Sep

One Tree Hill S7E1 - 4:30 AM (Apparently They Were Traveling Abroad) - Recap

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The season premiere of One Tree Hill was, well, interesting to say the least. If you have been living under a rock for the last several months and don’t know two of the main characters, being Lucas and Peyton, are not coming back for the 7th Season of One Tree Hill. In the premiere we got to see three of the four new characters that were added this season. Also like Season 5 did Mark Schwahn set up the premiere with another time jump, a year.

One of the new characters is Clayton or Clay played by Robert Buckley. After seeing the premiere I would say that Robert will be fitting in very nicely with the rest of the cast. Clay is Nathan’s sports agent who has become very close to Nathan’s family. We find that Clay, against Nathan’s better judgment, has gotten him to be in a body spray commercial. Clay goes to Jamie’s 7th birthday party and surprises him with a Jerry Rice jersey and Jerry Rice to sign it in person. After the party Clay goes home to an empty apartment and this is where we find that he has a secret. After Clay sleeps with what seems like a random girl he goes out to the balcony and talks into a recorder reminding him self to set up some meetings and then that on September 14th to send flowers. We don’t find out in the episode what happened on that date so that should be interesting since he looked sad when he said it.

When we first see Hayley she is in the recording studio working on a new song. We then get to see the new Scott residence that is very big and elaborate with a lot of spare bedrooms. She decorates the outside for Jamie’s party and is very happy about the fact that she did it without using any ’scary’ clowns. During Jamie’s party she shows Quinn, her sister, around the house and shows her to one of the spare bedrooms because she was going to stay for a little bit. But, the room that she opens has Brooke and Julian making out. After the party she gets a call from the studio which she found weird since she wasn’t there. When she goes and meets Miranda Stone, played by India de Beaufort, who Hayley believed had come to run the studio but found out that Miranda came to shut it down.

Nathan only had a handful of lines in the premiere. We see him on the court practicing and in the commercial that he was unhappy about being in. During the party a woman comes up to him asking for a picture with him. She then says to him ‘You don’t remember me, do you?’ but Nathan doesn’t get to respond because Jamie comes up after Jerry Rice signs his jersey and the woman disappears. After the party he finds Jamie in his room who asks Nathan about his 7th birthday and Nathans says that he didn’t have a good one because of Dan. Jamie asks if he forgave him and he says he isn’t really sure if he did. Jamie tells him that he thinks he can. At the end of the episode Nathan goes to meet Clay who shows him the picture on his phone that Nathan had taken with the woman and informs him that she is claiming that the two had slept together and she was going to go public. Because that was done at the end of the episode we don’t get to know his reaction to the news other than shock.

Millie got to have a flashback to the Season 5 premiere to when she was walking behind Brooke and feverishly taking notes while Brooke talked. This time though she was in Brooke’s position with an assistant following her. Her moment came when the assistant said ‘Victoria isn’t going to like that.’ And she responds ‘Too bad she works for me.’ Of course, Millie being Millie backtracks and says ‘don’t tell her I said that’.

Mouth is trying to get Skillz to move out because he wants to take things further with Millie. He does this by walking around the apartment naked. Skillz responds to that in two ways. First telling him that it isn’t going to work, he doesn’t have to money to move out since he is trying to get his business started. Second, he comes out naked to make Mouth uncomfortable. While the two are still unclothed Mouth explains that he wants to take things further with Millie but that he does love him. Millie walks in from getting back from New York to see them both naked and telling each other that they love the other. She doesn’t really know what to say other than she guesses the saying is true as she turns around and walks back out.

Brooke spent most of the episode on the beach with Julian who right now are still together. In the beginning of the episode Brooke and Julian are on the beach talking about how they can finally be together once he’s done with his project so he can come back to Tree Hill. Julian asks Brooke why she has to stay in Tree Hill since Peyton is no longer there, she says that it is home before they get out of the limo for a red carpet event. Later back on the beach Julian tells Brooke he has been offered another job to produce a movie in New Zealand that would be for eight months. He says it doesn’t have to take it but she tells him to take it and then it pans down to the sand where it says ‘Marry Me’. When it shows Brooke at Jamie’s party is without Julian but he later shows up to surprise her and Jamie. After the party Brooke and Julian are at the waterfront talking about how things were in the beginning; talking every night, her heart racing with each text and each phone call. Julian assures her that it is still like that for him. They then go skinny dipping. Julian tells Brooke that he isn’t going to produce the movie because he thinks it wasn’t an important movie and because he didn’t want to leave her. Brooke tells Julian that she is afraid that things will change and Julian tells her that he won’t let it.

The last of the new characters is Quinn, Hayley’s sister, played by Shantel VanSanten. We find that she is a photographer. You know something is up when Hayley asks her how long she is staying and she hesitantly says a few days. Later she admits to Hayley that she left her husband because he wasn’t the man that she married and she didn’t commit to being with a stranger.

We only got to see Dan at the beginning and at the end of the episode, which was fine with me, who did the opening and closing voice over that usually in seasons past had been done by Lucas. He is talking about how time had past and that his time should have been up about fourteen months ago. He talks about forgiveness and how we can fool ourselves in order to ease our own pain. At the end of the episode it pans out from him so you can see that he has his own show called Redemption.

It will be interesting to see how the season goes because I think a lot of fans are split after the loose of Lucas and Peyton. Some are happy that the show is back while others think that it should have ended last season. In my opinion the show has had better premieres than this one was but I know with new characters they had to show them and introduce their storylines. But because I have been a fan of the show from day one and even though it was my two favorite characters that are now gone I will continue to watch to see what Mark does with the new season and new characters.