OTH Accidents!

The following article made me laugh and smile. I appreciate articles that count how many times similar or identical situations occur (e.g. the number of times Luc and Tess say "I know, right?" in Camp Rock 2). Fans like me really don't care that every major character of One Tree Hill has almost died. Remember what we learned from the (second) prom episode in Honey Grove, Texas? No one else has the same drama as these characters. The only thing you can relate to is the love and heart ache. I love these characters and I love this show!


'One Tree Hill' Loves Almost Killing Off Characters
By SHARON THARP

The latest car crash. [ Image Source ]

We still have two weeks until One Tree Hill officially returns for the last half of its eighth and most likely final season. And I gotta say, the show is actually better than it's been in years. It's still beating network favorite Gossip Girl in ratings and fans are more turned in then ever.

But, I gotta point something out. If you're a Tree Hill fan, then you undoubtedly noticed it, but the show has a tendency to feature a major car accident EVERY SEASON. Well, except season 7. But still. Seriously, every main character has gotten into a major car accident and nearly died. Every single one.


Let's recap, shall we?

Lucas

Lucas lands in a coma after his inebriated uncle turns at a red light in season 1. His real father, Dan, is forced to save him and despite a hurt shoulder, surgery and going into a coma, he's fine. Miraculous!

Nathan

Nathan, like his brother, slipped into a coma due to a car crash. He intentionally drives a race car off the road in season 2. Not only that, but he also inadvertently causes two other car crashes – one that makes Rachel and his Uncle Cooper drive off a bridge (season 3) and one that injures his pregnant wife (season 4). Way to go, Nate. Oh, and he crashes Peyton's car in season 1 while he's driving drunk.

Peyton

 Peyton's adopted mother died when she ran a red light and Peyton tempted fate a few times in season 1. Aside from the psycho stalker who tried to kill her, getting shot in the leg by a school shooter and the near-fatal birth of her daughter, Peyton gets into a huge car accident in season 6 while pregnant. Surprise! She survives.

Haley

A pregnant Haley winds up in the hospital after getting hit by a car in season 4. The car that hit her was driven by a loan shark that her hubby Nathan got entangled with. She breaks her foot and spends the next few episodes on crutches, but all in all, she and the baby are fine.

Brooke

(accident around 3:02 mark)

For the most part, Brooke's escaped all the near-death experiences. Other than getting attacked in her store and having a little run-in with Quentin's killer, she's managed to stay...very much alive. She wasn't in the school shooting and she missed all the car accidents. That is, until this season. In the last aired episode, she tries to help Jamie and his friends out of an overturned car and almost dies herself when another car rams into it.

Dan

(accident around 2:28 mark)

A road-raged Nanny Carrie (another recycled plot line a la Psycho Derek) rams into Dan while he waits for his new heart in season 5. She later tortures him and he ends up killing her. And let's not forget Dan almost died in a fire, in prison and from a bad heart. All close calls.

So here's a little recap:

# of car accidents: 7 (at very least)
# of main character deaths due to those car accidents: 0

These are just the car accidents. I didn't even really get into the other death-ridden plot lines. Karen almost dies during pregnancy complications, Keith does die after Dan shoots him, Deb nearly overdoses on pills, Quinn and Clay get shot by Katy, Lucas has heart failure from his HCM, Rachel and Cooper almost drown, Quentin gets shot by Brooke's attacker, Peyton gets shot in the school shooting.

Actually, that's a sh*t load of shootings too. I could probably go on.
Moral of the story? We don't even care. No fan really does. It doesn't make us hate the show. Neither does the fact that every main character is famous (Peyton a record producer, Lucas a novelist, Brooke a fashion designer, Nathan an NBA star, Haley a musician etc). These are just things we learn to love about One Tree Hill, despite our forced suspension of disbelief.
One request though: Please kill off Mouth in a very dramatic (and appropriately annoying) car crash -- preferably by a car driven by the ghost of Jimmy Edwards or something equally ridiculous. I hate him. Thanks.

Original article: http://www.ology.com/screen/one-tree-hill-loves-almost-killing-characters



I would also like to say that I was on the edge of my seat while watching Darkness on the Edge of Town. Quinn, Brooke, Jamie, and Julian were in so much danger! They showed Julian giving Brooke CPR, then showed a hand move, but they had changed scenes to show Quinn!

Brooke and Julian are so great together. The future B. Davis Baker has a good man. <3

This was the 11th episode of Season 8. It could have been a bittersweet ending to the series, except not all the characters were in it. If all goes well, we still have 8 more episodes!

Voyage of the Dawn Treader

I got into The Chronicles of Narnia franchise after since I fell in love with Prince Caspian.

I have been anxiously waiting for The Dawn Treader. They set up Dawn Treader displays in movie theatres, and every time I saw it, I had to take a picture.

