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Riona ([personal profile] rionaleonhart) wrote2009-01-05 01:33 pm

Why Do All Our Conversations Come Back To Paedophilia?

When I was in Manchester with [livejournal.com profile] sazzlette and [livejournal.com profile] wanttobeatree, they forced me at what I'm going to say was gunpoint to watch One Tree Hill. This is an American drama about high school students and how basketball TEARS FAMILIES APART and IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING EVER and also about the evils of drugs and alcohol and partying and tattoos and infidelity and, gasp, safe sex. There is an average of one car crash every four episodes. It is ridiculous. It is also terribly, terribly addictive.

So far, I have seen thirteen episodes, up to 'Hanging by a Moment'. Here are some thoughts:

- Lucas is adorable. Adorable! (I still find Chad Michael Murray hilarious for no good reason.)

- I would be up for some Nathan/Lucas. It doesn't really feel like incest - they weren't raised together, after all - and so there's room for all the fun 'augh this is so wrong' feelings on the parts of the characters without violating my usual 'I CANNOT DESTROY THIS SIBLING RELATIONSHIP WITH INCEST' block. This is not helped by the fact that Lucas, in an episode in which he was kissing someone he really should not have been kissing, said, 'You know, that this is wrong... somehow it makes it feel deeper.' LUCAS IS DRAWN TOWARDS WRONGNESS, GUYS. LUCAS/NATHAN. YOU KNOW IT MAKES SENSE.

- [livejournal.com profile] wanttobeatree, [livejournal.com profile] sazzlette and I had a brief discussion about Lucas the sparkly vampire, who angsts about no longer being able to play basketball because oh no he is too strong. I would not be surprised were this an actual episode. (This is a lie.)

- I would rather like to see a Supernatural episode in which they investigate a haunted high school and meet the One Tree Hill cast, playing thinly-disguised versions of their One Tree Hill characters. They could be called things like 'Leyton' and 'Snucas'.

- I am pretty massively 'shipping Lucas/Peyton. [livejournal.com profile] wanttobeatree is horrified.



- I suspect that Keith has a really embarrassing tattoo, hence his anger when Lucas gets a tattoo himself. 'I DID NOT WANT YOU TO RUIN YOUR LIFE AS I HAVE RUINED MINE.' Perhaps he has Lucas' face tattooed on his arse.

- I had to leave for the train home after the end of 'Hanging by a Moment' and so do not yet know the outcome of the car crash. [livejournal.com profile] wanttobeatree asked me what I thought of the cliffhanger.

'I'll be surprised if they've killed Lucas,' I said. 'Unless he's a ghost for the next six seasons.'

Imagine. The Winchesters could investigate! The other characters of One Tree Hill would have to protect ghost!Lucas from them! It would be excellent!

[livejournal.com profile] wanttobeatree suggests that perhaps the reveal will come at the end of the current season. 'YOU'VE BEEN A GHOST ALL THESE YEARS.'

[identity profile] sazzlette.livejournal.com 2009-01-05 03:02 pm (UTC)(link)
I SEE YOU NOT MENTIONING THE PART WHERE YOU KEPT ASKING IF WE COULD WATCH MORE.


:D


PS BE ONLINE LATER WE MUST RP.

[identity profile] moogle62.livejournal.com 2009-01-05 04:46 pm (UTC)(link)
I ALSO HAVE A SHAMEFUL WEAKNESS FOR ONE TREE HILL WHEN IT IS ON E4. I like Peyton/Lucas as well :D My favouritist is Hayley. Bad show is good, y/n?

I...hadn't actually thought about Lucas/Nathan! My slash pairing of choice here is Peyton/Hayley, but that's because they're both really pretty. I quite like Peyton/Brooke as well. WRITE SOME LUCAS/NATHAN SO I CAN COMMENT ON IT AND TELL YOU THAT IT'S AWESOME. ♥

I swear you bring out the secret rubbish in my brain. How do you do that?!

[identity profile] pinkegogirl.livejournal.com 2009-01-05 05:03 pm (UTC)(link)
james cried at OTH last night. HE CRIED. i was upstairs and just heard [livejournal.com profile] sazzlette shouting and flailing.

