tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21160065626266990232024-03-05T17:42:21.867+13:00Edge Is Fleeting, Heart Lasts ForeverOne woman's attempt to FINALLY watch the Dawson's Creek finale episode...by rewatching, re-living and refeeling every single episode leading up to it.
Will it be the same, some 13 years later? And can the finale live up to a decade's worth of expectation?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2116006562626699023.post-77489143524168483192011-11-23T20:41:00.001+13:002011-11-24T13:27:32.820+13:00Season 1, Episode 12: Beauty Contest<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Come
on – if you remember only a handful of </span><i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Dawson's Creek</b></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> episodes,
this one MUST be in there: if we were to translate the title into a
Friends episode, this would be The One Where, Although It Contradicts
Everything We've Learnt About Her All Season Long, Joey Enters a
Beauty Contest (and So Does Pacey, But Pacey Can Do ANYTHING HE
WANTS).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Pre-titles:
it's movie night as usual chez Dawson's bedroom, but Joey and Dawson
are watching some gross doco on bug mating in lieu of the usual
Hollywood classic, because Dawson has a paper on...err...bug mating
due. The season-long, barely repressed, much denied sexual tension
between the pair is expressed this time not through suspicious
wrestling, but in the form of an argument over whether, LIKE BUGS,
humans mate by instinct or not. Dawson says there must be an element
of instinct guiding humans in their romantic entanglements, to which
I say: YOUR INSTINCTS SUCK ASS THEN DAWSON, BECAUSE YOU THOUGHT YOU
WERE IN LOVE WITH BITCHFACE JEN AND YOU ARE OBLIVIOUS TO JOEY PINING
OVER YOU RIGHT NOW DAMMIT RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU. Also, Joey's
instinct's are all messed up, because remember how last episode,
Pacey Witter KISSED HER FACE OFF and she was all like “Um, meh,
where's Dawson?” </span>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">NO-ONE
WITH CORRECTLY WORKING INSTINCTS WOULD RESPOND IN THAT FASHION. THE
CORRECT RESPONSE IS TO RECIPROCATE AND KISS PACEY WITTER'S FACE OFF
IN RETURN. HELLO? Joey is obvs defective.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">At
least Joey is aware of her screwy instincts because she is all like
“I don't know if humans are like bugs, Dawson, I DON'T KNOW *bites
lip and looks coy*” </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">which is actually a good way to shut down an
inane conversation and take us to the titles.</span></div>
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I DON'T WANNA WAAAAAAAAIT! etc.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So
the gang are weirdly all together – Pacey, Dawson and Jen are
hanging out at the Icehouse with Joey loitering while she is supposed
to be waiting tables. Let's not ask why Jen and Dawson are in the
same place apparently just hanging out like BFFs when last time we
saw them IT WAS HORRIFIC and BITCHFACE JEN WAS STOMPING DAWSON'S
HEART INTO A FINE POWDER, SETTING IT ON FIRE THEN PISSING ON IT as
she revealed the truth about their breakup on a mo-foing FERRIS WHEEL
Dawson couldn't even escape from. </span>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We
rapidly learn:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Dawson
hasn't let Jen's Ferris Wheel burn of shame go, but instead of
GETTING OVER HER, he's embarking on a campaign to win her back with
biting sarcasm and cutting remarks that disguise how much he still
adores her. A misguided strategy, but then, Dawson's an idiot and
admits to Pacey he's probably just trying to win Jen back in his
deranged fashion OUT OF HABIT. </span>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Dawson's
mum is one of the judges in an upcoming annual beauty pageant, the
Miss Windjammer contest, held at a local yacht club.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Joey,
unsurprisingly, is against beauty pageants. </span>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Jen's
mum used to make her participate in beauty pageants when she was a
kid “before she was old enough to object” - so I guess her and
Joey are on the same team on this issue. </span>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Dawson,
UNSURPRISINGLY, is Mr INSENSITIVE – telling Jen that she should
enter because she is SO BEAUTIFUL and going on and on about it RIGHT
IN FRONT OF JOEY, without even a “you too, Jo!”. Sure, she has
made it clear she thinks it's a stupid contest, but YOU COULD TELL
HER SHE'S PRETTY TOO, DOOFUS. </span>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Most
importantly, we learn that the Miss Windjammer contest doesn't just
come with a silly title, but a sweet $5000 cash prize, plus a trip to
New York. And then we learn about two of “the gang'' who could
really use that prize.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>JOEY</b>:
I'm sure you've already guessed it, but if you've been ignoring
Joey's whining season long, then here: Joey is willing to enter the
pageant and sell out her principles for the prospect of winning the
$5000 cash. Bitchface Jen once again tries to extend the hand of
friendship to Jo at the Icehouse, waiting casually until Joey is
counting her meagre tips, which she comments on. HELLO JEN THAT'S
ACTUALLY PRETTY RUDE TO OPEN A CONVERSATION BY TALKING ABOUT
SOMEONE'S EARNINGS, BUT WHATEVS, YOU HAVE NO MANNERS. Joey spills –
tips are down, and OMG SHE HAS TO GET OUT OF CAPESIDE AND A
SCHOLARSHIP IS HER ONLY HOPE BUT WHAT IF THEY DON'T GIVE HER ENOUGH
MONEY WHAT WHAAAAAT? </span>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I
know what you should do, Joey. THE ONLY POSSIBLE THING YOU CAN DO.
You should enter a local beauty contest and pin all your hopes on
winning a one off cash prize, depending on the fact that a) you won't
be disqualified for being best friends with the judge's son and b)
no-one will see through your inexperience and total disdain for the
whole thing, and VOILA! ALL YOUR PROBLEMS WILL BE SOLVED. Especially
if you let Bitchface Jen, YOUR FORMER LOVE RIVAL be your coach on how
to be a Real Girl. </span>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>PACEY:</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">
It makes me so sad when </span><b><i>Dawson's Creek</i></b><span style="font-weight: normal;">
is mean to Pacey, WHO IS THE COOLEST GUY EVER. But Dawson meets up
with Pacey at his locker in the corridors of Capeside High, and finds
Pacey FREAKING THE FUCK OUT because he can't find a pen. Obviously
Pace is under some pressure. It all comes down to his dad – Pacey's
policeman father thinks Pacey is a wastrel, a clown, a layabout, a
no-goodnik, and he is apparently not shy in sharing his negative
opinion of his son WITH his son. Dawson, having ridiculously
supportive parents is incapable of comprehending just how broken the
relationship between the Witters is. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Heartbreaking.
For Pacey to consider entering the beauty pageant is pure Pacey
Witter: on the surface, it seems like a joke, something he doesn't
take that seriously. But underneath – he has very real reasons for
actually needing the prize and seriously wanting to win. </span>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">THE
REGISTRATION:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Jen
has taken to calling Joey “Miss America” as Joey fills in the
requisite forms. </span>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Beauty
pageant “coach” and professional bitchface Jen is confident of
Joey's ability to win the contest based on the appearance of the
competition lining up at registration at the yacht club. Especially
when they hear Pacey arguing his way into the contest claiming that
it's discrimination to deny him based on his gender.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">They
run into Dawson who OUTDOES HIMSELF at insensitivity:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">assuming that they are there
because JEN decided to enter</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">when he is corrected, assuming
that Joey must be entering undercover to do an 'expose' on pageants
for the newspaper</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">then when Joey shoots that
theory down, assuming that Joey is joking about entering ALTOGETHER.
Seriously. Dawson. SHUT YOUR FACE BEFORE JOEY PUNCHES YOUR MOUTH. </span>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Joey,
QUITE RIGHTLY gets really pissed off. Which will be an interesting
look for the pageant. </span>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Meanwhile,
it seems Pacey has successfully argued his way into the contest –
there's nothing in the rulebook saying boys CAN'T enter, so
grudgingly, the yacht club mavens HAVE to let him in. As all the
girls, and Pacey, are read the contest rules, Pacey gets into a
wisecracking bitchfight with Hannah von Wenning, a snobby rich girl
he knows from his childhood who OBVIOUSLY expects to win.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">THE
COACHING</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Jen
attempts to teach Joey how to walk in high heels – and SERIOUSLY?
If she thinks Joey is winning material, when the girl walks with her
TONGUE STICKING OUT (and needed to be taught how to walk in high
heels full stop) then the other girls in the contest must be
basically retarded.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Also,
I don't know if you've noticed, but a lot of the time, Jen walks like
a truckdriver wearing jackboots. WOULD YOU LET HER TEACH YOU HOW TO
WALK TO WIN A BEAUTY PAGEANT?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">When
all the walking is done, Jen and Joey have a super awkward convo that
is basically a mutual “So what's the deal with you and Dawson?”
info exchange. Jen: “We're figuring things out”. Joey: “He will
always see me as the gawky girl from down the Creek”. </span>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Over
at Dawson's place, Pacey has enlisted Man-Meat and Dawson as his
gurus of pageantdom. HAS ANYBODY WONDERED ABOUT THE ETHICS OF ALL OF
THIS YET? Hello? The HUSBAND and SON of one of the pageant judges are
coaching one of the contestants? IS THAT NOT....SOME KIND OF BREACH
OF RULES?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">To
be honest though, it's not like Pacey is a frontrunner for anything
but the sympathy vote at this stage. He sings
a...spirited...rendition of New York New York that gets a furrowed
brow from Man-Meat. And WHAT WILL HE WEAR FOR THE FORMAL WEAR
SECTION? (oooh Pacey, I bet you scrub up nice). </span>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Hellooooo Mr Witter!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Man-Meat
vanishes and it's time for the girly talk. It's sort of easy to
forget that Pacey really likes Joey and backed off because she
rejected him because of her unrequited love for Dawson, but also how
Dawson was a total dick about Pacey's feelings for Joey. It's summed
up nicely in this scene, with the two boys talking about the pageant
and Joey entering and how Dawson just doesn't ever see Joey as a
woman, he sees her as a “sister”, so anything romantic with her –
which he has never thought about – would feel “incestuous”.
Pacey: (pissed off and bitter) “So you don't want to be with her
but you don't want anyone else to be with her?!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Dawson:
(just looks like a stunned mullet) </span>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">OKAY
YOU GUYS. Don't think for a second I have forgotten why I started
this blog – to EVENTUALLY – even though at this rate it's gonna
take me LITERAL YEARS – finally see the final episode of Dawson's
Creek I have NEVER SEEN. </span>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I
haven't lived under a rock so much that I don't know that it
basically does (at least partly) boil down to Joey having to choose
between Pacey and Dawson. HELLO the seeds are already planted for who
that should be. Dawson's an idiot. Pacey is THE MAN. </span>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And
that, my friends, is a point that just gets RAMMED home in the
remainder of the episode, which I will give the sur-title: DAWSON IS
A GIANT DOUCHEBAG. </span>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">THE
PAGEANT</span></div>
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story short: neither of them wins the freaking pageant. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Pacey
was never going to win, because he's a guy in a female beauty
pageant, which makes him at best a novelty and at worst a freakshow,
but the saddest thing about his storyline is that he proves, as Pacey
does, time and again as the series goes on, that when Pacey Witter
applies himself, he is a force to be reckoned with, yet EVERYONE IS DETERMINED TO UNDERESTIMATE HIM FOREVER. Even as the
“novelty” contestant, Pacey is charming, gives fantastic,
intelligent answers to the inane pageant questions, he scrubs up
well, and the audience ADORE him and his charismatic, cheeky stage
presence. It's hard not to think he could actually have a shot at
winning – even as the token guy in the contest. </span></span>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Would it have killed them to have invented an "Audience Favourite" prize for the guy? SERIOUSLY?</span></div>
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when Pacey is informed by Gail Leery (in a vastly unprofessional move
in her role as contest judge) that yes, he's the audience favourite,
but “honey, you know you haven't a snowball's chance in hell of
winning, right?” he is GUTTED. In an instant, Pacey goes from
having the potential to be really something – rewarded for being
his charming, intelligent self, back to being a joke, and he's
HUMILIATED, because he realises that everyone saw him as a joke from
the start – and he was the only person taking his entry in the
contest seriously. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">It
really does make me so sad AND YES I DO REALISE HE'S A FICTIONAL
CHARACTER.</span></span></div>
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reaction to finding out he can't win is to forego his planned talent
performance – a magic routine – in favour of making a statement:</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The upside for Pace is that he discovers that his life isn't as crappy as he thought - or at least he's not as alone in having a crappy family. He goes to offer ''losing advice" to Hannah von Wenning and discovers her life is far from perfect - they are both kind of black sheep in their families.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Joey
actually puts up a good fight, despite being the most sour faced,
sullen contestant to ever grace the Miss Windjammer stage, EVER;</span></span><br />
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wows the audience (I use the term “wows” loosely) with
her...rendition of </span><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">On My
Own</span></i><span style="font-weight: normal;"> in the talent
portion of the contest.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">WHY
HAVE SINGING IN THE EPISODE IF IT HAS TO BE REALLY CREEPY DUBBED
SINGING?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Ahem,
anyway. Weird singing aside, as any good reality show judges would
tell you, it's all about song choice, and little Joey Potter NAILED
it. Because not only does she wow the audience and impress the
judges, her complete transformation from “tomboy/gawky girl from
down the Creek” to “girl awkwardly wearing an evening dress, high
heels, too much makeup and an up-do – aka A REAL GIRL”, coupled
with her song mournfully lamenting her unrequited love (complete with
furtive sidelong glances at the object of her affection) finally
makes Dawson stare creepily at her in a way that is wrong for someone
who regards her as a sister. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> But Dawson only has eyes for
Sparkly New Pageant Joey. </span>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And
that's why Dawson is a douchebag. HE WANTS HER NOW SHE LOOKS PRETTY.
And he tells her so. To Joey's credit – she rejects Dawson when
he's all like “Wow Joey I think I have feelings for you SUDDENLY”.
