Re: When DC went downhill

Sharpe Fan wrote:


> Dawson got the "we will always be special to each other" speech as well
as
> his "career", so it is not like he was left to die on an ice flow. 
There
> seemed to be more meaningful Dawson/Joey scenes in the finale than
> Pacey/Joey scenes.

My reaction to Dawson's speech is, "Don't kid yourself."  For what it's 
worth, I found the whole "soul mates" thing to be kind of ridiculous. 
Call me jaded, but I think what really ends up mattering is the people 
you're with, not some deep, untouchable connection you may think you 
have with someone else.  I think that scene with Joey was just a sop to 
the viewers who were disappointed with the P-J ending.  (Did Jack and 
Jen have to use the s-word too?)

> As an aside, it is a weird "career".  His big break in the Capeside
> Redemption was a filming on the group's early years (his second attempt
at
> that, by the way) and now his show is the same thing.  He seems to have
only
> one story to tell - a fictionalized version of his high school years.

I agree completely.  Did no one ever, I mean EVER, mention at a story 
meeting or script read-through that TPTB had turned him into a one-trick 
pony?  Very odd.


> I like your suggestion of how they could have wrapped up the series.  It
> would have worked much better than what they did.

Actually, I think Rob Jensen mentioned something like this in another 
post in this thread so it's not an entirely original idea.  Also, didn't 
they do some sort of time ****ft thing in the final season of "Felicity"? 
    I don't remember exactly but there was some sort of jump well before 
the season ended.  Frankly, I don't know why series TV thinks it always 
has to follow the calendar slavishly as if the show were happening in 
real time.  Do they think we'll get confused if winter on TV doesn't 
occur at exactly the same time it does in the real world?  (Not that 
that was ever a problem in Capeside where it almost never snowed.  I've 
never been to MA but I have it on good authority that they do get snow 
there.   Who did they think they were kidding?  Maybe DC could have been 
set in perpetual summer and fall.)

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