My wife and I watch it every week, and the main entertainment value for us is;
1) Who will Ryan tackle this week?
2) How will Ryan and Marissa find yet another way to start completely over?

Also, we're both big fans of Gilmore Girls, and Seth Cohen was a regular on that show up until this season. The funny thing is that on Gilmore Girls, they wrote him off the show by having him suddenly move to California. Cute.

He was so cute on that show. I don't know why I didn't start watching the OC!

I've heard that the season 1 DVD will be out in August. Any idea if they'll be playing the season on FX this summer?

So, now we have the upcoming wedding (ooh, I wonder what will happen there...), the teen pregnancy, the interfamilial dating (Jimmy, Hailey, Kirsten), and a growing number of love triangles:
- Seth/Summer/ Summer's Father/Anna,
- Kirsten/Hailey/Jimmy,
- Ryan/Theresa/Marissa,
- Julie/Caleb/Luke,
- Sandy/ his left eyebrow/his right eyebrow

.... what will be next? Any predictions as to who fights at the wedding? Any predictions as to who, if anyone, actually gets MARRIED?

All snarkiness aside, this show continues to be strangely appealing (something I may never live down in my household).

Also, did anyone else notice that in the episode where Seth is trying on clothes to go meet Summer's father, that his teeth were ridiculously white? (almost in contention with Ross's, on Friends)

My predictions:

Fights at the wedding:

Marissa and Ryan
Haley and Jimmy
Seth and Summer

Julie and Caleb will get married.

Teresa will turn out not to be pregnant or pregnant with her ex-fiancee's baby and she'll move to Atlanta or wherever.

Where is Seth sailing to? Chino?

Was anyone else disappointed with tonights season finale? I guess I was expecting more crazy stuff to happen, and for it to leave me hanging a little more? I mean c'mon they're not actually going to get rid of Seth and Ryan as charecters so...I dunno I don't see the big draw back come next fall. The whole episode just seemed kinda bland to me I guess, no real crazyiness or excitment like there normally is.

BBBIIIGGG disappointment for a season finale!

Yccchhh! And here's the official Fox blurb about tonight's show:


The O.C.
The Ties That Bind
60 mins.

You are cordially invited to the wedding of gold digger Julie Cooper and filthy rich Caleb Nichol.
So don't expect a happy ending. “People will be upset, but they won't be disappointed,” hints producer Josh Schwartz, who refuses to spoil the drama's hush-hush first-season finale. What he will say is that “it's not a laugh riot” and that the hour “tears the world apart” for several players. What this means for Ryan, Coop and the rest of the Newpsie scene remains to be seen, but count on at least one fistfight. Because, you know, that is how it's done.

Visit our The O.C. ShowGuide

Cast: Adam Brody, Benjamin McKenzie, Kelly Rowan, Mischa Barton, Peter Gallagher, Tate Donovan, Alan Dale, Amanda Righetti

Content: Suggestive Dialog

Release Year: 2004


So, other than Sandy's eyebrows knocking together, where was the fistfight??

I missed the show tonight, can anyone give me a general summary of the season finale?

I watched most of it. From what I saw Theresa was contimplating getting an abortion. She later changed her mind, decided to keep the baby and move back to Chino. Ryan made the choice to leave the oc, and move back to Chino to support Theresa, as he is asuming he is the father. Umm, Julie and Caleb got married. Ryan and Marissa danced at the reception, Marissa said she loved Ryan. Ryan had the patented silent reaction. Seth got all pissed off about Ryan moving away, and tried to make everyone feel sorry for him, because now he will have no more friends. So he ends up sailing away into the sunset. That is what i got from it, i missed the begining, and alot in the middle.

I guess I'm not too surprised by the lack of action. After all, they threw every combination of sitcom occurrences at us in all the other episodes.

Seth sailing away (presumably to Tahiti) on a tiny catamaran with no food or water is a pretty stupid plot line. I mean he's been mooning over Summer his whole life and knew Ryan for maybe a year and he's gonna abandon "the love of his life"? Come on.

Maybe he's just sailing his cheesy little boat to some other marina to get some cash for it.

I liked the episode... I thought there was some sweet irony that Caleb is going to be broke and Jimmy will have millions... Imagine the look on Julie's face when she finds out.

Ryan going back to Chino... clearly he can't stay there forever so something has to happen. My bet is Theresa miscarries or they both move back to live in the pool house when they find they can't go back to Chino.

Seth sailing off... Clearly tahiti isn't in the cards, I don't think he's that stupid. Likely ran off to Catalina to get a summer job.

Marisa is on the booze in her Xanadu like mansion. How long before she reveals that she only moved back to make her Dad rich again? God it must suck to play that character...

I guess I'm from a completely different generation than today's kids, but ONLY on TV do I see young men act relieved and happy that their girlfriend decided AGAINST the abortion.