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">SHE
REJECTS DAWSON – the guy she has been pining over FOREVER –
because he wants a version of her that isn't really her. She tells
him it's not what she imagined. She imagined him realising how great
she is as herself – Joey – the girl he has known forever – not
some version of herself that has to learn to walk in heels and put on
lipstick and parade in front of strangers in a contest.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And
do you know what? I know people diss <b><i>Dawson's Creek</i></b> all the time, but
that right there is a pretty awesome message, even if everything else
turns to shit from here on in.</span></div>
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2116006562626699023.post-88692997940118533722011-10-25T10:30:00.000+13:002011-10-25T13:04:52.926+13:00Season 1, Episode 11: Double Date<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: small;">Double
date? MORE LIKE DOUBLE TALK! This episode's prologue – as usual –
takes place in Dawson's bedroom, which is apparently now OFFICIALLY
known as the creepy lair from which he spies on Jen because he CANNOT
BELIEVE THAT BITCH DUMPED HIS ASS so he'll just wallow in his pain
and watch her through his tears, day in, day out, watching, watching,
like an emo creeper creeper. OBLIVIOUS to the pain he causes to Joey
who LOVES HIM DAMMIT SHE LOVES HIM. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I
mean, Joey basically says this outright to him, just using less
words. </span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">And
Dawson, also known as Mr Oblivious, fails to glean any of the major
points of the conversation except that Oh My God: Jen's dating again?
Cue titles!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">(
doo doo doo doo! Doo doo doo doo!) </span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I
don't wanna wait! For our lives to be overrrr....</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">…
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<span style="font-size: small;">will
it be yes or will it be......SORRY? </span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">(doo
doo doo doo! Doo doo doo doo!) </span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">So
after the spooky shenanigans of last episode, it's...a wee bit
disconcerting (not to mention INCONSISTENT) that Dawson's major
concern this episode is the super pressing question of WHETHER HE CAN
STAY FRIENDS WITH JEN. I guess the fact that he seemingly had
ABSOLUTELY NO PROBLEM with his ex-girlfriend and her new man using
his house for their first date is a mere distant memory; that was all
about Jen's ish with Dawson not preparing a Friday 13<sup>th</sup>
scare for her like he did for his other friends (and if you remember
– he did at the end of the episode, thus: errr...they're all
good?). </span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">But
anyhow: that was a special episode guys, so pretend like Dawson was
on crack (which he kind of was, let's face it) because he's back to
his emo self this week. He bumps into Jen in the corridors of
Capeside High and she raises this issue: </span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">and
he doesn't know how to answer. Pacey, in what is apparently a Marine
Biology class, has some stellar wisecracking best bud advice for
Dorkson, namely: LIE. </span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Basically:
pretend like you're A-OK being best buddies with Jen and that will
make her crave what she's missing: the power of Dawson loving. Then
BAM YOU'RE IN. </span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Dawson,
being a huge dork, messes this up within five seconds. The key to
lying is pretty much keeping your dorky mouth shut Dawson.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“</span><span style="font-size: small;">So
Jen, about before when you said hey I hope we can still be friends
and I stared at you in disbelief and then ran away and cried a little
bit – hey sorry if that was awkward! I...thought I heard someone
calling me and simultaneously had chili flakes in my eye, you know
me, OLD KLUTZY DAWSON AM I RIGHT?! So yeah, I decided to interpret
your polite request literally and take it to mean BEST FRIENDS
FOREVER because I don't actually know what boundaries are. WHAT ARE
YOU DOING THIS WEEKEND? </span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">No,
REALLY, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Jen's
discomfort in revealing her weekend plans to Dorkson is based in the
fact that...it means once again revealing herself to be a big fat
liar and also, to be all kinds of crazy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">She's
going on a date with Cliff. They are going to the carnival. </span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">THIS
IS THE GIRL WHO BROKE UP WITH DAWSON CITING THE FACT SHE NEEDED TO
BE SINGLE FOR A WHILE TO SORT HERSELF OUT. Apparently, 2 minutes is
all that took. NO I WILL NEVER LET THIS GO</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">She's
going on another date with CLIFF, henceforth known as Krazy Killer
Eyez Kliff, the guy who TERRIFIED her by sending her threatening
letters and making phonecalls to her pretending to be a serial
killer. JEN IS ON RECORD AS SAYING SHE HATES TO BE SCARED. JEN IS
FUCKED IN THE HEAD.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">At
this revelation, Dorkson's facade of Eternal Best Pal crumbles
slightly. He just kind of stares at her with a goofy expression on
his face, like his brain is frozen, and then manages to tell a really
obvious lie about how he too happens to have a date that weekend,
ALSO at the carnival, </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">before he comes out with his best stupid plan
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Look at his lips. THEY ARE TRYING TO HOLD HIS STUPID IDEA IN. Subconsciously, even Dorkson knows this date has DICKsaster written all over it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“</span><span style="font-size: small;">WE
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<span style="font-size: small;">Meanwhile
in Capeside...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Mitch
and Gail make a breakfast time appearance. Sigh. Their marriage is
still on the freaking rocks. Mitch looks refreshed though, like he's
had a new haircut or something, but it seems that constant rage is
just good for his complexion, maybe. The phone rings and Mitch
answers, and it's a guy wanting Gail, AND WE ALL KNOW WHO IT IS,
RIGHT? Gail gets off the phone superfast and Mitch is all bitchily
“Was that [some guy we have never heard of and will never hear of
ever again] because I haven't talked to him in AAAAAGES!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Gail:
(looks shifty) IT WAS A WORK CALL I NEED TO GO TO WORK NOW I LOVE
YOU?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">YeeeeeeeeeAAAAAAAAAhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Mitch
had like, cheesy David Caruso CSI Miami lines before that was even a
THING. Also, his name should not be Mitch. HIS NAME SHOULD BE BITCH. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Seriously
though? This storyline is really sad. The couples counselling Mitch
and Gail attended a few episodes back (when they were mysteriously
absent from the action) clearly hasn't worked for Mitch – he's
super jealous, and still so angry, and the worst part is that he
involves Dawson in the mess – asking him to monitor the calls
coming into the house and report if Bob rings for Gail.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">And those mommy daddy issues are what will tip Dawson into deeply disturbed killer eyez territory.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">DAWSON SHOULD
BE ALLOWED TO BE FIFTEEN AND OBSESS OVER HIS OWN TRAGIC LOVELIFE, NOT
HIS PARENTS'. </span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The
'B' storyline is awesome in that Pacey and Joey are pushed together
YET AGAIN :) :) :) Turns out Pacey's been messing around in Marine
Biology and is going to fail (which means he'll have to spend the
summer repeating the class if he doesn't want to get held back) –
except we finally meet a teacher at Capeside who isn't somehow
defective. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">This teacher a) reveals that Pacey is actually quite
intelligent, he just needs to apply himself and b) gives Pacey a
chance to redeem himself and pass the class if he completes an extra
credit project with another student...that turns out to be Joey. </span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Naturally,
the two bicker and fight like an old married couple through the
entire project (which is studying the reproductive habits of
underwater snails). Pacey ruins the initial project by trying to
create a snail menage a trois with a carnivorous snail from another
tank, prompting the need for him and Jo to go on an expedition to a
tidal pool to find more snails. Where Pacey's failure to tie up the
boat gets them stranded as the tide comes in. It's not that Pacey's
an idiot, it's that he's lazy in his thinking, and he needs good role
models (as we will see in later seasons). The thing is – he flunked
a test, which is nothing new for him, the class clown. WHY IS JOEY
DOING A MAKE-UP PROJECT? She keeps avoiding the issue. Is her
unrequited love for Dawson affecting her grades now? (No - it turns out Joey got a 98% grade BUT THAT'S NOT GOOD ENOUGH for Lil Joey Potter. She has to get 100% to fulfil her perfectionist, scholarship craving tendencies. I don't think it's healthy how badly she wants to leave Capeside and how much she depends on her schooling to do it. There ARE other options Joey. And the way she inadvertently damns underachievers like Pacey to rot in the 'hellhole' she deems Capeside to be makes me kind of spurn her even more). </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">But the
best part is that Joey actually softens a little under Pacey's influence. Joey has a big moral 'mare at Dawson before he goes
on his fake ''date'' to the Carnival, telling him that his experiment
with jerkdom (taking out a girl just to make someone jealous) doesn't
suit him because he's a nice guy deep down. He tells her he'd really
rather hang out with her and she's all like “Yeah I wish I could
come too (BECAUSE I WANNA DATE YOU DAWSON!)” but instead she has to
spend the day with Pacey, which is like, a fate worse than having to spend all her life in Capeside, I guess. AND though things get off to a rocky start,
the two end up having a pretty fun day together, despite being
stranded in the rockpools and getting drenched. Even though Joey is
Lil Miss Sarcasm to Pacey right to the bitter end, he sees something
in her he never saw before (APART FROM A SNEAKY PEEK AT HER NEKKID
BODY). And JOEY ACTUALLY SMILES AND REALISES THAT PACEY HAS A HUMAN HEART OF GOLD (and a killer bod). </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Okay maybe she just realises she shouldn't be such a mega-bitch to him all the goddamn time.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">I JUST DIED OF CUTENESS ALL IS RIGHT IN THE FICTIONAL UNIVERSE</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">BACK
IN DAWSONLAND:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">So
Dawson has to find a date, and fast, for his Carnival Double Date
Disaster Torture Lie Fest. Pacey suggests Mary Beth, some girl we've
never seen before this episode, who is reading Erica Jong's Fear of
Flying alone in the cafeteria. So...obviously, will be a pushover. </span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Dawson's
lies are spinning wildly out of control, as he assures Mary Beth –
who INSTANTLY questions him whether he is over Jen, whether dating
again so soon is a good idea, whether he ACTUALLY wants to go out
with her – that this Carnival date will be THE BEST IDEA HE HAS
EVER HAD.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Until
they get there and OOPS. Turns out he never actually mentioned to
Raging Feminist and Apparent Psychic but NOT PSYCHIC ENOUGH Mary Beth
that IT IS A DOUBLE DATE WITH HIS EX GIRLFRIEND THAT BITCH
HOMEWRECKER JEN and KRAZY KILLER EYEZ KLIFF (Scott Foley!!!). Mary
Beth = PISSED. Dawson subdues her with more lies: he's doing it for
Jen! She was nervous about being alone with Cliff on her first date,
so he's there to take the pressure off. Mary Beth – I feel sad for
you that you bought that, and didn't think it was creepy and
inappropriate that Jen had NO OTHER FRIENDS EXCEPT HER EXBOYFRIEND to
double date with. </span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">It
soon becomes apparent that Dawson is a big filthy liar when The Most
Awkward Moment Ever happens. Him and Krazy Killer Eyez Kliff end up
in a giant metaphorical pissing contest at a carnival booth after
KKEK wins a teddy bear for Jen by winning a throwing competition.
Dawson won't let it go, and keeps going until he wins a prize too.
When the carnie goes “which lady is the prize for?” Dawson TURNS
TO JEN.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">AWKWAAAAAAAARD.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">And
THEN he goes to Mary Beth “We need to talk”. Just hammer those
nails into that coffin, Dorkson. Ad break! Dawson goes to apologise
to MB, who is shovelling popcorn into her mouth while sitting on the
bonnet of a car. </span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">TWIST
ALERT! Mary Beth doesn't care a fig about Dawson and never did –
she's in love with the way Krazy Kliff's Killer Eyez sparkle, and is
heartbroken not because of anything Dorkson did, but because it's so
obvious that KKEK and Bitchface Jen are in love. Bleeeuuurghghghghgh.
Then the way she says “but we can still help each other out” to
Dawson has a sinister undertone. </span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Leaving...all
that implies...aside, what she actually means, it turns out, is
hijacking KKEK so she ends up on the Ferris wheel with him, forcing
Jen and Dawson together, where they end up having a HUUUUUUGE
argument. Bitchface Jen SUDDENLY DOESN'T WANT TO BE FRIENDS ANYMORE </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">SHE CHANGED HER MIND WHAT A SHOCKER! And Dawson FINALLY SAYS what I
have been waiting forever (or like, 2 episodes) for him to say:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">She
doesn't have an answer either, and sure, maybe I should cut her some
slack for being a) a fictional character and b) 15 but BASICALLY WHAT
A BITCH FALL OFF THE FERRIS WHEEL ALREADY.</span></div>
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also couldn't help but think how extremely awkward it was for them to
be having this huge argument at the top of the Ferris wheel with
their dates like, 2 cars below them, probably eagerly listening to
every word. Anyway, Dawson gets his heart re-broken, when he finally forces Jen to say what we ALL KNOW ALREADY because omg it's obvious: JEN JUST WASN'T THAT INTO HIM (or fluffy clouds and rainbows, which is how Dawson sees the world) and by the way she hasn't actually sworn off guys.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Following
this extremely public emo, Jen, Cliff and Mary Beth mysteriously
disappear as if abducted by carnies, leaving Dawson sitting on a bench at the Carnival with a
creepy dazed smile on his face. He looks like someone you would KEEP
YOUR KIDS AWAY FROM. Happily, into the frame wander Pacey and Joey. They have conveniently come to check out the
Carnival and happened upon creepy shellshocked Dawson. </span>
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needs to talk to Dawson about something...IN PRIVATE. Joey decides
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<span style="font-size: small;">OMG
SQUEE! Pacey wants permission from Dawson to pursue Joey. Because he
realised after spending the whole day alone with her that he LIKE
likes her. AND HE WANTS TO KISS HER.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">AND
SO DOES MINE when Pacey kisses Joey and she gets all weird about it
because she CAN'T SEE THE GOOD THING THAT'S RIGHT IN FRONT OF HER
FACE. She rejects Pacey as graciously and kindly as possible, and
Pacey accepts it like a gentleman. </span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">He's
somewhat less gentlemanly when Dawson strides into the video store
stating “That thing we talked about [e.g. Pacey pursuing Joey] I
don't want you to do it, YOU DON'T HAVE MY PERMISSION”. At first
Pacey seems like his clownish, goodnatured self – pulling a prank
on Dawson by saying he was too late, that the kiss had already
happened, but then adding a whole lot of outrageous, clearly untrue
details so Dawson knew it was all lies. </span>
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then Pacey turns dark. I think this definitively marks the point
where the shortlived easy, breezy BFF bromance between Pacey and
Dawson ends, all because of a girl.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;">It
feels like this season is descending into a series of gimmicky
“special episodes” all of a sudden, because we have another one:
it's...well, I was going to say the Halloween episode, but that's not
actually true. The spooky theme in this episode, “The Scare” is
all courtesy of Dawson Leery's favourite day of the year, apparently:
Friday the 13<sup>th</sup>, which he annually celebrates by playing
spooky pranks on his nearest and dearest. It's like Halloween and
April Fool's combined.</span>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;">But
can we back up the truck a little bit here and just ACTUALLY think
about this for a second?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;">Dawson
Leery's favourite day of the year is Friday the 13<sup>th</sup>?
