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Dawson's Creek
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The reigning Teen Drama of the late 90's/early 00's. Revolved around a bunch of teenagers who live in the small fictional town of Capeside, Massachusetts.The eponymous Dawson Leery (James Van Der Beek) is The Idealist and The Movie Buff with a long-standing platonic friendship with The Cynic Josephine "Joey" Potter (Katie Holmes), the girl from the wrong side of the tracks, whose Disappeared Dad and Missing Mom have left her and her older sister Bessie (Nina Repeta) running a restaurant by themselves. When not attending high school, Dawson works in a video-rental store with Book Dumb Bromantic Foil Pacey Witter (Joshua Jackson). When the elderly Evelyn Ryan (Mary Beth Peil) ends up hosting her granddaughter, Jen Lindley (Michelle Williams), a New York Hard-Drinking Party Girl who Really Gets Around and was sent away to break her of her habits, Dawson's life gets thrown for a spin. Add to this the shaky marriage between his parents Mitch (John Wesley Shipp) and Gail (Mary Margaret Humes), and we have all the ingredients for a Coming of Age Story. Later additions to the starring cast include Tall, Dark, and Handsome Naïve Newcomer Jack McPhee (Kerr Smith), his Cute Bookworm sister Andie (Meredith Monroe), and Genki Girl Audrey Liddell (Busy Philipps).Its gimmick was to show teenagers as well-spoken individuals with vocabularies that would make Calvin dizzy, rather than resort to the usual TV teenspeak. Fans of the show praised its respectful portrayal of how teens talk and think. Others were less enthralled by the characters' habit of twisting every minor thing into a soliloquy on life's mysteries. It was also accused, especially at the time, of being obsessed with sex, though it's fairly tame today (which may or may not prove aforementioned accusers correct).Everybody can agree on one thing, though. No other works of man, past or present, can ever top the maudlin madness of Dawson's Creek. The show inspired such passionate feelings that it indirectly spawned Television Without Pity, which was originally named "Dawson's Wrap".Famous both for its actors being much older than their on-screen counterparts and the infamous Dawson/Joey will-they-won't-they storyline. Also a notable example of the Fan-Preferred Couple getting together in the end.Also has the distinction of being the final thing to ever be aired on The WB before the launch of The CW. The end credits for the pilot, in particular, were literally the last thing to be seen on The WB, not even a promo or The WB's standard Credits Pushback. | |
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Hotter and Sexier: as mentioned above, the show had a reputation for being preoccupied with sex: in addition to the Will They or Won't They? between Dawson and Joey, Jen explicitly lost her virginity at 14, Pacey wanted a Teacher/Student Romance, Bessie was pregnant out of wedlock from an interracial relationship, and Dawson's parents were recovering from Gail cheating on Mitch. And that's just the first season! Having said that, the show, for all intents and purposes, deconstructed these things: Dawson's waffling between Jen and Joey causes him no end of trouble, Jen's use of Sex for Solace shows her insecurities, Pacey's relationship with Tamara Jacobs led to completely predictable repercussions, Bessie and Bodie face scorn, and Mr. and Mrs. Leery spend more than a season wrestling with their marriage. Besides, high-schoolers caring about sex is merely Truth in Television. The public objection to Dawson's Creek wasn't so much that it admitted to teen sexuality, but rather that it refused to glamorize it. | |
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Big, Screwed-Up Family: They're not that big, but the McPhee family otherwise fit this perfectly. | |
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Relationship Upgrade: The love triangle, square, dodecahedron... whatever one chooses to call it, persists right up until the series finale. Only then is the matter finally settled: Joey chooses Pacey over Dawson, citing that Dawson will always be her "soulmate" and best friend, but not her romantic partner. Jack and Doug likewise get together, although their relationship only existed in the finale itself and not the previous seasons. | |
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Cool Old Guy: Mr. Brooks, a crotchety Yacht Club member who befriends Dawson (sort of) after he steals Brooks' boat. | |
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Egocentrically Religious: Barbara Johns. | |
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Self-Parody: The Time Skip finale shows Dawson grudgingly at work on an overwrought teen drama entitled (wait for it) The Creek, based on his own life. The credits font ("Created By: Dawson Leery") is the same that the show itself uses. | |
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Character Tic: When Joey speaks she's usually shaking her head, especially at dramatic moments. | |
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Family of Choice: Jack is taken in by Jen's grandmother when he needs a place to live, even though she barely knows him. She and Jen treat him like family for the rest of the series. | |
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Alpha Bitch: Subverted: Abby Morgan acts like a stereotypical Libby... except she isn't popular at all and has no friends whatsoever aside from her on-again, off-again friendship with Jen. Strangely enough she's briefly seen with a Girl Posse in "Be Careful What You Wish For" but later in the same episode Abby herself admits being an outcast and that no one likes her. A straight example was Nellie Oleson, but even she wasn't as bitchy as the typical example (she explicitly had nothing against Dawson) and disappeared after the first few episodes. | |
