Where's the funny?

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This week, on The Valley...

You know I'm a big fan of this show. I really am. But I feel like Josh Schwartz and co. are letting me down. Where's the edge? Where's the funny? The OC classic wouldn't have had Seth Cohen hooking up with Alex from The Bait Shop. Plotlines would take more than a single episode to resolve, even with Marissa "emote-a-thon" Cooper involved. This week all the apparent romantic bliss we'd attained at the end of last week -- Seth and Alex, Ryan and Lindsay, Marissa and DJ, Summer and Zach, and I'm not sure who in adultland -- was in turmoil again, only to be apparently resolved again in the same way by the end of the episode. No live performances by The Killers this week either, except for the one I actually saw not on TV with Snow Patrol, Keane, The Shins, Franz Ferdinand, and Modest Mouse, that last of whom sucked live in all ways in which it is possible to suck. But moving along. The non-twisty plot twist is that Lindsay is Caleb's illegitimate daughter, so whatever happens in the future with pairings and unpairings, I'm pretty sure Lindsay is never gonna hook up Seth.