I am pretty ashamed to say that I am addicted to the show. I can't help myself. I just can't stop watching.

Anyway, did anyone else catch the season finale last night? It was incredible. The whole show was very well done, believe it or not. The last scene was incredible. The music they used, the images, everything, was awesome. I almost couldn't move after it ended.

They're replaying the whole season this summer. Every thursday night. So, if you missed some of the season, or if you want to start watching, here's your chance.

I was an extra in the OC once. Never seen the show.

wow - how were you an extra? That's kind of cool. I've actually never watched it either. Maybe it's hard to get into it in the middle, but whenever I saw a little bit of it it didn't grab me.

I'm dreading the end of 24....

Not to be an ass, but can't you find something better to watch/do? Network TV has been flushed down the toilet for years. There's literally no great dramatic programming, because people are content with garbage like the OC, CSI: Fresno/Omaha/Jacksonville, etc.

First of all, the statement "The OC is garbage" is very much an opinion. If you actually watched the whole season, you'd know that the writing is actually really good. And there are some great characters. Just because you've never watched it doesn't mean it's garbage. Don't let the fact that teenage girls like it discourage you. Because guess what...I bet teenage girls somewhere like all your favorite movies too. Does that make you dislike those movies?

And I'm willing to bet that there are at least DOUBLE the amount of male viewers of the OC than you think. I actually know more guys that watch it than girls, in fact.

So, I don't think The OC is garbage. Maybe you should just sit down and watch the show. Enjoy the entertainment value of it. It's a fun show to watch. Isn't that what TV's all about anyway? Taking time out of your busy day to just sit down and view the lives of someone else and have fun doing so?

If the show was garbage, millions wouldn't watch it every week.

Durden, thank you for taking a stand for us Male O.C. viewers. I too enjoy the show very much. I'ts true that a lot of Males do watch It, but we dont say we do.

I like the Show and dont say its garbage, becasue if it was they wouldn't be making a new season.

I love the OC....too bad its ending. I guess my new favorite shows will be Standoff & 30 Rock

I dont like the OC really but I got your guys' back because I have been known to like TV shows that teenage girls like too haha. How did they end it?

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If the show was garbage, millions wouldn't watch it every week.

lol @ that

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If the show was garbage, millions wouldn't watch it every week.

So you're judging the quality of the show on it's popularity? Americans voted Dat Phan the funniest comedian on Last Comic Standing...enough said.

Oh Last Comic standing, how I miss thee... Antoine should have won, he was amazing. (I think his name was antoine, at least.)

I'm a fan of the O.C. too. It's a bit over the top, of course, but that's part of the charm. I'm sad to see it go.

Once again, I'm replying to an old, old thread, but I just caught my first OC show EVER (!!!! omgz omgz omgz !!!!) last night.

Yup...I threw up until it was time to go to school this morning. Glad it has such a following, but Rescue Me got cancelled!

BTW....The OC is made for the Wisconsin Kids like the people in my school who fake bake in the winter and thought that shooting seizmore was about a homeless guy and have no clue that Claifornia isn't really a duplication of a really bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad adaptation of a bret easton ellis novel (i.e. less than zero film and rules of attraction film adaptations). Terrible show, but I'm sure there are worse.

^^ does that mean that those people ( just because they are unlike you) dont deserve to have something they like? It cracks me up how many people on here talk about how horrible different popular shows and movies are... it almost seems like they wanna be "cool film students" and bash on anything that isn't weird or out of the norm.

Hall im not sayin thats what your going in particular so dont take it as a personal attack... i just have noticed a lot of negativity and i used to be the same way. Even when I hate a movie with a passion ( IE The NEw World, Scarface, or Austin Powers ) i am still able to notice and understand WHAT attracts people to it. I just think we should notice the positives in things even if we do hate them, because they are popular for a reason and if you can figure out what makes them popular you can work on finding a way to make your own work commercially successful while still holding on to your belifs and plans for your film.

They always say keep your friends close but your enemies closer. WHY? because you can study them and learn from them.

We should be doing that with these popular movies as well... there is so much potential to learn from them if we could look at things that way.

I have no problem with anyone else liking it and I am hardly a "wannabe cool film student." I'm not even applying to colleges yet. The right is mine, however, to state my utter dislike for it, just as it is theirs to express their love. I fully understand why someone would like it, but that doesn't make me responsible for the justification of something I feel is trash and a detriment to the art form. In viewing and creating art, to say, "I really don't like this piece, but am going to negate my own perception and opinion of it to take the responsibility upon myself to justify its existence within my aesthetic world," is to deny yourself the virtue of artistic interpretation. We as filmmakers MUST be open-minded, but we are hardly responsible for justifying the works we do not find any redeeming social or artistic value in. I really don't like the OC...took some low cuts at it (however they were mostly light-hearted and in jest), and there's really nothing to feel sorry about. I appreciate your post and I hope you appreciate mine. However, I'm going to ask you to keep in mind the next time you are reading my posts that if it is not a level headed one, it's probably in jest and carries very little weight.

Also, in reference to your comments about my hypothetical opinions of mainstream films/entertainment...I really TRY, TRY, TRY to completely separate myself from such classifications. It's irrelevant. I respond to GOOD films, from Jørgen Leth to Steven Spielberg. You cannot simply acquiesce to the popularity of a film in your longing to appeal widely. Far beyond its values of providing entertainment, film IS an artform. This hardly means it has to be high art, but a piece you make still must somehow define to you--perhaps existentially, aesthetically, viscerally--and have a piece of you, otherwise you simply become a salesman and not an artist. At one time, Taxi Driver took the box offices by storm...people with rigid tastes and confined artistic sensibilities were packing into theatres to see The Virgin Spring... I like the films that I like, and that evoke an emotion from me or provide an experience. I do not like forced indy films marred by pretense, just as I refuse to sit through one that relies on cliche to carry it's weightlessness (some I watch and am afraid they will drift away like a feather). You'll find that there is a large disconnection between myself and those whom you described as being disincline to, "anything that isn't weird or out of the norm." Those are not true, aspiring filmmakers, nor are they people who understand their virtue of artistic interpretation. They are simply conformists who define themselves by their predilection for things those around them dislike.

I didnt mean any disrespect and I actually wasnt really talking about you your post just sparked my desire to express some feelings I have so I apologize if you took offense to that. I agree with what you said also... guess i just have a bad taste in my mouth from expiriences with film students as of late and I made a promise to myself to speak my mind more frequently and openly. It seems you and I are on the same page actually and its good to know that someone else out there understands what I mean when I complain lol.