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    One Tree Hill featured the most underrated time jump on television

    Eira Gwyneth Posted on

    The next chapter of OneTreeHill begins in the season 5 premiere and is set “4 Years, 6 Months, 2 Days,” which is also the name of the episode after we last see the group of friends. As the episode synopsis states in part, “In many ways, the journey is just beginning.”

    Haley and Nathan’s son, Jamie (Jackson Brundage), is now four, and his first scene sees him playing basketball with a hoop given to him by his Uncle Lucas. But fans will quickly realize that something is very wrong with Nathan. Not only does he not want his son to play, but he’s in a very different place than when we last saw him. It turns out that four months have passed since a life-changing battle that left him in a wheelchair and cost him his dreams after he was selected 10th in the NBA draft to the Seattle SuperSonics.

    Of course, the loss of everything he’s worked so hard for is devastating and a way to redefine his character in many ways. Instead of Haley being the one to change him for the better, this time the development is all thanks to Jamie. After throwing Jamie’s hoop, which he only uses because he wants to be like his father, Nathan realizes how far he’s pushed his family away. He then takes his first steps out of the wheelchair toward his son and apologizes before hugging him.

    Lucas is trying to write his second novel and has a job as head coach of the Tree Hill Ravens with Skills (Antwon Tanner) as his new assistant head coach. Unfortunately, we soon find out that something has happened between him and Peyton, who just quit her job at a music label. Meanwhile, Brooke (Sophia Bush) is successfully running Clothes Over Bros and a call from Peyton sums it all up perfectly: they no longer know who they are or how they got there. This leads to both of them returning to Tree Hill to be with the people they love.

    All of this set-up in just one episode gives fans plenty of exciting storylines to look forward to for the rest of the season. The reason the individual character storylines work so well is because each of them has their own journey, and not everyone comes back because of one thing, like a death or a secret. Instead, they have to rediscover who they were and what Tree Hill meant to them individually and as a group. Even though they are all at a new point in their lives, they long for a sense of belonging that only Tree Hill can give them.

    This makes the time jump impact not only the characters, but also the audience, who also long for a sense of security and belonging. Of course, not all of the main characters could go to the same college or follow the same path in life, so bringing them all back together after four and a half years was the perfect way to bring us into adulthood without missing anything or forcing fans through another four years of school drama. An important element of this time jump was that all of the main cast returned. This is notable because the series later contains two more time jumps, and one of them suffers from the loss of Murray and Burton as main cast members.

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