Should I have shame for what I've done? Should a man feel shame for loving his wife? Should a burrito feel shame for being delicious? Or should a boy who grew up on the other side of the tracks feel shame for being the new/bad boy in town, with the whole world and bagels at his disposal - should he feel
shame? No. He shouldn't, but sometimes he does. Especially when he's forced to go to cotillion (what the hell even was cotillion?, he had to ask himself; surely no such thing happened in Chino), or when his mom showed up (not even the same woman from the pilot!) and got sloppy drunk at that casino night. Homeboy even picked up hours at The Crab Shack to fit in and almost got pulled back into the wrong crowd, via leather wristband-clad douche,
Donnie. But the boy prevails, but not without having blood be shed, from his nemesis no less. But Luke Ward was not Ryan Atwood's nemesis; the environment was the enemy, as it was Seth Cohen and Sandy Cohen's. They were outsiders looking in and living in, like we all were. For you see,
The O.C. is inescapable.
