If You Want Me, You Can Have Me - 
by J-Unit
So this is it, the week we have been waiting for. The event that millions have been anxiously awaiting. The spectacle that will go down as a banner moment in history. If you were thinking "Oh, J-Unit's birthday", you were close, but wrong. I am of course talking about The OC and the kiss that was absolutely not a ratings stunt timed for sweeps. Why is everybody making a big deal of it, especially considering the writers have already unintentionally (or at least that's what they say) injected untold levels of homoeroticism into the relationship of a completely different pair of characters? The buzz around Alex and Marissa and their relationship may or may not have helped the show in ratings, but I do know that the writers are running out of tricks to get this show off the ground once again.
Our good friend Sandy has a slight problem. See, he neglected to mention to his wife that he was harboring a fugitive. The fact that said fugitive was probably actually the first person in line for the "Let's Make a Seth Cohen Sweepstakes", really doesn't help matters at all. It also doesn't help that the writers for some reason decided that they must mess around with the dynamic of the relationship that has held everything in The OC together more than anything else. I am not saying that I have a better understanding of the show than its own writers, and it's not like they are in danger of winning an Emmy, but is it possible to get some elements of the show that make sense?
Valentine's Day is a banner day in the OC. Kirsten *really* loves the holiday, so it is no wonder that Sandy is using that knowledge in order to win her favor once more. We find him in the kitchen the day before Valentine's day loading the kitchen up with flowers. Lots of flowers. So many flowers that he asks for help from Seth and Ryan to get them out of his car. The boys never think to ask why Sandy didn't have these flowers delivered and comply. Nonetheless, Kirsten is not very happy. Sandy tries to do the whole attorney-client privilege thing, but I think you have to side with the wife on this one.
Even though I think Kirsten shouldn't be as paranoid about Rebecca's return; she has been married to Sandy for twenty years. Hiding Rebecca's appearance (which has been good for nothing more than bringing back that awful hairstyle Summer ditched two episodes into the season), no matter what Sandy thought the ramifications were, was a big mistake. As punishment, Kirsten took some of Sandy's roses and stuffed them in the garbage disposal. The roses were a much better attempt at reconciliation than the pancake madness Ryan and Seth tried to pull a few weeks back, but ended up having just about the same level of effectiveness.
Valentine's Day also marks an important one-year anniversary in the OC calendar. It was during Valentine's Day last year that Seth and Summer really started to get things going. This fact is not lost on Seth, and so he goes over to Summer's a few minutes before the two of them and Zach are to head to San Diego for their big comic book pitch. Although I didn't make a big deal of it, the "nose graze" from last week created quite a stir. Summer talked about it with Marissa then, during one of Marissa's brief "I'm more than just a sideshow" phases, and Seth went on about it at length with Ryan. Seth took the nose graze to be one of the most erotic scenes in recent memory. He acted as if he and Summer were a few moments away from a pretty good impersonation of Nine 1/2 weeks. Seth is supposed to be this character that is so head over heels for Summer that he routinely climbs various concession vehicles in order to proclaim his love, yet can't manage to find it in him to say anything when nobody is around. Why does this happen? Mainly because they need to delay this story line because it is currently the longest running theme for the season,
Thankfully, Zach enters the room before we are left agonizing over how long it is going to take Seth to admit to everybody that he is not over Summer. I know that the return of Seth and Summer would be a big deal to many people out there, but how long do we have to endure this before we move on? I know that Seth and Alex aren't allowed to be an item anymore, but was it worth it to have Marissa go lesbian when it also means Seth reverts to complaining about how much Summer doesn't want him? I don't think so.
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