I Got A Really Good Heart, I Just Can't Catch A Break

[leobrat]

Right, because writing up a post at 4:45 am on a Sunday is normal...

So, I am rolling along in my One Tree Hill series rewatch, and kids, this is a friggin' commitment. (And there's a thousand other, newer, cooler things I should be watching and in general other things I should just be *doing*, but fuck it, it's winter.) Nine seasons, and now I'

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[honeymink]

I think I made it through the first season and a half so I'm not particularly competent to comment - in general I'm wondering how much freedom you have as a showrunner doing your dreamjob. You must keep an audience, otherwise there won't be advertisement and your show will be cancelled. So oftentimes it feels on some shows that things are repetitive, suddenly trageted at people who you don't think you're a part of etc. ... as I said more of a general observation.

[leobrat]

Oh for sure, it's a business and showrunners have to meet their bottom line (i.e. viewers), and I definitely think that different people take different approaches to balancing their stories.

[honeymink]

I think it also very much depends on who you're going to trust with this "vision", this framework of a story and these characters you created as in - how many people are on your writing staff and how much freedom do you give them. Again, no clue how that went down in the case of OTH, just a thought... oh, I'm so bloody random these days.

[empressearwig]

See, I agree that Leyton was Mark's OTP. To deny otherwise is to deny reality, you know?

And yet, I really feel like the show had shifted. He might have still wanted them, but the show was committed to Brooke/Lucas and then Chad happened and he saw his chance to reunite his OTP and he just did a terrible job of it. I don't know why he thought the least appealing versions of themselves was the version of Lucas and Peyton that would make the audience love them, but he did and there it was and ugh.

Someone made a video on youtube, about the "who do you want beside you when all your dreams come true line" that Brooke asks Lucas in season four and if you look at the actual content of the show? It was always Brooke that was there.

I do not think I have ever been more bitter about the way a shipwar turned out when I LOVED the alternative that my favorite character got instead. Which does say something about the world Mark created, so I'll give him credit for that. Nothing else, though.

[leobrat]

Your icon. I'm so madly in love with Chris Keller all over again right now, and I had never seen the Honey Grove episode before, so I was immensely delighted by that.

I feel like Mark's way of trying to 'win' people over to 'Team Leyton' was through Psycho Derek, and Ellie and kind of being like, "See how bad poor Peyton's life without Lucas in it is? She really needs him." It' not a logic that *I* follow but that's how I felt watching everything in one whack this time around.