[identity profile] sazzlette.livejournal.com 2009-01-05 05:17 pm (UTC)(link)
ALSO YOU FORGOT THE PART WHERE YOU'RE GOING TO WRITE US A OTH/HSM CROSSOVER IN WHICH TROY TEACHES LUCAS TO EXPRESS HIS ADORABLE MANPAIN THROUGH SONG, AND LUCAS TEACHES TROY TO READ EXPRESS HIS MANPAIN THROUGH LITERATURE.

[identity profile] thrennion.livejournal.com 2009-01-05 05:25 pm (UTC)(link)
About three or four of the girls on my corridor at Royal Holloway are absolutely *hooked* on One Tree Hill, and I'm not sure whether I want to join them or avoid it lest I get sucked into the basketball related horrors which will obviously make me want to cross it over with High School Musical. I've said too much.

Incidentally, there's a U2 song called One Tree Hill, which is very sad and lovely and makes me inappropriately sway back and forth, as many of their songs do. This, of course, means that I'll always link the two together, which might be very wrong.

[identity profile] thrennion.livejournal.com 2009-01-05 05:31 pm (UTC)(link)
OH BUT IT'S RIGHT, BECAUSE THE SERIES WAS NAMED AFTER THE SONG. I KNEW IT. :D

[identity profile] bubbles-san.livejournal.com 2009-01-05 05:57 pm (UTC)(link)
I saw the DVD set for OTH in Wal*Mart the other day when I was trying to see if they had Psych DVD's (they didn't) and CMM was on the cover and I immediately burst out laughing. The girl who works electronics at night gave me the oddest look.

[identity profile] bubbles-san.livejournal.com 2009-01-05 06:28 pm (UTC)(link)
It's only that I kept thinking of him as pregnant with Jared or Jensen's baby, or possibly a spunky hooker sidekick, and it just seemed not to mesh with the image he was trying to portray on OTH.

[identity profile] bubbles-san.livejournal.com 2009-01-05 06:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Or possibly both, one as a result of the other.

[identity profile] moogle62.livejournal.com 2009-01-05 07:05 pm (UTC)(link)
IF I WRITE PEYTON/HAYLEY I AM BLAMING YOU SO ENTIRELY IT CANNOT TRULY BE MY FAULT IN ANY WAY AT ALL. Just so we're clear. *headdesk*

[identity profile] moogle62.livejournal.com 2009-01-05 07:12 pm (UTC)(link)
I have nearly bought the dvds on several occasions but MASTERFULLY REFRAINED. However, if there is a delivery to my house from Play, you know, it would be churlish to send them back. Which seasons may or may not turn up in your letterbox?

WHY AM I WRITING THIS FIC. I HAVE WORK TO DO.

[identity profile] bubl.livejournal.com 2009-01-05 08:25 pm (UTC)(link)
I too was swayed by it's sparkly addictive qualities.

I was hoping for the Lucas/Nathan at first too, but then I got all wrapped up in the canon relationships and forgot about the potential gay incest. What has become of me?

I still find Chad Michael Murray hilarious for no good reason.
I think this is a common side effect of Chaddiction. Don't worry, I'm pretty sure we all feel this way.

Hehehe Leyton and Snucas :)

OMG can we horrify Tree together? I love Lucas/Peyton!

[identity profile] amy-wolf.livejournal.com 2009-01-05 08:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Spunky pregnant hooker man?

[identity profile] bubbles-san.livejournal.com 2009-01-05 08:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Exactly!

[identity profile] amy-wolf.livejournal.com 2009-01-05 08:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Spunky pregnant hooker man, or sparkly pregnant vampire spunky hooker man?

[identity profile] bubbles-san.livejournal.com 2009-01-05 08:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Ok, now I'm just confused. How can he be a vampire *and* spunky?

(I think that he gets pregnant accidentally, then has to turn to prostitution in order to support the child because 'woes, the father wants nothing to do with him!')

[identity profile] amy-wolf.livejournal.com 2009-01-05 08:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Vampires can be spunky! Did you ever see Harmony on Buffy the Vampire Slayer? She was one spunky vampire!

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