The H.O.Y.A.Y.

One of the many disappointing things about the later seasons of The O.C. was the near-squandering of all the Seth/Ryan subtext set up in the first.

But then it's true that when your opening image is this, you don't leave yourself much place to go hoyaywise:


Still, I think we all know that the show would have been better if it had ended on the note proposed in a Newsweek interview by Ben McKenzie (who played Ryan):

Will Ryan pop the question to Marissa?
I've always pushed for the big marriage that the whole entire audience has always seen coming. Ryan and Seth walk down the aisle hand in hand.