going back to Chino signaled the end of his era on the show, and next season a different wayward delinquent would find his (or her) way into the Cohen household. Of course, everyone thought this was a hogwashy idea. But think about it: a Hispanic kid from East L.A. or an African-American kid from Compton would add many heretofore unexplored plot possibilities. And Seth could learn so much from them! And so could America right along with him. (Cue sentimental WB music [that's right, it's all WB music, even though the show is on Fox...face it, it's a WB show through and through]).

i got bored and stopped watching halfway through. it was still on, but my friend's road rage on the other end of a telephone was much more compelling.

the producers should revisit the idea of seth maybe being gay. oh, the one high note of the episode was theresa letting us all know she is still in high school. not really sure when she goes to class, but good to know.

ok, last comment i'll make about this episode. but can someone confirm for me that marissa's sister officially doesn't exist on the show anymore?

I didn't see her, so yeah, maybe they've just ditched the character. She had no function anyway. Marc and I were discussing the possible need for some O.C. fan fiction to fill up the long summer stretch. Sujan, I nominate you to write the story of how Caitlyn/Katelyn/Caetlynne was trampled by her horse after it tripped over a log in a steeplechase competition, while JuJu was having sex with Luke and missed the whole thing.

My tv club finally watched the OC last night so I am ready for comment. I love that sappy ass Hallelujiah song, and if I recall correctly it was used in a closing montage earlier in the season as well, perhaps the one where one of the model homes burned down? More intertextuality from the "distant past" of the show. I think that Caitlyn is not on the show lately so that she can emerge next season in an Olsen-twin-like transformation from "cute" to "red-hot." Where did Seth go? His little boat has no shelter, there's no way he's getting all the way to Tahiti. Is he trying to commit suicide? Seth, come back! America loves you!