From Shallow Vagina to Mr. Nice Guy - 
by J-Unit
In my recap last week, I documented on how I believed I had come up with the answer to Ryan Atwood's problem. I suggested that he had a shallow vagina, and I think I made a good case. He is unnaturally pissed off at everything and was generally quite unlikable. Notice the past tense on the last part of that sentence. The writers of The OC continued their streak of fixing things that made the show suck by doing a little remake of Ryan Atwood. When we saw that Trey confessed to dealing drugs at the rager last week, we though Ryan would condemn his brother for life. It turns out quite to the opposite. Ryan not only believes that his brother had nothing to do with it, he wants to find the people responsible and keep his brother out of jail.
Trey was allowed to stay in Sandy's custody, and when he returns home, he is just as surprised as we all are to see that his brother is actually speaking to him. I am not sure if Ryan was sincere, or if he just wanted to prevent somebody else from taking credit for saving Marissa, but they decided that they were going to have to find out who exactly sold the drugs at the party. As Seth said, it was pure 21 Jump Street and he wanted to be Richard Greico. I always love a good Richard Grieco joke, they are almost as good as a good Ian Zeiring joke. This episode is off to a great start already.
Now, only last year, Julie Cooper would have been a little more than slightly upset to return home and see her daughter had thrown a party, drugs were involved, and somebody left in an ambulance. But now is not the time for petty anger. Julie has other things to be worried about, like how she is going to win back her husband. She tells this much to Marissa, who is kind of mortified to think that her parents are parents are having a "party for two" and the ideas of what Julie is going to do to Caleb and his wrinkled old balls so he won't divorce her mom is probably too much to bear. Just writing that sentence took a lot of will power.
At school, Zach is talking with Summer. Although Summer dumped him in one of the harshest ways imaginable, they seem to be good friends. Zach actually seems to enjoy watching Seth destroy his relationship, in sort of a "You left me for him?!" sort of way. Any sort of bullshit in their relationship she pretty much deserves. Summer is having trouble coming up with words to describe what a jerk Seth is that she is starting to resort to a word of the day calendar to get things correct. As funny as that is, we all know that summer would have the word of the day e-mailed to her cell phone as a text message, and not rely on calendar to bone up on her Seth-bashing vocabulary. Besides, you can't have a Far Side calendar and a word of the day calendar on the same desk, that would be a little too much.
But this is Seth, and he is so very, very thoughtful. He not only has a flower hand picked for Summer, he has a perfect chance for them to have some alone time. Death Cab for Cutie is playing at the Bait Shop and Seth has ticket. Seth would never miss a Death Cab concert, right? Well, it turns out that they have another meeting with Reed, as Zach is quick to point out. I am not sure about you, but I am starting to believe that Zach is now out to get Seth. After Seth called him a coffee buyer and implied homosexuality, Zach is starting to passive-aggressively cause trouble in the Seth/Summer relationship. I always thought Zach was a good character, and now that it looks like he has a backbone and is not going to let Seth walk all over him, it's even better.
As Ryan is getting to school, he sees Marissa and ask her how she is. He starts asking her about who could have had drugs at the party. Marissa isn't sure, but she knows that Kyle Thompson, a water polo player, was at the party and is known to sell drugs. By coincidence, it was his girlfriend, Jess Sather, who ended up in the pool. Marissa used to be friends with her, so she attempts to get some information from her. When she goes up to her, Jess sort of wonders why Marissa is talking to her, but when she learns that she is just trying to score some drugs, Jess says that Marissa might be able to find somebody selling at the Death Cab concert that night.
Speaking of Death Cab, we all know that it is Seth's favorite band. It would take a lot for him to miss a concert, so when we see that he travels to Silver Lake for a meeting with Reed, we know that he is seriously conflicted. Reed wants the meetings in Silver Lake (the place they went to looked a lot more like Los Feliz) because they want to go over the notes she made with the other executives about the Graphic Novel - Atomic County. The project is rapidly turning from Seth's dream of creating his own masterpiece to something that is so muddled with corporate interference, he doesn't know what it's going to turn out to be in the end. The meeting is not only running long, but they want to throw him a party to meet even more people, and they want to see Summer. Seth has no idea how he is going about explaining that one.
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