Karen is getting ready to go to a small business league meeting and asked Luke which dress she should wear: the red or the black. Luke decides on the black but also mentions that Keith is going to be her date. She said that it is not a real date and that they are going as friends. She then asks Luke, "Why, did Keith say something?" Luke responded with, "Not a word."
During their first away game, Luke and Nathan get into a fist fight on the court. They were both kicked out of the game. On their drive home, Coach Whitey made the bus pull over and kicked Luke and Nathan off the bus to take a 30 mile walk back home together and think about what they pulled that night.
While they are walking, a car pulls up and a guy inside asks if they want a ride. Nathan goes to the side of the car and gets pulled in. Luke went into the car willingly to make sure that Nathan would be safe. They made Nathan and Luke take all their clothes off except their boxers and walk into a convenient store and buy random items written on a list. They wrote 'ravens suck' on their backs.
Meanwhile, when the fight happened during the game, the guys ran into the cheerleaders and hurt Brooke's ankle. She convinced the college-aged assistant to the sports doctor to give her medication for it. She ended up getting pretty looped up and hilarity ensues.
Lucas ends with: "As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped, and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment and then the moment was gone."
Peyton is stopped at a green light and drives through town once they are all red. We'll learn about this later.
Meanwhile, Haley admits to Luke that she is tutoring Nathan so he will leave Luke alone. Luke wants her to quit tutoring him, but Haley said she can't because she made a promise to Nathan.
There is a father/son basketball game and so Lucas asked Keith to play with him and he said yes. There was an article on the front page of the newspaper about Dan Scott and his two sons. Luke is sick of having to carry the Scott name and so he is seriously considering changing his name to his mom's last name: Lucas Roe. Karen and Keith both don't want him to change his name just because Keith also carries the last name Scott.
Peyton is struggling because it is the week that her mother died. She was on her way to pick Peyton up from school and was running a little late so she ran a red light and was struck by another car and lost her life. It had been 7 years since she died.
During the father/son basketball game, Dan became a little too competitive and shoved Nathan down to the ground to keep him from scoring. He proved that he is a real ass, even to Nathan. Dan seems to think that Nathan can never be as good of a basketball player as he is. Nathan let the dads' win to prove a point to his father: he can never beat Nathan.
At the end of the episode Luke says: "John Steinbeck once wrote: It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world."
This episode starts off with Dan telling Nathan to not let Lucas get the ball during the next game that night. During the game, Nathan's wing man Tim passed the ball to Luke and Nathan got really pissed. After the game, Nathan invites Luke to the after party at his beach house. During the party, Brooke invites Luke to play the drinking game "I never." While playing, Nathan said that he has never had a dad that wished he was a stain on the bed sheets. Luke played it cool, walked over to him and said, "Then you're welcome to mine." After a while, Nathan sees Luke talking to his girlfriend Peyton outside and gets jealous. He puts in the tape of Luke's mom Karen and their dad Dan's Snowball court king and queen speech. Lucas stormed off right after shoving Nathan into the wall.
Nathan gave Haley a ride home in Peyton's car. While Nathan was driving back to the party, he crashed the car by sideswiping a parked vehicle and then running into a utility pole. Lucas was following the car because he thought that Peyton was driving and she had been drinking and was concerned for her safety. Nathan walked away from the accident and Luke decided to tow the car to Keith's Auto Body Shop to fix it himself. He did not want Peyton to get in trouble for Nathan's stupidity and carelessness. Peyton breaks up with Nathan because she was finally able to see the ass he truly was to everybody the night before; including herself.
Luke looked into the car later on and noticed that Haley's hat was on the seat. He tells Nathan to stay the hell away from Haley. This finding creates friction between the two best friends at the very end of the episode. Luke asks if Haley would be completely honest with him and tell him if anything was going on and she responded with yes. Luke pulled out her hat and told her, "You left this in Peyton's car." OUCH!
This episode starts with Lucas shooting the last ball and NOTHING BUT NET!!! He wins the game for the Ravens!!! Brooke told him while she was half naked in the back of his car that everything has changed and he is now popular.
A little later, Luke is in the shower at school and someone takes his towel and clothes away so he walks around holding two balls strategically placed.
Sorry Coach Whitey is dubbed into a different language for this scene. It was the only one I could find to use in the blog. This is what he says though: "I was just getting used to low-waist jeans. Lets go ball boy."
Peyton went and talked to the editor of Thud magazine and he said that he loved her work but they wanted her to twist it into a more peppy, happy-type comic strip. She went to the rivercourt to tell Lucas thank you for submitting her art work, but she declined the offer.
