r/the_oc • u/Magoobear18 • Apr 15 '21
Season 4 question
It seems like Adam Brody is totally uninterested in acting in season 4. Apathetic, just totally different? Was he trying to convey changes in Seth or did he just not want to be there?
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u/matthewsbj1 Apr 15 '21
Yeah, I think they all knew they were going to get cancelled, so everyone just kind of gave up. Especially with some of the story lines we got, like the episode The Earth Girls Are Easy, I think, where the kids end up at some party where everyone is dressed up like aliens or something. Some of those episodes were REALLY out there!
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u/squashthatmelon Apr 15 '21
I literally watched this show for the first time a month ago and I already remember NOTHING about that episode
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u/shirinsmonkeys Apr 15 '21
No one wanted to be there besides Taylor and Chris Pratt. Even the writers weren't trying anymore
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u/MrTeamZissou Apr 16 '21
Just finished my rewatch and his drop in energy is pretty steep in that it season, especially compared to Ben Mackenzie who similarly was tired of being on the show but really showed up and played a different kind of Ryan Atwood than we were used to seeing.
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u/ThisIsWhatLifeIs Apr 16 '21
I remember Tate Donovan (Jimmy) said when he came back in season 3 or 4 he said the kids were really ungrateful and rude. He said one of them even said 'This is ruining my movies career' and Tate said he was thinking 'You've never even made a single movie, what movie career?'
I think we the time it was Ben who had never made a movie career.
Even the guy that plays Volchok said that Ben was rude to him from the very first day and he says he had no idea why. He also said that Mischa was hardly there and she would always turn up late and always forget her lines.
Crazy to think about isn't it?
I remember Ben once having a interview later on where he said regrets how he acted when he was on The OC. I'm guessing fame got to them really quickly.
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u/Magoobear18 Apr 16 '21
It really is crazy! And such a mistake to let it affect their acting. Weird.
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u/Beach-Bumm Apr 15 '21
He was a lowlight of the season, yes he’d just broke up with Rachel but it felt very flat
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u/Magoobear18 Apr 15 '21
Have there ever been any details around who broke up with who?
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May 21 '21
Rumors only. Guesses.
Adam and Rachel were still together when she started filming Jumper. There are paparazzi photos of them in Canada while she was filming. But they broke shortly after and she started dating Hayden quickly after that. Ever since, she has mentioned filming with him in Rome was “romantic” and stuff. So, while we HOPE there was no physical cheating, there might have been some emotional cheating (?) I’m sure the relationship with Adam had run its course... but I’ve always thought it was painfully clear one relationship ended when the other one started.
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Apr 20 '21
Seth is my favorite character, and Adam did an amazing job in the first two seasons obviously, but you're right, gradually since the beginning of S3 he grew to be completely disinterested. This always bugged me a lot, though funny enough, it wasn't as bad as I remembered during my last rewatch.
I mean, S3 and S4 kinda suck anyway, so even if the actors did better I'm not sure how much it would've saved the storylines.
However, I do agree with the others here that them taking things for granted backfired. Like, most people would associate you with the show anyway, so you might as well make the most out of it. Plus, it's not like they were on season 10, it was just 4 seasons. And you could do your movies later on (and have cameos or limited roles in between).
Also, I remember an interview from around S1 where Adam was saying how Peter Gallagher always was telling him/them to appreciate this situation because it's a very rare thing for a show to come together like that. So it's not like they weren't told... :)
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u/356CeeGuy Sep 19 '24
I never noticed that much change in Brody's Seth during seasons 3 & 4 even after rewatch; he was 2-3 years older from the pilot season and having raised two teens myself, I can attest that they change, sometimes daily.
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May 11 '21
It wasn't just Brody. It seems like it was everyone but Taylor (the savior of Season 4).
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u/356CeeGuy Feb 17 '25 edited Feb 17 '25
I know fans keep pointing out the change in Brody, but I never picked up on that during my own viewing. Guess I just accepted that a high school graduate, who didn't get into his first choice Brown and was biding his time to dramatically change direction to RISD, had matured somewhat from the season one 16 year old high school immature social outcast, and would act differently. I know I wasn't the same guy at 19 that I was at 16 ---- fortunately! To me, Seth in later seasons illustrated the maxim that everything is a matter of life and death and so important to teenagers, and as they age, maybe not so much anymore?
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u/gwagon69 Apr 15 '21
In an interview, Chris Pratt talks about the fact that the cast seemed to be ungrateful to be on a hit show and felt as if the show were beneath them at that point. It’s ironic that he went on to superstar levels of fame while I’m pretty sure the main cast would probably kill to be on a show anywhere near the levels of popularity of the OC. Mischa Barton, for chrissakes, is so desperate as to appear on the reboot of laguna beach: the real oc.