El Penguino walked in my room the other night.
“What are you watchin?” he mumbled
“Oh…nuthin”. I had quickly hit pause.
He stared at the screen for a moment.
“Dude…what are you watching?” This time a bit more forceful. That 13 year old forceful that is going to continue until you answer the question.
“Dawson’s Creek” this time I mumbled.
“What?” he asked
“Dawson’s Creek” this time a bit louder
“Isn’t that a chick show?”
*sigh*
Blackjack had lent me the first two seasons, and now with Netflix slowing down it’s barrage of flicks to me I needed something to satiate my cornea during my unvoluntary unemployment.
Dawson’s Creek, why not? It was written and created by Scream mastermind Kevin Williamson so of course it should be mastermindfully self aware and postmodern. Plus it went on for 6 years and is sworn to by many.
So I popped it in.
First Season = Dawson is whiny and dumb
Second Season = Dawson is whiny and dumb
Third Season = Dawson is whiny and dumb…but…
This has had happened before. I had watched Farscape with an amazing amount of skepticism until about the the second season when suddenly the writers had gotten their stride and found themselves light years above any other show out there.
It was in the third Season of Buffy that I got hooked. I don’t know if it’s just that they have built the characters enough that when they begin to tear them down you feel so much more connected? Or it could be that everyone is comfortable with the characters and instead of the same week after week mind numbing droll they decided it was time to do something different. Whatever the case, this was that season for this show.
This year finds Joey and Dawson, the show’s set up Soul Mates at odds, while Dawson’s best friend Pacey starts to fall in love with joey. Oh the triangle love story that is as old as time.
What makes this difference that unlike Dawson and Joey, Joey and Pacey actually have real chemistry. Dawson is as dumb and mind numbingly moronic in this season as the last two, and I find myself wondering if their were writers meetings in which people complained about the title of the show. It’s not “Dawson’s” creek. It more about Joey in my estimation anyhow.
Moreover Joshua Jackson has found his calling as Martin Rigg’s clone from Lethal Weapon. He has this stoic chivalry and his character is beyond likeable, standing up for wrongs and injustices, all the while lamenting his role as a secondary character to Dawson’s and Joey’s long time on and off again romance.
Needless to say this season was well written and well done. Now on to season 4