Poor Luke is dealing with a lot of hazing from the team. Nathan is unfortunately making it personal. Him and the team trashed the rivercourt. While Luke was on his way to meet up with Haley at the movie theatre, he was kidnapped by the team and driven to a remote location. They threw him into a mud puddle and left him there to walk home.
Nathan, in the mean time, is struggling in English and asks Haley to be his tutor. She struggles with the answer that she'll give him but finally decides that it is in Luke's best interest to tutor Nathan. She had two conditions: 1) That Lucas never finds out that she is tutoring him and 2) That Nathan leaves Lucas alone.
Peyton went back to Thud magazine and told them that they would be making a mistake if they didn't use her own raw material and said that it was their choice to use it or not but that she wasn't changing it to meet their criteria.
Luke ended with this quote: "E.E. Cummings once wrote: To be nobody-but-yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
Peyton received a voice message from the editor of Thud magazine telling her that they decided to run her comic strip in their next issue.
Lucas is now a part of the varsity basketball team. The second episode starts off with Luke's first game.
I love Haley!!! She is hysterical!!!
Luke does not do very well. It seems like the pressure is getting to him because he keeps missing baskets and so Coach Whitey made him take the bench. It is a big let down for him and Nathan is beyond pleased.
Nathan is an absolute jerk to his girlfriend Peyton. After the game they were making out in the car and he started laughing mid-make out because he couldn't stop thinking about how bad Luke choked. Peyton got upset and got out of the car. Nathan drove away and left her. Later on he called and told Peyton that he wanted them to go back to the way they were and be okay again. She agreed over the phone, but was drawing this at the same time:
Luke is upset with his mom that she wasn't there to support him during his first basketball game. She decided to keep her cafe open later instead. They had a discussion on their porch and Luke found out that the gym is where Dan told his mom that he wasn't staying in Tree Hill and was going to leave her and go to college instead. It was too hard for her to face that place where everything changed.
Meanwhile, Peyton's car broke down during the first episode and Luke towed it to Uncle Keith's Body Shop. Luke discovered a book of Peyton's art and looked through it. Peyton caught him and got upset that he was looking in her stuff. She had a letter written to Thud magazine which was across the street from Karen's Cafe and later on Luke saw her throw her drawings into the garbage in front of Thud. He grabbed them out and was later at Keith's Auto Body Shop when Peyton came to pick up her car. He showed her that he pulled out her drawings. He asked her why she won't submit her drawings to Thud and she responded with:
"I want to draw something that means something to someone. You know, I want to draw blind faith or a fading summer or just a moment of clarity. It's like when you go and you see a really great band live for the first time you know and nobody is saying it but everybody is thinking it. We have something to believe in again. I want to draw that feeling but I can't. And if I can't be great at it, then I don't want to ruin it. It's too important to me."
Luke stopped going to practice. Coach Whitey found Luke at the rivercourt and told him that he had until tip-off of the game the next day to still be a part of his team. He then said one of my all time favorite quotes about fear:
"Look, son, there's no shame in being afraid. Hell, we're all afraid. What you got to do is figure out what you're afraid of because when you put a face on it you can beat it. Better yet, you can use it. Think about it."
In this episode Haley also taught me how to figure out my porn name. You take the name of your first pet and then your mother's maiden name and that is what your porn name is. Luke's is Rocket Roe and Haley's is Bunny Bergaard and mine is not so cool: Bailey Kari.
Luke says: "Do not let your fire go out spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved but never been able to reach. The world you desired can be won. It exists. It is real. It is possible. It is yours."
He shows up to the game to play and Karen took the night off to watch. Luke related to one of the pictures that Peyton drew:
He told Peyton at the game: "Hey. Your art matters. It's what got me here."
Since this is the first episode ever to air, they focus on introducing the characters. It begins by showing how Nathan and Lucas are both playing basketball. Nathan in the school varsity game and Lucas at the basketball court with his friends at a park. They both win their games. Nathan is found to be a trouble maker by stealing the school bus for a joy ride. While Nathan is driving the bus his girlfriend Peyton is on her way home and almost runs into Lucas who is walking home from his basketball game. At the same time, Nathan almost runs into a train. After the train is gone, there is a police officer parked on the other side with their lights on. Most of the basketball team gets reprimanded and kicked off of the team for the rest of the season. Nathan, somehow, was saved.
I absolutely LOVE Coach Whitey's quote: "The inmates will not run the asylum."
Lucas' Uncle Keith goes and talks to Coach Whitey about him having Lucas play on the varsity team. They go for a little drive to the park and watch Lucas playing with his buddies. Coach Whitey then talks to him at school and Lucas turns down the offer.
Skills doesn't want to be his excuse, harsh but true. It makes sense to me, but it sure must be tough to get involved with something you love and have to deal with someone you despise at the same time.
