One Tree Hill: The Slippery Slope Continues 17

Posted by: haro1d

OTH’s penultimate episode this season was a lulu. Here’s what went down before it all came up:

Dan Scott is second on the list for a new heart. Little Angie got hers fixed. Deb exposed herself online to a stranger … or maybe someone not so strange. Meanwhile, James found the card for Dan that his mommy threw in the trash and wandered off down the road before being happened upon by Haley. The breaks keep on coming for Mia: She’s doing a Starburst Something-or-Other Concert Tour. (And Rocking the Vote, man.) On a break from recording Haley’s album, Haley and Peyton dropped a water balloon on Dan, who apparently is thinking of killing again. Mouth got his big chance to cover the Ravens’ big game — and they were up at the half until a call from Lindsey brought out the worst in Lucas and he nearly blew the second half. In the end, the Ravens won the game, but Lucas lost Lindsey to another. Oh, and he also assaulted a player from the opposing team. (Mouth has the story, film at 10 — or he would if he hadn’t destroyed the tape in a moment of an absolute lapse of journalistic integrity.) In the end, Lucas turned up the “jerk” dial full blast and told Peyton, to her face, that he hated her.

But enough of all that. The biggest hilarity and the one thing OTH folks will be talking and writing about? Skills and Nathan’s mom! Hallelujah!
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That’s right — the sweet guy to whom Deb exposed herself online was none other than that randy roommate of Mouth’s, Skills. Was it an awkward moment? Of course. Supremely uncomfortably? How could it not be? Surely common sense and decorum would triumph over a momentary rush of hormones? Maybe in real life, but in the hyper-libidinous world of OTH, ill-advised sex will win out every time.

I hate to admit it, but of all the actors on OTH, perhaps the only one who’s impressed me at all is Jackson Brundage, the 7-year-old who’s playing little James. He’s got a ways to go, of course, but for 7, he’s doing a heck of a job. What does this have to do with the over-sexed cast of OTH? I’m just curious at how the show’s creators will have little James react when he begins to get a clue that “uncle” Skills and grandma had a relationship that might not have been wholly appropriate.

But, as a guy I once knew once said, one man’s inappropriate is another man’s Saturday night, so my guess is, James will take it in stride.

Dan Scott may have a different reaction. Will he add Skills to his possibly-growing hit list? We’ll see in the OTH season finale next week. The finales are usually filled with the worst plot turns in the series, and this year’s should be anything but an exception.