Shark Bytes

I'm rewatching some of season 4, and Joey and Pacey are actually a much better couple than I used to think. However, I always felt it was unfair that Joey and Dawson were never given the chance they deserved. I agree they lacked the chemistry she and Pacey had but I think that had a lot to do with their real-life dating, so JP immediately had that advantage. DJo were still a much better fit than Dawson and Jen.

I never had problems with the vocabulary on this show. Some of you guys must be some real idiots. I'm not even that good at vocab. I think your parents must have deprived you of words when you were kids.

The magic was really gone when Kevin Williamson, the original writer, walked out at the end of season 2. With the exception of the character of Todd in season 5 and 6, Dawsons Creek was extremely average from season 2 on. Don't get me wrong, still entertaining but not like the epic omg this is the best show ever feel. I was ticked that Dawson and Joey never really got their chance to be together at a time that they would have been good for each other. And remember in season 1 when we were all rooting for Jen to be Dawsons girl, but joey came along and we were pissed! By the time Dawson did get together with Jen it was very lack luster, same as when Dawson finely slept with Joey. If any of you haven't seen season's one and two they are really in a class by themselves as compared to the rest of the series.

The way Dawson found Jen even more hot laying there dead gave me the creeps. He felt his giant head and her shrivelling body was erotic. Yuk!

I thought the ending was perfect. The things that everyone's upset about are the things that set the show apart.

How many shows have not one but two of the main characters die? I mean, Mitch dying, that could happen in other shows. Grams getting breast cancer, that could happen in other shows. But Jen dying? That finale was one of the most moving episodes of television I've ever seen. It's so powerful. People die, but death is never portrayed that well. You know a show is good when it can make you cry for an hour AFTER it's over.

And Pacey and Joey was perfect. The whole Joey/Dawson relationship was such a childish cliche. Just because you're best friends with a member of the opposite sex does not mean that you're romantic soulmates. That's just silly. Joey had chemistry with Pacey; she had none with Dawson. The times in the show that they were a couple probably made for the most boring scenes of the whole series.

I agree that the pre-graduation and post-graduation seasons seem like two different shows, in a way. However, I think that both parts are done so well that I really don't care. I may even prefer the post-graduation stuff, because they're not all whining all the time.

I do wish that there weren't so many cliches: Jack turning into a drunken frat boy, Pacey turning into a man-slut stockbroker, and especially Audrey becoming an alchoholic. I loved the character in the fifth season, why did they have to turn her character into this totally messed up girl? And then her hooking up with CJ? Gross.

And then later Jen got together with him? That seemed really out of nowhere, for him to be such a freak and then all of the sudden he's sweet, he likes her, and they're this great couple?

But the additions of Emma, Eddie, David, Todd, and even Natasha really made the show better and more interesting than it had been in high school.

It jumped when the show became all about the DJP love triangle. The original point of the show was for 2 lifelong friends (Joey and Dawson, not Joey and Pacey) to fall in love. Once it became about Dawson and Pacey becoming enemies to compete for Joey's love, the show drifted. Also, you could tell how real the D/P tension was (apparently there was a brief off-screen triangle between them too)

Well i have just recently recieved the Dawson Creek seasons on dvd but I know about the Series Finale and the way that Joey and Pacey stay together.
I am cofused that if Dawson and Joey are Soulmates then why did they not get together in the end?

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Comon! Make some more stuff the show was great! Why did it end? It did sort of jump a little bit or started to, but it oviously pulled itself back up there. All the WB shows had to end, and every show has to eventually. Dawson's should've gone for a least another year.and Pacey and Joey, YUCK! Comon, it is okay, but I don't prefer it. And Jen should not have died. She should've have gotten sick, but not dying. They need to re write it and make one more episode. Make a major flic or something. Seriously think about it people. It would be great! Even if Joey and Pacey are still together, Dawson's Creek will forever be a legend and you know it!

Love Katie Holmes, but this show JTS's when she and Dawson started dating in season 2. That was around the time the creator of the show Williamson left to write that cartoon movie. The show was finished.

