One Month Late, But Nice Anyway

Though it was over a month ago, I can't help thinking about the array of season finales that I saw this year. Nearly all of them ended cheerfully.

One Tree Hill's season was rumored to end with Peyton pulling a Padme and dying during childbirth. OTH surprised viewers with not only Peyton living, but the baby living, and Peyton, Lucas and baby girl, Sawyer Brooke, driving away into the distance in their newly fixed up Comet. Now I, for one, am overjoyed that the new bride will live to see another day. Also, that Brooke finally opened up her heart and let Julian in by showing up on the set of his movie and proclaiming her love. Chase told Mia he would wait for her and Nathan made the NBA and Haley really didn't have much of a story line to resolve at that point in time. So, all's good!

The main delirious thing about Gossip Girl's finale that had me squealing with delight was Chuck and Blair getting together, FINALLY! It was an epic afternoon that Blair was walking home to find chuck leaning against his limo, outside her apartment. With him he had many gifts including chocolate truffles and foreign pantyhose. After an entire season of waiting, Chuck told Blair "I love you."
The two kissed and Blair said, "Say it two times," Chuck kissed her again. "Seriously."
Chuck said, "I love you."
He kissed her again.
"I love you."
Kiss.
"I love you."
Kiss .
"I love you."
Kiss. And so on.

The fifth season of The Office ended with a volleyball game in which Pam was a star. Unfortunatley, Pam sprains her ankle and Corporate demands Jim take her to the hospitol. At the hospitol, the doctor tell Pam she's pregnant. There is a heartfelt embrace shared between Jim and Pam, that brought the biggest smile to my face, you couldn't imagine. Then I thought, Oh, wait a minute, they're not married yet....WHATEVER! YAY!

Unfortunatley, Grey's Anatomy was not all that cheerful. The possibility that either George or Izzie dies is depressing to say the least. Clearly though, if you live in the real world, you know that T.R. Knight will be leaving the show (for reasons unclear to anyone) and Kathrine Heigl will not. But in all honesty, being run over by a bus and turned into a blob is really not something you can come back from. Bummer.

One Tree Hill Season Premiere

OTH season 6! The first episode was nail-biting. It began with a dream sequence of Lucas's. His imagining what life would be like married to each Brooke, Peyton and Lindsay. He awoke, and we find out that it was Peyton he called asking for her hand in marriage! She accepted and together, they flew to Vegas. They stayed in a hotel room with a mirror on the ceiling and decided that a wedding with Elvis as their witness was just not right. In closing, they returned to the place that Lucas proposed the first time, four years ago. This happy couple had a sweet storyline.

Last season's finale ended in Dan dramatically being hit by a car. But now who was it that picked his unstable body up off the street and put him in a hospital bed? None other than Nanny Carrie! After he was stabilized, she stole him from the hospital and drove him to an unidentified house. She commenced in torturing him over and over. I think myself and other viewers, for once, felt sympathetic toward Dan. Every time there was a scene with the two of them, I cringed and wanted to hide under a blanket like a 6-year old.

Millicent decided to move with Mouth in order to be together. Brooke gave her blessing and everything. At the end of the episode, when Brooke was closing up the store, somebody in a dark mask broke in and completely tackled Broke and beat her. It was intense, frightening and a bit shocking considering Brooke never gets hurt. Unlike every other character on the show, they have all been hospitalized.

The icing on the cake was Q teaching Jamie some hip-hop moves! Then, Jamie teaching the dance to Haley!

It's Not What It Seems

The shows like One Tree Hill and The O.C. are entertaining for sure. But once in a while you have to ask yourself, why is lucas scott playing ball at the river court rather in a calculus class at Tree Hill high? Why is Seth Cohen playing Halo instead of learning how to conjugate spanish verbs? The answer is yet to be found.

The characters in Friends spend their days drinking coffee, hanging out, and (50% of them) shoe shopping. Shouldn't Ross be discovering dinosaur species, Joey acting, Monica cooking, Chandler doing whatever he does, and Phoeboe messaging strangers?-Which, by the way, couldnt possibly pay enough for her to live the life she does. Rachel is at work so little that I dont even know what she does. something at Bloomingdales/ Ralph Lauren, of course. But what?

In Will & Grace, Will is supposed to be a fairly successful lawyer. But the funny thing is, he rarley works. When he does, he seems to only have one client at a time. For example, Harlin Polk, the southern-talking, loud, bazillionare. Or, Stuart Lamarack, another bazillionare who became Jack's "long term" boyfriend. At the time will was handling these clients, he wasn't working for anyone else. If we took this further, we could say that will didnt have any other clients that we were aware of. Very unrealistic.

Television can be decieving. It more likley is than isn't. There always is a desire we have when watching a juicy episode of Gossip Girl, that life might actually be that way. That perhaps we can go have breakfast at Lukes Diner before school and not be terribly late. I would like a little less false hope from the television producers and a little more realism. Now, I'm definatley not talking about reality TV (because the last thing we need is more of that.) But come on, Lucas should put the basketball down and take out a peice of paper and pencil and do what a normal person does on a weekday.

One Tree Hill Bloopers (Very Funny)

Although I am a huge One Tree Hill fan, I thought this was hilarious! Mark Schwan isnt perfect.