Hilarie Burton is ideally cast as Peyton Sawyer on OTH. Physically and intellectually, she is the kind of female men "dream" about as the "ideal girl friend". The characteristics which must be most difficult for Hilarie to play as Peyton are...
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Hilarie Burton is ideally cast as Peyton Sawyer on OTH. Physically and intellectually, she is the kind of female men "dream" about as the "ideal girl friend". The characteristics which must be most difficult for Hilarie to play as Peyton are "loner" and "full of self-doubt". In S5, Peyton is the only one of her peers in her OTH "clique" who has not "made it" in business, or completed her higher education. That is the "key" to why Peyton told Lucas "not now", when he proposed marriage to her at age 19 in LA. Peyton wants to achieve the "self-actualization" need of making it in the music business on her own, and on her own terms, without compromising her principles or her moral character. Peyton's move back to Tree Hill was, primarily, to rekindle her relationship with Lucas as revealed in S5-07. She is Lucas' "soul mate". Even though Lucas doesn't realize it yet, Peyton is the "key" to his "success" as an author, his "muse", as well as the "subject" of his novel. Peyton is the one person about whom Lucas can write "passionately", because she is the one person he has "admired from afar" since he was in elementary school. Peyton, having lost "two mothers" to death, and having been raised S1-S4 by an "absentee, but loving, father", comes by her "loner" status "naturally". She is "self-sacrificing" in her relationships because she feels "self-doubt", and never received the "praise" that her HS accomplishments should have brought. Peyton is a "consumer" music expert, a talented artist, a published cartoonist, computer literate, and a "bottom-up", "self-taught","school of hard knocks" graduate. Peyton has finally realized that Lucas is the "love of her life", and she is willing to risk everything now in S5 to convince Lucas of that fact. Hopefully, OTH is one of those TV series which basically wants to show the audience that "positive actions", and "clean living" leads to "happy outcomes". Peyton and Lucas are like the "opposite poles of a two magnets", every time they are brought into close proximity, they are uncontrollably attracted and "drawn" to each other. Hopefully, the OTH TV series will realize there are as many "happy" Peyton-Lucas story lines, as there are "road block" episodes, which their viewing audience would watch. Comments?