"Rob Jensen" <ShutUpRob@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 14:48:44 GMT, "Anne" <AnneWithAnE@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote:
>
>>I'm looking for something to fill in the viewing gaps during summer
>>re-runs,
>>and as someone who has managed to have never seen an episode of Dawson's
>>Creek, I am wondering if it's worth renting ? Where does it fall on the
>>quality continuum relative to Gilmore Girls ?
>
> The first two seasons of Joey's Creek are equal to the best Gg
> episodes (I totally cried at the resolution of Pacey and Andie's story
> at the end of season 2), the third and fourth seasons are worthy, but
> slip somewhat in quality (mostly because the novelty has worn off and
> they've become too-settled into their groove) until Sasha Alexander
> comes on the scene as Pacey's sister Gretchen and Dawson's reluctant
> Mrs. Robinson in s4.
I thought the first three season were excellent, maybe not GG quality but
very good.
I hated season 4, beyond all reason.
Gretchen was only about three or four years older than Dawson (she is
Pacey's older sister (the youngest of three older sisters)). She was not
Dawson's mother's age, which would have made her Mrs. Robinson. The Mrs.
Robinson character was Tamara.
>
> Season 5 worked as a worthy transition to a four-year college-show
> cycle, but is undermined first by a truly terrible Joey-centric Very
> Special X-Mas episode involving a mugger and The Healing Power of
> Forgiveness and then by the total derailment of the show throughout
> season 6. The *only* things that s6 got right were, in reverse order,
> the series/season finale (which jumps ahead five years and doesn't
> really count as part of s6) and the season opening two-parter, which
> concluded the Dawson-Joey romance. The s6 opener iss not the
> shark-jumping moment (that would be Audrey's carwreck) -- it's just
> the last good moment the show has until the series finale.
>
> I recommend watching the first four seasons straight through, then
> doing what I think of as the Cliff Notes/Phantom Edit version of s5
> and 6: fast-forward through everything in s5 not having to do with
> Dawson (ie: all the Pacey storylines), then watch the fully first two
> eps of s6, then skip everything not having to do with Dawson again
> until the series finale, which is finally worth watching as a whole
> again.
>
> Yes, season 6 really is *that* bad. What they do to destroy Audrey as
> a credible character in s6 is worth my warning you to *not* watch her
> good storylines in s5, which would just get your hopes far too up for
> s6.
>
> -- Rob
Sharpe Fan
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