I spent the last week in Cuba and spending Saturday in 29 degree sunshine, mopeding in a bikini along a Tropical highway to get a great view and an even better Pina Colada and then coming home to 3 inches of snow is the very definition of suck.
I remarked to my sister that although I quite enjoy my job, it would be all the more enjoyable on a sunny beach with non-stop mojito service.
Funny coincidence that mojitos were the New Year's drink of the evening on The O.C. last night. Not the strongest episode so far (not really sure what the deal is with the Summer-Seth-Anna triangle, and why should Marissa get away with almost cheating just so that the writers can mirror teen and adult dilemmas?), but still fairly enjoyable, and even though the whole breathless running up the stairs routine to say "I Love You" in the nick of time was totally predicatable, it still made me sigh and get all choked up. That Marissa's bad news, tho. I feel that she's not through getting into trouble. Sadly, we'll have to wait to next year to find out. I was disappointed that Kirsten and Sandy didn't end up swinging. Now that the land development tension's no longer there, I just don't thing "our marriage is in a rut" is a strong enough storyline for a show that started out taking some pretty big risks and leading the pack of high quality soaps (if such a thing isn't just an oxy-moronic pipe dream).
But The O.C. wasn't the only show touting "your cheatin' heart."
No, the trailer for this Wednesday's "All New" Ed reveals Ed kissing Madchen Amick. Apparently she's no longer busy being a hideous Angelina Jolie blonde on the Gilmore Girls (seeing as how Patrick Owen went off and didn't get cancelled in his new show I'm With Her), and the too-adorable-for-words Adam Brody won't be making an appearance on GG anymore due to O.C. obligations, I don't even know why we watch anymore. When IS Lorelei going to hook up with Luke? We don't really care about Sookie's baby, or Paris' hysterics. Maybe if Paris and Rory hooked up.
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Article comments
1 - Tom Johnson
I would not be surprised if Ed kissing this woman wasn't part of a dream or something. NBC has a nasty habit of leading viewers on to believe one thing and doing exactly the opposite. I will say, however, that if they throw Ed & Carol's relationship into question again I won't be returning to it when the show returns after the holidays. Enough is enough. Let them be together and focus on the other, more entertaining characters for a while.
2 - Mark Saleski
i'm with ya on that one tom.
just what is it about the portrayal of couples on the tube anyway?
i can see the will-they-or-won't-they aspect of it...but it gets dragged out in extremely artificial ways.
is there nothing interesting that writers can do with a happily together couple?
cripes, ed & carol have been together for just a couple of weeks and there's already a problem?
3 - Amber
See, I think the TV execs are all bunched up jonesing for conflict. They need relationships to be in jeopardy in a drama because that's what we watch? Didn't Ed get more interesting when Eli *didn't* kiss miss Jenny-fair? Wasn't it more interesting that Burt Reynolds burnt down Mike and Nancy's house? Now they have conflict trying to getting the house rebuilt, and Burt Reynolds will forever be the jackass with erectile dysfunction that burnt their house down.
If I wanted to watch happy couples, I'd watch Trista and Ryan. I'd watch Raymond and Debra. Happy couples are boring. Just look at Sandy and Kirsten on the O.C. Happy couple = we're in a rut therfore let's go to a swingers party = instant conflict.
That's why people love Soaps so much. They're the epitome of conflict. They drag out every possible scenario for conflict and then throw in a dead horse for good measure.
Yes, there's overkill, but if we were all happy couples already, we wouldn't be watching tv.
4 - Mark Saleski
i guess what bugs me is the shortened timescale. we've been wondering about ed & carol for what seems like five years. then, in a matter of a week or two (in tv reality it's been, what, two or three months?) there's trouble.
i dunno, i guess i don't thrive on the conflict.
burt reynolds was disturbing...for the amount of plastic surgury he's had (i'm used to the rug after all these years).