Pacey and Andie were a kind of romantically inspirational couple that you couldn't help but have faith in. The shark was jumped when the writers took their relationship for granted and had Andie cheat on him whilst away from Capeside. I don't care about the excuse they gave - there's no justifiable reason for breaking up the sweetest couple on the show. It just seemed like they wanted the viewers to hate Andie so that people would prefer Pacey over Dawson for Joey.

I think one of Mad TV's only good sketches was making fun of this show. It was called 'Pretty White Kids with Problems' and yeah it was spot on. This show was ridiculous

I was more interested in each teen's family situation than in the love triangle situation. Not that teens don't experience love triangles, course it happens a lot, but I could not for the life of me figure out what was exciting about Katie Holmes! Another thing that bugged me, though you might call this trivial, was the way all four teens trashed the Brekfast Club movie while talking about it one day as they served a similar day-long detention in their school's library. I could buy it if maybe one or two of them thought Breakfast Club was banal or unrealistic or simply not cool enough for these hip backwater town highschoolers, but NOT all four. Not when the movie's themes of cliques, social outcasts, and imperious school staff reminded so many teens of their own difficult high school years. Why did the Dawson's Creek kids always have to act Too Cool For You? Couldn't any of them ever say anything childish or unrecognizable, like a real teen might? Teens should be given credit for their intelligence, but they are still pretty young and sometimes that should show in conversations.

The show basically shifted at some point (I think it was as early on as the 2nd season) from Dawson being the central focus to Joey instead. She was one of the most annoying, self-centred I-have-everything-but-I-need-more female leads on tv, ever. I felt NO sympathy for her during the Dawson-Pacey love triangle. It became like the triangle on 90210, except Kelly chose herself and Joey didn't. Two best friends loved her - oh, boo hoo. It's the end of the world. So what does she do? She leads one of the best friends into thinking it's over between them, runs back to her soulmate, then hears that the soulmate's former best friend is going on a boat trip and runs back to him leaving her soulmate to drown in his sorrows. It's like she thought "oh well he named his boat after me, I'm his 'True Love' so I must be the center of his world so I may as well take an adventure while it's available." That season pretty much went against everything we'd been led to believe prior to it. Joey WAS capable of falling deeply in love with someone other than her soulmate and thus the show turns into Joey's Creek, thereafter we get the whole Joey-loves-Pacey-but-continues-to-pine-for-Dawson scenario. It was too much to handle and I can't believe I actually sat through all 6 seasons because the later seasons were the same old story all over again. Everything was about Joey and her pathetic lovelife, so why some viewers say the show jumped with Dawson's whiny ways I really don't know. He faded into the background and the show turned into a story of Joey and her guilt over leaving her soulmate for his best friend. The first season and some of the second were great. The rest sucked in comparison.

The Season 3 premiere. Enough said. The moment it started I felt a whole change in the dynamic of the show. Everything felt off - the AWFUL Dawson-Eve thing, Joey not understanding why Dawson was rejecting her even though she treated him like crap in S2, the whole obvious Joey-and-Pacey-will-get-together end note. Then the next ep REALLY jumped when Pacey and Andie broke up. That was it. The two core relationships forever destroyed.

A whole new set of writers joined the show and they clearly didn't grasp the whole original premise of the show at all. It seemed like they were just intent on satisfying the viewers who thought Josh and Katie deserved a chance because of the former off-screen romance. Now I wouldn't have minded so much had Pacey and Joey been given closure in Season 4, but no. They mess with viewers' heads, toy with the idea of getting Dawson and Joey back together forever next time round, then carelessly have these SOULMATES have a pointless one-night stand and end the relationship for good. Very, very unfair and totally crappy writing. All it did was make it seem like people had been supporting the wrong couple all along and that she'd always been better with Pacey.

I think having Pacey and Joey end up together gave the viewers the wrong message about how the show had been from the start. After a 5 year skip they have it seem like Pacey and Joey ALWAYS belonged together and that Dawson and Joey were mistaking friendship for romance the entire time. I'm totally and completely disappointed in Williamson for letting this idea get across. I'd say the show jumped the shark somewhere in the 2nd season.

I think the show never jump
I find this show has great chemistry
and it's one of my favorite show ever!