When Lucas gets home there is a package for him at the door. It is his own basketball jersey. His mom walks past him while he is wearing it and tells him to take it off. They then talk outside on their step. His mom Karen says that maybe he should play on the team and then she tells him: "You're a good kid Luke, but sometimes I feel like you're sitting out your life on account of me and I don't want that for you. My past is not your future, okay?"
Dan is such an egotistical asshole. I started to despise him the first episode when he said that to Nathan. How could a father be so cruel to one child but not the other? It makes no sense...
Nathan goes to the park, known as the rivercourt, and challenges Lucas to a one-on-one basketball battle.
Dan is nervous because Nathan said that if he lost, he would quit the team.
Who wins??? Watch the last clip and find out!!!
At the end of the episode, Lucas is reading a book and says this: "There is a tide in the affairs of men. Which, taken at the flood leads on to fortune. But omitted and the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat and we must take the current when it serves or lose the ventures before us."
I am such a HUGE One Tree Hill fan! Major, ridiculous...yeah! So, their farewell season is starting January 11th, 2012, so I am going to re-watch every episode for the THIRD time! I am also going to write down in the blog for each consecutive episode parts and information that I find intriquing! WARNING: IF YOU HAVE NOT WATCHED ONE TREE HILL AND PLAN ON WATCHING ONE TREE HILL DO NOT READ THESE BLOGS!!! So, shall we start???
INTRODUCTION OF THE MAIN CHARACTERS:
Lucas and Nathan Scott:
Nathan is on the right and Lucas is on the left
They are brothers from two different mothers who have grown up to despise each other. They also both grew up in the same town. Nathan is rich and grew up with their dad and Lucas is more on the poor side and grew up with his mother.
Dan and Deb Scott:
Dan is Lucas and Nathan's father. Deb is Nathan's mom and Dan's wife. Dan is known as being a backstabbing jerk and wanted nothing to do with Lucas when he was growing up. We'll learn more about them during the marathon posts.
Karen and Keith:
Karen is Lucas' mother. Keith is Dan's brother. After Karen found out that she was pregnant, Dan left but Keith stayed in her life as a supporter and friend and played more of a father figure for Lucas.
Coach Whitey Durham:
Coach Whitey is the High School Varsity basketball coach. He coaches Nathan who is known as the star player of the team. He also coached Dan Scott when he was in High School.
Brooke Davis and Peyton Sawyer:
Best friends and cheerleaders for the varsity basketball team. Brooke is a prom queen, rich girl. Peyton is the darker, artistic, and music fanatic. Peyton is dating Nathan and Brooke is a free spirit when it comes to men.
Haley James:
Haley is Lucas' best friend. She is also my favorite character! I love her and her heart and her strength. She is very smart and is eventually known as 'tutor girl.'
This is just a HUGE congratulations post for my girl Britney Spears!!! Her boyfriend of two years, Jason Trawick, proposed Thursday night!!! I am so excited for her to have found love and wish them and their little family the best life together!!! She seems to have found a real man who treats her with respect and helps keep her grounded. I truly hope their love for each other lasts forever! She deserves it!!!
This last picture is my all time FAVORITE of her and her boys Sean and Jayden!!!
It has been a little more than two months since I last wrote on here! I have been busy with my last semester of College: working on papers, exams, etc. Well, I did it!!! I am an official graduate!!! I walked in my graduation ceremony exactly six days ago! YAY ME!!!
My Dad had told me that he wouldn't be able to go to my graduation. I was fine with it and I understood because he lives in Texas and I am all the way in Minnesota. When I was already lined up to walk into the ceremony a staff member from my college walked over and said my name. After I responded, she then told me to come with her. I'll be honest, I was nervous!!! I thought I was in trouble or something! She then brought me to this little window and showed be flowers that were on the counter and preceded to tell me that they were mine. She had printed a card that she told me to open. THEY WERE FROM MY DAD, and I instantly started bawling like a little baby. My Dad got me two dozen roses. One dozen were yellow and the other dozen were pink. My school colors were purple and gold so my mom assumed that he was trying to match the school colors as close as possible. The card said something to the effect of: "This is such a big day. I am so very proud of you. Congratulations! Love you, Dad." It was one of the sweetest surprises that I have ever received!!! It meant a lot to me!
My mom, boyfriend, grandma, grandpa, uncle, great aunt, great uncle, and godmother were all there to support me!!! I was a nervous wreck and really did not want to walk. I did it for my family. I am ultimately glad that I did though. It was an experience that I would have regretted not being a part of. After graduation we headed back home and on the way stopped at a wonderful little restaurant called Emma Krumbees. One of the best places to go for good ol' home cookin.' Seriously, I love this place!!!
