O.C, Thou Shall Not Be Forgotten

So the sad news is beginning to sink in now that the sunny, funny one they call The O.C is leaving our screens for good at the end of its current season. While never the best written, most intelligent or emotive programme on our screens, its addictiveness and bevvy of pure eye candy in every sense will be sorely missed.

Its easy to forget in these tough times, but this was once the hottest thing on television, sneaking on to British schedules on account of its sand and skin quota. It sucked you in with promises of scantily clad females and equally scantily clad males but it kept you there with a blend of ridiculous storytelling, amping everything to such a confusing and convoluted level that, at times, you were left reeling from the sheer ballsiness of telling such stories. It also had a heart, mainly brought to the table by Peter Gallagher's fabulous performance as Sandy, bringing a world-weary cool to his role with Adam Brody creating a career as a smart cracking youngster that he will surely now follow into relative obscurity in a host of hideous teen movies.

While season one was great and two amped the silly, three was where things started to go wrong. For starters, Mischa Barton, a human pancake without a speck of interest throughout her beige body was given acting to do. AAAHH!! The whole show takes a nosedive as her solo storyline brings more and more peripheral losers to the show, diluting its main characters numerous charms and killing the show's drive. It may have taken to Season 4 to cancel, but 3 is where it all went wrong.

Sadder still though, is that four is great. They've started to have fun with the show, bringing in slurring french poets, Kevin Sorbo and, in a masterstroke, amplified the role of Autumn Reeser as Taylor Townshend. Her performance, all wide eyed beauty and neurotic intelligence brightened up the show and Ben MacKenzie's character of Ryan, so deeply hamstrung before the wonderful Death of Marissa at three's close (easily the finest moment of the season) now let loose with quippery and cheeky new hairdos. They also introduced Everwood's Chris Pratt as Che, a conservationist and hippy who Summer (the just ridiculously attractive Rachel Bilson) meets at University. The playful humour has made this one of T.V's funniest shows and just another reason it shouldn't be cancelled right now. So here are 5 solid, pinpointed reasons the O.C is great and should be missed and subsequently brought back through DVD buying empowerment:

1. Autumn Reeser and Rachel Bilson are both astonishingly good looking, charming and funny and therefore cannot be taken off the schedules for sheer reason of cruelty.

2. Adam Brody and Peter Gallagher are both astonishingly good looking, charming and... anyway. They are both wonderful in the show and Brody will never get anything this good again so he must be saved.

3. Mischa Barton thinks her leaving is the cause of this cancellation. Untrue and allowing this to go ahead will only strengthen this and keep her around for longer, eventually influencing actressing and killing the ancient craft of acting forever. I won't go into it, but this will eventually mean the end of the world as we know it in ways Al Gore could not have imagined. This is a bad thing.

4. Grey's Anatomy and Desperate Housewives will continue to rise and eventually be crowned 'Great'. This is quite ridiculous people. These are shitty, dull shows that should be switched off so everyone can watch The O.C instead.

5. It will make me sad. This is cause embarassment for all who know me so for their sake, help the cause.

I thank you.