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An Article in the October issue of Portrait Magazine
As One Tree Hill goes into its sixth season, our favourite characters have come such a long way since its humble beginnings. In a multi-part special, spread over upcoming issues, Portrait takes a look at how our favourite characters have evolved over these past six seasons, reminiscing at innocent teenage and marvelling at the adults they have now become. This month we look at the Scott brothers - Lucas and Nathan.
When the show began in season one, the Tree Hill gang were in their junior year of high school. Season two saw the characters develop over the second half of junior year. While the third season saw our favourite teens finally reach senior year, with season four a dramatic continuation of that year. Season five saw One Tree Hill set a precedence that no other teen drama had done before – skip the college years and jump forward to four years later where the characters were now mature adults out of school with jobs, setting the scene for season six. So let’s look at each individual core character and see how far they’ve come...
Lost Soul to Mentor – Lucas Scott
In some ways Lucas has changed over the past six seasons but still managed to remain the same. He’s still the wise literature loving young man with integrity that he was when we first met him in season one. Lucas’s passion for basketball has also remained a constant fixture in his life, it’s just the way he’s played it that has changed. When One Tree Hill first started, Lucas was content with playing amateur basketball with his friends at the Rivercourt. When Tree Hill Ravens coach Whitey Durham, invited him to join the team, Lucas realised how great his talent for the game was. After initial mishaps with the team, courtesy of his estranged half brother Nathan, Lucas settled into the team quite nicely. In season three, the start of senior year, Lucas was made co-captain of the Ravens alongside brother Nathan. Season four saw the Ravens win the State Championship. Sadly this would be the last time Lucas would play proper basketball with a team due his heart condition.
However, at the end of senior year and season four, we learnt that retiring Ravens coach had invited Lucas to be his assistant coach at his new job at a local university. This opportunity set the scene for season five, where in the flash forward we saw that Lucas had returned to his former stomping grounds and was now back at Tree Hill High as coach of the Ravens. Lucas’s retirement from playing the game also allowed Lucas to return to his other passion – literature and writing. As well as coaching the Ravens, Lucas is also the best selling author of the novel An Unkindness of Ravens, and in season five we saw him struggle to write his next novel. We also saw him become an uncle to Nathan and Haley’s son Jamie, stepping in as the surrogate father in Jamie’s life, much like how Lucas’s own uncle Keith had throughout Lucas’s life, until Keith’s death in season three.
Perhaps, really what’s changed is Lucas’s love life over the years and the dramas that it’s brought with it. The show began with Lucas haboring a crush on Peyton Sawyer who at the time was dating Nathan. Although Peyton and Nathan soon broke up, Peyton was too conflicted to be with Lucas and soon he turned his attentions on Peyton’s best friend Brooke Davis. Lucas and Brooke then began dating, but then Peyton realised what she had lost with Lucas and soon Lucas and Peyton were sneaking around Brooke’s back. Brooke soon found and was understandably hurt and betrayed and wanted nothing to do with the cheating pair. Realising what a mistake she had made in betraying Brooke and their longtime friendship over a boy, Peyton broke things off with Lucas. Lucas then had a one night stand with Ravens teammate Jake Jagelski’s ex, the vindictive Nikki. At the season one’s end, realising what a big mess he had made, Lucas decided to leave town with his Uncle Keith.
But season two saw Lucas return back to Tree Hill after his estranged father, Dan Scott suffered a heart attack. Lucas soon began dating newcomer Anna, but then dumped her after realising that he was still in love with his ex...Brooke. The latter half of season two saw Lucas pining for Brooke while they built a tentative friendship. At season two’s end, Lucas confessed his love and regret for Brooke just as she was leaving town for the Summer. When season three opened, Lucas and Brooke were having a casual relationship, with Lucas doing his best to prove that he and Brooke should go steady. Despite mistakes and new girl Rachel Gattina, flirting with Lucas, the pair reunited mid season three and were happy together until season three’s end. Carrying over the dramas from the last two episodes of season three, Brooke broke up with Lucas at the start of season four, feeling that he didn’t love her the way she loved him. It was long before Lucas realised that Peyton was his true love and they then reunited and were happy for the rest of the season.
