Twisted Sister - 
by J-Unit
As many of you know, I love The OC. But for as much as I love the show, I can get infuriated by a number of things, including the pacing. Perhaps I am too hard on the show and should just let everybody have their campy fun, and sometimes when you are writing about a show it is too easy to think like a critic, even when you really are a big fan. Then again again, I do remember the show when it was consistently excellent, and I think it can be that way again. I thought this week's episode was excellent, and not just because we were introduced to Newport's newest and youngest troublemaker, Kaitlin Cooper (look I'm spelling it correctly now!). The writers were able to keep up a hectic pace among several different characters, and the way things fit together almost made sense. Now perhaps we can thank our new character for this dramatic change, and it will all fade out as the novelty wears off, but let's just keep the dream alive for now.
Although I said that the different parts of the plot worked together, that is not to say that what was coming out of their mouths wasn't completely laughable, and we started the episode just like that. It's just a scene with Seth and Ryan, where Seth is wondering if he's getting a pimple, which is impossible because I am beginning to wonder if he has even been through puberty, but Seth thinks one is coming because something has to ruin the seemingly perfect situation everybody has. Seth and Summer, Ryan and Marissa, Sandy and Kirsten; everybody is so very happy. Am I nitpicking? Sure, but only because I was wondering why it mattered that any of that was verbalized. Then again, Seth and Ryan were having breakfast in the Cohen kitchen, where all proper beginning of the episode banter takes place. Plus, it all got better from there.
You see, if the OC is rockin, doom comes a knockin, and in this case doom comes with the ring of the doorbell. No it's not the mailman with rejection letters from Brown and Berkeley (although I am sure that is going to come); it's Kaitlin Cooper, and my how our little girl has grown up. Ryan answers the door and there is Kaitlin, complaining that there is some Persian dude (for those of you who might live outside of California, you might know them as Iranian) who can't be her housekeeper because he is wearing Prada shoes, and can't be her new stepdad because he is married (Julie did porn, but she would never join a harem), so she decided to head over to the place where the mail was being forwarded. That would be the Cohen's of course, and although Kaitlin recognizes him right away, Ryan has no clue who she is, unlike Seth who recognizes right away that she has grown, especially in the breastly regions of the female anatomy.
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