First, let's pretend like THAT'S AN ACTUAL SPECIAL DAY EVERY YEAR NOT
JUST A QUIRK OF THE CALENDAR (because I know some years there have
been two Friday 13ths, and some years might have none? I can't be
bothered researching this but whatevs, IT'S NOT LIKE IT'S A
CELEBRATED HOLIDAY DAWSON). Secondly – THAT'S his favourite day?
Not...Valentine's Day, all about mushy romantic declarations of love
(because you know, he lives in a sparkly pink fantasy candy floss
cloud)? Not his birthday, when it can be ALL ABOUT DAWSON? Not some
pretentious day like Steven Spielberg's birthday or the day film
cameras were invented or the anniversary of the day he first saw E.T
or something? </span>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;">No,
yet again, because <i><b>Dawson's Creek</b></i> writer's couldn't
think of ANY OTHER WAY to make what they needed to happen happen PLUS
get their nifty intertextual references to things like DC creator
Kevin Williamson's film <i><b>Scream</b></i> in, they dreamt up some
ridiculous excuse to have a horror theme episode, miles away from
Halloween. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;">GOOD
ONE.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;">(It
actually is a solid episode, and – like all the “special”
episodes, remains SUPER memorable even after several years. What I
like about the themed episodes is that they are never just capsule,
stand alone eps, they do still further the narrative and character
development, even if plot-wise things do step sideways for a bit). </span>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;">So
we start out in Dawson's bedroom AGAIN, where he and Joey take
advantage of their disagreement over the choice of film to have one
of what is becoming a SUSPICIOUSLY FREQUENT number of “playful
wrestling bouts”. The irony in this scene that comes from
left-field (hinted at, though, in Dawson's own attempt at filmmaking,
I guess) is Joey, eternal hardened cynic Joey, hates to be scared and
thus switches off the horror film- <i><b>I Know What You Did Last
Summer</b></i> - Dawson chose in honour of it being Friday 13 the
next day just as it's reaching its climax. They argue over that, and
why being scared is awesome, and I HATE TO SAY IT BUT (as a lifelong
horror film fan) I AGREE WITH DAWSON FOR ONCE even though he doesn't
actually use any good, geeky film school arguments. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;">Then
there's the hilarity of what Joey would rather watch: <i><b>JERRY
MAGUIRE</b></i> is on the tv, though it's a scene featuring Renee
Zellwegger lamenting the loss of her true love and Tom Cruise is
nowhere to be seen. Still...SPOOOOKY. And Joey doesn't like being
scared? I GOT CHILLS. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;">Just
before the opening credits there's a news update that reveals
''another woman's body has been found” near Capeside, and that it
looks like the work of the serial murderer police have dubbed “The
LadyKiller”. This proves Joey's point about not needing horror in
movies because there's enough horror in real life; it creepily
delights Dawson (um, calm down, DUDE, SOMEONE GOT BRUTALLY MURDERED!)
and HINT HINT can you guess where the episode is headed yet?</span></div>
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“<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;">I
don't wanna wait, for our lives to be ooooverrrrr...” You won't
have to wait long, my pretties. Before the end of the episode, ONE OF
YOU WILL BE DEAD. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;">Okay,
IT'S FRIDAY 13<sup>th</sup>! Are you excited, because Dawson has once
again transformed into Dorkson and is PEEING HIS PANTS with GLEE.
After he pulls an emo fake-out on Pacey, all “no, bro, I'm way too
sad about Jen dumping me to think up any dorky pranks for a day that
nobody except me celebrates” only to brand Pacey a sucker for </span>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;">being
surprised by a freaky skull popping out of his locker into his FACE</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;">being
genuinely concerned about Dawson because OMG DAWSON, FOLLOWING AN
EMOTIONAL EVENT, WAS APPEARING TO LOSE INTEREST IN HIS TRULY DORKY
PASTIMES THAT APPARENTLY ANNUALLY BRING HIM A SMALL MEASURE OF
SUPERIORITY AND JOY – and that's a sign of depression. SO SUE
PACEY FOR CARING YOU PRICK, DAWSON.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;">Joey,
in some class she takes with Jen (but they don't sit
together...INTERESTING. Oh wait, maybe it's alphabetical, US schools
sometimes do that? There goes my awesome bitchy conspiracy) gets an
obviously fake snake in her schoolbag that freaks her out waaay
disproportionately. I'm beginning to think that Joey has mental
issues, or possibly needs glasses. After all, she thinks Dawson's hot
BA DOOM BOOM. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;">Cliff
(SCOTT FOLEY!!!) (I can't not write his name like that, I love SCOTT
FOLEY!!!) enters the class room to talk to Jen – and it's awkward,
because he wants to ask her on a date. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;">DOES
ANYONE ELSE REMEMBER THAT WHEN JEN DUMPED DAWSON HER REASON WAS
BASICALLY THAT SHE HAD NEVER NOT BEEN IN A RELATIONSHIP AND SHE
NEEDED SOME TIME TO FIGURE HERSELF OUT?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;">Seems
like five seconds is enough time for Jen to “figure it all out”,
or else Jen's full of shit. Because Cliff gets his date – despite
asking in a way that made him look like a prat (here's a hint, if you
don't really know how a relationship ended, try not to insult the ex
in public, especially not to the girl who went out with him).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;">Oh.
My GOD. Then THIS. Can we please rename this episode “(If You
Didn't Already Hate Jen, We Will Give You) The Reasons”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;">SHE'S
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TACTLESS.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;">Seriously?
Just say you have plans. Unless you are TRYING to hurt Dawson or
provoke a reaction. I CAN'T BELIEVE I WAS EVER ON TEAM JEN FOR EVEN A
SECOND. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;">So
villain #1 is established, except she's been established as the
villain since Episode #1 because you know, she's the love rival.
She's also sulky because despite having broken Dawson's heart,she's
all like “How come everyone else gets a dorky 'horror-themed
practical joke played on them except me?” Dawson is all like
“BECAUSE I KNOW YOU DON'T LIKE BEING SCARED AND BECAUSE I HATE YOUR
FACE” though he only implies that last part. MOVING ON. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;">Things
get cracktastically awesome when Cliff (SCOTT FOLEY!!!) reveals that
everything you ever heard about jocks being dumb is flagrantly true,
BUT WAY TWISTEDLY WORSE. He wants his date with Bitchface Backstabber
Jen to be KICKASS because he thinks it's his last chance (omg is he
dying? Wait, getting confused with SCOTT FOLEY!!! on <i><b>Grey's Anatomy</b></i>)
so because he has no friends and the internet doesn't exist in 1998
in Capeside, and he doesn't watch movies or read books and has no
other source to look to for inspiration, he goes to the logical
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;">BITCHFACE
BACKSTABBER'S EX-BOYFRIEND. Good one. THIS CAN ONLY END IN AWESOME.</span></div>
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the lead-up to Dawson's dorky séance (um – guess where Cliff is
bringing Jen? *facepalm*) the episode actually ups the scare factor.
SOMEONE IS AFTER JEN, first leaving a threatening letter in her
locker and then calling her house and re-enacting the Drew Barrymore
scene from <i><b>Scream</b></i>. The phone scene is actually really creepy because
it's obvious that Jen is terrified, nevertheless, she annoys the shit
out of me by not just HANGING UP THE FREAKING PHONE AND CALLING THE
POLICE. She's convinced in both instances that it's Dawson fulfilling
her wish to be horror-pranked.</span></div>
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HAVE YOU MET DAWSON? He's emotionally unstable, BUT NOT A FUCKING
PSYCHOPATH.</span></div>
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First appearance of the Witter jeep!!) on a an expedition into town
to go shopping for party supplies. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;">First
of all – there's something <i><b>LOST</b></i>-ian going on here. Did anyone else
notice that they left Dawson's place in full daylight but by the time
they get to the convenience store (and Capeside can't be more than
20 minutes drive side to side), night has fallen?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;">Secondly
– <b>FACEPALM. </b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Joey has to
watch the car (since Pacey hotwired it to ''borrow'' it and can't
turn it off) and while the boys are in the store, they witness a
couple having a huge domestic. Again, I find myself siding with
Dawson:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">but
YOU KNOW that Pacey's inexplicably awful taste in women and that part
of him that has REALLY REALLY BAD JUDGEMENT comes to the fore, and so
after Crazy Stranger Lady Who Is Probably A Drug Addict SHOPLIFTS A
BOTTLE OF WINE for a pair of TEENAGE BOYS SHE HAS ONLY JUST MET, she
gets invited back to Dawson's place, under the guise of Pacey being
chivalrous and “saving” her from the bad dude who was yelling at
her, but really BECAUSE PACEY WANTS TO MAKE HER THE NEXT, METH ADDICT
VERSION OF MS JACOBS.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">His
thing for (literally) crazy older women is never explained, right? Do
we ever meet Pacey's mother? </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Anyway,
while all this is going on, outside in the car, Joey, ALLEGEDLY THE
SMART ONE, is providing an excellent demonstration of how to delight
murderers, rapists and perverts by ignoring everything you've ever
been told about STRANGER DANGER.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> Take it away, Dawson:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">So
things get underway at Dawson's House 'O' Horror. It's all spooky fun
and games, fake snakes in peanut cans, gory fake heads in freezers
and the gang telling ghost stories around an AWESOMELY tacky light-up
table, (not to mention AAAAAAWKWARD – Cliff is totally a doofus;
Jen totally thinks Dawson is responsible for terrifying her and
Dawson is all like “Sorry, no I JUST DON'T CARE ABOUT YOU ENOUGH TO
ELABORATELY PRANK YOU BITCHFACE”) until..</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">the
lights go out. And the phoneline has been cut. And SOMEONE IS TRYING
TO GET INSIDE.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The
possibilities:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Obviously,
it's the Ladykiller, who has chosen his victim from among our
loveable gang and followed her to Dawson's house, where he will cut
out her heart.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Dawson
has planned the whole thing as part of his creepy séance
experience, which is ACTUALLY PSYCHO given he knows for a fact that
at least two of his three close friends attending (Joey and Jen) are
really not fans of being scared. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Maybe
Dawson's parents have forgotten to pay the power bill and the phone
bill and have forgotten their keys and are actually going to make an
appearance this episode? (Hint: it's not this one). </span></span>
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Lady Who Is Probably A Drug Addict's boyfriend from the convenience
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kind of a combination of all of the above, and I can't really be bothered recapping in GREAT detail because all that really happens is a bunch of screaming and wandering round in the dark. Dawson has an emo when his
friends turn the tables on him in the midst of the chaos and have
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">DOESN'T
STOP HIM TRYING TO PASH BITCHFACE! when she has her own emo about not
having a scary prank played on her (seriously? She bitches all
episode about the terrifying phonecall she thinks Dawson was
responsible for, finds out it wasn't him and then whinges about the
fact that he DIDN'T terrify her? WHERE THE HELL IS THE LADYKILLER?)
In case it wasn't obvious FROM THE SOUND OF HIS VOICE JEN, the guy on
the phone was CLIFF. He thought you liked to be scared and
apparently, is psycho enough that he takes screaming and crying as
positive signals that you're totally into him. EW. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The
episode ends ON A HILARIOUSLY EMO NOTE because with only three
episodes left this season, the one true pair has to be firmly
established, and HINT HINT Dawson didn't shed any tears over
Bitchface's potential death. Just to remind viewers who they should
be rooting for, we get Dawson and Joey sitting in his room,
dissecting the evening, but more particularly, morbidly discussing
their own deaths and ROMANTICALLY BONDING.Joey's spending the night. AGAIN. </span></span></div>
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creeeeeeepy. </span></span>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2116006562626699023.post-84669422891696470402011-09-23T20:27:00.000+12:002011-09-23T20:27:02.618+12:00Commercial break...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Okay sorry for the...errr...extended break, I PROMISE YOU Episode 10 will be up soon(ish). I'm halfway through writing it up and it's a doozy. </span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">But in the meantime... OMG YOU GUYS LOOK WHAT I STUMBLED ACROSS: </span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2116006562626699023.post-21148755351677269912011-09-07T22:49:00.000+12:002011-09-08T08:40:01.299+12:00Season 1, Episode 9: Road Trip<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This
episode begins with Dawson staring plaintive-slash-sullenly out his
bedroom window at Jen's house, while Joey fills the audience in on
how, post break-up, his heartbreak has swiftly changed him from
“doomed romantic” into “The Creepiest Creeper that Ever Did
Creep”. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">If
that isn't enough to get your heart pumping because remember: CRAZY
EMOTIONALLY UNSTABLE DAWSON IS EVERYONE'S FAVOURITE DAWSON! - this
next bit is like a gift from the Dawson's Creek gods, a juicy ripe
cherry on the cracktastic sundae that is the character of Dawson
Leery. </span>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The
whole time this exchange is going on, Truly Madly Deeply by SAVAGE GARDEN is
playing in the background.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Um...!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Because
</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">this song </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="288" src="http://www.dailymotion.com/embed/video/x4t40" width="480"></iframe><br /><a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4t40_savage-garden-truly-madly-deeply_news" target="_blank">Savage Garden - Truly Madly Deeply</a> <i>by <a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/cladstrife" target="_blank">cladstrife</a></i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">is
meant to represent Dawson's inner emotional turmoil and heartache.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I
swear to god, I laughed for about half an hour before I could even
commence watching the episode (this will come back to bite me in the
ass).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We
next see our favourite (not! HAH THROWBACK TO THE 90s slang!)
no-goodnik Billy, who unsurprisingly has failed to fulfil his promise
to Jen and Dawson to get the hell out of town. In fact, it appears
he's stolen the ladder that Joey uses to climb through Dawson's
window and is breaking into Jen's bedroom. The background music that
plays while this happens, giving an insight into Billy's gritty 90s
badboy hipster soul shows JUST HOW OPPOSITE HE IS to Dorkson:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Anyway.
