Sophia Bush is generally over the moon with how her beloved teen drama collection One Tree Hill wrapped up its ultimate season — apart from one factor.

"I might have preferred to haven’t perhaps had one other run-in with Xavier, like, for why? For what?" Bush stated on the final episode of Drama Queens, the present's rewatch podcast hosted by Bush and fellow alums Bethany Pleasure Lenz, Robert Buckley, and Hilarie Burton.

Followers of the coming-of-age present, which ran for 9 seasons, first on The WB after which on The CW, will recall that Xavier Daniels (Devin McGee) was a prison, who brutally attacked Brooke (Bush) and murdered Quentin Fields (Robbie Jones) in season 6. In season 9, Xavier returned when he was launched on parole, and instantly proceeded to search out and harass Brooke.

Although she wasn't thrilled with this specific storyline, Bush says total she "was so pleased with our final episode."

She continued, "It actually did really feel kinda like a gift. You realize? You hear folks say in a destructive method about TV generally, like, 'Yeah, on the finish of each episode, they wrap it up in a bow. Like, that's not actual life,' however I really suppose our present deserved an episode the place we wrapped it up in a bow and made it stunning."

In the end, whereas she admitted she wished among the "[jump the] shark writing in shock season 9 hadn't been so sharky," she feels "actually good about the place it went."

Bush defined, "I preferred seeing everybody in a rhythm and joyful and doing the issues our characters had performed after we had been in highschool. There's actually one thing to that, to the form of cyclical nature of a life, and I assumed it was kind of nice."

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Lenz, who performed Haley Scott, agreed, saying that she felt the ending was proper for all the pieces the characters had been by means of: "To only be capable to be related and have these moments of joyful endings — as a result of there is no such thing as a joyful ending in life, moments finish and new ones begin, after which these finish and new ones begin, and a few are joyful and a few usually are not — however for all of us to have a second collectively that may be a joyful ending of that season of life, felt like there's nonetheless house for a lot extra possible is continuous on of their lives. And it felt prefer it was performed very well to me."

Buckley, who starred as Clay Evans, added, "It did really feel like extra of a 'see you quickly' than a 'goodbye.' I really feel like what it did very efficiently is it was a great episode of tv whereas additionally being a terrific thanks to the followers. As a result of we've all come to like these characters, and on this case, it was like, now we're gonna allow you to see that they're gonna get the life that you simply hoped they had been gonna get."

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The ultimate podcast episode additionally included particular company Austin Nichols, Jana Kramer, and Tyler Hilton, who joined the celebration to reminisce about filming the present’s ending, share their favourite reminiscences, and lift a farewell toast to the followers who made all of it potential.

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