Seth gets his boat, but it is no longer called "Summer Breeze", it is now entitled "Gimme Sex". He can't really take it out on the water, but he believes that if he can just dump it in the pool and and invite Summer over, it will be just as good as if he had been in the ocean. He gives Summer a call, and says he wants just once more chance. In a rare departure from the predictability of the show, Summer tells Seth that he can't do it to her. He might have thought that what they used to have was good, but "it wasn't as good as what you had with Ryan". Slam! That's what we like to hear - a character with some conviction. And with that, Summer leaves for the airport, and Seth is relegated back to listening to Boyz II Men and watching episodes of "Sherman Oaks: The Real Valley". I just can't get enough of these writers. They satire their own show with The Valley, and now satire a reality show based upon their real show. The layers of complexity are just too difficult for my simple mind to comprehend.

Yes, the plot lines are starting to take care of themselves. Sure, it was kind of convoluted, and not entirely believable or entertaining, but at least things are ending, and that includes the sage of Sandy and Rebecca. When she called Sandy, he met her at a diner, and convinced her to come back. While driving back, the road is washed out, forcing them to get a motel room for the night. Ahh, the perfect setting to test one's marriage. Rebecca tries to make a move on Sandy, and Sandy smartly refuses, although he would have been better off just getting two rooms. As they are driving back the next day, they begin to argue, Sandy runs the car off the road, and a good Samaritan truck driver calls 911 so a tow truck, ambulance, and police are all going to be there soon.

Fearing that she might be caught, and that Sandy might be blamed, Rebecca decides that she is going to run away again. She and Sandy say their goodbyes (again), and she walks off down the road. I am not quite sure how she is planning to avoid the cops pulling her over as she walks down the road, but maybe she can hitchhike quickly. Sandy, who can stand a broken marriage, but not a broken BMW, finally lets her leave.

The results of the big DNA test are in, and Lindsay is indeed Caleb Nichol's daughter. They tried to make us feel that her mom was a skank, but we all knew that he was probably the father. It doesn't explain why we have yet another week without mentioning what Theresa is doing with the baby, but at least the whole adoption thing can move along. It would move along that is if Lindsay wanted it to move along. She was so gung-ho about getting adopted last week, but after seeing the true colors of Caleb, she is having second thoughts. Lindsay talked it over with her mom, and she has decided to move with her mom to Chicago. Caleb might bring her more money and a better life, but Lindsay can't lose the only family she ever had.

God damn! Another girlfriend lost, another lonely flight to the midwest? I love the heartland just as much as anybody else, but was there not one writer who could have come up with something better to get rid of a girl than moving to Chicago? Freak auto accident? Cancer? Something, anything other than this same old routine. If Alex and Marissa break up, and Alex moves to Green Bay, I'm going to have to hit somebody.

Why do I say that? Well, Marissa loves telling everybody all of a sudden. When her mom confronts her about her experimentation, and says she understands why Marissa did it (minus the Motley Crue and Jagermeister), Marissa decides to move out. Alex is also enjoying the new, happy to be out Marissa. She even has her doing chores around the apartment, and paying rent (which she wouldn't have a problem with if she hadn't advanced all that money to Seth). Although clearly apprehensive about the situation, Marissa goes along. But when we see her comforting Ryan after she walks Alex to the bait shop (the only people to use an umbrella the entire episode), we start to wonder just how long all of this is going to last.

Summer is at the airport, and there is a delay. We know that Summer doesn't really mesh well with Zach's family, but it was funny nonetheless. She is so uncultured and simple, shouldn't she really be with somebody who is less grown up than she is? Somebody who has parents that read People and Newsweek, and not The Economist and the New Yorker? Somebody like Seth Cohen?

Posted by J-Unit on February 28, 2005 1:13 AM