Cameo by Grams to remind us she's still alive (but no-one's mentioned
Grandpa for ages) and still bad-ass and Jen boots Billy back out on
the street in no uncertain terms, where CONVENIENTLY, he runs into
Dawson, who was probably creeping in the shadows just waiting for an
opportunity to “casually” run into Jen. Because WHOA Dawson, you
have to learn to tame your inner beast (except please, NEVER DO
THAT).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Long
story short:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The
writers of this episode threw logic and narrative sense out the
goddamn window on this one YET AGAIN to answer the question “what's
the quickest way we can get Dawson to do something KICKASS but
COMPLETELY IMPROBABLE?” </span>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Solution:
JUST IGNORE WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IN THE REAL WORLD AND JUST SORT OF
GLOSS OVER SHIT BECAUSE WHO THE HELL WOULD EVER ANALYSE DAWSON'S
CREEK? </span>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Otherwise
known as: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Obviously, the two characters who were arch enemies last
week, Billy and Dawson now within the space of two minutes bond over
their broken hearts and how they are both kind of creepily obsessed
with Jen. And Dorkson agrees to go on a FREAKING ROADTRIP with MR
UNRELIABLE (who I swear, 30 seconds prior to floating the idea, had totally insulted Dawson and implied he would steal Jen from under his
nose) – not just for a bit of fresh air but for the EXPRESS PURPOSE
of hooking up with random chicks so they can take their mind off Jen,
that evil temptress, for an evening. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">TOTES
REALISTIC! It's like watching a documentary!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So
Dawson and Billy take a quick detour via Capeside High – Dawson is
being daring and skipping school to a) try and get into a bar when
he's underage, b) try and hook up with a random chick – but he
won't go without handing his maths homework in first. THAT'S HOW HE
ROLLS. </span>
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pick up Pacey,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> who of course invites himself along, and then they
bump into Joey and Jen, which is </span>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">a)
AAAAAAAWKWARD</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">b)
AWESOME, since Billy spins this whole lie to the girls (out of
Dawson's earshot) that the roadtrip is actually to a whorehouse to
get Dawson laid. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And
then the roadtrip is aawwwwnnn. It really consists of three parts:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Pacey
explaining and trying to convince Dawson of his place in the
universe as the anti-rebel or “good boy”. Basically, what Pacey
is saying is that Dawson = Dorkson (though I continue to be
surprised that no-one has used this special name yet) and that for a
15 year old, he certainly seems stereotypically middleaged.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> SPOILER ALERT: Billy's rules don't
appear to work (at least, not for Billy and Pacey). Dawson's
cringingly awkward approach to Nina, a woman wearing a Film Threat
tee, actually gets him results. Which brings us to...</span></div>
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near-dalliance with a woman who actually looks WAY TOO OLD FOR HIM. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Nina's views on film are THE CORRECT ONES. She also cites Kubrick and Scorsese as "real" directors. Take that Dorkson. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Pacey is all like “Woah, that chick is HOT!” when he sees Dawson
chatting her up but we all know about Pacey's thus-far questionable
taste *cough* MS JACOBS *cough*. Dawson actually gets all the way
out of the club and to Nina's car, where she invites him back to her
place – not to “do” anything except watch TV of course because
there's been enough statutory rape on this show already. Dawson
TURNS HER DOWN, because he thinks it would be wrong...to watch tv
with another woman when he's still in love with Jen? Uh..okay.
Anyhow, it turns out he was onto Billy's pretty obvious scheme all
along: of course Billy wanted Dawson to hook up with someone so he
could throw that in Jen's face.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But
if Dawson knew that – why not just stay the freak away from Billy
and his stupid road trip? Also...HE WATCHES TV WITH JOEY ALL THE
TIME. How is that not wrong, Dorkson? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Anyhow - DAWSON DOESN'T THINK IT'S WRONG TO GIVE NINA A GOOD OLD-FASHIONED PASH OUTSIDE A SEEDY PUB. Dawson is all class. </span>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">While
all that's going on, back at Capeside High, Joey is having a drama of
her own. Not only is she tortured by the thought that OMG DAWSON
MIGHT BE HAVING SEX – and the horror of this, as well as the
weirdness of Dawson behaving in such a ''male'' fashion, is actually
mentioned more than once by both Jen and Joey this episode – but a
new rumour is going round the school about young Ms Potter. </span>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It
starts when she accepts a ride to school from a football player
called Warren Gary (two first names as a name? Dodge city). </span>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">What
starts out as flirtatious banter soon becomes...just...icky and
inappropriate and it's kind of totally obvious that Warren Gary is a
total jerk. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Um, eww, also: KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE ROAD, WARREN</span></span>.</div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It's
even more obvious when Jen informs Joey later that day that Warren
has told pretty much the entire school (seriously – gossip spreads
round Capeside High in nanoseconds!) that they slept together. </span>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">SO
JOEY DOES A DUMB THING AND CONFRONTS HIM IN THE SCHOOL CAFETERIA IN
FRONT OF LIKE THE ENTIRE WORLD.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">At
this point I was like “Seriously <i><b>Dawson's Creek</b></i>
writers? ARE THERE ANY WOMEN ON YOUR TEAM WHO ACTUALLY WENT TO HIGH
SCHOOL?” Maybe it's a cultural thing, I don't know. Maybe it's
different in America, maybe that's TOTALLY what you do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It's
TOTALLY not what I would do. What happened to ignoring stupid rumours
that clearly have no basis in reality – um HELLO he's a jock and
she's apparently regarded as pondscum and NEVER THE TWAIN SHALL MEET?
Or bitching about people behind their backs to your friends? Oh wait,
Joey doesn't really HAVE any friends. REINFORCING THE STRENGTH of my
first argument!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Anyway,
of course, confronting Warren in public only exacerbates things (he
yells out “I never promised I would be your boyfriend” and makes
Joey look like a stalker) so Jen suggests a plan for revenge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Note
to Joey: don't listen to Jen's stupid ideas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Jen's
idea is that Joey creates a counter-rumour – which she does,
successfully, exploiting the keen ear for gossip and extensive social
network of school bitch, Abby Morgan. The hook: Joey's pregnant, and
scumbag Warren has left her hanging. Abby falls for it, and the
rumour, naturally spreads like wildfire. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">OBVIOUSLY
THIS BACKFIRES LIKE A MEGABITCH.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Though
it does have the intended effect on Warren:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Joey
starts to feel the fall-out,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Mrs Tingle (renamed since the Detention episode in which she was "Mrs Tringle'', I assume because of that movie </span><b style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>Teaching Mrs Tingle</i></b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> Kevin Williamson made that also starred Katie Holmes..er, anyhow) wants Joey to join a family planning class. As if she doesn't know how to look after a baby - hello, ALEXANDER?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and
then Abby plays a trump-card: SHE KNEW IT WAS A LIE ALL ALONG! *GASP*
So now Joey looks even more desperate – like a rejected football
groupie making up stories to try and trap her man. SIGH. Joey learns
a valuable lesson: never listen to Jen, especially when her plan may
have been influenced by an ulterior (okay, possibly subconscious)
motive:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">but
the girls make nice when a tidbit of valuable info Jen gleans from
Abby proves useful in helping Joey get a satisfactory revenge on
Warren.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And
THEN! FINAL SCENE! Bites me in the ass for laughing at the opening,
because I got all kind of emotionally sucked in again. Dawson returns
(by overnight bus) from his road-trip – sleep deprived, he gets
ready for bed as Joey asks the question that has been on her mind the
whole time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Totally not creepy, ROMANTIC. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">As
Dawson drifts off to sleep, the camera is focused on Joey, watching
him – and it's clear what she's thinking. SHE LOVES HIM. We've come
full circle since the beginning of the episode, when it was Dawson
watching Jen; now Joey is watching Dawson.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And
that bloody Savage Garden song is playing, only now...it's not funny.</span></div>
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Just
as I predicted last time, we launch into this episode with the
characters compartmentalising like mofos and pretending like Joey's
raging public nervous breakdown over her unrequited love for Dawson,
complete with Ugly Crying and Snot-O-Rama, NEVER HAPPENED.
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In
fact, the main thing we learn in this episode is that maybe the
<b><i>Dawson's Creek</i></b> writers never intended or expected anybody to watch
the series with such close attention to detail and character
motivation, because there are a BUNCH OF THINGS THAT HAPPEN that
appear to contradict what we have already been told/seen/learned so
far.</div>
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Like
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OH
HAI HAVE YOU NEVER SEEN<i><b> DAWSON'S CREEK</b></i> AND ARE YOU UNAWARE OF THE
ENTIRE PREMISE OF THE SHOW? Hello, Dawson and Joey agree in the Pilot
that they can't do “sleepovers” anymore because of their changing
relationship.
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Am
I being picky? JUST WAIT. There's more. I'll get to it in due course.</div>
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So
anyway. Episode 8, “Boyfriend”.
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Dawson
plays up to his Dork-son alter-ego (except it's not really an
alter-ego when there isn't a “cool” Dawson, is there?) by wearing
a sweater vest and being really excited about taking Jen out on their
date that night: they're going bowling. BOWLING. (I don't have
ANYTHING against bowling and indeed, think it is awesome; the
implication in the episode however is that taking Jen bowling is
super-quaint. You KNOW Dawson probably has his own bowling shoes,
ball and shirt though, because that's how they roll in the movies,
thus making it automatically dorkier than it needed to ever be).
Dawson also shows JUST HOW SENSITIVE AND IN TUNE with his good pal
Joey he is by going on and on about his girlfriend and his date and
how into Jen he is RIGHT IN FRONT OF JOEY'S CRESTFALLEN FACE. And to
be fair to the <i><b>Dawson's Creek</b></i> writers , good character consistency
here – Dawson was just as oblivious last episode, EVEN WHEN JOEY
WAS SNOTTING AND UGLY CRYING AND NERVOUS BREAKDOWNING ALL OVER HIM.</div>
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Dawson
ACTUALLY IS retarded. Which makes you wonder WHY Joey (who is SUPER
INTELLIGENT, remember, though...I don't know if they've addressed
that on the show yet) wants anything to do with him.</div>
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The
spanner in the works for Dorkson's doofy date night is when Billy, an
OBVIOUSLY BAD NEWS guy breezes into town, and into Capeside High,
looking for Jen.</div>
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on, guess who Billy is. GUESS!</div>
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Bad
boy Billy = Jen's ex-boyfriend, the one who got her booted out of New
York. And Jen is ALL IN A MUDDLE about what to do now he's here –
she's with Dawson, but can't seem to bring herself to just tell Billy
to get lost. Besides, it's a whole 4 hour drive for Billy back to New
York, and given he's got...an ENTIRE DAY AHEAD OF HIM...he...has to
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BILLY
IS FULLY A STRAIGHT UP GUY JEN, YOU SHOULD TOTALLY TRUST HIS BULLSHIT
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She
arranges for Billy to stay the night at Dawson's house. Obviously,
Billy taunts Dawson with the threat that he is there to win Jen back,
then when Dawson gets all RAGEFACE Billy is all like “HAHA I WAS
JUST KIDDING LIGHTEN UP
exceptitotallywasn'tevenkiddinghahaWAITANDSEE!”.
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As
contrived and obviously stupid as this whole scenario is, YOU HAVE TO
LOVE IT, because the only possible result is that Dawson ends up
INSANELY MISERABLE one way or another.</div>
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Thank
you Boyfriend episode, for not disappointing me on that front.
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Tick!
Dawson's insane insecurity is triggered the moment he sees Billy
enter Capeside High (cue Dawson lurking around corners spying on Jen
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Tick!
Dawson has the emotional maturity of an 8 year old (and that is
probably wildly unfair to 8 year olds) and lives in lalaland, so Mr
Supposed To Be Cool Guy from New York can play him like a FIDDLE. One
day Dawson will learn to just fly immediately into a Hulk Rage when
anyone attempts to mess with him; sadly, that day has not yet come.
How funny would Dawson hulking out be?!</div>
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Tick!
DAWSON CAN'T HELP IT, HE GOES FOR THE LOW BLOW! Because he secretly
thinks his girlfriend is a whore because she has a life before him
and he can't BEAR the thought that he isn't her first and this aspect
of Dawson's character I GENUINELY LOATHE, because it makes him an
ASSHOLE. Let it fucking GO, Dawson, or get some counselling already.</div>
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Tick!
I HATE JEN AGAIN (it's like all is right with the world!). What is
this?
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When
you told Dawson about “your past in New York” the impression you
gave was that there was a guy who TOOK ADVANTAGE OF YOU WHILE YOU
WERE TOO DRUNK TO CARE WHAT HAPPENED and that story doesn't sit very
well with this:</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Yeah, well, so does Dawson.</span></div>
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I
liked Jen (briefly) when I had sympathy for her and she was working out her
issues. Now she's just....suddenly reverted? Also: Jen agreed to give Billy a
goodbye kiss when he was clearly NOT OVER HER and SHE KNEW IT. As
opposed to telling him to fuck off and marching back to Dawson and
his lion mane and bowling the shit out of some pins. Jen is an IDIOT.
Except she dumps Dawson because she realises she needs to not be a
serial monogamist (which is actually pretty enlightened) and sends
Dawson into a massively bitchy emo fest. So maybe we're still just a
TINY bit Team Jen for that.</div>
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Elsewhere
in Capeside:</div>
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Oh,
ok, Dawson's parents appear in this episode. They're working on their
marriage. Basically, Mitch still can't let Gail's epic betrayal (her
affair with Bob and her LAME justification that it was because her
life was too perfect) go, and he's still a massive awesome bitch
about it:</div>
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Joey
is sleep-deprived because of the new baby (Alexander) (hence the
pre-credits sleepover at Dawson's...and also, what did Jen think of
THAT? She never brought THAT up in her breakup speech – she didn't
mention Joey at all, which is interesting. Jen knows Joey's feelings.
