Both Mischa and Marissa never deserved the hate.
The Big Picture We meet Marissa Cooper standing at the edge of her driveway, in front of her beautiful home in one of the most picturesque areas of the country. She’s not intimidated by bad-boy outsider Ryan Atwood ; instead, she’s intrigued. She asks if she can have one of his cigarettes. Now, we know there's more to her than meets the eye — and in a place where appearance is everything, no less. Marissa Cooper is enviably beautiful.
For the rest of her three seasons, Marissa is dealt the worst hand out of all The O.C.'s characters. The girl next door faces a barrage of trials that would be overwhelming for anyone, especially a teenager, to handle. Marissa’s tumultuous storylines have led many to feel that she was the constant damsel in distress that Ryan had to rescue and that her presence made the series gloomier than it should have been. But Marissa is unfairly judged.
But perhaps Marissa's most overlooked attribute is her kindness. Really, many of the negative situations she ends up in are due to her kindness. With Oliver, she befriends him because she thinks he’s lonely, and she believes his lies that he only sees her as a friend. Despite his creating a wedge between her and Ryan, she doesn’t want to abandon him because she can relate to what it’s like to have mental health issues.
But don't we also give the Marissas of the world a hard time? Adolescence is a challenging point in many of our lives. For some, those years can be exasperating. If we look back at our own high school years, we will find plenty of things we would hope people would forget about us — things we said, wore, and did, versions of ourselves that weren't always our best. Marissa showed us an honesty that many of us weren't comfortable with, for which she was chastised.
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