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Aborted Arc: The entire first half of Season 3 was disregarded, getting only a passing mention in the finale. | |
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Ironic Echo: Joey's first breakup speech with Dawson and Gail's explanation of her affair to Mitch. | |
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Good Bad Girl: Jen. | |
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Promotion to Opening Titles: Jack, Andie, Audrey. | |
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Parental Abandonment : At the beginning of the series, Joey's mother was dead and her father was in prison, leaving her sister Bessie as her primary caretaker. | |
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Lampshade Hanging: Early in Season 4, the central six are preoccupied with applying to university. Book Dumb Pacey is convinced he won't be admitted anywhere, and concerned that the gang will break up, but Joey counters with the "California University" trope and correctly predicting the future of the show: This is done in a subtle and tragic way in the finale. A dying Jen tells Jack that she felt like she never really fit in, encapsulating her own role in the first season: | |
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Artifact Title: At one point the gang ends high school and move on to study elsewhere, and the action moves largely to Boston, with very few scenes back in Capeside. The title "Dawson's Creek" was kept anyway. | |
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Secret Relationship: Joey and Pacey during "The Longest Day." Jack and Doug for most of the finale. | |
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Hidden Depths: Mr. Brooks, the Grumpy Old Man, gets new respect from Dawson when the latter discovers that the former is actually a retired Hollywood director. He becomes a bit of a mentor to Dawson for a while. | |
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Unrequited Love Switcheroo: It's sometimes easy to forget that most of the first season had Joey pining over Dawson, since for much of the rest of the series it's the other way around. (The most prominent switch back is in mid-Season 5, when Dawson is back dating Jen and a whole episode is taken up with Joey finding out and getting upset.) | |
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Out of Focus: Jen's role in the series was diminished in the later seasons, with Michelle Williams even going from second to third billing as of Season 2. A semi-lethal version occurred with Andie during Season 4. She, Jen and Joey worked as a The Three Faces of Eve trio (Andie as The Ingenue, Jen Hotter and Sexier, and Joey as the pragmatic Brainy Brunette), which helped create balance in earlier seasons. But the theme of Season 4 is "stable, healthy relationships," rendering Andie's optimism unnecessary. Her less-than-popular conduct in prior seasons didn't help either. As a result, she's Put on a Bus and comes back in only two more episodes — the climax of Season 4, and Grand Finale scenes that didn't even make it into the episode — to give her character the minimum necessary closure. The show's title — "Dawson's Creek" — references the fact that the Leery and Potter houses are on the banks of a small river in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. When the Cast Herd moves to Boston for college in Season 5, it became an Artifact Title. The same thing happens to Dawson: the heart of relocated social circle is Joey, and Katie Holmes is the only actor to appear in every episode of the show. | |
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Distant Finale: The finale took place in 2008, five years after the previous episode. | |
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Fast-Forward to Reunion: How the series ends. | |
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Friends with Benefits: Pacey and Jen at some point, or at least they tried. | |
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Fell Asleep Driving: Discussed to an almost ridiculous degree in the episode where Dawson's father died. Pacey, in his attempt to make his best friend feel better and alleviate his feelings of guilt, concocts an outlandish scenario about some unknown workaholic man causing the accident that killed his father due to his preexisting tiredness. The truth is much simpler, albeit more embarrassing; Mitch died due to picking up his fallen ice cream while driving. | |
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False Rape Accusation: Andie puts one on a Romantic False Lead as part of her Operation: Jealousy attempt to get back together with Pacey. | |
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Late in Season 4, Dawson and Gretchen go on a road trip that is derailed when Dawson's Jeep develops a flat tire. It's a Plot Point that Dawson doesn't have any real idea of how to fix it, and the episode ends with them still stranded. By the next episode, they're back in Capeside, and the car is driveable again. | |
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Tomboyish Name: Josephine "Joey" Potter | |
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Beautiful All Along: Played With, towards Joey. While you would be hard pressed to call Katie Holmes "ugly", here problem lies more in her introverted, abrasive personality. Season 1's episode 'Beauty Contest' expoores this: here, Joey does indeed clean up nicely, but she also shows herself as it is and her vulnerability, making her much more pleasant and attractive for the rest of the characters. | |