EVERYONE but Dawson does), and it's affecting her study and her work
at the IceHouse. Plus, she's pining for Dawson. She really is
smitten.</div>
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Pacey
comes to her rescue – literally, as it turns out – in this
episode. He sees that she's miserable and stressed, and invites her
to go to Cliff's (remember Cliff – SCOTT FOLEY!) barbecue with him.
He's all like “I couldn't find a date so I knew you'd be available”
but it's really sweet how insistent he is – at first it seems like
he's just antagonising her again and joking around, but then he is
all like “Joey, when is the last time you had any fun?” Then, to
convince her to go, he plays the Dawson card – Dawson is going to
the barbecue alone since Jen is tied up entertaining Billy.
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I
cannot emphasise ENOUGH how obvious it is that Pacey and Joey are
DESTINED to be together (and then I wonder: is it at this point in
filming that Katie Holmes and Joshua Jackson were an actual item,
because that would account for some of the waves of cutie cute
chemistry emanating from the two of them together). SERIOUSLY. The
One True Pair or whatever you call it of <i><b>Dawson's Creek</b></i> is TOTALLY
CEMENTED in this episode as:</div>
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Joey
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expected she would). Dawson tells her he'll go get her a drink...but
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Joey
waits in vain for Dawson to come back but selfish prick he is, he
forgets his oldest dearest friend the second his pretty blonde
girlfriend walks in.</div>
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JOEY
GETS HIT ON BY A SKEEZY LOOKING GUY WHO IS CLEARLY TRYING TO GET HER
DRUNK! (and skeezy guy succeeds in getting her drunk because she
wants to forget the ultimate diss Dawson has laid down upon her)</div>
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PACEY
intervenes, looking out for Joey's safety all night</div>
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and ultimately
ending up in a fistfight with skeezy guy. Dawson joins in at the
last second, as Pacey takes a hit for Joey, protecting her honour,
and dimwit lush Joey thinks, because Dawson is the one to pick her
up off the ground, that HE is the one who saved her from the creep.
Pacey is enough of a gentlemen to keep his mouth shut.
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I
nominate we all laminate huge posters of Pacey's face decorated with
lovehearts and adorn every available surface with them. TEAM PACEY
FOREVER MOFOS.
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Dawson
and Pacey take inebriated Joey back home. Pacey is tasked with making
sure the baby stays quiet (HIGHLIGHT OF THE EPISODE BITCHES! He
remembers Joey telling him at the video store that only the English
Patient worked to put Alexander to sleep, so he re-enacts the movie
for the tot, accents and all)</div>
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Making this the second
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Pacey
wins this episode, and in fact, LIFE, counselling Dawson on the trip
back over the creek. He makes an array of dubious faces listening to
Dawson's ridiculous theories on the difference between love and
friendship (e.g Jen and Joey) and basically stops short of smacking
Dawson upside the head and yelling in his face YOU ARE AN IDIOT STOP
BABBLING NONSENSE AND COME DOWN OFF YOUR COTTON CANDY CLOUD AND JOIN
THE REAL WORLD MR SUNSHINE SPARKLE PANTS.</div>
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It's
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2116006562626699023.post-34152091214975934192011-08-25T13:09:00.001+12:002011-08-25T13:10:30.706+12:00Season 1, Episode 7: Detention<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
<div class="p1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">First of all, above and beyond ANYTHING ELSE in this episode:</span></div><div class="p1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="p1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Dawson's hair looks really unnaturally pretty all of a sudden. Like, did he start using a new shampoo? His hair looks like...a lion's wild untamed splendiforous mane. I'm surprised that, in all the one-upmanship that goes on between Pacey and Dawson this episode, no-one is like "Pacey, you might have a better bod, but CHECK OUT DAWSON'S HAIR!"</span></div><div class="p2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="p1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Secondly: I totally remembered this one! This is the first “special” kind of themed episode of <b><i>Dawson's Creek</i></b> – and the theme is <i><b>The Breakfast Club</b></i>. The gang go so far as to point out the episode-long reference for those who may not be big John Hughes fans (I have to admit, I'm not really a big John Hughes fan and have maybe seen the <b><i>Breakfast Club</i></b> once, a long time ago) It doesn't matter though. All you need to know is:</span></div><div class="p1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="p1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">PACEY TAKES HIS SHIRT OFF.</span></div><div class="p1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="p1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Okay actually the important bit is everyone gets detention, hijinks ensue (sort of). </span></div><div class="p2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="p1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But anyway. This episode is FULLY AWESOME and important in the Grand Scheme of <b><i>Dawson's Creek</i></b>, so let's get stuck in.</span></div><div class="p2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="p1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The pre-credits banter between Joey and Dawson on “movie night” focuses around Dawson's desire to switch a film off an hour and a half in, because it's “unrealistic” to him that two guys would have a drag race over a girl (I confess, I have no idea what film they're watching) and when a film is unrealistic then FUCK IT ALL THE FANTASY IS RUINED AND HIS LIFE IS OVER EMO-ATTACK. Joey mocks him by pointing out his favourite film is E.T. (seriously Dawson?! WOMP WOMP) and it descends rapidly into 1. a sexually charged wrestling match for the remote control (no wonder Joey doesn't sleep over anymore!) and then, incredibly 2. somehow, a weirdo argument about what women want in a man and WHY HASN'T JEN SLEPT WITH YOU YET DAWSON, WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?</span></div><div class="p1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="p1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Movie night must have been a Thursday, because post opening credits we find out it's Friday at Capeside High, and rapidly gain yet another glimpse of a school where the teachers are incompetent. Joey is giving some kind of history presentation about shoguns and concubines and some smarmy jock kid keeps interrupting to ask stupid questions while the loser teacher just hangs out in the back of the class and lets him (if ANYONE deserved a detention, it was smarmy jock kid). Jen is in some kind of a sciencey health class where the teacher - Mr Pickering – asks for opinions on the assigned reading on euthanasia. Apparently there is a “right” opinion (agreeing with the teacher's point of view) and a “wrong” opinion (voicing any other view) and Jen gets in a heated argument about it. And over in the gym, Pacey and Dawson are chilling on the basketball court. Only Dawson has some BARELY REPRESSED RAGE as usual because he thinks that Pacey is trying to get into Jen's pants after seeing them share a private joke together in the corridor.</span></div><div class="p2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="p1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Long story short: everyone ends up in Saturday detention!</span></div><div class="p2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><ul class="ul1"><li style="font: 12.0px Trebuchet MS; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;">Joey: for PUNCHING OUT the smarmy jock when he cut in line in the cafeteria</span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px Trebuchet MS; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;">Jen: for using the word “bitch” in her argument for euthanasia</span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px Trebuchet MS; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;">Dawson: for throwing a basketball in Pacey's face because Pacey taunted him with a childhood nickname that apparently sums up everything he hates about himself</span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px Trebuchet MS; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;">Pacey: refuses to reveal his reason for being in detention until the last second (spoiler: it's embarrassing)</span></li>
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</span></div><div class="p1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Joining them in detention is...school troublemaker ABBY MORGAN (who claims to be on detention for participating in an Ecstacy fuelled orgy in the boys' locker room)! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In what is becoming an embarrassingly familiar trend: I remember hating Abby. BUT SHE'S ACTUALLY HILARIOUSLY BITCHILY AWESOME. </span></div><div class="p2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="p1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Luckily, detention's over so they all get to go home and pretend like this NEVER HAPPENED (ha just kidding!). I hope next ep Dawson goes apeshit emo!</span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2116006562626699023.post-4633045595725649742011-08-16T19:25:00.002+12:002011-08-16T19:34:42.670+12:00Season 1, Episode 6: Baby<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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<li><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">we learn there is only one ambulance servicing Capeside but it's an hour away at a traffic accident and women in labour are not a priority</div></li>
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</div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;">This pleases Bessie EVEN LESS than the prospect of Dawson and Joey being in charge, given Jen's gran has OPINIONS on Joey's family (basically, the Potters are wicked sinners: not only is there the whole druggie dad in jail, but Bessie and Bodie are a mixed race couple LIVING IN SIN AND BREEDING). </div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Guess what? The ambulance never arrives (quelle surprise!) and Mrs Ryan has to deliver the baby. </div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Here's what we learn through this turn of events.</div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><ul style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><li><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">that although just moments prior, Mrs Ryan and Jen were shown, YET AGAIN arguing about religious beliefs, with Grams expressing her dislike for the arty naked men calendar Jen has on the wall and then hiding a Bible in Jen's drawer (implicit: JUST COME TO CHURCH ALREADY JEN); and although previous episodes have indicated that Mrs Ryan has definitely got a problem with Joey's family, SHE CAN PUT HER PERSONAL FEELINGS ASIDE AND ACT IN THE TRUE, NON-JUDGEMENTAL SENSE OF HELPING THOSE IN NEED. I am not a Christian but it's always struck me that THAT is (or should be) what true Christianity is about? Isn't that really ''love thy neighbour” when you get down to it?</div></li>
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</div><ul style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><li><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Up to a point, I am all “OMG Mrs Ryan is SO BADASS AWESOME”. She puts her judgement aside to take leadership of the situation; she smacks Dawson's camera out of the way as he is filming Bessie (which did seem a little bit mean, he WAS only trying to help and he IS only a 15 year old boy...but haha she essentially punched Dawson in the face by proxy, which is HILARIOUS); and she lays a super-smackdown on Jen who so had it coming. Seriously, if I was in a situation where someone was giving birth and there was a registered nurse in charge, dishing out instructions, I would FREAKING DO AS I WAS TOLD, not question every single instruction and freak out the expectant mother by mentioning scary details I really have no experience of like “THERE'S A LOT OF BLOOD SOMETHING'S WRONG ISN'T IT?” Grams uses this as an opportunity to teach Jen about having faith – like “If you are going to stay and help, I need you to develop some faith IN ME, and shut up and DO WHAT YOU ARE TOLD because I know what I am doing”. </div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
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<li><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">But it doesn't. Dawson's Creek writers wreck things, and make me throw out my new Team Grams button, and also make me THROW UP IN MY MOUTH at the point where Bessie is exhausted and losing too much blood, and can't push, and wants something for the pain. Jen is being an unhelpful idiot, and going “GIVE HER A SEDATIVE!” Do you SEE any freaking sedatives just laying around, Jen? Because I'm pretty sure Grams would have shoved them down your throat a while back to shut you the fuck up. (Hey guess what? Looks like I'm off Team Jen! WOOT). Grams gets this weird, beatific glow, which is creepy, because it is like it is coming out of Bessie's vagina, and starts reciting the Lord's Prayer. </div></li>
</ul><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;">No. NOOOO. (Bessie pretty much says the same thing). And Grams goes “Oh, it's not for you! (subtext: because you're living in sin with a BLACK man. I really hope Jen pipes up at some stage and points out Jesus was black) It's for the BABY.” Cue all three of them – Grams, Bessie and FREAKING JEN, that atheist, reciting the Lord's Prayer until the baby pops out. </div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"></div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Meanwhile...Pacey reveals this episode that he is a 4 million times better human being, not to mention far more adult, than that insane burned out wreck of a woman he's been sleeping with (otherwise known as his English teacher, Ms Tamara Jacobs). </div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Everything about their relationship to my adult eyes is just so painful and twisted to watch. Pacey is pushing Tamara for a real date outside of Capeside where they can go out in the open with their relationship, instead of being confined to hiding inside her house on the pretext of a tutoring session.</div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;">(Pretty sure I don't need to spell out everything that is horrifically wrong about Ms Tamara Jacobs, but to seduce a student already in need of academic help – and use ''study sessions'' as the cover for your shenanigans, thereby ensuring he doesn't RECEIVE the academic help he needs...you're not just a sick person, you're a terrible teacher). </div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;">It all goes horribly wrong when Pacey – understandably excited and in the flush of youthful passion (as misguided as it may be) – confides the news of the potential date with Ms Jacobs to Dawson in the ''privacy'' of the boys toilets at Capeside High. He fails to properly check whether any of the cubicles are occupied, however, and a rumour that “Pacey Witter and Ms Jacobs are having a hot affair” spreads through the school - and the town - like wildfire. </div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Joey and Pacey have AN AWFUL LOT IN COMMON. Both of them put themselves second in this episode, stepping up for someone else at the last minute (Pacey for Ms Jacobs; Joey puts her fear aside to be beside Bessie as she gives birth). But it's a scene near the beginning of this episode that fills me with anticipatory JOY – despite Pacey and Joey's antagonism toward each other, Joey is the first to comfort Pacey in the aftermath of the rumour getting out. She knows how he feels and doesn't try and take the pain away, just lets him know he isn't alone. It's my favourite scene in the whole episode. </div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Pacey reacts like a 15 year old in love: he doesn't know any better than to try and work it out with the person he (thinks he) loves.</div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Tamara reacts like...she's been in this situation before.</div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
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</div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Inevitably, there's a hearing in front of the school board. Tamara Jacobs, the 36 year old adult woman, in a position of power, who KNEW Pacey was her student, who knew better than to get involved – this is her time to front up to her involvement in a federal offence.</div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
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</div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;">You could wait forever for that to happen. Pacey, poor, smitten, love-struck Pacey, fronts up, and claims the rumour was the fantasy of his adolescent mind. That Ms Jacobs is innocent.</div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
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</div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Pacey's speech is another Dawson's Creek genius metaphor moment, and a really poignant painful one, at that. Pacey DOES WHAT MS JACOBS, that irresponsible, CRIMINAL BITCH, is incapable of doing - he rises above his own selfish feelings. He lets it go, and lets Ms Jacobs go, and takes the blame, and no-one but Dawson (and Ms Jacobs) will ever know the truth. </div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Of course, <i><b>Dawson's Creek</b></i> has Pacey go and attempt a final goodbye with Ms Pedophilia 1998 because he is 15 and still thinks there's a chance they can be boyfriend-girlfriend. HA! Turns out SHE'S RESIGNED (shocker, also HALLELUJAH) and is going to visit her sister in Rochester.</div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
