'The O.C.': Everyone is an alien
Dec 22, 2006, 11:03 AM | by Annie Barrett
Categories: Television
It's almost vacation time. Cab in an hour. I gotta pack! This blog post feels almost as urgent as the stroke of midnight looming over Summer's uterus! But not. What?
So, last night's O.C. The plot has thickened and the hair has thinned: We find out Ryan's father is a clean-cut, seemingly white-collar criminal type who probably knew Bullit from jail and is about to launch a reign of terror onto Newport; also, he's Hercules. No spoilers for me this week, so I had no clue who the guy was -- and I loved the pairing of the big reveal with that electropoppy tunage in the background. Reminded me of the filler music they play during the "science" scenes on CSI. But I bet there's no CSI: Mix 6. Booyah! Boom, boom, FRANK ATWOOD, boom, boom, and the beat goes on! Quite rewind-worthy. Really, the music is so perfect. Rewind that shiz.
There's other big news, but since neither party seems to want any part of it, I hestitate to even mention... Seth and Summer got engaged because she might have been preggers and he wanted to prove his love, blah blah etc. I wish they would have just laughed off the engagement in an ironic, pooh-pooh sort of way, seconds after seeing the negative test. Neither of them seems to really be feelin' it right now, especially Summer.
I loved Kaitlin and her new surrogate daddy, Bullit. Ryan and Taylor: eh. Julie: yes. Sandy: perceptive. Kirsten: coffee. Alien party: okay. Fun, even, but I was so expecting some sort of twist or the slightest hint of plot development involving the girl who stole Taylor's purse. Maybe I was caught up in the magic of last week and thought the purse snatcher could serve as the metaphorical "Spirit of New Year's," and that she'd led the foursome through the desert on purpose, knowing they'd have a totally out of this world time at the rave (pictured)! Not really. Damn, I had so many questions about that girl. "Why is she an alien?" was not one of them. Rather, why didn't she drive faster away from Ryan? How did hours and hours go by during the snail-paced "chase" that ensued? What kind of pre-sex stretching were she and that nasty character doing on a giant massage table? And really? Him? He was, like, an alien...
I'd like to nominate Ryan's "ick" facial reaction to Taylor massaging his shoulders in the car as the moment of the night. Tell me, PopWatchers, what did you think of the episode?
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