The moment that changed it all…the moment that Peyton confessed her love for Lucas to Brooke, his girl friend, and her best friend. I realized after back and forth, Leyton vs Brucas, debate between myself and equally passionate and respectful LPer, Abs07, just how significant that moment is to me as a Brucaser, but even more so as a OTH fan. It disgusted me so much that I had been blaming Peyton, and even Leyton for it ever since. Why do I hate this moment more than anything? More than Leyton’s affair in Season 1…even Brooke breaking up with Lucas in 4.01? Well, I hate it for what it stands for, I hate it for how it changed Breyton, Brucas, Leyton, but most of all I hate how it changed the dynamic of the show, it brought back the triangle in the worst of possible ways, and cemented it forever as betrayal in the eyes of Brucasers. I see it as a fatal writing error on behalf of the writers.
You see, Mark began the series with the intention of creating a world that Leyton, these ill fated soulmates, that were meant to be, would be together, that these two broken individuals would embark on an epic journey that would ultimately end in their union, and the notion...
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