Season 1 finale montage to Jeff Buckley's Hallelujah - beautiful, poignant, and absolutely tear-jerking. But it was Kirsten's clutching-the-sheets breakdown in the pool house that reduced the viewers into sobs - or at the very least, teary-eyed. In fact, a poll on TWoP even stated that those scenes were the saddest parts of the montage.

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1. So often, TPTB would gift us with a trait or nugget of info that was actual backstory and defined a character in some way. Explaining it would have been helpful and welcome- as would the element of continuity. I have to ask and want to know, why is Ryan afraid of heights? This is a kid who can be so stoic, reserved and almost never expresses ( Read more... )

Since I was ignoring the ridonkulous slapstick, I was all about the far more compelling story of the Cohens+1 coping with events including T.J. and school for Ryan ( Read more... )

1. I had forgotten that this was the episode already where Sandy stops being a public defender to go with a prestigious private firm. In the teaser (yeah, Cohens+1), Ryan is the only one who expresses concern and, for him, almost alarm that Sandy would give up the job that Ryan sees as defining Sandy and something that is part of the reason he ( Read more... )

And because I never really use my entire brain at once, I left this one out from the earlier multi-bunny/missing scene post. The question is, just what have Ryan's experiences with guns been ( Read more... )

Last week we saw the choker go MIA, but this week saw the addition of new clothes for Ryan, a NEW bike to replace the battered, partially burned(?) Chino cycle and a watch for Ryan. Time to keep score as the new items appear. We know from the teaser that Ryan is very uncomfortable with all the Cohens are doing and with taking money and things ( Read more... )

Okay, the poor woobie was already a founding member of that club, Seth, but you never were the most perceptive one, were you ( Read more... )

I haven't even rewatched this episode yet, but I already remember a scene I wish we had seen. Dawn and Ryan spend the day together after their painful poolhouse talk. We know some of what they did from the conversation with Seth and Kirsten when they return. But I'd love a story that would fill in the details--Dawn's reaction to Newport, Ryan's ( Read more... )

The ocitagain community just started rewatching the show from the very beginning two weeks ago (so we are up to "The Gamble" just now ( Read more... )

It probably goes without saying, but the series finale of The O.C. left a truckload (or actually an oil-tanker-sized-load) of loose ends that could be tied up in fanfiction.
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