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<div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;">The set-up for episode 5 is simple and genius, and also mildly confusing, in that it opens with Joey and Dawson happily watching TV together in Dawson's room, waiting for the weather report as if Dawson had not declared Joey dead to him last episode (it turns out he's still mildly pissed but it's a case of "heeey at least you're not a slut, Jo, I need SOMEONE to hang out with"). A hurricane is fast approaching Capeside, school is cancelled and Dawson's house is the safest place to be, apparently; so Joey, Joey's sister Bessie and Bessie's boyfriend Bodie head to the Leery's for shelter, as do Jen and her grandmother. While Mitch is busy battening down the hatches that adulterous hussy Gail is still being an adulterous hussy...and everybody knows. </div><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;"></span><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;">EXCEPT IT'S NOT SAFE AT THE LEERY'S! While everyone may be safe from the meteorological hurricane (“Hurricane Chris”), there's a HURRICANE OF EMOTIONS brewing and getting ready to WRECK SOME SHIT.</div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;">That hurricane, I'm sure you have already guessed, is Hurricane Dawson, who since last episode has worked on his crazy attack. Check him out, catching his adulterous whore of a mother on the phone to her lover: </div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
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</div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;">and then...just...oh NO YOU DI'NT DAWSON:</div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
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</div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;">The only person who can outdo him in sheer unadulterated pettiness is Joey, who plays her trump card:</div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
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</div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Dawson (and Joey) lurking around every corner making veiled allusions to what THEY KNOW finally push Gail to confess her adulterous affair to Mitch. To which I say:</div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;">a) Gail? Could you not have waited like, 2 hours for ALL THOSE RANDOM PEOPLE TO LEAVE YOUR HOUSE? Because seriously? That's freaking AWKWARD.</div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;">b) Gail?! What kind of a mother are you that you want to confess your adultery to your husband IN FRONT OF YOUR 15 YEAR OLD SON? It's bad enough he had to guilt you into it; don't make him be part of this conversation, YOU CRAZY BITCH.</div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;">As you can probably imagine, IT DOES NOT GO WELL (and Gail's hair, it turns out, reflects her emotional state). We also discover EXACTLY where Dawson gets his flair for the melodramatically emo from: </div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
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</div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Meanwhile, over on (I assume) the other side of town, Pacey is being forced to hang out with his big brother, Deputy Doug Witter, as he makes his rounds checking on properties and helping people prepare for the oncoming storm. </div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
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</div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Whose property should they come across other than Ms Tamara Jacobs? When she claims to hate storms and be super scared of the hurricane, Doug offers the Witter Bros services to help secure the property and to stay and ride out the storm with her. Commence Deputy Doug flirting, which involves bonding over show tunes. </div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;">And Pacey making this face. </div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
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</div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Actually, no, the definition of awkward is your cop brother pulling a gun on you and threatening to shoot you unless you tell the teacher he's flirting with, who you're secretly sleeping with, that he's not gay. </div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
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</div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;">1. We find out in this episode that “Jen's Grandma” is actually known to other people as “Mrs Ryan”. She also, awesomely, gets to show another side to her character, other than the one-note “Judgemental Old Religious Lady” she has been stuck as thus far. I actually forgot how much I liked Mrs Ryan and how she gradually reveals herself to be a caring, kind, incredibly wise and supportive person to have onside.</div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> Because initially – yeah, sour-puss with an unfortunate way of phrasing things.</div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;">2. We get a hint into Pacey's background. It's weird how Pacey is the least fleshed out character so far: he's a seemingly happy go lucky clown who doesn't do well with girls (his own admission, last ep) and who is flunking at school (Ms Jacobs told him when she offered an inappropriate 'study incentive' that she'd been speaking to his other teachers about his grades). But that's all we know. This episode we discover that he has a brother in the police (Deputy Doug! His love of showtunes and Broadway musicals is worth remembering, although he claims he isn't gay) but interestingly, that his father is the Capeside Chief of Police. The way Doug talks about Pacey in front of Ms Jacobs is really sad too: he puts him down constantly, and refuses to believe the good things Ms Jacobs (in her role as teacher, lol) says about him, because “that doesn't sound like Pacey”.</div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;">3. Jen and Joey continue to slowly warm up to each other, bonding because Dawson is being a jerk to both of them. They have a really sweet scene, actually, where they are discussing the potential size of Dawson's...err...package, the way girls TOTALLY do; Joey drops the hostility and the fake 'bad girl' routine she has pulled thus far in all her dealings with Jen and is genuinely coy about Dawson and sex; Jen defers to Joey's knowledge of all things Dawson, and appeals to her “girl to girl”. Something about this little scene just struck me as really nicely done.</div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;">4. Dawson's dad is dreaming of building a scuba-diving themed restaurant. Called the Kelp, or something. Just remember that. He's tinkering with the model when Gail breaks the news. </div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;">5. WE FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENED TO JEN. </div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Don't judge me you guys, but I cried during this episode, and it was totally unexpected – because remember? I was never Team Jen, and didn't care ONE BIT about her story. And yeah – her pronouncements up to now about teen sex have tended to be a tad didactic and tonally out of sync with the rest of the episode, but I can overlook it. Because I REALLY DID HATE DAWSON last episode for being SUCH an asshole and judging Jen based on learning one fact that wasn't to his liking. </div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
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</div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Last episode was where the emotional side of things started ramping up: this episode marks the official point where I am, all snark aside, TOTALLY INVESTED IN THIS SHIT.</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2116006562626699023.post-6634670392602692772011-08-11T21:31:00.000+12:002011-08-11T21:31:44.919+12:00Season 1, Episode 4: Discovery<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br />
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</span></div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;">I've figured out your trick, ambiguous <i><b>Dawson's Creek</b></i> episode titles! The titular discovery of this light on action, but heavy on EMOtion episode could be any of the following:</span></div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;">1. Dawson discovers what Joey has secretly known for a couple of episodes now, but wisely opted not to tell him about based on his tendency to lose his already tenuous grasp on reality when anything deviates from the multicoloured sparkliness of Dawsonland (where everyone eats cupcakes all day long and ride unicorns across rainbows). That is: despite his parents being the most inappropriate of exhibitionists, his mother is having AN AFFAIR.</span></div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;">Extra bonus sub-discovery from Dawson's twisted perspective: JOEY IS WRONG FOR KEEPING THIS VITAL INFORMATION FROM HIM. As Joey SO RIGHTLY points out: if she HAD chosen to tell Dawson and shatter his perfect world, then Joey automatically = WRONG for SHATTERING DAWSON'S PERFECT WORLD. Poor Joey, she can't win, in love with a crazy person. BUT IT DOESN'T DISSUADE HER...</span></div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;">2. Dawson and Joey discover that Dawson accidentally filmed more than he intended up at the ruins, and realise that they are watching Ms Jacobs – one of their TEACHERS – make an O-face with an unidentified partner. The big discovery though, is that the guy with “brown hair and throbbing neck muscles” is PACEY WITTER, who confesses his part in the steamy (omg, not to mention criminal) proceedings to Dawson when he BREAKS INTO DAWSON'S ROOM LOOKING FOR THE TAPE. </span></div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9KqszeH4LTTxrcr7ND5IAer-911ZM6zgv_qf8YK2ChtHWXpdY9QE3j3DDB_2WdRhyphenhyphentADc5LkQNmHLTEuIFCPS6YkUZMNG6GbGIH12_HYkuaoY-SXvPHd1JFj3sylpByVY8CugJg6iMk8/s400/vlcsnap-2011-08-07-19h08m48s31.png" width="400" /></div><br />
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</span></div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;">Extra bonus sub-discovery from Dawson's twisted perspective: PACEY (who it appears was actually just reaching out to Dawson in his confession, kind of like “Dude I'm way out of my depth I JUST GOT LAID (yay!) but BITCH IS CRAZY HELP ME” is </span> </div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><ul style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><li><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;">an evil betrayer for keeping his blossoming studliness from Dawson. (Yes, that sounds a lot more...slash...than I intended). </span></div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
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<li><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;">an evil meddler for daring to offer friendly well-meaning advice to Dawson (when Dawson discovers discovery #3)</span></div></li>
<li><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;">a huge threat now, because he's no longer “loser friend” but “friend who got laid by (an admittedly crazy) cougariffic teacher”. Guess Pacey's been having his own little chats with Man-Meat and putting that fatherly advice to practical use. MAKE HER LIPS DANCE PACEY. Oh my god I wish I could unimagine that now. </span> </div></li>
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</span></div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;">3. Dawson discovers that Jen...GASP...is not a virgin. And honestly? HAS A MASSIVE EMO ABOUT IT.</span></div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX9bUkDVmq1jIteWjsLbCNyS5N5CcePYW80yVNnq-g_1Fu9AUCsdtC4baBf8bqdmXCY-ZfDir0y980EosaCOhhrm0_hij40oLRd7PbUd8ShJHt-wEy3VEqmScmoPUItA2Igu-LTruPNFI/s400/vlcsnap-2011-08-07-19h36m43s139.png" width="400" /></div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I do think this is an inappropriate conversation to be having with your Grandad. Even if he IS in a coma. </span></span></div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br />
</span></div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;">Can I just state for the record here that back in the day, I used to hate Jen more than I hated Joey? If there's one FASCINATING pattern emerging early from the rewatch project, it's that as an adult, I can put my “sigh, romantic schoolgirl crush” glasses aside and see past the shallow “Oh I want X and Y characters to end up together” and actually appreciate some of the qualities in Jen and Joey I would have totally ignored or overlooked first time round. </span> </div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jen is reluctant to reveal her murky past (it's still murky for us, but at least we learn in this episode that her ''fast'' times in New York include having sex pretty young). But she tells Dawson that she's serious about actually having a relationship with him based on more than banter and shallow flirting – she acknowledges that is fun, but she wants to mean more than that. She reaches out to him when he's hurting at the revelation that his mother is having an affair – offering to listen, to talk it out, seriously with him. And she asks if he wants to know the truth about why she left New York, because she wants to be honest and not hide from him. She's not a virgin. </span> </div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;">Dawson pretends like he's cool with it. </span></div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
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</div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;">But he's not, and he freaks out, and stops speaking to Jen. He's already stopped speaking to Joey (over her not telling him about his mother's affair) and relations with him and Pacey are slightly strained, now that Pacey is the man, and Dawson is The Virgin. <br />
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DAWSON OFFICIALLY ALIENATES ALL HIS FRIENDS IN THIS EPISODE.</span></div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
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</div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;">The more he moodswings the better. Happy Dawson is boring. CRAZY DEMON-POSSESSED DAWSON? AWESOME. </span> </div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;">Back in the day when I hated Jen, I would have been like “blah blah boring who cares?''. But now? I TOTALLY APPRECIATE THE CHARACTER. I appreciate that in <i><b>Dawson's Creek</b></i> she is a mature 15 year old who has seen too much of life and her mature approach to things reflects that; I appreciate her outlook: genuinely trying to start afresh, and make her life new and better. You know what? I HATED Dawson when he judged her, shutting her out because she all of a sudden didn't fit the fantasy picture he painted in his mind. </span> </div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;">I am confused that now I am all GO JEN. I don't know who to hate anymore. </span> </div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;">Please also note: this episode ends with Dawson and Joey discussing the end of their friendship, only they are imagining themselves in an alternate universe where they are getting married but both turn up to the wedding with dates. </span></div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
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</div><div class="western" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;">WTF <i><b>DAWSON'S CREEK</b></i>? This ending was supposed to be poignant and romantic and all like, achingly hopeful but all I could think was “Someone's on crack in the writer's room”. </span> </div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2116006562626699023.post-37032991135172756392011-08-06T20:54:00.000+12:002011-08-06T20:54:14.402+12:00Season 1, Episode 3: Kiss<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Let's start with the most cracktastic: <br />
<div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Teacher of the Year Ms. Tamara Jacobs informs Pacey he's failing most of his classes. He says he's doing it on purpose, hoping for some “private tuition”. Instead of reacting like...a sane adult and (fill in the reaction of your choice here) Ms Jacobs bribes Pacey to study by offering him “positive reinforcement”. FUCK I HATE THIS STORYLINE. The woman is a crazy, unhinged bitch, and ends up humiliating Pacey and it's HEARTBREAKING.</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
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</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Dawson's movie that he is desperate to enter in the Boston Film Festival (or something) gets worse and worse. As he reveals in his study period a.k.a the film class he's not even supposed to SPEAK in (and by the way, EPIC FAIL on the “studying” there, Dawson) he's a precocious hotshot at film theory (unlike the rest of the film class, proving my earlier point that Mr Gold sucks at teaching), but everything related to his Monster From the Deep film basically reeks, except the monster costume. </div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Doesn't matter though – he's not going to get time to finish Creature from the Reeking Creek or whatever it's called, because FLAGRANTLY DISOBEYING THE ONE RULE THAT MR GOLD LAID DOWN (shut your goddamn trap in film class) has earned him...detention?</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;">No. Mr Gold and Dawson share a creepy eye contact moment as Dawson explains “how sports movie narratives work” to the rest of the class (you'd think the teacher would have done that already...in a film class) and Dawson earns the chance to help finish the “football team glorification” film the class is making. But yay, his sort of girlfriend that he hasn't even kissed yet Jen will be there too! </div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;">ALLEGIANCE WATCH:</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Well – it's not like they WANT us to be on Team Jen, right? Here's what I'm working with:</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><ul style="font-family: inherit;"><li><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Season 1 can stand alone as a perfect complete capsule series: the story of Joey and Dawson, so TEAM JOEY</div></li>
