Up in Smoke

Hi Jenny --

I'm so pleased that you've joined me in appropriating obvy.  That's already replaced razor as my go-to made-up slang expression. 

That was the only thing I really enjoyed about last week's O.C., though.  The rest of the Marissa subplot seemed fairly pointless.  Yes, obvy, it was nice to see Kaitlin again.   Otherwise, though, I don't care.  I'm guessing that next season, Kaitlin is going to be installed at Harbor, so we're not going to see these kids again, so why did we bother with their stupid crest or whatever?  It was kind of funny to hear Londoner Mischa Barton butcher the accent of her native country.      

Back in Newport, Ryan and Pretty stole that Maybach.  That was "art," because it explored the complex theme of ripping off reprising the pilot.  Summer accidentally exposed all of Seth's lies, and then felt bad about it, because apparently she's completely forgiven him for lying to her about Brown?  I don't get that, but then I was not paying very close attention to this whole subplot because I was watching with my mother and I was embarrassed to the point of distraction, expecting her to say something along the lines of "I hope you're more careful when you smoke drugs."  Ditto the one in which Kirsten cheated on Sandy with vodka.  (To Mom's credit, the only remark she made during the entire episode was "Oh brother," somewhere around when the Newport Group went up in smoke.) 
Love,

-- Pete