Episode Report Card Jessica: B- | 1 USERS: C YOU GRADE IT Cigarette Burns
By Jessica | Season 5 | Episode 18 | Aired on 04.09.2002
Amy smiles at him, and tells him that "anything imbued with that much passion and heartbreak" will, at the very least, be interesting. "Plus, you're a fan, which satisfies my enormous ego," she tells him. Dawson grins. "Shall we?" Amy asks. They get up to go, and end up making out. Yeah, you read that right. There's some contrivance about making some guy (who Amy thinks is her boyfriend) jealous, but of course the guy turns out to not to be her boyfriend after all, and I suspect that Amy just wanted a little Dawson Love. Oh, ew! I can't believe I even typed that!Audrey. Pacey. Whatever. It turns out that Pacey's been thinking. "I know that you've slept with other men," he says. And he can accept that. He's got insecurities, he says, but those insecurities are his problem. Not hers. "The only thing that matters is this, just this," he says, looking into her eyes. "I have totally and completely fallen for you," Pacey says. "You move me, Audrey. All over the place." They kiss. Aw, Pacey. So cute! So not realistic, but so cute. "Five," Audrey says. "What?" he asks. "I've only slept with five people," she confesses. Oh, my God. Of course she's slept with fewer people than Pacey has! Because otherwise, she's a dirty, skanky whore whom the viewing audience will have to reject. Because girls who have sex should be shunned by society! Shunned! Shunned! Shunned and maybe stoned! I really think the writers here missed a good opportunity to make the point that even if Audrey has had sex with a whole bunch of people, that doesn't make her bad or dirty or wrong. It would have been really gutsy if Audrey had had sex with considerably more people than Pacey (I mean, realistically. Come on, fifty-seven people at age eighteen seems like a bit of a stretch), and that was something that they had to deal with. Instead, with this scenario, Pacey gets to have the "correct" reaction to her past, but he doesn't actually get stuck with a slutty girlfriend. He gets to nail someone who's a real pro in the sack, but she didn't learn any of those tricks from sleeping with a bunch of boys! Oh, no! She probably learned it from a book! It's the best of both worlds! Except for Audrey, who clearly worries that Pacey won't love her if he thinks she's slept around, hence the "testing" here. Anyway, she apologizes for testing him, and tells him he "aced" it and she might give him a reward. They kiss. Whatever. And it's not like five is a small number of people to have slept with when you're eighteen (or whenever, really -- and who cares, really, how many people you've slept with, and who is to say how many is too many, other than you?) or anything, but Audrey's been built up as this charmingly free-spirited girl who sleeps with whomever she likes and does whatever she wants, and I feel like the writers are totally backtracking on that now that Audrey is Pacey's girlfriend and not just Joey's saucy roommate. And it sucks.
Amy and Dawson walk back to the screening. How is it that their entire audience hasn't left yet? People have been waiting to see this stupid movie for hours. She's whinging about her most recent failed romance and yada yada yada. They're flirting. We get it. She likes him. Blah. Dawson is concerned that his movie is going to suck, he says. "If it sucks, I will tell you. Over coffee. And you might just get to make out with me again," Amy grins at him. Dawson smiles back, tentatively. She turns to go, but he stops her. "Roadhouse," he says. The movie he loves for no reason? The Patrick Swayze flick Roadhouse. I don't even know what to say about that. There's got to be a joke about the Flash in there somewhere. I just can't find it!