However, when we flashed forward to season five, four years later, viewers discovered that Lucas and Peyton were no longer together, namely because of Peyton rejecting Lucas’s proposal three years earlier on. Instead Lucas was now in a serious relationship with his book editor, Lindsay Strauss. When Peyton returned back to Tree Hill, Lucas’s old feelings for her re-emerged, but that didn’t stop him from proposing to Lindsay. But true love always wins out, and Lindsay left Lucas at the altar when she realised that her fiancé was still in love with his ex. But it wasn’t happily ever after for true love always, Lucas pined over Lindsay and went on a downward spiral. He did manage to clean up his act by the season five finale, which ended with Lucas at the airport on the phone asking a mystery female to meet him so that they could go to Las Vegas and get married. The question was, who was he asking – Lindsay, Peyton, or Brooke , who he had just begun to reconnect with again.
True love always wins out and at the start of season six, we learnt that the lucky lady of Lucas’s affections was Peyton, finally providing some true happiness in both of their dramatic lives. Although they opted not go get married in Vegas, the pair are happily engaged and living together, looking forward to planning their wedding.
thingyy Sports Star to Devoted Husband and Dad – Nathan Scott
Let’s face it, when we met Nathan Scott, he was a complete and utter jerk. A spoilt wealthy jock that was used to getting what he wants, with no regard for others. Most of the time, he even treated his then girlfriend Peyton Sawyer, badly as well. When a prank that Nathan and his friends pulled backfired (he and some fellow teammates stole a school bus and drove it around town and got caught), half the team were suspended from the team and Nathan’s estranged half brother Lucas, joined the team. Immediately threatened, Nathan started hazing Lucas in an effort to get him to quit the team. When it appeared that Lucas was now the team’s star player wouldn’t be manipulated so easily, Nathan began to form another plan – turning his attentions to Lucas’s best friend the sweet and dorky Haley James, knowing that it would infuriate Lucas. Under the pretense that he desperately needed tutoring because he was failing his classes and if he continued to fail, he’d be kicked off the team, Nathan approached Haley, the school’s star tutor, and set his plan in motion. Although it started off as revenge, Nathan soon found himself falling for the sweet and quirky girl, and in between his jerk behaviour kissed her.
As season one progressed although Nathan became a better person because of Haley, there were times that he reverted back to his former jerk self. However, viewers began to understand Nathan a bit more, and realised that Nathan’s terrible behaviour was more to do with his upbringing and nasty father Dan Scott’s attitudes. Eventually Nathan emancipated himself from his parents and moved out of home into his own apartment. At season one’s end, Nathan had formed a positive relationship with Brother Lucas, and had also learnt the important lesson that winning and basketball wasn’t everything in life, when the Ravens lost in the playoffs to the State Championship.
He also surprised everyone when it was revealed that Nathan and Haley had eloped and were now married. With basketball season over for the year, season two – a continuation of junior year – saw Nathan adjusting to married life. Everyone had their doubts and his own mother disapproved, but Nathan was determined to prove the critics wrong and show that he and Haley were for real, always and forever. But always and forever isn’t a fairytale, but hard work. Nathan and Haley went through a rough patch when musician Chris Keller came into town, distracting Haley, and then Haley’s troublemaking sister Taylor, whom Nathan shared a past with, also came to town.
The problem with young love is that people change and evolve, and mid season two, we saw Haley leave town to go on tour and pursue her music dream, leaving her and Nathan’s marriage on shaky ground. With Haley gone, and Nathan full of regret for the way things were left, Nathan began to revert to his old ways - if not worse - going on a downward spiral. It was only after a near fatal car accident, that Nathan realised wallowing was doing him no good, and he became inspired to get his life on track, namely focusing on basketball. At the end of season two, he was accepted into the prestigious “High Flyers” basketball camp, opting to go, until Haley showed up on his doorstep in the closing moments of season two.
At season three’s start, we learnt that Nathan had gone to High Flyers over the summer and that Haley was back home for good, determined to fix things between her and Nathan. Although still in love with Haley, Nathan was wary, the hurt from her departure still fresh. The first half of season three was about Nathan learning to trust Haley again and slowly let her back into his life. It was Nathan’s uncle Keith’s death, in mid season three that triggered Nathan to realise that life is short and he loved Haley so nothing else really matters. He soon proposed again and the pair were remarried in front of friends and family this time.
