Be Seein' Ya
Before I talk about the season finale of One Tree Hill that aired on Tuesday, I just want to do a quick inventory of some of the things that have happened on the show in the past eight seasons.
7 car accidents
2 murders
4 attempted murders
3 hostage situations
4 kidnappings
3 teenage marriage proposals
6 births
2 sex tapes
6 drug related story arcs
3 psychos
3 ill advised tattoos
10 love triangles
2 prostitutes
6 near drownings
4 attempted suicides
2 divorces
6 weddings
7 blackmail schemes
3 bad movies
5 dead parents
2 prison sentences
3 time warps
1 suicide
5 attempted suicides
2 attempted rapes
4 road trips
and 1 human heart eaten by a dog
You know what's happened to me in the last 8 years? I've gotten 8 years older. So when I make a bunch of comments about how the eighth season was boring or all flashbacks and flossing, it's not really a criticism. I'm actually quite happy for the residents of Tree Hill that after that much more than their fair share of drama, their lives are more about trimming their nose hairs and changing diapers than about avoiding psychotic nannies and fighting with each other over a guy I wouldn't cross the road to spit on. After eight seasons with these people, I have quite a lot of affection for them and I think they deserve to live happy, normal lives.
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The re-runs on Soap which I usually "watch" while I'm working, which gets muted a lot, are on the 1st season "after" as I call it. The season after HS where they magically jumped 4 years and I stopped intently watching. I tred watching again the following season but gave up yet again. So i'm slowly catching bits and pieces of all the "new" drama. As much as I have liked the show at times and I don't hate it now i still can't believe that it's survied this long. There have been many other shows come and go that I've liked much much more. But like Dan - this show never dies. Is he still alive? of did they finally kill him off?
Not only haven't they ever killed off Dan, but the latest scoop on the "final" season says that he'll be back in it again. He'd previously popped up only a few brief times since the season you're on now.
There are still plenty of fantastically Tree Hillian things that you'll come across between where you are and where I am in the series, but the fact that this show lived specifically in place of both Everwood and Veronica Mars will never really be ok with me.
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