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Actor Allusion: In the Season 1 episode "Detention," they're discussing the movie The Breakfast Club, and Pacey (played by Joshua Jackson, one of whose earliest roles was as Charlie Conway in The Mighty Ducks) disagrees with the others that Emilio Estevez is languishing in TV obscurity. Harry Shearer, who voices Seymour Skinner (among others) in The Simpsons, makes a guest appearance as the school principal after Green leaves. In "The Longest Day," Jen says she watched All the President's Men and that Henry thought it needed more cute teenage girls. Dick was about the Watergate scandal with two cute teenage girls, Michelle Williams and Kirsten Dunst. | |
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Most Writers Are Male: lampshaded by Jen in The Longest Day. | |
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Woman Scorned: Jen does this after being cheated on by Charlie in Season 5. For extra style points, she joins forces with the other woman and the two stage a sting operation. | |
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I Just Want to Be Normal: Poor Jack has trouble coming to terms with being gay. Though his various boyfriends make it abundantly clear that he's got it comparatively easy. | |
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I Never Said It Was Poison: In Season 3, Joey is one of several students to paint murals illustrating important facets of life at Capeside High. When it is unveiled, someone has defaced it by covering it with so much black paint that nobody can tell what it was supposed to be. The culprit's alibi falls apart when he protests that he's never been near "that stupid Chinese mural" — which draws the attention of both Dawson and the principal, since even they didn't know what Joey had painted. | |
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Girl Next Door: Zigzagged. Though the Betty and Veronica dichotomy definitely placed Jen on the wild side and Joey with the Girl Next Door personality, Jen was factually Dawson's next-door neighbor. | |
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Their First Time | |
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Their First Time: Joey losing her virginity to Pacey was such a beautiful scene that it caused girls everywhere to get wildly unrealistic expectations. Although the next episode, "Four Stories," reveals that it wasn't entirely perfect—it's implied that Joey didn't enjoy herself as much as she might have—but she's still glad it happened and eager to do it again. Dawson has his own first time with Jen a season later. Neither of them seems entirely repulsed by the experience. Dawson and Joey's first time together comes at the beginning of the last season. It's also their only time together (give or take the strong possibility of seconds the next morning): Things self-destruct pretty soon afterwards. | |
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Early in Season 4, the central six are preoccupied with applying to university. Book Dumb Pacey is convinced he won't be admitted anywhere, and concerned that the gang will break up, but Joey counters with the "California University" trope and correctly predicting the future of the show: | |
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Dumb and Drummer: Over the noise of a pool bar, Pacey approaches a blonde and tells her, "I'm drummer for Pearl Jam." She replies, "You're dumber than who?" He slinks away. | |
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My Girl Is Not a Slut: Dawson had a hard time reconciling his near-angelic view of Jen with what he knew of her past in New York, which ultimately led to their breakup. | |
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Better than Sex | |
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Better than Sex: Audrey once says that the one thing she misses the most about having a boyfriend is snuggling, which is, in her view, better than sex. | |
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Enter Stage Window | |
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Enter Stage Window: Joey's primary means of entering Dawson's bedroom was by scaling a ladder which was left leaning against the first-floor roof for that express purpose, and then ducking in through the always-open window. (She was not the only one — in one episode Dawson enters his room and finds Abby there, having picked the location to spy.) | |
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Bottle Episode | |
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Bottle Episode: Season 5’s “Appetite for Destruction� takes place entirely inside (and on the front steps of) Grams’ Boston house. | |
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Gym Bunny | |
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Gym Bunny: Jack, in the later seasons. | |
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Author Avatar | |
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Author Avatar: Dawson and Joey's initial friendship was based off the (platonic) relationship Kevin Williamson and a female friend had as children. Their personalities are derived from them in part as well. | |
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Missing Mom | |
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Missing Mom: Jack and Andie's mother made appearances early in the second season, but was later sent to live with relatives due to her mental instability and was seldom mentioned again. Joey and Bessie's mom died of cancer before the series began. (Coincidence: her name was Lilly Potter, one letter off from Harry's.) Jen's mother appears in two episodes, three seasons apart, played by different actresses. | |
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Plot Parallel | |