In a dramatic twist of events, on the way to the airport to go on their honeymoon to rainy London, Nathan and Haley witnessed the limo that Nathan’s Uncle Cooper, and resident troublemaker Rachel Gattina, were in, veer off a bridge and into the river below. Nathan jumped off the bridge in an effort to save them. When season four started, viewers were relieved to discover that Nathan had survived, but the accident had not gone without any effects on Nathan, who was now suffering from psychological trauma. The trauma soon went away and Nathan was able to continue with life, and was ecstatic to discover that he had been accepted into his dream college – Duke University.
But timing is a funny thing, with Haley announcing that she was pregnant moments after Nathan received the joyous news about Duke. Nathan’s initial reaction was not the one that Haley had hoped for, but after a reality check, Nathan soon embraced the news. Now looking at a future including fatherhood, Nathan began to have money woes. When his own father refused to help him, Nathan ended up dealing with the nefarious Dante – a choice he would come to regret. Dante soon began blackmailing Nathan, urging him to mess up plays and throw games so that Dante could make money off it by making bets. When Dante wanted Nathan to throw the State Championship Game, Nathan realised enough was enough and defied Dante by winning the State Championship. But Dante got his revenge, attempting to hit Nathan with his car, but instead running over Haley, badly injuring her and endangering their unborn child.
Haley and the baby were eventually given the all clear and a guilty Nathan confessed to Haley his troubles with Dante. She eventually forgave and it then seemed like all was bright and rosy for the two. Then an old sex tape of Brooke and Nathan emerged at a celebratory party. At the time of the tape Nathan had been dating Peyton, and thus it was revealed that Nathan had cheated on his then girlfriend. Nathan and Haley overcame this revelation, but then the revelation that Nathan had been throwing games and point shaving had emerged. His hero status was taken away, as was his Duke scholarship, leaving him with an uncertain future. Fortunately, the always reliable Whitey Durham, offered Nathan a place at the small but local university that he would be coaching at the following year. Nathan accepted and at the end of season four, his life got even brighter when Haley gave birth to their son – James Lucas Scott.
A lot can happen in four years, and when One Tree Hill returned for a fifth season, viewers were shocked to see a scruffy, long haired bitter Nathan confined in a wheel chair. What began as a celebratory night out on the town toasting to Nathan’s booming basketball career, ended in tragedy when Nathan got into a bar fight while attempting his wife’s honour, and was thrown through a glass window. A piece of glass got stuck in Nathan’s spine, leaving him paralysed. With his basketball career over and unable to walk, Nathan became bitter and angry, lashing out at those around him including Haley, Jamie, and Lucas, and turned to the bottle to cope.
Soon Nathan realised that he was setting a poor example for his son and began to clean his act (and hair up). He also started attending physical therapy and was soon able to walk again. Although, unable to play basketball like he used to, Nathan soon started helping Lucas and Skillz coach the Ravens, bonding with star player Quentin Fields, and used the opportunity to help regain his former basketball skills.
Nathan also reconnected with his wife, but this was soon shattered when the Nanny, Carrie, began making moves on Nathan and the pair were caught in a compromising position together by Haley, ending with Carrie fired and Haley kicking Nathan out of the house. Nathan tried his best to plead for his wife’s forgiveness, but when Jamie nearly drowned in the family pool while his parents were arguing inside, a distraught Haley claimed that she wanted a divorce. Her threat didn’t stick, when Jamie was kidnapped by his crazed former nanny, bringing Nathan and Haley together again. Once Jamie was returned home safely, Haley and Nathan began to work on their marriage and underwent counselling. At season five’s end, Nathan and Haley were in a good place and Nathan was content with his life. His mother, Deb, was also back in his life (clean and sober after battling a drug addiction during One Tree Hill’s earlier seasons), living with the Scott family as Jamie’s new nanny.
So far into season six, Nathan is in a good place. Although he is struggling with Quentin’s death and has realised he’ll never be able to play basketball the way he used to during his glory years, Nathan realises as long as he is a good father and husband, that’s enough for him for the moment.
Tune into next month’s issue of Portrait for the next installment of ‘Look at them now!’ where we take a look at the women of One Tree Hill. Also watch out for our interview with the adorable Jackson Brundage (Jamie Lucas Scott).
