The Hero's Journey

The Hero’s Journey always starts with the pilot of any tv show. It brings the protagonist to the beginning of their story into a journey that we get to now see through their eyes. As they begin their journey, they have insecurities lay as a burden on their backs as the audience sees the physical problem and mental problem come alive on the screen seeing how they handle it and what they do to stop it. Like in Beverly Hills 90210 the Walsh siblings’ twins Brandon and Brenda are moving from Minnesota to California which is like a whole new world to them. I think this moment begins their journey because now they have to start over and navigate through high school with a different crowd. The situation goes deeper for Brenda as she will experience a fish out of water scenario now that she is going to school with girls who look like models having amazing hair and designer clothes. Her insecurities heighten as she befriends these girls, so she has to take it one day at a time to get to the end of her journey because in eyes her friends are the obstacles in the way.

In this article, Naomi R. Rockler says “From Magic Bullets to Shooting Blank”introduces the ups and downs of the shows like "Certainly the wealthy character young characters on the program lead more glamourous lives than most middle-class society people" (5). I believe in this quote she's saying the way Brenda feels about being in Beverly Hills is very accurate. Moving in the middle of high school is scary as you’re now entering a world where the hero has to work through their insecurities if there want to survive in the end. They meet an interesting group of people who help them on their journey to navigate into a whole other world. Also, in Dawson’s Creek follows a group of teenagers who are introduced because a mysterious new girl name Jenny moves from New York to the fiction town of Capeside, Massachusetts. She immediately catches the eye of leading man Dawson Leery he becomes in awe with her, but this stirs up a jealously in his long-time best friend Joey Potter who's been in love with him her whole life. This is the hero's journey trope as Jenny begins to navigate in a world where the main character's Dawson, Joey, and Pacey have been friends their whole lives. And she has to find a way into this world because she's an outsider. Moving is never easy because you have picked up starting all over as you try to get through a difficult situation that still carries inside you as you try to move on from a situation that you want to leave behind.

One Tree Hill tells the hero's journey story but through the eyes of two brothers Lucas and Nathan Scott; this story is interesting because they start as rivals because of the fact they are half-brothers and they’re both on the same basketball team. With them being each other’s enemy, it makes the hero’s journey more interesting as you would think they would lean on each other and have each other’s back. Now the rivalry doesn’t last forever as the series goes on, they help each other find a way through love, heartbreak, loss, and friendship. And finally, The O.C follows a kid name Ryan as he moves to sunny Orange County, he’s a trouble but gifted young man coming from a broken home as he is adopted by a nice family. Next door to him he meets Marissa Cooper a bad girl wannabe, when he sees her, he falls in love almost instantly. She’s this rebellious bad girl who’s a rich kid you would think that’s someone he would try to avoid but the way she acts as a free spirit he feels this connection to her. He wants to prove his worth to her but has to deal with the demons of his past in order to move on towards her