I stopped watching at the exact same time! Weird, it always seems like most people stopped somewhere in season 3.

I am... okay with Taylor, but I hate the way she is now looked at as the O.C.'s second coming, because she was so far from the best thing to happen to that show. And idk, she just like-- one of the (numerous) reasons Seth/Ryan doesn't work for me is because as much as Ryan loves his brosef, he is actively annoyed by his antics, which is one thing in a familial bromance but quite another in a romantic relationship, and Taylor is three hundred thousand times what Seth is. Idk, I didn't like Ryan/Marissa either, but it made more sense.