Dear Jenny,
Are you sad about our dear, dear friend Marissa? I don't know how I feel. It's possible I'm going through that stage of grief where you're kind of bored.
The question I'm trying to resolve is whether or not Mischa really did any damage to last night's episode, as a work of art, by appearing on Access: Hollywood to tell us about her ouster. I'm thinking no. Even without that leak and all the others -- hello, Fox promotions department -- it would have been hard not to know what was going to happen. It was like everyone was talking in air quotes -- even more so than usual. I mean, is anything more ominous than the idea of "sailing around the world" with Jimmy Cooper? Plus Ryan's Land Cruiser -- on television, old car is generally foreshadowing for a crash.
I guess my real problem, though, is that the Marissa Dies! storyline stole from what should have been truly moving: Ryan's graduation from high school. Ryan is the first member of the Joad Atwood family to graduate high school. That's huge and it should have been played accordingly. The moments with him and his now-slightly-less-humiliating mother were sweet but what we really needed were scenes with Ryan and Sandy, the man who more or less single-handedly dragged him and his fisticuffs to graduation.
What say you?
Love,
-- Pete
PS The jokes about Taylor's three-way didn't work, either, but "Now that I've traded B's for A's, I was thinking you could help me trade my A's for B's" got a snort.
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