Tonight I found out that there are only 6 more episodes of The O.C. That’s it. Kaput. It’s over. Needless to say, this girl from Kings County will really miss her dopey TV friends from Orange County.

The O.C. is my weekly does of dumb television. And I look forward to it. So much. Thursday is O.C. night. OSFO and I watch it together. I am, like, so completely sad about the fact that it’s ending.

Why you might ask? Well, er, ah, uhhh…

For some reason, I am very attached to the characters. I think the show is funny. The nasty characters are satisfyingly nasty. The cute characters are really, really cute (I have a crush on Ryan, pictured left). There’s some good acting. Some good writing. Some ridiculously bad writing. Some pretty bad acting.

I love that ditzy, crazy Taylor is going out with my Ryan. I love that Taylor speaks French and was briefly married to a French intellectual (who wrote a bestselling book about their sex life).

Ryan is the oh so troubled one. His great love, Marisa, died last season. He’s a child of the streets. A little bit tough. A little bit tongue-tied. Estranged from both parents, he was adopted by a rich lawyer and his wife. He’s raw. He’s shy. He’s hurtin’. He’s cute.

I love Summer and her transformation from Newport Beach girl into envionmental activist at
Brown University until she gets kicked out for freeing the rabbits in
the science lab. And she keeps one and names it Pancake.

I love funny, shy, comic-book artist Seth who is Jewish and in love with Summer.

I love Peter Gallagher playing a Jewish super lawyer, super dad. Plus, he did a great Jerry Lewis imitation tonight.

I love Kaitlin for her utterly bitchy, "too cool for school", utterly debased and debauched high school attitude.

And then there’s Julie, the queen of mean. Heck, she’s running a
male (twenty-something men for middle-aged women) prostitution ring out
of the office she shares with too-good-to-be true-Kirsten. Yes,
Kirsten, the most plastic character on the show. Wise, womanly, above
the fray…

Whoa. Whoa. Wait a minute, Kirsten used to have a drinking problem
and went to rehab (that’s when I first started watching. She has
backstory, I forgot).

Wouldn’t you miss these characters, too. If you read The O.C. message boards, most fans think the show went to hell after Marissa died. This season’s plots have been very off the wall. The ship is definitely going down and some are glad that they’re ending the misery.

But what about: THE SOUNDTRACKS!!!