It's like they really gave James such simple things to say. And James showed up in exactly that. Incredibly supportive. This is not my moment to lead, it's my moment to hold, hold you up from behind kind of energy. -Sophia

Leave the camera on the actor and trust them to give you what you need. You don't have to do a lot of stuff with the cameras and a lot of fancy tricks that need to be done. Just trust. -Bethany

And we really got to soak in the Scott family, the James, James Scott family dynamic feeling that it, it almost felt like that the household, that it, well it did, it must have felt like the household that the sisters grew up in. So we all got to really feel that for the first half of the episode. And then Lydia drops this bomb about having cancer and having not much time left. And it was a really smart way of truncating years of experience that we haven't had as an audience because we've been living in Tree Hill with all these other characters to truncating all of that into a short amount of time so that we still really felt it hit home when, when the, she best made the Lydia makes this, this announcement, like the sorrow really, I, it really connected. I I was crying on this flight, watching this, watching these scenes with some really wonderful actresses. They were great. -Bethany

You know, we talk about sometimes how things happen on the show and it feels like, it feels a bit half-baked where it's like, oh man, if we had just given that a little bit more thought, we could have pulled this off so much more successfully. I felt like this was an example of they really executed it very well in terms of kind of seamlessly fitting in the eighties vibe, the homages to all of the different John Hughes movies. It was all done. Very, very just cleverly like, it all worked. None of it was sort of clunky or awkward, you know, because we're, we're referencing I think what, let's see, home Alone, 16 Candles, Pretty in Pink, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, and Uncle Buck. That's a lot of movie references to get Right. You know, but they wove it all together quite well. -Rob

I did make a note, and maybe you will remember this at the end, Nathan shows up in his amazing eighties hero moment. And she's like, whose car is that? And he says, it's yours. Happy birthday baby. Do we ever see this Porsche that he bought again? -Sophia

I have no idea. Okay. That's a great question. -Rob

I wrote it down at, I was like, wait, I don't remember. Do we ever see this car again or is it literally just a joke or a bit rather for this episode? Because if we don't see it again, that's gonna be annoying. -Sophia

I actually, I wanna give an honorable mention 'cause it was the perfect button on the whole episode. The scene where Nathan and Haley are getting in bed and he just starts to laugh and she goes, what? And, and through laughter he goes, your family's crazy. It was just a perfect little button on the episode because in a way Nathan got to be the audience being like, what the fuck was that? Yeah. And I thought it was a very, very great little device of comedy. So hats off to Mike and David for that. -Sophia 

Little wink. Like, Hey, we know this episode was a bit unhinged. -Austin

Exactly. They were like, it was unhinged. We know we're in on the joke. -Sophia

So this was a fun.. I like that they came back after six weeks after we had actually been gone for six weeks off the air, that's kind of cool. This was fun for me. This was a massive production doing this tour set up. I mean they really, they really went all out. We were in Wilmington. I can't remember where We filmed that. -Bethany

We were at the River Court. -Sophia 

Oh you're right...This was a massive, massive production. We shot this for like four or five days. I think....But yeah, It, it really was a lot of fun. I hadn't been on stage in a long time. You know, I grew up doing theater, but being on a stage that size, well I had gone on the tour for One Tree Hill. But It felt more, it was, my set wasn't like that. I wasn't playing Rockstar. I was just like singing singer songwriter guitary stuff. So this was fun to step into that character and just be like, ok I. Guess she's a super famous rock star now. All right. -Bethany 

I loved seeing them. All the  montage of the tour bus and watching them together on the tour. The fact that he goes with them. It's, it's just I think it's really what what everybody needed. And watching, watching Nathan just totally dive in a hundred percent on being the sort of stay at home dad on on this tour bus and taking care of Jamie and investing in him while his wife goes off and and does her rockstar thing. It was just such a great, there there was no threat to anybody. There was No uh weird hierarchy or struggles with within the marriage about that. It was just love and support and it was inspirational to me. I loved it. -Bethany 

And then Clay saves the day, like comes in again, they're having this super formal signing in the living room that Haley gets dressed up for, I guess, you know? And, and here comes Clay and Quinn. But I have to tell you, I got emotional. I really, it was, it was beautifully done. The, the revelation of all the things that he had done and the way that he had put all the pieces together and saved the day and kept them. And I, and, and then he's, they're gonna stay in Charlotte. Oh my gosh, it was so exciting. -Bethany 

I thought all of the stuff with Haley and Nathan and Jamie was, was lovely. The tomato fight was so much fun. -Rob

Oh, so fun. -Bethany 

There's a great line in, in that scene when you walk in Joy, you say to Grubbs and James, you or you know, to, to, yeah, to Grubbs and Nathan. You say, what kind of grown men stand around throwing tomatoes at a 7-year-old and there's a beat? He goes, you want to throw one, don't you? And you, you say, yes, I do. -Rob

That was fun. That was really fun. -Bethany 

And it wasn't, it wasn't from any sort of place of martyrdom. It was an active showing up. I think the fact that he actually mapped out that whole plan and got excited about it, it wasn't just like, okay, I'll sacrifice what I need to for you. I'm willing to, no, he was active about it. He made it fun for himself. It was a participatory experience. And I loved that for them. -Bethany 

And I loved that his solution was you come into the kitchen and he had planned a whole tour for you with places of interest to stop and eat and things to check out... -Rob

Yeah, that was great. -Bethany

I wrote the note of like, that is, that is top-notch. Husbanding. That's some, that's some teammate stuff, right? -Rob

That's a great partner move.  I love that. -Bethany 

I'm gonna miss you, but I know where you're gonna be and it's gonna be fun and it's gonna be for a short amount of time, you know, but like, I have your back and we're gonna make this work. He, you know, he found solutions as opposed to just living in the problem, you know? -Rob

I really liked the conflict or potential conflict of both of your careers. Wanting, wanting different things at the same time. You wanting to go out on tour. And him potentially needing to go to Europe to stay relevant and in the mix. And I thought that was so relatable, so real. Maybe not the careers. The careers aren't quite as relatable, but that conflict though of like whose dream gets precedence. -Rob