Episode Report Card Jessica: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Merry Mayhem
By Jessica | Season 6 | Episode 10 | Aired on 12.10.2002
Eventually, she heads out to the dock where Dawson is. She crunches across the fakest snow in the world to stand next to him. "Didn't I sleep with you once and never talk to you again?" she wonders. Dawson sighs that "it happens to [him] all the time." They share a bittersweet smile. "So, some night, huh?" Dawson asks, chuckling. Joey agrees that it certainly put things into perspective. He looks out at the creek and says that he'd hate to think that their last meaningful conversation was the one they had in her dorm room. Joey looks at her feet and admits that she "never really dealt with what happened." She "put it in a box and pushed it far, far away," she says. Hey, me too! Dawson wonders where it all went so wrong. Joey sighs that she just tried to forget what happened between them, but that it never works. She admits that it's easy for her to kind of hate him, because she knows that he's out there and if she ever really needed him, he'd be there for her. "It's true," Dawson tells her. "Then why do they keep hurting each other?" Joey asks. Um, because neither one of you is familiar with the concept of "moving on"? Just a guess. Dawson thinks. "We're not hurting each other right now," he points out. Joey rolls her eyes. "No. Right now is an illusion, though. Right now, it's a truce. Right now, I just want to stand here and talk to the one person who can maybe help me figure out how everything worked out this way. We can go back to hating each other in the morning." Dawson agrees that this sounds like a plan, and throws a fraternal arm over her shoulder. The cut here is horrible. In one shot, her head is on his shoulder, and in the next, it's in a totally different place. But this scene as a whole actually isn't all that bad. I don't want to kill both of them and then turn the gun on myself, anyway. "I don't really hate you, you know," Dawson says. Joey admits that she doesn't really hate him either. Well, I think the people on the forums have got the hate for both of them well and truly covered, so don't lose any sleep on that front. Dawson and Joey look out at the water in silence. Happy Holidays, kids. I'll see you in 2003!