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For a short time, Joey dates AJ Moller, an University student who, it turns ut, is actually in love with his childhood friend Morgan. This of course parallels Joey and Dawson's situation at the start of the series ─AJ & Morgan even resemble them, with him being a Literature Major (thus being a creator of stories), and her being an art major in France's Sorbonne (just as Joey wishes to be!). It's a double Plot Parallel, since it's the situation Joey is with Pacey right at the same time she meets Morgan, with her being tremendously Oblivious to Love towards him. The episode "Cinderella Story" even ends with both set of couples ackonwledging their mutual feelings! | |
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Most Writers Are Adults | |
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Most Writers Are Adults: On purpose. | |
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The Unfair Sex | |
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The Unfair Sex: Averted—Gail was having an extra-marital affair in the first season, but was not especially sympathetic, and the excuse she told Joey when she was discovered was treated as just that. | |
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My Girl Is a Slut | |
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My Girl Is a Slut: Dawson's philandering mom. His father, Mitch, proposes an open marriage as the solution. Well, this is The WB. | |
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Teacher/Student Romance | |
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Teacher/Student Romance: Pacey and his English teacher Ms. Jacobs. Joey and Jack also attempted this with their college professors, though neither went any further. | |
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Coming-Out Story | |
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Coming-Out Story: a Multi-Part Episode Very Special Episode where Jack confronts — and admits — his sexuality, after being all-but-forced to admit it publicly by a Sadist Teacher. | |
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New Transfer Student | |
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New Transfer Student: three in the first two seasons alone (Jen at the start of Season 1, Jack and Andie at the start of Season 2). This would probably be less noteworthy if both seasons didn't take place during a single school year. | |
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Once More, with Clarity | |
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Once More, with Clarity: Done in the first 3 quarters of "The Longest Day." The events of the day are shown from Pacey's perspective, then Casey's, then Dawson's. The final act of the episode covers the aftermath. | |
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PaintingTheFourthWall | |
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Painting the Fourth Wall: during the series finale, Pacey shows Jen a VHS tape of film Dawson took of them when they were 15. The footage is the Season 1 credits. As a Mythology Gag, the footage is dubbed over with Alanis Morissette's "Hand In My Pocket," which was creator Kevin Williamson's original choice for the show's theme song. | |
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Put on a Bus | |
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Joseph McPhee, father to Andie and Jack, is simply never mentioned again after the episode when Andie herself is Put on a Bus. The Doylist motivation was the untimely death of David Dukes, who played him. That said, Andie's departure, and Mr. McPhee's acceptance of his son's homosexuality, meant that the character's existing arcs had been resolved, allowing the show to pretend he is just carrying on Behind the Black with no Watsonian need to appear in person. He is last mentioned in the Season 6 Christmas episode, vacationing in Europe with his children, happily outliving his actor. | |
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Belligerent Sexual Tension | |
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Belligerent Sexual Tension: Revealed when the bickering Joey and Pacey attempt to take a ballroom-dancing class together. Both deny it. (Attention is drawn to Dawson and Jen, who are able to dance together because they trust each other despite their history.) | |
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Popular Is Dumb | |
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Popular Is Dumb: Chris Wolfe, the resident Big Man on Campus. | |
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Mock Millionaire | |
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Mock Millionaire: In the episode "Kiss", Joey pretends to be wealthy to avoid looking like a small-town girl when she pursues a handsome stranger named Anderson. | |
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Closet Key | |
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Closet Key: Jack for Doug, although he had to, y'know, actually reach adulthood first. | |
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The Three Faces of Eve | |
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A semi-lethal version occurred with Andie during Season 4. She, Jen and Joey worked as a The Three Faces of Eve trio (Andie as The Ingenue, Jen Hotter and Sexier, and Joey as the pragmatic Brainy Brunette), which helped create balance in earlier seasons. But the theme of Season 4 is "stable, healthy relationships," rendering Andie's optimism unnecessary. Her less-than-popular conduct in prior seasons didn't help either. As a result, she's Put on a Bus and comes back in only two more episodes — the climax of Season 4, and Grand Finale scenes that didn't even make it into the episode — to give her character the minimum necessary closure. | |
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Good Girls Avoid Abortion | |
