The O.C. – Episode 4-16 – “The End’s Not Near, It’s Here (SERIES FINALE)”
We finish things off 6 months after the earthquake ROCKED Newport Beach. The Cohens have moved into Julie’s house with Kaitlin. It’s like the new version of Full House. Thankfully that doesn’t last long. Unfortunately, or fortunately depending on how you look at it, the Cohens can’t rebuild their house in Newport. It’s a lost cause. What will they do now? That’s not the only change that has happened since the earthquake.
Ryan and Taylor have split up. Taylor has been in Paris. Ryan says that he doesn’t think about her at all. Taylor swears the same thing, in her own rambling Taylor way. That changes when they see each other again in a “random” meeting at the airport. After acting like they don’t care, they finally can’t stop their emotions from getting the best of them. They “hook up” in one of the bedrooms.
Summer and Seth have moved upstairs together. They have turned into an “old married couple” without actually being married. That is the funniest thing I have seen in awhile. Summer starts to rethink things about G.E.O.R.G.E. She thinks that maybe there is room in her life for two “loves”. Summer doesn’t want them to get “too comfortable” too quickly. Seth thinks that being together like this is not good for either of them. Yet he doesn’t want to let her go.
Julie is getting married, but it seems that she is getting married to Bullit?!?! We find out that Julie is also pregnant. When she told Frank that she was pregnant, he left her. Julie had no choice, but to go with her second option. That being Bullit. We find out that Bullit has 12 sons. Julie is having a boy. Bullit is excited about it being “#13”.
Ryan and Seth go on one last mission. They try to find a real “home” for the Cohens. They go to Berkeley to buy the house that Sandy, Kirsten, and Seth lived in when Seth was little and before they moved to The O.C.. The couple that lives in that house now is gay. They don’t want to give up this house so easily. But after Seth and Ryan drag Sandy and Kirsten to the house, AND Kirsten happens to have her water break inside one of the bedrooms and has the baby right there, they finally agree. Lucky for them that one member of the gay couple is a doctor. Seth’s little sister is called Sophie.
Time for a wedding. Kaitlin realizes that Julie really doesn’t want to marry Bullit. She basically agreed to marry him, since Frank left and there were no other options. Kaitlin goes to find Frank and talk sense into him. Meanwhile, Julie stalls when she finds out that Kirsten can’t come to her wedding, since she had her baby. Bullit decides to bring the wedding to them in Berkeley. It turns out that the other half of the gay couple is a wedding planner. That works out nicely. We finally get a scene that Ryan could have done. Frank runs in slow-motion to stop the wedding of Julie and Bullit. Of course, he doesn’t know that the wedding has been moved. So he does the next best thing. He calls Kaitlin and gets on speaker phone to proclaim his love to Julie.
Time to finish off the series right. Summer leaves to “save the world” on a bus for G.E.O.R.G.E. after Seth lets her go in a very tearful goodbye. It’s what is best for the both of them. Julie marries Frank and has their son eventually. Julie also goes to college and gets her degree. Sandy and Kirsten and Sophie live happily ever after in their Berkeley house. Sandy becomes a law professor. Summer and Seth end up getting married in 4 years after college and G.E.O.R.G.E. Ryan becomes an architect and he and Taylor are still together. And in the final scene of the show, Ryan helps out a kid just like him, just like the Cohens helped him 4 years earlier.
Any fan of the show should be quite happy with that ending. Nothing to scream at the TV about. It’s sad to see the show go, but at least it went out on top. This season was short, but it was just as good as the first season, which everyone thought was fantastic. In the end, this is the show that got me my job here for Inside Pulse and will always be special to me. But as one chapter in my life ends, another begins, just like The O.C.. I’m sure we will see Ryan, Seth, Summer, Sandy, Kirsten, Taylor, Julie, and Kaitlin in the future, but never together again like they were in The O.C.. If you have to remember one thing from the show, though, remember this..“You can’t fight fate!”