**stepping back slowly from large can of worms**

I don't know that he was all THAT relieved... resigned is more like it.

But then it is hard to read one smoldering look from the next...

I bet Teresa ends up having a black baby, Ryan gets upset and moves back with the Cohens. Also, I predict next season Seth dies of cancer.

My feeling is that Teresa was faking the entire thing. All the things that she's done so far with this whole pregnancy thing could've been faked. The pregnancy test, nobody saw that but her, nobody followed her into the doctor's offices for her tests, so that could've been faked easily as well. Hell, she could've been sitting in the office or in the bathroom for an hour, just to convince everyone that she was actually there. She never comes out with paperwork or anything like that, so it seems likely that she's faking it. Hell, I think she's faking the "Eddie gave me a black eye" thing as well, all to get Ryan back to the old neighborhood.

In any case, I think that Ryan WILL return to the OC, simply because he's the key character. Without him, none of the other characters stories become developed or are interesting at all.

I think it's Luke's baby. He had a threesome with Teresa and Marissa's mom.

Of course Ryan is coming back... it just a matter of how they will work it so he does...

They WERE all at the same motel, weren't they?

exactly. there is no OC without Ryan. I thought it was a good ending. This Theresa chick needs to be written out the show though. LOL.

how do we have an entire episode centered around an unwanted pregnancy where we don't know who the daddy is and NO ONE mentions birth control? why was there no, "hey ryan, you slept with her once, did you use a condom cause that little fact may clear a few things up." ?

i also enjoyed how they never said the word abortion.. it must be on the new FCC dirty word list.

No meniton of STDs with no condom either...

OMG! They just killed Marisa...

You bastards!

Yeah, a bit predictable since imdb and various other movie news articles kept stating Mischa Barton no longer wants to be on the show because she wants to concentrate on her movie career.

If only Ryan stopped the vehicle and beat the living shit out of Volcheck.

Caught the last 20 minutes of OC between watching Sopranos DVDs (I'm in the middle of Season 2). I've only been watching every month or so since mid season 2, and this episode illustrates why quite well. The show isn't what it was. If thes other actors had decent agents, they would have been hit by Volcheck, too. It'd be a shame to see gifted actors hosting "So You Think You Can Dance?" is 5 years.

So she could pursue her movie career. Someone like her agent should let her know she's not a good actor.

So what's going to happen next fall, are we really going to start concentrating on Marissa's younger sister. That would suck, she is worse than Marissa.

Since when do you need talent to be a rich and famous actor? Governor Arnold made hundreds of millions of dollars in his career. All you need is a gimik: Micha is gorgeous. She could easily milk 20 years from her looks. If she acts up now and then, maybe even 30.

Will... that was in the 80s when you could make an action film with little to no talent.

If Mischa is lucky she will continue to make money modelling and if she is *really* lucky she will get the opportunity to make a couple of films. I haven't seen anything resembling the kind of talent she requires to take her the distance let alone 20 to 30 years.

Without the OC as a marketing angle on her career she is just another pretty face. There are thousands of those in Hollywood.

According to IMDB, she's got 3 movies slated for release in 2007... she'll slide into oblivion shortly thereafter...

Now the question I have is - why are supposedly grown men watching a teenybopper television show? :D

I haven't watched the OC seriously since the first season. At that time, I was impressed with the writing. It's ability to deliver a cross generational prime time drama was relatively unprecedented (and if that doesn't work, it is my job to know what's on TV).

This year, I have only watched a couple of episodes and only tuned into the season finale because I'd heard someone was going to die. It was a surprise to me because I had no idea that Barton was trying to leave the series.

I agree that if she doesn't "make it" with these three films, she will be outta there.

Because 90210 went off the air when I was in college?

I was surprised to find out most of the actors on the show are older than I am. The dude who plays Ryan is like 28, Seth is like 26, and Summer is 24. I'm only 22. Also, it's a way to relive an idealized high school vicariously. It's the same reason people watch most anything on TV. Still, it's a good point. I don't think the show is well written, acted, directed. I love the cinematography.

Is anyone else still watching this show? I am. I don't fully know why.

I do on occasion. After the train wreck last season, I am really laughing my ass off watching the writes try desperately to make up for the loss of one of the main characters. I will admit that Autumn Reeser is absolutely breathtaking. It's funny because when you watch the show you feel like, "Hmmm...jailbate...", but Autumn is 3 years older than I am, so I'm in the clear.

Autumn - she plays Taylor, yes? There is something very fascinating about her, I can't decide if I'd rather be like her or Summer. They are both stunners. I have a thing for Sandy Cohen myself...

me too. i just had to say it.

Well, since you hate the show then you should be happy to know Fox is canceling the show on February 22, 2007.The O.C. Canceled

Noooooooooooooooooo!

Well I suppose my life will carry on, but I would have liked it to continue longer.