Source: Portrait Magazine
"One Tree Hill": Look at them Now!
As One Tree Hill goes into its sixth season, our favourite characters have come such a long way since its humble beginnings. In a multi-part special, spread over upcoming issues, Portrait takes a look at how our favourite characters have evolved over these past six seasons, reminiscing at innocent teenage and marvelling at the adults they have now become. This month we look at the Scott brothers - Lucas and Nathan.
When the show began in season one, the Tree Hill gang were in their junior year of high school. Season two saw the characters develop over the second half of junior year. While the third season saw our favourite teens finally reach senior year, with season four a dramatic continuation of that year. Season five saw One Tree Hill set a precedence that no other teen drama had done before – skip the college years and jump forward to four years later where the characters were now mature adults out of school with jobs, setting the scene for season six. So let’s look at each individual core character and see how far they’ve come...
Lost Soul to Mentor – Lucas Scott
In some ways Lucas has changed over the past six seasons but still managed to remain the same. He’s still the wise literature loving young man with integrity that he was when we first met him in season one. Lucas’s passion for basketball has also remained a constant fixture in his life, it’s just the way he’s played it that has changed. When One Tree Hill first started, Lucas was content with playing amateur basketball with his friends at the Rivercourt. When Tree Hill Ravens coach Whitey Durham, invited him to join the team, Lucas realised how great his talent for the game was. After initial mishaps with the team, courtesy of his estranged half brother Nathan, Lucas settled into the team quite nicely. In season three, the start of senior year, Lucas was made co-captain of the Ravens alongside brother Nathan. Season four saw the Ravens win the State Championship. Sadly this would be the last time Lucas would play proper basketball with a team due his heart condition.
However, at the end of senior year and season four, we learnt that retiring Ravens coach had invited Lucas to be his assistant coach at his new job at a local university. This opportunity set the scene for season five, where in the flash forward we saw that Lucas had returned to his former stomping grounds and was now back at Tree Hill High as coach of the Ravens. Lucas’s retirement from playing the game also allowed Lucas to return to his other passion – literature and writing. As well as coaching the Ravens, Lucas is also the best selling author of the novel An Unkindness of Ravens, and in season five we saw him struggle to write his next novel. We also saw him become an uncle to Nathan and Haley’s son Jamie, stepping in as the surrogate father in Jamie’s life, much like how Lucas’s own uncle Keith had throughout Lucas’s life, until Keith’s death in season three.
Perhaps, really what’s changed is Lucas’s love life over the years and the dramas that it’s brought with it. The show began with Lucas haboring a crush on Peyton Sawyer who at the time was dating Nathan. Although Peyton and Nathan soon broke up, Peyton was too conflicted to be with Lucas and soon he turned his attentions on Peyton’s best friend Brooke Davis. Lucas and Brooke then began dating, but then Peyton realised what she had lost with Lucas and soon Lucas and Peyton were sneaking around Brooke’s back. Brooke soon found and was understandably hurt and betrayed and wanted nothing to do with the cheating pair. Realising what a mistake she had made in betraying Brooke and their longtime friendship over a boy, Peyton broke things off with Lucas. Lucas then had a one night stand with Ravens teammate Jake Jagelski’s ex, the vindictive Nikki. At the season one’s end, realising what a big mess he had made, Lucas decided to leave town with his Uncle Keith.
But season two saw Lucas return back to Tree Hill after his estranged father, Dan Scott suffered a heart attack. Lucas soon began dating newcomer Anna, but then dumped her after realising that he was still in love with his ex...Brooke. The latter half of season two saw Lucas pining for Brooke while they built a tentative friendship. At season two’s end, Lucas confessed his love and regret for Brooke just as she was leaving town for the Summer. When season three opened, Lucas and Brooke were having a casual relationship, with Lucas doing his best to prove that he and Brooke should go steady. Despite mistakes and new girl Rachel Gattina, flirting with Lucas, the pair reunited mid season three and were happy together until season three’s end. Carrying over the dramas from the last two episodes of season three, Brooke broke up with Lucas at the start of season four, feeling that he didn’t love her the way she loved him. It was long before Lucas realised that Peyton was his true love and they then reunited and were happy for the rest of the season.
