Wednesday, September 03, 2014
Dawson's Creek: Season Three
Just finished watching the Capeside Supplement on Disk One of this set. The interface was so slow on my system I thought frequently it had frozen. It proves not so much to be a tour of Capeside as an extended backgrounder to the show and the events in the character’s lives associated with these places. In 1999 a show had 23 episodes per season, imagine that. The producers placed 6 episodes on each disk save the first. Joey Potter’s Harvard love interest is played by Robin Dunne who also played Franz in the series Little Men. The resonance with Little Woman and Joey’s Mother’s decision to name her daughter after Josephine March in that book is uncanny especially since he went directly from one show to the next.
These teens played by twenty-somethings are preternaturally self-aware and scarily articulate rarely lacking for a comeback line in any circumstance. Their self-possession is belied by the throbbing teenage angst and raging hormones they act out. At 27 Kerr Smith was the oldest of the lot. Recent pictures show him to be prematurely gray. His football stunts were played by a double named Michael Dean. The opening episodes of this season with the amoral hedonistic Eve place Dawson in rather embarrassing situations but things settle down after she departs. The themes are rarely mean spirited and despite their differences this ensemble cast cares for each other.
Always interesting to look at fashion sense after a decade and a half and note that baggy loose-fitting jeans seem to have been the rage. The fad of waist-lines inches below the hips with underwear prominently displayed above was yet to hit the scene. The ongoing soap opera love triangle between Pacey, Dawson, and Joey continued for all seven seasons the little trollop incapable or unwilling to plump for one or the other endlessly playing with the emotions of both. The idea that Pacey and Joey spent three months alone on a boat without getting beyond second base is about as believable as all those nights she spent in Dawson’s bedroom.
These teens played by twenty-somethings are preternaturally self-aware and scarily articulate rarely lacking for a comeback line in any circumstance. Their self-possession is belied by the throbbing teenage angst and raging hormones they act out. At 27 Kerr Smith was the oldest of the lot. Recent pictures show him to be prematurely gray. His football stunts were played by a double named Michael Dean. The opening episodes of this season with the amoral hedonistic Eve place Dawson in rather embarrassing situations but things settle down after she departs. The themes are rarely mean spirited and despite their differences this ensemble cast cares for each other.
Always interesting to look at fashion sense after a decade and a half and note that baggy loose-fitting jeans seem to have been the rage. The fad of waist-lines inches below the hips with underwear prominently displayed above was yet to hit the scene. The ongoing soap opera love triangle between Pacey, Dawson, and Joey continued for all seven seasons the little trollop incapable or unwilling to plump for one or the other endlessly playing with the emotions of both. The idea that Pacey and Joey spent three months alone on a boat without getting beyond second base is about as believable as all those nights she spent in Dawson’s bedroom.
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