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Good Girls Avoid Abortion: Zigzagged. Though Gail is initially determined to terminate her pregnancy in the 4th season on grounds of "We need money to send Dawson to college" and "We're founding our own business" and "I'm in my 40s," and the show makes it clear that she has a right to do this, she and Mitch eventually decide to keep it. In the very same episode, we learn that another character has faced the same issue: Gretchen Witter, Dawson's first crush and Love Interest for the season. While she had a Convenient Miscarriage the next week, she still reveals what her intentions were, and Dawson — and, by implication, the show — does not judge her for them. | |
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Stepford Smiler | |
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Andrea McPhee, mother to Andie and Jack, is introduced in the second season as a Stepford Smiler undergoing something of a psychotic break due to her eldest son Tim's death. She's packaged off to a mental institution and never heard from again. | |
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Straight Gay | |
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Straight Gay: Jack is very specific with his Season 4 Love Interest that part of Jack's (original) lack of attraction to him is that he is so "out" — not flamboyant or camp, but confident enough in his sexuality to run the local Gay-Straight Alliance. It also doesn't help that said Love Interest originally pigeon-holed Jack as a Lovable Jock, and wasn't precisely inaccurate. | |
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What Happened to the Mouse? | |
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What Happened to the Mouse?: Andrea McPhee, mother to Andie and Jack, is introduced in the second season as a Stepford Smiler undergoing something of a psychotic break due to her eldest son Tim's death. She's packaged off to a mental institution and never heard from again. Joseph McPhee, father to Andie and Jack, is simply never mentioned again after the episode when Andie herself is Put on a Bus. The Doylist motivation was the untimely death of David Dukes, who played him. That said, Andie's departure, and Mr. McPhee's acceptance of his son's homosexuality, meant that the character's existing arcs had been resolved, allowing the show to pretend he is just carrying on Behind the Black with no Watsonian need to appear in person. He is last mentioned in the Season 6 Christmas episode, vacationing in Europe with his children, happily outliving his actor. Late in Season 4, Dawson and Gretchen go on a road trip that is derailed when Dawson's Jeep develops a flat tire. It's a Plot Point that Dawson doesn't have any real idea of how to fix it, and the episode ends with them still stranded. By the next episode, they're back in Capeside, and the car is driveable again. Season 6 drops a Drama Bomb near the end with the news that someone has a medical condition: specifically, Grams has breast cancer. The Grand Finale, which takes place after a Time Skip of five years, does not have that character mention anything about it whatsoever. | |
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Jerk Jock | |
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Jerk Jock: Averted with Jen's boyfriends Cliff (Season 1) and Henry (Season 3), and with Jack himself when he joined the school football team. | |
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Did Not Get the Girl | |
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Did Not Get the Girl: Dawson | |
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Simultaneous Arcs: "The Longest Day" features four of them as Joey and Pacey discuss their Secret Relationship and figure out how to tell Dawson about it. | |
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Drama Bomb | |
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Season 6 drops a Drama Bomb near the end with the news that someone has a medical condition: specifically, Grams has breast cancer. The Grand Finale, which takes place after a Time Skip of five years, does not have that character mention anything about it whatsoever. | |
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Femme Fatale | |
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Femme Fatale : Eve, annoyingly so. | |
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Back for the Finale | |
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Back for the Finale: Andie, though the scenes were cut in the original broadcast. | |
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Betty and Veronica | |
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Betty and Veronica: Dawson between Joey and Jen is the most straight example. | |
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Character Blog | |
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Character Blog: One of the first shows to feature character diaries on the show's official site. This allowed the fans to find out what the characters were doing during the Summer breaks. Occasionally the writers would use the diaries to hint at upcoming characters or storylines for the Fall season. During the Fall season, fans could also access e-mail conversations and online chats between the characters. | |
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Fag Hag | |
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Fag Hag: Jen for Jack. | |
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Herald | |
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Herald: a character whose role was to issue the Call to Adventure to the main cast and throw off the status quo showed up every year. Season 3's was Eve the stripper; the fourth had Drue Valentine and Gretchen Witter; and in the fifth and sixth seasons there started to be a bunch because every character would have their own.note In Season 5, Jack had Eric, his closeted fraternity brother; Jen had Charlie; Pacey had Danny the chef and Alex the executive; Dawson had Todd the director and fellow auteur Oliver; Joey had Professor Wilder, Charlie and Audrey. But Season 2's characters were Promoted to Opening Titles: Andie and, to a much greater extent, Jack. And Season 1's? Jen Lindley. | |