<li><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Jen turns up to the football film shoot dressed as a cheerleader because Cliff (you remember, dreamboat jock Scott Foley) asked her to. Does she have no TACT? Does she not realise that Dawson is UNSTABLE? Does she not understand that DAWSON WANTS TO BE HER BOY ADVENTURE and he will CUT CLIFF, he will CUT HIM WITH A SCIMITAR. Because a knife isn't melodramatic enough for Dawson.</div></li>
<li><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">My sister pointed out: back in the pilot, Jen's bad girl schtick basically consisted of alluding to moving mysteriously fast in New York and challenging her devoutly religious grandmother who very recently nearly lost her husband to say “penis”. That's not actually edgy, when you compare it to basically every single thing Joey has said or done (including marry Tom Cruise). </div></li>
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</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;">We're totally TEAM JOEY right now. </div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Joey is in fact busy flirting up a storm, spending a day sailing and building sand replicas of the grassy knoll where JFK was shot with a preppy violinist she made eyes at while hanging out with Dawson and Pacey at the Icehouse (REMEMBER THE ICEHOUSE?!). His name is Anderson and Joey reveals herself to be QUITE the accomplished liar when she meets him again – giving a fake name (Deborah Carson) and inventing a whole fantasy life for herself: rich parents, boarding school. It's really pretty fucked up, because it doesn't seem to be about making the guy like her – he already liked her; it's about escaping her reality. Plus, Anderson seems like a pretty nice, upfront guy, and one of the first things he says is that dishonesty is a dealbreaker.</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
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</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Also, he sees Joey's true nature:</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
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</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Whatever they have is going to be a good time, not a long time. With this in mind, the fact that literally EVERYTHING she tells Anderson is outrageously untrue and her whole practical carpe diem attitude, Joey does get the first kiss of the episode – making it THE kiss of the title? I think this would have been a downer back in the day, like NO IT SHOULD BE WITH DAWSON – but now I applaud her practicality...and her creativity. Hah, how the years change us. </div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;">All her lies, of course come back to bite her when Anderson meets her in the company of Jen and Dawson. Plots thicken all over the place: rival Jen covers Joey's lie because she's all “us girls need to stick together” not realising that Joey would shiv her with a sharpened toothbrush in a SECOND; Dawson is irritatingly oblivious – like – he's THICK and makes you wonder why ANY girl would end up crushing on him: “Her name's not Deborah?”, Joey is just...really awkward at covering her own awkward, outrageous lies. Like, come on. If you're gonna do it, go full throttle. Tell Anderson that oblivious Dorkson is your butler and then order him to do shit for you. Especially if Jen's got your back, girl! Never mind Joey. You'll learn. In fact, I've got a new unifying theory of <i><b>Dawson's Creek</b></i>:</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;">This series isn't even about Dawson at all. IT'S ABOUT JOEY.</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Sure, the title of the entire series is misleading, given it names Dawson. But it also names a creek. The creek, I think you will agree, has little or no significance to the overall story arc. (Is it just me that remembers the theory that the significance of the show's title was that ultimately, Dawson would die and his ashes would be scattered in the creek – hence, Dawson's Creek? Well, spoiler alert, THAT NEVER HAPPENS. But that would have been an awesome way to end things). </div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>Fact:</b> Only ONE core cast member appears in all 128 episodes of <i><b>Dawson's Creek</b></i>. That person is NOT James van der Beek, but instead Katie Holmes (I don't know why I still know this, but it's true. I wasn't exaggerating when I said <i><b>DC</b></i> was MY SHOW). </div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;">The prompt for me thinking about this is the pre-credits banter between Dawson and Joey in this episode. It's Movie Night chez Dorkson, and tonight the film is <i><b>From Here to Eternity</b></i>, starring Montgomery Clift and Deborah Kerr. The whole conversation between Dorkson and Joey foreshadows the rest of the episode for each of them, and reveals the fundamental heart of each character. </div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Seriously, I'm getting all geeky on it, but this episode is where I start getting sucked in. And this pre-credits banter, and in fact, every time <i><b>DC</b></i> references another text (and it happens AN AWFUL LOT – it's just that <i><b>DC</b></i> fans were never as geeky as <i><b>LOST</b></i> fans to sit and analyse every intertextual reference (plus as already discussed, back in the late 90s, the internet wasn't as much of a thing as it is now) is IMPORTANT, so pay attention when they talk film or tv.</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Dawson really is a fantasist, or, if we are being kind, an eternal romantic. He believes that life can be EXACTLY like it is in the movies (e.g. perfect, glossy, blemish-free romance) and actually tells Joey that he is prepared to go to any lengths to stage/production-manage his life to ensure the important moments – e.g. his first kiss with Jen – are ABSOLUTELY PERFECT. To be fair to Dawson: he is viewing the world through love and hormone tinted lenses; everything is shiny happy rainbows as long as things are going well with Jen.</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
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</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;">If you listen to that and roll your eyes and snort and/or vomit in your mouth a little, then you are with me over on Team Joey. Joey points out that FILM IS NOT REAL LIFE, that Deborah Kerr would have got sand in her crotch rolling round on the beach and that Montgomery Clift was gay. </div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;">James van der Beek is an excellent actor because he looks genuinely wounded as Joey punctures his romantic illusions. Oh god, I <i>hope</i> he is an excellent actor.</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Joey can't believe that Dawson hasn't kissed Jen yet (but she's secretly happy, am I right?) and is just like “Just DO it, Dorkson. Moisten your bottom lip and make her mouth dance like Man Meat taught you!” </div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Okay fine, she doesn't reveal that she was spying on THE WORLD'S MOST AWKWARD MOMENT, but she is all like “you can't stage manage a kiss, control freak, just let it happen and LIVE IN THE REAL WORLD not in your film fantasies”. Joey clearly is erring towards waaaay too cynical for a mere 15 years of age but let's examine the facts:</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><ol style="font-family: inherit;"><li><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Her mother died tragically and as revealed last episode, endured an adulterous criminal husband AS SHE WAS DYING OF CANCER.</div></li>
<li><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Her dad is in prison for reasons as yet unrevealed on the show but we all know it's drugs, right?</div></li>
<li><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">It's only suggested in a weird subtle way, but Joey's poor compared to some of the other kids at Capeside. She works a lot of hours in the restaurant run by her sister Bessie and her sister's (gasp) black boyfriend Bodie, seemingly because she HAS to, not for pocket money. </div></li>
<li><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">SHE'S SUFFERING FROM UNREQUITED LOVE FOR DORKSON. How humiliating – to love your best friend, who is totally oblivious and insensitive and keeps flaunting just how much you are in the friend zone IN YOUR FACE.</div></li>
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</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Also, I just have to say: I once went out with a guy who thought EXACTLY like Dawson with the whole “romance should be just like the movies” thing, and let me tell you this. The flipside is that when anything goes wrong – even the slightest disagreement – it's like the whole perfect world has crumbled for the eternal romantic, who goes from “everything is rainbows and sparkles” to “my heart is a gaping wound filled with oppressive gloom” very quickly. Like Dawson last episode. </div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Anyway – my theory. It's all about Joey. I don't know why she's fascinating me this time round. I'm going to watch her and see if she changes (and I think she does) – as in, does her character grow from being this cynical closed off girl? (I think she does). Does Dawson ever grow out of his need to mould reality to fit his fantasy? NO. He still ends up a film-maker, doesn't he? (Don't tell me). </div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">But you know (back to the episode I'm supposed to be talking about) Dawson just can't resist ignoring all the quite practical advice Joey gave him. He and Jen head up to ''the ruins'' to shoot 5 seconds of footage for his monster film; 5 seconds that require this awesome song playing in the background:<br />
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</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">and lots of candles that make no sense being in ANY film (told you his movie sucked) and like, a curtain hung up beside a freaking fountain. This is how Dawson Leery creates romance. </div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Because...IT'S ALL PART OF A SCHEME TO TRY AND KISS JEN...AND SECRETLY FILM IT. </div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">In an echo of what happened last episode, Jen gets really mad, Dawson gets really earnest and GUTTINGLY GETS THE GIRL despite having been the ultimate creepy creeper. The two have to run and hide mid argument when they hear someone approaching the ruins. Obviously cobwebs and darkness are aphrodisiacs because that's how Dawson finally gets his unplanned kiss:</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
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</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Crucially as Jen and Dawson hide, they leave the still-running video camera behind....and what it captures to teenage me was thrillingly shocking; to adult me: HORRIFYING:</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
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</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Viewing this through adult eyes: Pacey's fucked-upness makes a bunch more sense now. Shit is getting real. </div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2116006562626699023.post-86536313564310645052011-08-06T08:59:00.004+12:002011-08-06T09:04:53.410+12:00Season 1, Episode 2: Dance<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="font-family: inherit;">First of all, what is UP with the teachers at Capeside High? </div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;">We have Mr Gold, the film teacher who, in the pilot episode, bluntly explained to Dawson why an overwhelming sense of entitlement and a “lifelong passion for film”are not enough to make him bend the rules and allow a freshman into a film class intended for sophomores. Basically, Dawson was told in the pilot that with demand for the popular class running so high, he's gonna have to wait a year to take the class.</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;">This episode, Dawson has found a loophole: he just happens to have 5<sup>th</sup> period as his study period, but the library is just so crowded and “sweaty”. God knows I hate a sweaty library. He's good to spend study period with Mr Gold, if that's cool with Mr Gold. </div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Oh. coincidentally, 5<sup>th</sup> period is when Mr Gold teaches the film class that he wouldn't let Dawson into.</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;">DAWSON IS A MANIPULATIVE, PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE LITTLE BITCH.</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;">So instead of Mr Gold saying “No, suck it up in the library, Princess, learn to follow the goddamn rules because good things come to those who wait”, he decides the best way to teach Dawson a valuable lesson is to let him into the class, but with the proviso that Dawson must PRETEND NOT TO EXIST. He cannot ask questions or participate or LEARN; basically, Mr Gold SUCKS as a teacher all round.</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Then there's Ms Jacobs.</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;">It's not...normal for a 15 year old to walk into English class and say to his teacher “We really need to talk...about how your tongue was in my mouth” (at least, it wasn't at my school). Poor, poor Pacey. He's just trying to get some clarity and closure but DUDE. When your teacher (a huge red flag right there) pretends that she can't remember pashing you but then hijacks your English lesson to give you a veiled yet incredibly unsubtle message in analogy form, bumming out innocent students on the way: “Yes Nelly, that would be the OBVIOUS interpretation of <i><b>Wuthering Heights</b></i> but here's my interpretation that is basically a secret coded message for that one student in the class I inappropriately tongue-kissed..” then you should probably just cut your losses because she's a CRAZY FUCKED UP PERSON.<br />
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Ms Jacobs eventually says roughly this to Pacey, mentioning 10 years of therapy, how badass it was that she BROKE THE LAW and how they can NEVER do it again...before promptly grabbing Pacey and playing the old tonsil-hockey with him again. PACEY! I'm pretty sure teenage me thought you were SO COOL and swooned at how romantic the situation was, like OOOH forbidden love, but adult me wants to shake some sense into you and have that nightmare fuck-up of a teacher ARRESTED. Also, <i><b>Dawson's Creek</b></i>? Wow, I didn't appreciate at the time what a bizarre and inappropriate storyline this was. </div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;">So anyway. With the pilot out of the way it feels like a proper show now – there's a proper title sequence with the full theme song!<br />
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</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Also known as the episode that reveals (as early as second episode in) exactly why pretentious wannabe filmmaker Dawson Leery would be better off staying at home watching John Travolta dance films on a Saturday night LIKE HE PLANNED instead of going to the big school dance to try and win Jen's affection when he finds out she's going to be there with Cliff, a jock who asked her out.<br />
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(Cliff is played by none other than Scott Foley, which is awesome in itself. YOU CAN NEVER WIN Dawson!.)</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXZOGNLofsijBnob0kx__27HFIm9dr4_1edXyozlJI3O-fbZPXjbtUYvmSYW54_Bw5QYalLaDEjW2J7r7XopD4h5uld1Fl-jZeIQZKgVxi1YiHnCmrPM8-Ei5HoAR4LDRceKLzW5XtKtk/s400/vlcsnap-2011-08-06-00h00m07s233.png" width="400" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">He'll always be Noel off <i><b>Felicity</b></i> to me. Even though I've seen maybe 2 episodes of <b><i>Felicity</i></b> in my life. Oooh, next project?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div></div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;">The theme of this episode: DAWSON IS INCAPABLE OF BEHAVING LIKE A NORMAL PERSON..</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;">The story, in a nutshell: </div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Filming continues on Dawson's monster movie. Joey refuses to kiss Pacey – the girl just can't see what's good for her, because she is clearly in love with a clueless, and I mean UTTERLY OBLIVIOUS Dawson. Actually, EVERYONE seems to be utterly oblivious to the fact that Joey is practically throwing herself at Dawson: she spent all of last episode obsessing about his genitals and hiding in his closet, and much of this episode is an extension of the pilot's open disdain and scorn for everything related to Dawson's feelings for Jen.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj04U_iklVYJKyvR4-Jc5vrwG9c2AC8TVFM6GcgFWK2gWLvR__nWXnWISeAdOYij7SajCXqS3WCxtfb-VQWsQxGP8tEc4TwcxBhSdmmcXhB38f_UmyU96C94kWGMnCTq5RbVolQtRnlpJM/s400/vlcsnap-2011-08-06-00h34m34s166.png" width="400" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">Joey's growing on me. This line made me snort. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></div>Also? If Joey claims to be so worried about her and Dawson's burgeoning sexuality messing up their friendship, she should probably a) stop sneaking into his house and b) stop spying on him and c) wear a little more than just a bikini top. JUST SAYING, JO. (Oh yeah, hangover from last episode: master spy Joey knows that Dawson's tv news anchor mother is having an affair with her co-anchor, and in this episode keeps it from mentally fragile Dawson but confronts the mother about it, using her own tragic background: dead mother, jailbird drug smuggler father, "YOU'RE THE ONLY FAMILY I KNOW" as guilt inducer. Message: don't mess with Joey). </div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Anyway. Faced with Joey's insubordination Dawson makes a series of decisions that make me seriously question his film-making abilities. He doesn't tell his lead actress to just man up and do what the script requires (e.g. pash the Pacester), nor does he go the cheapest, simplest route of just cutting the kiss; instead he instigates a radical rewrite to replace Joey with Jen in the film as “the beautiful cousin”. When she and Pacey seem to enjoy their screen kiss a little too much HE FREAKING CUTS THE KISS (crazy eyes alert) and has a barely repressed rage-gasm and can't see what we can all see being foreshadowed: </div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Clearly, Dawson's going to have a huge nervous breakdown at the dance, you guys. He has an excuse though:<br />