I even did this:

although, this third movie was made by Fox, not Disney.

There wasn't a lot of promotion for the movie. None of the stars came to L.A. to be on talk shows or anything =/

I was late to the theatre, so I missed Lucy, Edmund and Eustace getting sucked back into Narnia through the painting =[

It's funny how the movies really utitlize Edmund's torch (flashlight).

Ben Barnes is hot as ever as King Caspian X. He has this glare that just takes your heart away.

Just one question: what happened to Caspian's SPANISH Telmarine accent? He has a British accent now. It makes him stand out less than the rest of the cast, I suppose. But I also suspect marketing managers considered the Telmarine accent as one of the factors to Prince Caspian's less-than-stellar box office performance (Oh man, does that mean I actually learn stuff in school?).

On that note, I watched it in 3D. There weren't any spectacular effects, so I wouldn't recommend 3D. It's just a way to boost sales.

I like this movie better than the Dawn Treader novel. I think that can be said about all the movies. I would probably feel different if I had read the books as a child.

It was nice to see cameos by Anna and Will. I'm glad it was just a fantasy sequence because this story was about the younger Pevensie siblings.

The need of the swords of the seven lords to be laid at Aslan's table and the evil green mist were not it in the book. They were added to give the film a more distinct goal and antagonist.


Eustace was a dragon for a long time. I thought the dragon was the coolest part of the book. I liked the relationship built between him and Reepicheep.

I really felt for Edmund! Yes, he was a traitor in the first film, but he had learned his lesson. It's okay, Ed, I'm on your team =]

The ending sad once again. Caspian didn't diva out and demand to go with Reepicheep like in the book. That makes sense because Caspian is a teenager in the books where as Ben Barnes' portrayl is a young adult. Ramandu wasn't in the film, and they gave his daughter a name. Oh Lilliandil, you are one lucky star to get to marry Caspian.

Lucy realized she and Ed wouldn't be returning. That always makes me sad! All that work and they don't get to enjoy the magical land.

The left just enough for a possiblility of the another movie installment. Eustace may return. His mom announced Jill Pope came for a visit. I would definitely watch another Narnia movie. The Silver Chair is my favorite book. But if they don't, it was a good run.

Tangled

I didn't know Tangled was a musical! They didn't advertise any of the songs. I guess they wanted it to be a surprise or something. I really liked it! The lantern festival was so magical! They should have done that at Disneyland, though that would be really messy. They really do release lanterns into the sky in China and other countries that celebrate the Lantern Festival for Lunar New Year.

& I like Rapunzel's hair.

AMA 2010

The American Music Awards will forever bring back good memories.

Train performed. During "Hey Soul Sister," a bunch of girls wearing t-shirts that said SOUL SISTER came out and danced on stage with them. Could that have been me? Oh well. There's another contest that could work out for me. Check it out!

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Sigh..?!!

I miss it too.

You confuse me.

Deathly Hallows

I started reading the Harry Potter books just before I turned 11. I just started middle school. The series kept winning the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Award for Favorite Book. My new friends were reading them too. After reading the Sorcerer's Stone, I had hoped an owl would deliver a Hogwarts acceptance letter to me on my birthday. An owl never came. I am just a muggle who is a huge fan of the series. The books, of course, are 1000x better than the movies. The movies are great, they just don't include everything in the story.

On July 21, 2007, I lined up and bought Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows at 8am, right when Target opened. I read all day and finished in less than 24 hours. Maybe I should have slowed down, to make it all last a little longer. The ending is brilliant. Sheer genius, that J.K. Rowling is.

Three years later, the movie finally comes out. It's split in two parts. We expected only 7 movies, but we got 8... how appropriate ;]

Ron and Hermione's opening scenes broke my heart. The trio was saying goodbye to their lives as they knew it. Ron and Hermione's were only briefly mentioned in the book. The movie didn't show Harry saying goodbye to the Dursleys. I was so looking forward to his handshake with Dudley. Oh well. Can't be too mad because they still kept a lot of material from the book.

Wasn't Hedwig's demise so tragic? That was the saddest death for me in the books.

The movie had a slower tone than the other 6, since it is outside of Hogwarts. They're so grown up now!

I love the dance scene between Harry and Hermione. Ron's horcrux nightmare more mature than I envisioned when reading the book, haha.

Dobby has been trending all weekend. You go, Dobby.

The ending was so great. Everyone in the theatre was bummed when it was over. We all wanted more! You can't be mad, like Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man's Chest because we knew it's in 2 parts.

Part 2 is going to have a faster pace and more action. I plan on watching it in IMAX 3D. It is the final movie, after all. It will be EPIC.

And another one

Wesley is out too. III Factory?