However, when we flashed forward to season five, four years later, viewers discovered that Lucas and Peyton were no longer together, namely because of Peyton rejecting Lucas’s proposal three years earlier on. Instead Lucas was now in a serious relationship with his book editor, Lindsay Strauss. When Peyton returned back to Tree Hill, Lucas’s old feelings for her re-emerged, but that didn’t stop him from proposing to Lindsay. But true love always wins out, and Lindsay left Lucas at the altar when she realised that her fiancé was still in love with his ex. But it wasn’t happily ever after for true love always, Lucas pined over Lindsay and went on a downward spiral. He did manage to clean up his act by the season five finale, which ended with Lucas at the airport on the phone asking a mystery female to meet him so that they could go to Las Vegas and get married. The question was, who was he asking – Lindsay, Peyton, or Brooke , who he had just begun to reconnect with again.
True love always wins out and at the start of season six, we learnt that the lucky lady of Lucas’s affections was Peyton, finally providing some true happiness in both of their dramatic lives. Although they opted not go get married in Vegas, the pair are happily engaged and living together, looking forward to planning their wedding.
thingyy Sports Star to Devoted Husband and Dad – Nathan Scott
Let’s face it, when we met Nathan Scott, he was a complete and utter jerk. A spoilt wealthy jock that was used to getting what he wants, with no regard for others. Most of the time, he even treated his then girlfriend Peyton Sawyer, badly as well. When a prank that Nathan and his friends pulled backfired (he and some fellow teammates stole a school bus and drove it around town and got caught), half the team were suspended from the team and Nathan’s estranged half brother Lucas, joined the team. Immediately threatened, Nathan started hazing Lucas in an effort to get him to quit the team. When it appeared that Lucas was now the team’s star player wouldn’t be manipulated so easily, Nathan began to form another plan – turning his attentions to Lucas’s best friend the sweet and dorky Haley James, knowing that it would infuriate Lucas. Under the pretense that he desperately needed tutoring because he was failing his classes and if he continued to fail, he’d be kicked off the team, Nathan approached Haley, the school’s star tutor, and set his plan in motion. Although it started off as revenge, Nathan soon found himself falling for the sweet and quirky girl, and in between his jerk behaviour kissed her.
As season one progressed although Nathan became a better person because of Haley, there were times that he reverted back to his former jerk self. However, viewers began to understand Nathan a bit more, and realised that Nathan’s terrible behaviour was more to do with his upbringing and nasty father Dan Scott’s attitudes. Eventually Nathan emancipated himself from his parents and moved out of home into his own apartment. At season one’s end, Nathan had formed a positive relationship with Brother Lucas, and had also learnt the important lesson that winning and basketball wasn’t everything in life, when the Ravens lost in the playoffs to the State Championship.
He also surprised everyone when it was revealed that Nathan and Haley had eloped and were now married. With basketball season over for the year, season two – a continuation of junior year – saw Nathan adjusting to married life. Everyone had their doubts and his own mother disapproved, but Nathan was determined to prove the critics wrong and show that he and Haley were for real, always and forever. But always and forever isn’t a fairytale, but hard work. Nathan and Haley went through a rough patch when musician Chris Keller came into town, distracting Haley, and then Haley’s troublemaking sister Taylor, whom Nathan shared a past with, also came to town.
The problem with young love is that people change and evolve, and mid season two, we saw Haley leave town to go on tour and pursue her music dream, leaving her and Nathan’s marriage on shaky ground. With Haley gone, and Nathan full of regret for the way things were left, Nathan began to revert to his old ways - if not worse - going on a downward spiral. It was only after a near fatal car accident, that Nathan realised wallowing was doing him no good, and he became inspired to get his life on track, namely focusing on basketball. At the end of season two, he was accepted into the prestigious “High Flyers” basketball camp, opting to go, until Haley showed up on his doorstep in the closing moments of season two.
At season three’s start, we learnt that Nathan had gone to High Flyers over the summer and that Haley was back home for good, determined to fix things between her and Nathan. Although still in love with Haley, Nathan was wary, the hurt from her departure still fresh. The first half of season three was about Nathan learning to trust Haley again and slowly let her back into his life. It was Nathan’s uncle Keith’s death, in mid season three that triggered Nathan to realise that life is short and he loved Haley so nothing else really matters. He soon proposed again and the pair were remarried in front of friends and family this time.
