On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 18:31:14 GMT, "Sharpe Fan"
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>"Rob Jensen" <ShutUpRob@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 14:48:44 GMT, "Anne" <AnneWithAnE@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> wrote:
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>>>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.
>
I agree that Pacey/Tamara was the actual The Graduate homage, but I
was shorthanding Dawson/Gretchen, especially since the age difference
was a problem for Gretchen.
I know that a lot of Pacey fans don't like season 4 because of the
ending (I'm trying not to spoil it for the original poster), but I
totally buy into it as the thesis statement for a more ambitious
multi-year storyline about Pacey's self-esteem issues that they were
never able to pull off -- primarily because they could never figure
out a way to justify keeping Pacey in proximity to the rest of the
gang in Boston -- and that they totally gave up on by the time they
got to the horrible s6 arc where they ripped off Boiler Room and
thoroughly destroyed Pacey as a character.
But in s4, the Dawson/Gretchen was spectacular in a way that
practically demanded them bringing Gretchen back in s6 as Dawson
regained his footing (but which they never did) and even the
joey/Pacey arc worked -- far better than most fans give it credit for.
But I think the way the show botched Pacey in s5 and 6 prevented the
show from fully realizing their rationale for having Pacey unravel and
undo at the end of s4 all the maturation he had gone through in s2 and
3. Thus, the show never quite justifies the re-introduction of the
Dawson/Joey/Pacey triangle in the series finale -- the triangle as
treated in the finale in and of itself works, but when considered in
relation****p to the rest of the series, it doesn't and only compounds
the story mess of the last two seasons. That's why I think it's
simpler to just recommend fast-forwarding through everything not
having to do directly with Dawson in s5 and 6 -- following Dawson only
makes a viable epilogue to s1-4.
-- Rob
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