Re: When DC went downhill

Rob Jensen wrote:

> I'm not sure where it would have gone, but given that they couldn't 
> resist bringing Eddie back when they shouldn't have *and* they restarted

> J-P with the Career Op****tunities riff, I *suspect* that the end of a s6

> leading into a s7 (and therefore not capped by "All Good Things") would 
> have resulted in a J-P-E triangle and showdown, possibly with Dawson 
> playing referee.  I also think that Dawson would have ended up at least 
> dating Audrey for a substantial part of s7, 'cause the potential for 
> irony in that hookup screams to me that the writers hadn't yet *begun* 
> to address the real reason they wanted Audrey to hit that rock bottom 
> that way or the sideways attraction that Audrey was just starting to 
> develop for Dawson with the rehab episode (and which they curtailed once

> they announced the show's cancellation).

I think an Audrey-Dawson plot would have been great if for no other 
reason than Audrey was hilarious in S5 and the contrast in personalities 
would have been fodder for some humor.  As I said earlier, Dawson seemed 
pretty humorless for the most part, not that the show ever went for many 
laughs from the core group.

> The symbolic im****tance of the 
> Leery house being destroyed by one of the core characters (and by that 
> point, Audrey was well-established as a core character) suggests to me 
> that they were on the verge of a storyline that would have put Dawson's 
> "moral authority" to the test -- just *how* many times could Dawson 
> "save" everyone around him, and what would happen if *he* fell further 
> off his pedestal (with or without Audrey) than *anyone* in the group had

> gone before?  Not necessarily anything like Audrey's drug/alcohol abuse,

> but something just as alienating -- or even *more* alienating to the 
> gang than Audrey's meltdown.

The thing is, would a Dawson meltdown just lead to more conflict with 
Joey because she would want to save him, or at least be in the lead of 
any group effort to rescue him?  The consequences of that turn of events 
  are all too obvious -- more conflict between Joey and Pacey because, 
once again, Dawson, Dawson, Dawson; conflict between J and Audrey 
because a) Dawson is now Audrey's guy or b) with Audrey's past J will 
think she dragged him down.  (Now, just what could Dawson do to lead him 
down the dark path?)

The thing is, the show had become such a lost cause that I don't think 
the writers could even have dared to devise storylines that might lead 
in any of these directions.  Was the show canceled in the ordinary way 
(i.e. ratings) or did everyone just decide to pack it in?  In either 
case, I'm sure they knew that there was nothing coming after S6.

By the way, totally off-topic, was Andie written out because MM wanted 
to leave or did she leave because Andie was written out?  I always 
thought the latter.


Seaclock