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I see the other two reviewers like it, so allow me to be the wet blanket.

(1) Ryan is, post-Marissa, an ineffectual fifth- wheel character, boring, and just in the way. I wasn't exactly thrilled with him from the beginning, but now... He has just been floating along. The romance with Taylor does not promise to make him more interesting. He appears shallow and dull. Oh, explanation! Cage fighter as he (ha-ha-ha!!) is, he took several knocks back at the start of the season, he is kinda brain-dead. Okay, clever subtext.

(2) Kirsten = Krystle in DYNASTY of yore. An almost regal main cast character who is little more than an ornament. Every now and then, something to make her come to the fore for a little while. Only for a little while. Nobody who've watched will refute what I just said.

Tonight's episode really shows up these two comments. Don't believe me, disagree? Look at it again.

Willa Holland is so darling, I would of course have signed up for a Fifth Season. But I am now spared having to watch boring old Ben...

Now, had it been Ryan who died when Volchek forced them off the road, had Marissa still been there, the show would have lasted for six or seven seasons...

I'm just so tired of these characters always jumping to conclusions about people they are close to and not using common sense. It's like watching a Looney Tunes cartoon sometimes with all the fake drama and made up situations.

So people who are in a relationship really WOULD know each other better, especially since these are people who have known each other for a few years.

I've stuck with watching this series this far, so I'll stuck with it to the end, but it's the episodes like this that made me stop watching back when it was new and live on TV. But binge watching it now twenty years later, I'll at least push through since SOME of the episodes are decent.

But this really isn't one of them.

WoW! This episode is amazing. It's so thrilling, suspense, emotional, heart wrenching and innovative and inspirational! While I was watching it I was able to shutdown everything around me and just focus on the characters and their troubles. I believe this to be only introduction for the even more SS drama and Ryan's drama. I read spoilers but I still haven't seen this coming! the OC deserves season 5 if the rest of the episodes is half as good as this one! This episode is incredibly well directed and that influenced the whole impression. It starts with Summer and Taylor in some public restroom over a pregnancy test and then it goes 7 hours earlier. I was surprised that Kandy didn't protest Seth waiting for Summer to go to College. The pragnency drama is maxed out and leaves us to a place we're not sure one of Sethummer wants to be. Brody did well, the freak out, the proposal, the whole thing. This episode is really paced up and it seems real and not predictable. When the test was out I wasn't sure even what I wanted it to be. Rayolor had some mild drama compared to SS but still worth watching. Grownups are so not the reasons I watch this show but I loved Julies drama and dilemmas.

I BOW TO JOSH AND CAST AND CREW for what I believe is one of the most amazing episodes this show had seen!