In a dramatic twist of events, on the way to the airport to go on their honeymoon to rainy London, Nathan and Haley witnessed the limo that Nathan’s Uncle Cooper, and resident troublemaker Rachel Gattina, were in, veer off a bridge and into the river below. Nathan jumped off the bridge in an effort to save them. When season four started, viewers were relieved to discover that Nathan had survived, but the accident had not gone without any effects on Nathan, who was now suffering from psychological trauma. The trauma soon went away and Nathan was able to continue with life, and was ecstatic to discover that he had been accepted into his dream college – Duke University.
But timing is a funny thing, with Haley announcing that she was pregnant moments after Nathan received the joyous news about Duke. Nathan’s initial reaction was not the one that Haley had hoped for, but after a reality check, Nathan soon embraced the news. Now looking at a future including fatherhood, Nathan began to have money woes. When his own father refused to help him, Nathan ended up dealing with the nefarious Dante – a choice he would come to regret. Dante soon began blackmailing Nathan, urging him to mess up plays and throw games so that Dante could make money off it by making bets. When Dante wanted Nathan to throw the State Championship Game, Nathan realised enough was enough and defied Dante by winning the State Championship. But Dante got his revenge, attempting to hit Nathan with his car, but instead running over Haley, badly injuring her and endangering their unborn child.
Haley and the baby were eventually given the all clear and a guilty Nathan confessed to Haley his troubles with Dante. She eventually forgave and it then seemed like all was bright and rosy for the two. Then an old sex tape of Brooke and Nathan emerged at a celebratory party. At the time of the tape Nathan had been dating Peyton, and thus it was revealed that Nathan had cheated on his then girlfriend. Nathan and Haley overcame this revelation, but then the revelation that Nathan had been throwing games and point shaving had emerged. His hero status was taken away, as was his Duke scholarship, leaving him with an uncertain future. Fortunately, the always reliable Whitey Durham, offered Nathan a place at the small but local university that he would be coaching at the following year. Nathan accepted and at the end of season four, his life got even brighter when Haley gave birth to their son – James Lucas Scott.
A lot can happen in four years, and when One Tree Hill returned for a fifth season, viewers were shocked to see a scruffy, long haired bitter Nathan confined in a wheel chair. What began as a celebratory night out on the town toasting to Nathan’s booming basketball career, ended in tragedy when Nathan got into a bar fight while attempting his wife’s honour, and was thrown through a glass window. A piece of glass got stuck in Nathan’s spine, leaving him paralysed. With his basketball career over and unable to walk, Nathan became bitter and angry, lashing out at those around him including Haley, Jamie, and Lucas, and turned to the bottle to cope.
Soon Nathan realised that he was setting a poor example for his son and began to clean his act (and hair up). He also started attending physical therapy and was soon able to walk again. Although, unable to play basketball like he used to, Nathan soon started helping Lucas and Skillz coach the Ravens, bonding with star player Quentin Fields, and used the opportunity to help regain his former basketball skills.
Nathan also reconnected with his wife, but this was soon shattered when the Nanny, Carrie, began making moves on Nathan and the pair were caught in a compromising position together by Haley, ending with Carrie fired and Haley kicking Nathan out of the house. Nathan tried his best to plead for his wife’s forgiveness, but when Jamie nearly drowned in the family pool while his parents were arguing inside, a distraught Haley claimed that she wanted a divorce. Her threat didn’t stick, when Jamie was kidnapped by his crazed former nanny, bringing Nathan and Haley together again. Once Jamie was returned home safely, Haley and Nathan began to work on their marriage and underwent counselling. At season five’s end, Nathan and Haley were in a good place and Nathan was content with his life. His mother, Deb, was also back in his life (clean and sober after battling a drug addiction during One Tree Hill’s earlier seasons), living with the Scott family as Jamie’s new nanny.
So far into season six, Nathan is in a good place. Although he is struggling with Quentin’s death and has realised he’ll never be able to play basketball the way he used to during his glory years, Nathan realises as long as he is a good father and husband, that’s enough for him for the moment.
Tune into next month’s issue of Portrait for the next installment of ‘Look at them now!’ where we take a look at the women of One Tree Hill. Also watch out for our interview with the adorable Jackson Brundage (Jamie Lucas Scott).
Source: Portrait Magazine
