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How Was Oliver Able to Afford?

posted 7 years ago by Arvin-G-Borkar
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Being a big fan of The O.C., I had watched little bits and pieces of episodes while they were on t.v. Now I found a website that has all the seasons and I finally get back to the episodes with Oliver. I know the questions were answered when it turned out he was psycho or mentally deranged; however, was there any explanation behind how he was able to afford all those properties he had taken The O.C. crew to as well as the concert? He had like a beach house or something on New Years, he then takes them to Pal Springs, and then before nearly killing Marissa and himself; he takes her to is hotel suite. I never did remember what happened to his parents.

Questions that were answered: Natalie turned out to be the concierge and he was mentally deranged.

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[–] vjeffriess 7 years ago

He did have rich parents that left him alone. That wasn't a lie.

[–] Arvin-G-Borkar 7 years ago

And how did we know this from watching the episode? Would you have any evidence, either from the script or something the director/writer of this episode said?

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[–] vjeffriess 7 years ago

It has been years since I watched iy but he mentions several times that his parents own hotels and there is never any evidence that this is a lie.

[–] Arvin-G-Borkar 7 years ago

It is just kind of odd, knowing with his condition, that we believe it. I mean could this guy not be like a mobster or something? He does seem to get whatever he wants. Maybe people are just too afraid of what may happen if they say no or he does not get his way? We all have seen what happens.

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[–] vjeffriess 7 years ago

The beach house also belongs to his parents.

[–] Jerique 7 years ago

Seth: I cannot believe you live in a penthouse, this place is ridonkulous.
Oliver: Yeah, I guess. But with my parents travelling so much it can kinda get a little lonely.
Seth: If you ever need any company.
Oliver: Thanks, cause you know they might be gone awhile. Opening a new hotel in Paris.

Sandy: Well, they busted him trying to buy coke, and then he tells me that his parents are out of the country for a month. If you can believe that. Parent leaving a kid like that alone.

Oliver: I wanna take you and him to Palm Springs. My family has a place there, right on PGA West.

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[–] Arvin-G-Borkar 7 years ago

So we are to believe that his parents probably wanted to be away from this guy, yet they give him everything he wants?

I am thinking he steals stuff, a regular mobster.

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[–] Jerique 7 years ago

Are you serious? The show told you in plain English that his parents own hotels across the world and he's an insanely wealthy kid, well-traveled and is left alone. Yes, you are supposed to believe the writers on that point that Oliver is alone and rich.

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[–] Arvin-G-Borkar 7 years ago

Even knowing that his truth of Natalie was proven false by the ending? So really, we have no idea if he is telling half truths or if his parents are truly rich. Maybe he goes day by day threatening people or paying them off (I am going more with the first one) getting what he wants. I assume he probably threatened Natalie to the point that she gave him a room for free. He probably received some black money from his addiction to buy the penthouse or maybe he broke into it?

You see where I am going with this.

It's kind of like you have to deduce the kind of things he would do than go by the script as is.

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[–] Jerique 7 years ago

Are you dense? I am legitimately concerned for your mental health. Yes, Natalie turned out to be a lie. But that doesn't mean he lied about his parents. Even if we assume that all he said was lies, your idea of "he threatens people to get what he wants" is insanely stupid by all means. You really believe this little kid is going around threatening adults with harm and they just comply? There's no way that he threatened his way into the penthouse. No hotel would sit back and let him have full control and not call the police on him. Natalie babysat him and his parents were rich and owned multiple hotels across the world. That's your explanation. Oliver did not threaten to use the golf course or penthouse.

The writers clearly wrote Oliver to be a rich kid left alone by his negligent parents.

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[–] Arvin-G-Borkar 7 years ago

"You really believe this little kid is going around threatening adults with harm and they just comply?"

Well, um, yeah. Look what he almost did to Ryan and Marissa's relationship. Of course, since Ryan all ready had a bad reputation; it was an easier way for him to manipulate him as it was for him to all ready manipulate others around him to see him as the victim. In one part he even says "And the worst [best] is, no one is going to believe you."

So for a penthouse, it is not too farfetched to think he threatened the previous owner at gunpoint or other means to get it. Who is to say that the cops did not rally on his side because he has that mental condition that he has? Like "Oh yeah, this kid has a problem and so we are just going to give the penthouse to him and if you [normal kid] have a problem with it, you will have to state your case.

Even in our society; no matter weaker gender or people with disabilities, it is always an option to side with them over a normal well to-do person. Why? Because that well to-do person should be able to get what he needs to survive. He has no drawbacks that would put him at a disadvantage to compete in society and so whatever has owned or accomplished, there is a greater chance that that well to-do person can settle.

By the end of the episode, we also found that the only way to prove this guy was really the predator was at the scene of the crime. He had a firearm, which he claimed was for him; even though, he could have used it to kill Marissa and himself. We also know that the girl before Marissa, at that other school he went to, slit her wrists or something (I forget if she died or she just slit her wrists. May have to watch it again.)

This guy has some serious issues.

Although I agree that if it says it in the script, it SHOULD be exactly what the writers wanted us to take from it; I cannot help but think there is something more. It is almost like the writers left it open for interpretation.

If I knew a guy like this, with his past history, I would investigate fully to consider whether he was truly rich or not.

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[–] Jerique 7 years ago

What a waste of time to write out such a novel that I'm not going to read. Oliver had rich, hotel-owning parents who left him alone. That's how he was able to afford what is seen on the show. End of story. There's no theories or conspiracies, the writers said that's how he was well off.

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[–] Arvin-G-Borkar 7 years ago

You are just very staunch in what you believe. Nothing wrong with that. Sometimes one can be more openminded to other opinions. You may be one of the few, who is not and that is fine too!

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[–] linkat 7 years ago

I saw the Natalie lie as only confirming the rich-negligent-parents plot point. He has clearly spent his life growing up in his family's opulent hotels; his best friends are the staff who supervise and look after him. That is precisely why he has created this delusional version of reality using Natalie's name.
She's probably like a big sister/mother figure to him.

[–] Arvin-G-Borkar 7 years ago

It would definitely make sense, however, how can one decide where his lies really stop at? We believe that Oliver does have parents that own hotels, yet we know that the whole Natalie situation was a lie?

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