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'One Tree Hill' premiere: Five WTF moments
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Caution: If you've got the Season 8 premiere of "One Tree Hill" sitting unwatched in your DVR, this is not the article for you. Spoilers ahead, kids. Which brings us to our list of Five WTF OTH moments.1. We waited with bated breath all summer to find out what would happen to Clay (Robert Buckley) and Quinn (Shantel VanSanten) after they were shot by Katie, so naturally our first WTF was the reveal that the attempted murder was all a dream.
Of course, we've also seen a television show before, so it didn't take us very long to figure out that when Clay and Quinn spent the entire episode on a beach with Quinn's top off and her white shorts soaked through -- they were actually in limbo. Katie did shoot them, and their entire "From Here to Eternity" day was some kind of alternate reality shared coma dream.
2. We're so mad at Victoria! After how far she and Brooke (Sophia Bush) have come, she lands her daughter in jail? With all due respect to Daphne Zuniga Victoria is a terrible mother and a terrible businesswoman and she should've gotten the boot from Brooke ages ago. We don't need another cougar mom on the show - Deb gave us plenty of that with Skills years ago. Now she's destroyed the only thing Brooke has ever been successful at.
3. Oh, god. We really didn't need that scene with eight year olds accidentally Googling pictures of sex toys.
4. We were pleasantly surprised by all the callbacks to previous seasons and characters. From the return of the theme song and opening titles -- complete with our favorite moments from Season 1 -- to Haley's Lucas letters and Brooke's Peyton pictures, we were all warm and fuzzy by the end of the episode. If indeed this season is "One Tree Hill's" swan song, it's nice to see homage paid to their roots.
5. Clay and Quinn were lying on the floor unconscious and bleeding all day?? Clay was shot in the chest and there was blood on the door behind him. There's no way they'll survive this one. From next week's preview clip, it seems that Clay and Quinn's coma dream will continue in the hospital. That worked for Dean Winchester on "Supernatural," but we're wary of it on "One Tree Hill." Maybe they can hang out with the ghosts of Keith and Peyton's moms.
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Re: #3. Really? A sixty second moment on the show, something that we've seen ten thousand times before on television, rates using a deity's name in vain? Grow up a spell, please.
Re: #5. I kept telling my wife that the return of the theme song was the "Tara-factor." Clay and/or Quinn were dead and they appearing in the theme song was just to throw us off much like when Tara showed up finally on the theme song of Buffy the Vampire Slayer in the same episode where she died.
That scene at the River Court with Nathan and Jamie was awesome! Maybe an emmy consideration for little Jackson for the impersonations of the Boston, New York and L.A. portrayals!
Well EricJohn they are in the opening because they are still on the show and looks like they will be for a while, even they they are dead.
Just love the beginnig of the OTH Season (L)
I've said it before, and I'll say it again...Princess Vespa is a ***** on this show. I don't mean ***** in your typical "Amanda Woodward" kind of way, I mean she's just plain cruel to throw her daughter under the bus like that. I hope she gets what she deserves.
Love that they decided to bring the Tree Hill theme song back (Go Gavin DeGraw!) as well as references to Lucas and Peyton! I love the comic relief in this drama. It's what makes One Tree Hill one of a kind.
This show gets more terrible with every passing moment. What ever happened to real story lines where characters act for more than 10 seconds at a time. The best actor on the show is Jamie and that is not a compliment.