friday morning quarterback
last night's o.c.:

lindsay is getting on my nerves. i think the problem is that she's the only character on a show about teenagers who is actually written like a teenager, with the whining and the "why isn't anyone supporting me?" and the "my real father wouldn't treat me like this! (sob, run from the room.)" it's tough, the balance between portraying realistic teen stuff and yet having the characters not be annoying. dawson's creek had characters with real teen problems who talked like pompous english majors, and it sucked. life as we know it is probably the closest i've seen a show come to actual teen life, at least as i remember it, and i think the key there was when the characters broke out and talked straight to the camera, because when i was a teenager i didn't so much have long, intelligent discussions about my feelings with my friends as much as i had them with myself. (oh, if only i'd had a livejournal then.) but on the o.c. they've pretty much skipped over the realistic teen stuff, and that's partly why i like it. i rarely even remember that the characters are teenagers, or at least i didn't until lindsay came along.

sandy cohen is a fuckface and that's all i have to say about that. he is totally dead to me until further notice, despite his seeming regret of having kissed rebecca.

on the whole i think this was a pretty slow episode. not a lot of funny, except for a little seth/summer. for those of you who voted in my poll, it turned out that zach was waiting for marriage, except now he isn't and he wants to do summer in tuscany, except she's not sure she wants to do him anymore. has anyone on this show even had sex in like, months?

i like the lesbian storyline so far. mischa barton seems slightly less wooden opposite a girl. but the best, unintentionally hilarious part of last night's episode was when marissa and summer were hanging out and zach called to tell summer that seth was asking if they had sex. while summer was on the phone, marissa kept making these faces that i guess were supposed to show curiosity and surprise, but instead showed just made her look like a monkey.

julie cooper is also getting on my nerves. ok, we get it, she is a golddigger. i know they're just setting it up for later in the season when "someone from her blue-collar past" arrives, but enough. sometimes this show is half wink-wink meta you're such a smart audience, and other times it acts like the viewers only have half-brains.

and all poor ryan does lately is give seth advice that seth then decides not to take, and try to rescue lindsay from whatever squeaky high-voiced hurt she's feeling that week.

i don't know--something about this week was just disappointing. too much wrap-up from last week and too much lindsay but not lindsay-and-ryan. next week could be promising though. i hope sandy has sex with rebecca and then she dies. also, if allison and i watch it together i know that when seth calls summer and tells her not to get on the plane to tuscany if she still has any feelings for him at all, we will both be screaming "don't get on the plane summer!" at the top of our lungs. if she gets on that plane, i'm gonna be pissed, because this "summer realizes she still has feelings for seth" thing is kind of going on too long. if anything, summer could pull a kelly taylor and choose herself.

i still want rachel bilson to play me if there's ever a movie of my life, though.