There's nothing special about a season finale that features a wedding. Or even a big traditional ceremony celebrating a re-confirmation of vows, as was the case with this season's last episode of
One Tree Hill. But-- oh so true to
OTH's m.o.-- that wasn't all: the ceremony was neither the icing nor the cake for Lucas, Brooke, Nathan, Haley, Peyton, Karen, Dan, Deb, Mouth, et al. The season concluded with a near head-on collision running one car off a bridge into water (a river?) below. Left on the bridge: the newly re-married couple Haley and Nathan. In an effort to save Rachel and his Uncle Cooper, Nathan leapt into the water and ended the episode gasping for breath, his head jammed into a rapidly shrinking pocket of air trapped inside the sinking car. Haley screamed from the bridge, and we'd just learned that at least one of five female characters is pregnant. Haley (in white) and Rachel are two of the five, and-- mind you-- four of the five are still in high school. Rachel (16) was potentially knocked up by Uncle Cooper (30-ish? Michael Trucco who plays Cooper was born in 1970 & Daneel Harris (Rachel) in 1982, so you do the math and tell me how old Cooper should be--24?). Karen, the only adult among the show's fecund females, would be carrying the child of her dead fiancé Kieth who was killed earlier this season by his brother Dan because Dan mistakenly though Kieth tried to burn him alive. Of course,
Dan's attempted murderer was in fact Dan's wife Deb. In good news, Keith set up a college fund for his nephew Lucas-- a fund Karen (Keith's fiancée and Lucas's mother) discovers just before she takes Lucas on a trip to tour colleges. Lucas, who has inheirited his father Dan's heart condition, can no longer play basketball and therefore declares he will study literature-- a development which begins to explain why Lucas's voiceovers frequently quote Dickens, Henry James, etc.
There's nothing special about a season finale that features a wedding. Or even a big traditional ceremony celebrating a re-confirmation of vows, as was the case with this season's last episode of One Tree Hill. But-- oh so true to OTH's m.o.-- that wasn't all: the ceremony was neither the icing nor the cake for Lucas, Brooke, Nathan, Haley, Peyton, Karen, Dan, Deb, Mouth, et al. The season concluded with a near head-on collision running one car off a bridge into water (a river?) below. Left on the bridge: the newly re-married couple Haley and Nathan. In an effort to save Rachel and his Uncle Cooper, Nathan leapt into the water and ended the episode gasping for breath, his head jammed into a rapidly shrinking pocket of air trapped inside the sinking car. Haley screamed from the bridge, and we'd just learned that at least one of five female characters is pregnant. Haley (in white) and Rachel are two of the five, and-- mind you-- four of the five are still in high school. Rachel (16) was potentially knocked up by Uncle Cooper (30-ish? Michael Trucco who plays Cooper was born in 1970 & Daneel Harris (Rachel) in 1982, so you do the math and tell me how old Cooper should be--24?). Karen, the only adult among the show's fecund females, would be carrying the child of her dead fiancé Kieth who was killed earlier this season by his brother Dan because Dan mistakenly though Kieth tried to burn him alive. Of course,
Dan's attempted murderer was in fact Dan's wife Deb. In good news, Keith set up a college fund for his nephew Lucas-- a fund Karen (Keith's fiancée and Lucas's mother) discovers just before she takes Lucas on a trip to tour colleges. Lucas, who has inheirited his father Dan's heart condition, can no longer play basketball and therefore declares he will study literature-- a development which begins to explain why Lucas's voiceovers frequently quote Dickens, Henry James, etc.
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That sounds a little like that episode of "The Waltons" we watched that one time.
True. However, The Waltons was much more hard hitting than OTH: on The Waltons, the car in the icy river was a hurdle en route to a brief moment of peace-- a blissful moment interrupted by a voiceover predicting world war. OTH offers the crash (on a sunny afternoon) as the end of a season and keeps its fingers crossed that it will be continued next year...
Then again, The Waltons didn't quote no Henry James...
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