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But before he lets the beast loose he does some vital preparation. He is (in his own deranged imagination at least) going to end the night by kissing Jen. So obviously, he needs to seek advice on this matter from a trusted buddy. Joey? Doubt it. The only advice the girl has to offer involves leather and Crisco (seriously, they try and sell Jen as the bad girl, but increasingly I'm convinced it's Joey who could kick Jen's ass in all aspects of badass bitchery). Pacey? Pacey, this whole episode, is dealing with his own issues with who his friends think is a “mystery woman” but who we know is Ms Jacobs, and so is a friend in absentia to poor, deranged Dawson.</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;">New question:</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Why doesn't everyone call Dawson Dork-son? This guy asks his <b>dad</b> in the awkwardest way possible about 'the mechanics of kissing girls' – he wants tips on technique - which Man Meat responds to with a horrific story about Chapstick (which in this episode gets horribly clunky product placement and after seeing Mitch and Gail eat face, I'm NEVER USING THAT PRODUCT AGAIN). Plus, honestly, with adult eyes, there's a creepy tension between <strike>Dawson</strike> Dorkson and his dad.<br />
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I'm like: Dorkson...ASK PACEY THESE QUESTIONS.<br />
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Practice pashing on your hand in the privacy of your room.<br />
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DO NOT PRACTICE KISSING ON A PAPIER MACHE REPLICA OF JOEY'S HEAD THRUST AT YOUR FACE BY YOUR FATHER AS HE SAYS “Moisten your bottom lip! Make it dance with hers!”</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;">The creepiest part is that as this whole sick scenario plays out, Joey is spying from the staircase, and as Dawson pecks the macabre papier mache Joey, real Joey clearly imagines he is dryly kissing her Chapsticked lips. According to <b><i>Dawson's Creek</i></b>: this is romance. </div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Was I retarded when I was a teenager? </div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>The Great Dorkson Meltdown</b></div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;">I don't know if my favourite part is BEFORE he goes to the dance, when he's lying on his bed with Joey (thought that was sposed to stop, hmmmmm?) and obsessing over what might be happening between odious jock Cliff (SCOTT FOLEY!) and Jen at the dance – he makes up a whole elaborate scenario, freaking out Joey on several levels,<br />
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then starts thrashing up and down manically because his THOUGHTS ARE PHYSICALLY PAINFUL, </div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;">or AT the dance, where Dawson's epic moodswings eventually push him over the edge.<br />
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Dawson decides to be The Man and basically challenge Cliff to a duel. He actually practically slaps him in the face with a glove, it's that awkward and poserish – he's trying to cut in at the dance and says something like “manly step aside because I'm here now, JEN YOU CAN HAVE ME”.<br />
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HAHAH it's hard to hate Dawson when he makes himself look like such a dick. When Dawson descends into his Manic/Emo Melodramatic Meltdown mode, it's actually amazing. Because you know how like, in <i><b>Say Anything</b></i>, there's that moment when John Cusack plays the song through the boombox over his head – like the big romantic gesture? Dawson is like that but he gets it so so amazingly wrong, and it's spectacularly awkward. Dude practices kissing on mummified heads with his dad for god's sake. And then he beats himself up over it and has to talk it out for 10 million years, and then, GUTTINGLY because there is no justice in the world, HE GETS THE GIRL ANYWAY. </div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Sort of. He meets up with a fuming Jen after the dance and tells her (I can't even type it without laughing) that he wants to be her “boy adventure”.<br />
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</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;">She's like “So...I'm interested. What do I need to do?”</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Dorkson's beady little eyes light up and he says “Kiss me?” </div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;">BURN, Dorkson. Jen's excuse for not kissing him is another vague allusion to whatever happened in New York (she was moving “way too fast” apparently and if she kisses him she might “stumble and fall”. I CALL BULLSHIT ON THAT ONE. If Dorkson was any kind of a man, he would say “These arms are strong, I'll catch you”. That's what Pacey would do). </div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
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witnesses Dorkson dancing in the street with Jen, who, if you think about it, just really insulted him, because she had no problem kissing Pacey. </div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;">TEAM JOEY all the way. I kind of love her bitchy dark side, and you know what? SHE COULD SO take Jen in a fight. </div><div class="western" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
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</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2116006562626699023.post-3742701517553332902011-08-05T22:17:00.025+12:002011-08-05T23:02:00.607+12:00Season 1, Episode 1: Pilot<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;">I was expecting to be swept away in waves of tear-soaked nostalgia from the get go, but as it turns out, memory is an unreliable bitch. Logic states that a pilot episode has to carry quite a heavy burden: establishing from scratch the basic premise, setting up all the characters and the conflicts and the storylines that will hopefully carry on for the rest of the season. Like I already said: beginnings can be awkward, and it's kind of odd to watch the pilot now and notice with adult eyes all the things the critics picked on at the time. </span></div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"></div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;">The theme of this episode (and hint: the rest of the season, and basically, ALL OF <i><b>DAWSON'S CREEK</b></i>) is basically: growing up totally sucks, especially if you are secretly in love with your best friend and unable to confess because you know they are in love with someone else. </span> </div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;">And really – who can't identify with that? Except maybe Pacey (Joshua Jackson) who spends most of this episode establishing himself as whatever the opposite of a cougar is: he's a 15 year old boy actively pursuing his new English teacher who must be like...40? </span></div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv2D0Nh1xqrXOeTRXPR-inPrS44XMxy1RT_Vmg9lIq2lfFWVFAam6e8q3N8LS3SshnGEgLdLwxTvQraam5Sc_cu7mDsW8P_A9RrqddrprSw-d7CNEbwNtKaAuTN99YkZorfCgWKW0FBuY/s400/vlcsnap-2011-08-05-18h42m25s73.png" width="400" /></span></div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;">(One of the functions of any Pilot episode = choose your allegiance to the core characters. If you're not Team Pacey by the time he lays the verbal smackdown on Ms. Tamara Jacobs for toying with his emotions and flirting up a storm, then there is something VERY wrong with you). (Also seriously – if you're not Team Pacey...WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU?)</span></div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
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<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;">So anyway. The pilot crams in quite a lot of info into a short amount of time.</span></div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;">Best friends Dawson Leery (James van der Beek) and Joey (Josephine) Potter (Katie Holmes) have known each other their whole lives but now, mid-adolescence (aged 15), they realise that their super-close friendship is changing. Well actually, only Joey realises it. Dawson is quite happy for their platonic weekend sleepovers to continue forever, seeing nothing wrong with the way things have always been, and because he can't see that Joey CLEARLY HAS MORE THAN PLATONIC FEELINGS FOR HIM.</span></div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;">Joey can't just confess her love to Dawson:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"> </span> </div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;">a) because he's her best friend, and come on, I wouldn't even recklessly recommend that AS MUCH AS I CAN'T STAND JOEY and</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"> </span> </div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;">b) because he's openly lusting after the new girl in town, Jen Lindley (Michelle Williams, way before anyone DREAMED she would ever become a movie star) </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"> </span> </div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;">so instead she starts acting out in a way that is kind of ridiculously awesome.</span></div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
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<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;">I think I would like Joey a LOT more if she was an evil sarcastic psycho bitch ALL THE TIME. </span> </div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;">Aside from Pacey's pursuit of Ms. Jacobs (that ends in a kind of creepy kiss) and the Dawson-Joey-Jen love triangle, nicely setting up THE ENTIRE SIX SEASONS OF THE SHOW, we learn some other vital information that will be important going forward.</span></div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">* Dawson is an aspiring filmmaker who has recruited his friends into starring in his latest film, a horror film with Pacey as a swamp creature and Joey as the victim. Joey accuses Swamp Creature Pacey of groping her during filming and forbids him from touching her, ever, which is SO IRONIC given how their relationship will play out in a couple of seasons' time. </span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
* It's pretty incredible that Dawson isn't in therapy because his parents appear to be sex addicts who behave TOTALLY INAPPROPRIATELY in public. Seriously? Gail Leery calls Mitch Leery “Mr Man Meat” which may be the lowest point of this, or ANY <b><i>DC</i></b> episode.</span></div><div></div><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">* We meet Jen Lindley, the troubled granddaughter of Dawson's neighbour.</span></div><div></div><br />
<div style="text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw7txVVVlAIs0VD-axpugq5_NuNCXp27KY9TeM2wvFNVZgGaXXUnGBjgNEqR6n5TlFqTzZBs7sJ3JXvpBLXmQELTwFrTdErnShdHamp-duz-RxOY19LKoBtU1r_DDAz4umGDnlwmpFx1w/s1600/vlcsnap-2011-08-05-18h44m32s59.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw7txVVVlAIs0VD-axpugq5_NuNCXp27KY9TeM2wvFNVZgGaXXUnGBjgNEqR6n5TlFqTzZBs7sJ3JXvpBLXmQELTwFrTdErnShdHamp-duz-RxOY19LKoBtU1r_DDAz4umGDnlwmpFx1w/s400/vlcsnap-2011-08-05-18h44m32s59.png" width="400" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> She walks in beauty like... a man with severe constipation and flat feet.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Much allusion is made to her troubled past in New York despite Jen explicitly saying the way NO TEENAGER I KNOW HAS EVER SAID: “I like to have a good time, substance free”. Honestly, watching it now, her mysterious bad rep comes across as OMG SHE HAD A SIP OF WINE AND STAYED UP PAST MIDNIGHT ONE TIME BUT DON'T TELL DAWSON BECAUSE HE'LL BE SO DISAPPOINTED.</span></div></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Also Gran! I always thought Gran was actually old but THIS POOR WOMAN! They just aged her up!</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> * JOEY, I'VE ALWAYS HATED HER and I know why now.</span></div><div></div><div></div><br />
<div style="font-family: inherit;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF9MZtgoeVS0_9KBApqUq2TkmucNcU5PnYJqx2_1_dOrfIY540ZD6fdcYQTA11fgMm8yvbhkIBgZxhk24AHFxTTpLer8shiSTOtQUIKhsT3gFp_wKTufLv53N_fdv7k308If0UL4xjokI/s1600/vlcsnap-2011-08-05-20h38m40s189.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF9MZtgoeVS0_9KBApqUq2TkmucNcU5PnYJqx2_1_dOrfIY540ZD6fdcYQTA11fgMm8yvbhkIBgZxhk24AHFxTTpLer8shiSTOtQUIKhsT3gFp_wKTufLv53N_fdv7k308If0UL4xjokI/s400/vlcsnap-2011-08-05-20h38m40s189.png" width="400" /></a></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">She pretty much spends the entire episode like this - barely concealing her disdain for Jen. It's just rude. </span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Nothing Joey does makes ANY sense in the Pilot – from telling Dawson “the sleepovers have to stop”and then caving in and jumping on top of him 2 seconds later, sucked in by his floppy haired charm; to agreeing to double-date with Dawson and Jen and Pacey as a favour to her best friend and then sabotaging it in breathtaking fashion...and then explaining that sabotage, not as motivated by jealousy (UH IT WAS OBVIOUS, JO) but because “You have such a perfect life Dawson and you don't even appreciate it”. THAT DOESN'T EVEN MAKE SENSE! Don't even get me started on her whole “we can't be superclose friends anymore” thing followed by the (ridiculous-awesome) sabotage and how she then HIDES IN DAWSON'S CLOSET. WTF? </span></div><div></div><br />
<div style="font-family: inherit;"></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Dawson <i>was</i> kind of a heart-throb when he SHUT UP ABOUT SPIELBERG for five seconds. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Also - hilarious that the world has changed so much in a decade that part of the evidence for Dawson's passion for film is that he knows a ''little-known fact'' about<b><i> Psycho</i></b>. Whereas today: HELLO WIKIPEDIA? Anyone can look that shit up, you're not a special and unique (irritatingly precocious) flower, Dawson. Rewatch note to self: mobile phones and the internet are not big 'things' yet in 1998. (Really? Can that even be true?) </span></div><div></div><br />
<div style="font-family: inherit;"></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Dawson begins a long tradition of crazy eyes</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">and awkward behaviour around females (except when he is unbelievably incredibly smooth in comparison to Pacey trying to chat up a Ms Jacobs). The show, for example opens with Joey and Dawson discussing body hair and Dawson's growing genitals. Just try not to visualise that now.</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">* NOSTALGIA ALERT. The 90s is due a revival like, RIGHT NOW. I predict that this will wear off within a few episodes but one of the high points of the episode for me = Freshfaced Dawson sees his new crush Jen sitting on the pier, and this glorious song kicks in:</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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The header says it all, pretty much: I'm part of the generation for whom Joshua Jackson will ALWAYS be Pacey Witter a.k.a MY DREAM MAN a.k.a the fictional character who has probably wrecked me for any real man, Katie Holmes will forever be <strike>fondly</strike> remembered as little Joey Potter and not the woman who made Tom Cruise creepily flip out on Oprah's couch, and James van der Beek will be a floppy haired emo wannabe film-maker named Dawson Leery (which always struck me as a kind of unfortunate spelling of the surname). As opposed to THIS GUY:<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Much respect Dawson (like I said: he'll always be Dawson to me): you've aged surprisingly well, and I approve of this.</span></div><br />
<i><b>Dawson's Creek</b> </i>was MY SHOW, you guys! At 18, I may have been slightly (or pretty radically) towards the tail end of the target 'teen' audience when it started screening here in NZ in prime time...but I never missed an episode of my stories. We even made up a drinking game based around rules like "Drink when Joey bites her lip and rolls her eyes"; "Drink when Jen walks like she is constipated"; "Drink when Dawson's Spielberg worship gets way too much to handle".<br />
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Until I did miss an episode. I missed a WHOLE SEASON. By Season Five <i><b>Dawson's Creek</b></i> wasn't cool enough for primetime anymore and I was too lazy and busy and unironically hipster cool to be bothered keeping up with a show that was on at like, 2pm on a Sunday afternoon. (Note: I am not at all cool, obviously). The show got shuffled around and shuffled around until I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW WHEN IT WAS ON. Long story short: I ended up missing most of Season Six, including the infamous finale, which I still haven't had the guts to watch. I KNOW HOW IT ENDS...I just don't ACTUALLY "know" how it ends. Forget <i><b>LOST</b></i>...<br />
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It's okay. I have all the dvds, and I think it's finally time to revisit Capeside. I'm kind of SUPER excited. You could say... I don't wanna wait.<br />
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Is that sad?<br />
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I CAN'T EVEN TELL ANYMORE.<br />
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