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Dogged Nice Guy | |
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Dogged Nice Guy: Dawson perceives himself to be this. | |
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Multiple-Choice Past | |
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Multiple-Choice Past: While they're dating, Audrey and Pacey stumble headlong into the "how many people have you slept with?" minefield. Audrey at first refuses to answer. ("That many?") She then says it's 27 (Surprise Car Crash). She then says it's 57 (Spit Take). Finally she says it's 5, and admits it was all a Secret Test of Character. Pacey, for whom it's 6, passes the test. | |
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As Himself | |
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As Himself: Season 6 features Jack Osbourne (The Osbournes) in three episodes, and Loveline hosts Drew Pinsky and Adam Carolla in another. | |
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Ascended Extra | |
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Ascended Extra: It's believed that Jack and Andie were not meant to last past the second season originally. In later seasons, Audrey is introduced in Season 5 and added to the opening credits the following season. | |
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Odd Friendship | |
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Odd Friendship: Joey and Audrey. | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
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Deadpan Snarker: Mostly Pacey. Joey has her moments too. Abby Morgan as well, she's arguably the biggest snarker. | |
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Retcon | |
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Retcon: On Season 1, it is stated several times that Dawson's dad, Micth, dreams of opening a seafood restaurant. Forward back to Season 3, and it's Gail the one who wants to open a restuarant, and some episodes show her and Dawson working on it. | |
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Genki Girl | |
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Genki Girl: Andie, and in later seasons Audrey. | |
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Heteronormative Crusader | |
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Hetero Normative Crusader: Barbara Johns, Capeside High's resident battleaxe. | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: A number of them in the finale (written by Kevin Williamson, the show's creator who left after the second season): Dawson's semi-autobiographical show, The Creek, is used to poke fun at the overwrought, overly verbose melodrama the main show often indulged in. Several plotlines and characters from the later seasons are mocked, including Dawson's rejection of Joey at the start of the third season and Eve. Audrey, the only regular character that Williamson didn't create, is also absent from the finale outside of a passing mention despite the fact that a good friend of hers is dying. A pretty unsubtle one at Kerr Smith, who never really hid how uncomfortable he was with playing a gay character - Dawson's secretary reminds him that he still needs to tell one of his actors that his character is going to come out, and warns that he's going to hit the roof. The last regular episode before the finale gets in on the act. Not only is there another dig at Eve, but Jen's mother's response to Jack reminding her they met at a Thanksgiving Dinner once is that no-one wants to remember that day. (The episode was not well-liked by the producers.) | |
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Too Dumb to Live | |
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Too Dumb to Live: Mitch, who takes his eyes off the road for a good 5 seconds, while driving at night, approaching what is later revealed to be a relatively sharp bend. Why does he do this? To pick up his dropped ice-cream. His death is blamed on the fact that the driver of the other car was asleep at the wheel, but honestly, he kinda had it coming. Abby Morgan, who decides to climb to the top of a tower overlooking the harbour while paralytically drunk on champagne. Guess what happens next. | |
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Tonight, Someone Dies | |
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Tonight, Someone Dies: used for the series finale. In fairness, it was only the fourth character killed off over the course of six seasons. | |
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Love Triangle | |
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Love Triangle: Many, naturally—including one of the most famous in teen drama history, between Dawson, Joey, and Pacey. | |
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Demoted to Extra | |
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At the end of Season 4, the primary characters graduate from Capeside High School and move to Boston for university, with only Grams coming with them. As a result, three quarters of the parental characters (Bessie Potter, Mitch Leery and Gail Leery) are Demoted to Extra, removed from the opening credits and appearing only when the kids happen to visit home. (Which, in Mitch's case, went pretty badly.) | |
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Did They or Didn't They? | |
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Did They or Didn't They?: The show gets an entire episode out of this, the second half of a Season 2 two-parter in which all six mains end the first episode in situations that mandate a Sexy Discretion Shot. In the following episode, Alpha Bitch Abby Morgan and local hunk Chris Wolfe find a dropped note confirming that sex did, in fact, ensue, and Abby sets out to discover whodunnit. | |
