Before I get into my rant/discussion, I must warn everyone that this post contains spoilers regarding a as yet to be screened episode of The O.C.

So here I am, sitting at my computer at 6am in the morning after getting home from a lan and having not yet gone to sleep, so I decide to watch the latest ep of The OC that I downloaded.
Mistake number 1*. Yep. To be honest, this show is absolute crap, yet for some reason I just cant stop watching it. I think the are beaming some sort of addictive narcotic through the program.
Anyways, I think they should have ended The OC with season 3. Up till then, the show was ok (though i still wish they had less Marisa, i suppose that is one thing the new series has going for it) as it wrapped everything up with all the characters and we could all go home feeling a little sad for everyone as they were saddened at the loss of a friend and daughter and what not, but we knew that they would survive, even if it was only for one more fantastic Chrismika miracle. But no, they had to go and start season 4.

Mistake number 2**.
And here they jump the shark. (For those who don’t know that this, for a brief but informative history lesson, please read this wiki article. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jump_the_shark I am sure you will find this enlightening.) Now instead of us getting to believe that everything is fine with the characters, we now have to "go through" the pain and suffering that is getting over the death of Marisa (not sure why, if it was me, I would have had a week long party) and everything that goes with that. Then for some reason, the writers decided in their most infinite wisdom that the best way for Ryan to get over his grief is to give him a new love life to help forget all about what has happened (I want to forget about Marisa too and she isn’t even real :/). 'Sure, why not? Sounds like a good idea', I hear you say, and while it is a good idea, it doesn’t mean they can’t stuff that up which leads us to...

Mistake number 3!*** and shark jumping number 2. Ep 5 starts off with a darkened shot with Taylor washing the window in a white and wet shirt being all sexy with music playing. OMG!! What are you trying to do? Why not just rub salt into my wounds and then dunk me in vinegar? Why would you set Taylor and Ryan up? Hasn’t the guy gone through enough with having to have a skanky drunk crack whore (apologies to any crack whores reading this, I am sure you are really nice and don’t deserve to be compared to Marisa either) for a gf for 3 years and all the trouble that she always caused? So now you put him with the most opposite of personalities? Well at least she isn’t a skank, I will give you that.
So ,moving on, otherwise I will be rambling here for weeks.

Mistake number 4**** and shark jumping 3 (here lies the spoiler) where we find Taylor and Ryan having a little tiff about not being bf/gf or whatever. Anyways, they end up in a coma. Now if I can work out what is happening and what is going to happen exactly in a tv ep within the first 5 minutes, the seriously, wtf!?? Were the writers having a week off that week and so they decided to find the most used idea in any movie or other tv show and realised they hadn’t done it and thought, what the hell!? Why not? it worked only 3 eps earlier with the stages of denial crap they did.

*sigh* Why do they insist on milking something till it just dries up and then leaves a sour taste in your mouth I will never know. Surely someone over there has a soul they haven’t already sold or given away and will know when to end a show?

Well thus ends my rant. Sorry it is soo long, but I just had to get it out there.
So on that note, at 7am, I must be off to bed.

*My mistake :(
**Thankfully not mine. If i made that crap, I think i would get my self arrested for crimes againts humanity or something.
***Please, someone, get me the address of these writers! I know a 3 year old who comes up with better stories, all be it that they generally contain ponies and rainbows, but at least they don’t SUCK!
****I think I died a little inside watching it all