The OC Season 2 Episode 12: Blah

Previously: Season 2 Episode 10

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Everyone's talking about it. Well, at least Gothamist, Gawker and, indirectly, those lesbian loving pervs at NY Times are.

Still, was that like the least sexy girl-girl spit swap, like, ever? Is Mischa Barton so awful that she can even ruin the most sacred of experiences, a girl's first lesbian kiss?

The thing is, the Marissa-Alex storyline was such a minor part of the episode. The real drama was in the Cohen household, as always.

It bugs me though, that the writers collectively took speed and decided to fast track every storyline. Summer and Seth had a great sexual tension thing kicking, but that went down the crapper with the cringe-a-second ad lib in the comic book pitch. They kill Professor Max because, well, there wasn't much use for him and he's old. And of course, the Marissa-Alex fling, which I'm not getting. Why do people in Newport Beach think Vodka Breath is hot?

I guess that's the thing. Very little about recent storylines is really convincing. Sandy seems out of character with the Rebecca fling and Cohen's caffeinated catharsis came off more than a little contrived.

One thing I do notice though is, for all their complete inability to communicate with warm blooded humanoids, Cardiac Caleb and Julie actually want to be good parents.

Yes Ryan, you're such a girl. When was the last time you punched someone? Maybe they can bring Oliver back.

Oh, and speaking of Ryan, Caleb has mentioned Teresa's pregnancy more than once. You know, that baby's due preeeetty soon, if I'm adding 9 months correctly.

Well, I guess Zach goes from having a total mancrush on Seth (oh but who doesn't?) to totally wanting to kill Seth (again, who doesn't?). At least that should be interesting. I hope they end the Rebecca Bloom arc soon. Kirsten does the pissed off thing well, but I doth think the lady has suffered enough.

This episode did very little for me and under-delivered on the girl-on-girl, if such a thing was possible. Let's agree that this was merely a set up episode for the next few weeks and just move on.