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Shoo Out the New Guy | |
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Shoo Out the New Guy: Each season introduced new characters (love interests, old friends, antagonists etc) who would be involved with the main cast, only to disappear and never be seen again by season's end. Notable examples include Nikki Green, Drue Valentine, Gretchen Witter, and Charlie Todd. And, of course, the infamous Eve. Drue was essentially being setup to return for a another season (as evidenced by the fact that he even told Jen that they were going to the same college after graduation). Unfortunately for Drue, The WB forced Chad Michael Murray onto the show after failing to find a starring project for him (this was right after his "Lone Ranger" pilot failed) which meant Drue was out and Drue-clone Charlie Todd was in. | |
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Big Applesauce | |
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Big Applesauce: Where Jen hails from. | |
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Really Gets Around | |
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Really Gets Around: Jen Lindley. A bit of an Informed Ability, as we only see Jen sleep with a few characters over the course of six seasons; that said, there is her past to consider, much of which remains undocumented. Audrey is a more straightforward, and shameless, example. | |
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Subverted Trope | |
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Subverted: Abby Morgan acts like a stereotypical Libby... except she isn't popular at all and has no friends whatsoever aside from her on-again, off-again friendship with Jen. Strangely enough she's briefly seen with a Girl Posse in "Be Careful What You Wish For" but later in the same episode Abby herself admits being an outcast and that no one likes her. | |
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Unlucky Childhood Friend: Dawson himself | |
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Uptown Girl | |
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Uptown Girl: This is how Pacey views Joey, though it's mostly in his head. Its also ironic considering that as the son of the chief of police, Pacey is significantly more 'uptown' than Joey whose comes from a broken home with significant money troubles. | |
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Informed Attribute | |
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Informed Attribute: Joey's "It": beginning with the college years, Joey went from merely being seen as very pretty to the World's Most Beautiful Woman whom no heterosexual male could resist falling in love with. | |
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Aesop Amnesia | |
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Aesop Amnesia: At the end of the Season 3 finale, Dawson gives Joey and Pacey his blessing after angrily keeping them apart for the past few episodes. Once Season 4 begins, however, he seems to have forgotten about this moment of forgiveness, as he acts frosty toward Joey and flat-out shuns Pacey for much of the season. | |
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Dating Do-Si-Do | |
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Dating Do-Si-Do: Joey dated all three of the main male characters, Dawson dated Jen and Joey twice each (and would have hooked up with Andie per Word of God), Pacey dated all four girls that were in the main cast (if his friends-with-benefits deal with Jen counts), and they were trying to hook up Jack and Jen in early Season 2 before he went for Joey. | |
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Informed Ability | |
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Informed Ability: Dawson's directing skills. Although many of the show's plotlines revolve around Dawson's genius directing ability, what the audience primarily sees are rough or rejected projects. Proof of his talent comes from an unseen breakout film which lands him an award and a gig as a TV series director. | |
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Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane | |
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Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: in 'Escape from Witch Island' the gang are subjected to a spectacular and inexplicable light show when leaving the supposedly cursed 'Witch Island'. When reviewing the video footage a pair of people in ancient dress are revealed standing on the dock, probably the tour guides to the island having fun at their expense but perhaps not...? | |
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Monochrome Casting | |
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Monochrome Casting: Aside from a few minority extras, pretty much the only important black characters were Principal Green, who was the subject of a Story Arc in the third season (that got him Put on a Bus), Bessie's boyfriend Bodie, whose appearances are sporadic for budgeting reasons, and Karen, with whom Pacey has a brief fling in Season 5. | |
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Four-Girl Ensemble | |
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Four-Girl Ensemble: Season 2 has The Ingenue Andie, snarky tomboy Joey, boy-crazy Alpha Bitch Abby, and wise, experienced Jen. | |
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Slap-Slap-Kiss | |
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Slap-Slap-Kiss: Pacey had this dynamic with Andie when they first met. Also, in the long run, Pacey and Joey. | |
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Cool Old Lady | |
