What About Your Friends - 
by J-Unit
So far this season, it looks like the third time is once again the charm for The OC. There are still plenty of things that we can't really explain, but they are doing a little bit of a better job on knowing when to get in and out of story lines and how long they should wait to reveal a big twist. And although a lot of people may disagree, the show is really much more fun and believable when the kids are acting their age. By adding characters and putting the old ones in differing situations, there is a new balance to the show that we have been missing for a long time. Couple that with acting that, while nobody will confuse for an HBO Original Series, is nowhere near as laughable as it was before, and I think that it is now officially cool to be watching The OC again, even if a lot of us never left. OK, we complained a lot, but still, we never left.
Since Ryan and Marissa were kicked out of school, we have all been wondering what it is that they are going to do with the two kids. Julie had thought about first boarding school and then moving to Hawaii with Marissa, but with Caleb's death and Jimmy skipping town, both of those choices aren't really an option anymore. The only thing left is to leave your kids in the hands of the government, which means public school, which means that Ryan and Marissa will be starting at Newport Union fairly soon. Therefore, I find it odd that they start off the show with Ryan driving and Summer and Seth going at it (verbally) in the back seat. If Ryan and Marissa are going to Newport Union, what the hell are Summer and Seth going to do? I mean, I guess they could get out of the car and move up front, but why not have them drive in the first place.
My concerns are taken care of when we learn that Ryan is going to be home schooled, meaning that Marissa is hitting Newport Union herself, and you just never know what she is going to run into. As she walks down the hall, she sees a lot of people staring at her, but it's just because she is new. It doesn't take long before somebody calls her "Newport Barbie". But who cares about the looks, at least she is going to get a fresh start. But the surroundings! How can anybody learn in a place like this? Blacks, and Asians, and Hispanics. Oh my! Marissa, what have you got yourself in to now? Luckily, Ryan lingers in the car for a few moments and takes inventory of any person he thinks he may have to beat up later.
At Harbor, Summer has her own problems. She made the carnival so awesome; it kind of landed her a job as the social chair. She didn't really want it that badly, and you could argue she never wanted it at all. Her main purpose for doing it is to keep it away from Taylor Townsend. Even so, Summer thought it was a figurehead position, and she never realized all of the work involved, like finding the right DJ. She has decided on DJ Bootyopolis, and picking the right DJ is really half the battle in these things. It just so happened that I was the social chair in college. You have to imagine a time when I wasn't so old, angry and anti-social, and was more, well, drunk all the time. I even said "Toodles" once. Anyway, DJs are sometimes a pain. Some of these people would refer to themselves in the third person. Seriously, who leaves a message on your machine that says, "Hey J-Unit, this is DJ Rockin Lou, that date will be fine. I need half of the fee for deposit. Thanks and Rocking Lou OUT!� Seriously, who does that? But whatever her problems are, they don't compare at all to Seth, who is being forced to clean bathrooms as part of his detention, or "work release" as he refers to it. I am sure he would have objected a little to his treatment if he weren’t so adept at cleaning toilets because of his stint at the bait shop.
Ryan is back at his house, and after seeing how alone Marissa would be at school. It's not that she can't make friends, but what will she do if she can't find somebody who loves Prada and Chanel? How is she going to make friends? What if the kids are too poor to know about things like lying outside by the pool, or TALKING? As her boyfriend, Ryan has to do something, right? No, you're wrong! Sandy's got this parenting thing down. Ryan will stay home with his tutor and he WILL think about college and he WILL prepare for his SATs. By the way, if he wants to go to one of those magical elite schools he was talking about, he needs to get in the SATs, SAT IIs, and maybe think about early admission to one or two of these places in the next couple of months, no? Eh, I guess that is being too picky.
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