Jill Murray
So they killed Marissa on the OC. I know this even though I’ve never watched a single episode of the show. It was on TV. People reported it.
Mischa Barton, who played Marissa had this to say about it:
“My character has been through so, so much and there’s really nothing more left for her to do.”
Apprently, she’d been trying to get kicked off the show by showing up late or calling in sick, or the usual things people do when they’re trying to get expelled from high school, or the set of a primetime weekly teen soap. Whatever.
Despite this, a group of none too bright fans of The OC got together today to spam every “entertainment journalist” across North America, asking them to make it known through all the land how much they want their favourite character back on TV.
And you know, that is such a logical thing to do. Because everyone knows that everyone knows that once everyone knows about something, it’s like totally as good as done. Someone will definitely go to Mischa Barton’s house and force her back onto the set of the OC, or find that nasty executive producer and team of 30 writers and the director and make them understand how wrong they are– that despite the need to fix declining ratings, even if the actress just won’t show up to work, they are going to lose a core group of foaming idiots who can’t live without Mischa Barton but aren’t interested in seeing her act in anything else, and who love the OC so much, they’re going to stop watching it forever.
This is especially likely to happen if every entertainment journalist in North America hates you because you spammed them.
Sadly for me, because of my work on Torontoist, they think I’m a journalist, so I was included and received about 100 copies of this email today, June 11th, “Save Marissa” day.
So they win. I’m letting people know. Like you. Like their ISP.
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What needs to happen is that Marissa needs to resurface in Deadwood, the other as-of-late-beleaguered television entity.
That’ll teach everyone a lesson.