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Cool Old Lady : Evelyn "Grams" Ryan. | |
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Waxing Lyrical | |
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Waxing Lyrical: In the Season 3 premiere, Jen tries out for the cheerleading squad, and we get an establishing shot of a fellow auditionee chanting, "I don't want to wait for this cheer to be over!" (That's as far as she gets before she's disqualified.) In the finale, a character in Dawson's show-within-a-show says to her love interest "I don't wanna wait for our lives to be over! I want to know right now, what will it be?" | |
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Hollywood Atheist | |
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Hollywood Atheist: Subverted as Jen is a genuinely nice person. | |
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Hand Wave | |
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Audrey doesn't appear in the finale despite being a major character since Season 5. Her absence is Handwaved as her having a demanding career singing backup for John Mayer. | |
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Cast Herd | |
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The show's title — "Dawson's Creek" — references the fact that the Leery and Potter houses are on the banks of a small river in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. When the Cast Herd moves to Boston for college in Season 5, it became an Artifact Title. The same thing happens to Dawson: the heart of relocated social circle is Joey, and Katie Holmes is the only actor to appear in every episode of the show. | |
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Last-Name Basis | |
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Last-Name Basis: Pacey towards his girlfriends (McPhee and Potter). | |
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Ambiguously Gay | |
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Ambiguously Gay: Deputy Doug is treated this way. | |
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Freudian Trio | |
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Freudian Trio: The main trio of the show: Hot-Blooded and impulsive Pacey (Id), Smart Girl Joey (Superego) and Dawson who has aspects of both opposites sides (Ego) had this dynamic in the earlier seasons. More later as the Love Triangle progresses, wise Dawson became the Superego in constrast with the passionate Pacey (the Id) and Joey became the Ego stucked in the middle as mediator and love interest of both. | |
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Second Year Protagonist | |
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Second Year Protagonist: Joey explicitly states in the pilot that she and Dawson are starting high school, and Dawson is classified as a freshman by Mr. Gold, and yet they are also stated to be fifteen and in 10th Grade. Granted, graduation didn't come until the end of Season Four, but that was only because Seasons One and Two covered one school year; Season One's finale states very clearly that it had only been three months since the pilot, and Season Two picks about about 30 seconds from where Season One left off. | |
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Ensemble Cast | |
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Ensemble Cast: the show focuses on the Power Trio of Dawson, Pacey and Joey, with an Inciting Incident when Hotter and Sexier Broken Bird Jen arrives in town. Dawson, despite being the title character, was never truly the protagonist, making it a bit easier for the show to shift Joey into the central role when Dawson moves to Los Angeles for college and everyone else stays in Massachusetts. | |
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TheUNFavourite | |
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The Un-Favourite: Pacey, to his family. He's Book Dumb and not particularly competent at anything. This very much becomes a plot point in later seasons, as Pacey confronts his own limitations and begins to resent the well-meaning but ultimately harmful way his friends (and especially Joey) accept his failures, instead of encouraging him to grow past them. | |
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Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness | |
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Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: As mentioned in the introduction. the main characters were very articulate for... anyone. This is lampshaded often, most clearly in "High Risk Behavior." | |
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Platonic Life-Partners | |
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Platonic Life-Partners: Jack and Jen. | |
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Master of the Mixed Message | |
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Master of the Mixed Message: Dawson and Joey (to each other as well as their rebound dates). | |
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Will They or Won't They? | |
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Will They or Won't They?: Again, Dawson/Joey and later Pacey/Joey. Both did, though Joey ended up with Pacey for good in the finale. | |
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Moral Luck | |
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Moral Luck: When Joey's school-hallway mural is defaced, Pacey pins the blame on local Rich Bitch Matt Caulfield primarily because one of the episode's extras suggested it. Nobody has any evidence aside from the fact Caulfield happens to be a jerk, and Pacey would've come out looking like a Knight Templar if Caulfield hadn't accidentally implicated himself. | |
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