[- Kirsten Cohen (Kelly Rowan): At her posh rehab center, Kirsten meets a mysterious woman named Charlotte (Jeri Ryan). Schwartz says that despite the coverage of Marissa's lesbian flirtation last season, Kirsten and Charlotte will not kiss.] We did a lot of that last year, ... Where that story line is going is not what people are expecting. |
[Kirsten Cohen (Kelly Rowan): At her posh rehab center, Kirsten meets a mysterious woman named Charlotte (Jeri Ryan). Schwartz says that despite the coverage of Marissa's lesbian flirtation last season, Kirsten and Charlotte will not kiss.] We did a lot of that last year, ... Where that story line is going is not what people are expecting. |
[Kirsten Cohen (Kelly Rowan): At her posh rehab center, Kirsten meets a mysterious woman named Charlotte (Jeri Ryan). Schwartz says that, despite the extensive press coverage of Marissa's lesbian flirtation last season, Kirsten and Charlotte will not kiss.] We did a lot of that last year, ... Where that story line is going is not what people are expecting. |
[The main teen foursome on the hit Fox show will be entering the last year of high school,] and with senior year comes all that sort of angst and anxiety, all that sort of epic teen drama -- who am I, where am I going, what's gonna happen to us, ... It's going to call everyone's identity into question and throw the show back on the family. |
[You can also expect fewer titillating twists, like the girl-girl kiss (and subsequent romance) between Marissa and Alex (played by Mischa Barton and Olivia Wilde ).] That was a double-edged sword for us, ... because we were asked to pull back [on the duration of the kiss] while at the same time it was very heavily hyped. It was like some sort of game. But while everybody thought the kiss would be the start and end of it for them, for us it was really about doing a real relationship and showing how, after it ended, Marissa would be at a place of greater maturity. |
A major character will leave, and we may find ourselves at another funeral this year, as well. |
Finally, in the episode with the Tijuana road trip, we watched a scene between her and Seth in the diner and knew: This girl is amazing. Let's make her a series regular. |
For us, we've had so many cliff-hangers lately, we were really looking for the final episode before baseball to be less a traditional cliff-hanger and more a signal of the show being in a new place, ... There's a sense that the show has really moved over the course of those four episodes and set up some new dynamics. |
It's going to bring back some of the classic, bitchy Summer -- there's really sort of an 'All About Eve' thing between Taylor and Summer. |
It's going to call everyone's identity into question and throw the show back on the family. |
Julie and Jimmy are going to make another run at it, but you know that Jimmy Cooper ... |
O.C. |
Rachel had three lines in the pilot, |
She came in and she was just not what you expected in that part, |
Summer goes toe-to-toe with her as a sort of symbolic gesture to keep the Marissa flame alive at Harbor, ... It's going to bring back some of the classic, bitchy Summer -- there's really sort of an All About Eve thing between Taylor and Summer. |