Episode Report Card Wing Chun: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Crossroads
By Wing Chun | Season 2 | Episode 2 | Aired on 10.13.1998
So then the show comes back on as Pacey staples on a bulletin board a crudely designed hand-drawn invitation photocopied on pink paper (no comment) announcing a Pier Party tonight at 8 o'clock. Dawson comes along asking what's up, and Pacey answers in a very low-key tone of voice that he's having a party, and Dawson still doesn't twig and asks why, to which Pacey responds that he's getting older and expanding his horizons or words to that effect. So then Dawson tires of Pacey's sad little life and turns the conversation to the subject of himself, telling Pacey that he "accidentally read something in Joey's journal" and I think along with "metaphor" someone might want to hip Dawson to the definition of the word "accidentally" but Pacey is ignoring him and handing out his flyers to passersby so Dawson quotes the offending passage: " 'I'm so sick of Dawson and his stupid horror movie. I wish I could tell him how terrible it is -- how stupid and putrid and rancid and...' " and he trails off with " 'it's awful' " only it sounds more like "it's softball", and anyway, Dawson, I'm sure there must have been more to it than that; come on, Dawson -- dig deep! And then Pacey puts matters in the proper perspective (while continuing by pointing out that "at least she didn't tell you that the sight of you gives her dry heaves" which would at least land her squarely in the majority, "or that you're a self-centred, self-absorbed, selfish..." and posts another flyer with great pique, but Dawson is concerned that "obviously" she has opinions she hasn't been honest about, like -- yeah, obviously is right, and, so? And he is really concerned because she called him, " 'a talentless dreamer with no cinematic future'" (bravo! Hear hear!).
And Pacey thank God says, "no offense, Dawson, but I don't think anybody cares" and I would like Pacey a lot more if he was pissy like this every week but Dawson takes exception to it and tells Pacey he's serious and that he could use some advice, to which Pacey obligingly responds, "You want some advice? How about this -- your life is not that interesting" which gets Pacey the blankest blank look there ever was from Dawson who clearly cannot even fathom that those words in that order could possibly apply to him since all he can manage to answer is, "What?" So Pacey continues, "You know, I am so sick and tired of hearing about you and Joey's boring little mini-dramas I'm going to start tearing out my fingernails for relief" and Dawson looks all wounded and confused and then Pacey to yell, "Get over yourself, Dawson! DEAL." And Pacey walks off, and Dawson and his new asshole gaze after him and I never thought that I would have occasion to say 'GO PACEY' but clearly this situation demands it. GO PACEY!