Re: When DC went downhill

"Rob Jensen" <ShutUpRob@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Sharpe Fan wrote:
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> > "Rob Jensen" <ShutUpRob@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >>Sharpe Fan wrote:
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> > Season Four seemed to have two opposite themes.  One Pacey is a screw
up
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> (That sounds sooooooooooooo much like Sheriff Witter.)
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> >and his life sucks and two Dawson is the living god and all he touches
is
gold.
> >
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> Except that Dawson was soooooo despondent over J-P that he *threw*
> moviemaking away and moped about it for the first half of that season.
> It was only the faith that, at various times, Mitch, Gail and Gretchen
> had in him and his blind optimism that gave him the confidence to annoy
> Brooks into doing the doc and then to fully embrace making movies again.
>     In contrast, we get Pacey and how his father is so overbearing and
> judgmental that Gretchen's faith in her brother rarely got the chance to
> get through to him and even Doug's relatively constructive criticism
> could set him off.  I'd say the opposing themes were how much influence
> these diametrically different fathers had on their children to, on the
> one hand, give Dawson that boost he needed to help him reach his dreams
> and on the other hand, pull Pacey down by making him think he wasn't
> worthy of his own dreams.
>
>    -- Rob
>

Dawson really stopped making movies in season three.  He did the rip off
of
Blair Witch and that was it.  Actually Dawson talked about being the next
Spielberg forever, but after season two did very little towards achieving
it, until Brooks in season 4.

Part of the reason Dawson's filmmaking was interrupted was he wasn't
having
any success with it. After his Sea Monster movie one the prize in season
one, none of his other films got any respect until Brooks and he became
discouraged, despite his parents faith in him.

And in season four while he wasn't dreaming of movies he discovered B&W
photography (much more arty than color) and was good at that and
considered
pursuing that.  Dawson was shown to have a multitude of talents, it was
just
which field would he grace with his talents.

Gretchen liked Pacey and didn't think he was a loser, but I didn't see her
acting a cheerleader for him in season four.  She was more involved in
Dawson's dramas.

Doug did try to help Pacey, but he was a suspect source from Pacey's point
of view.  Doug, for the first three season, treated him as badly as their
father did.  Remember Doug even pulled his gun on Pacey in season one over
Tammy.

Sharpe Fan