Re: When DC went downhill

Seaclock wrote:

> Rob Jensen wrote:
> 
>> That guy:  Eddie "Pacey with the serial numbers filed off" Doling.  I 
>> thought her story with him worked fine -- until they brought him back 
>> after his disappearance.
> 
> 
> I would say that in retrospect the biggest problem with S6 for me, 
> besides its basic awfulness, was that since everything eventually led 
> back to Capeside and the D-J-P triangle, spending a lot of energy on 
> relation****ps and storylines that had no chance of surviving until the 
> end made it all seem like so much time filler.  The core characters 
> became so uninvolved with each other and yet everything ultimately had 
> to lead back to a point that had nothing to do with what happened for 
> most of the season.  (I have to admit, I don't have great recall of S6 
> because I disliked it so much my interest took a vacation.)  In 
> comparison, S5 did a much better job of keeping some small part of that 
> Capeside feeling going even with the change of venue.

I try to be patient with s6, given that they didn't think they were 
going to be renewed in the first place and also given that they were 
more than likely trying to establish story threads in the first half of 
s6 that could last through hypothetical s7 and 8.  I had less of a 
problem with the core characters not interacting all that much with each 
than with the stories not allowing the characters to evolve or at least 
add anything new to our understanding of the characters -- with the 
exception of Dawson, who was the core character I was least interested 
in.  I thought that Dawson maintained the Capeside feel by trying so 
hard to keep it in his work no matter how much the reality of the biz 
smacked him upside the head.  It's too bad that the show didn't last 
long enough to make any of the rest of the points it was apparently 
trying to make, tho.

   -- Rob

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