New premiere too clean
Via Jossip, a review of why shooting someone into a coma, but having them be just fine and dandy is just not realistic:
Let’s just suspend reality for a moment. Let’s say that someone who gets shot in the chest is likely to go into a coma. Now lets say said person stays in the coma about two months, miraculously wakes up, and is completely fine. Sound improbable?
This is why last night’s season premiere of The O.C. should win some sort of award for Fastest Tying Up of Manslaughter Plotline Ever.
Yes, though it appears that Ryan and Marrisa are going to be expelled from Harbor for their shenanigans, the legal matters are over and Trey has moved away, farther even than the 40 mile chasm between Newport and Chino, all the way to Vegas.
The kids on The O.C. were presented with a difficult task this episode. They each, in their own right, have proven that they can do “brooding teen,” but can they do genuinely sad? Rape and gun wounds are, like, way more depressing than a grandfather dying, even if it is Caleb Nichol. Fortunately, the gravity of the situation gives way to the greatest happy montage on the show yet.
The kids sail away to have one last afternoon in the sun before one of them (Will it be Ryan? Will it be Marrisa?) goes off to the slammer. As we learned on Laguna Beach, the default locale for “rustic” fun is Catalina (later, it’s also the first idea of where to escape to when the cops are on Ryan’s tail).
Near the end of the idyllic afternoon, Ryan Atwood does something legitimately funny for the first time in recorded history when he imitates Summer nagging Seth. Seriously. And you get the feeling it may have been improv. The kids are stepping it up.
Though we’re still not exactly sure why Jimmy Cooper has returned to Julie, (you’d like to think he is actually a decent person, but this may not be the case), she proves to have not grown the heart we all worried she had at the end of last season. Bribery! Threats of smothering Trey while he lays helpless in his hospital bed! Though it’s inexplicable why they act like he couldn’t fight back if she were to do this, especially considering he escapes from the hospital A-okay the next day.
Yet, the most potential for awkwardly improbable future plotline goes to Kirsten’s Creepy Lurking Woman friend at rehab. Even better is that CLW is played by Jeri Ryan, who was forced to go to crazy sex clubs by her senatorial hopeful husband. Hot.
Every shot of Kirsten has this woman in the background, ominous music, and the way she looks at Sandy? Totally foreshadowing. CLW didn’t show up on the upcoming scenes, but she will certainly be around to wreck havoc for an episode and a half, be sure of that.
The episode ends with Ryan and Marissa making out in the lifeguard booth on the beach, her and DJ the Lawnboy’s old stomping grounds. Perhaps R&M are finally going to consummate their relationship.
In the end, The O.C. can still do no wrong, and maybe, with this whole senior year thing, we’ll get some episodes where, as we have seen from Laguna Beach, nothing ever actually happens in high school. Next up: Theresa’s illegitimate lovechild with Ryan.
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