Episode Report Card Wing Chun: D | 3 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Like A Virgin
By Wing Chun | Season 3 | Episode 1 | Aired on 09.28.1999
I quit.
Okay, I don't. But that was my moment of clarity in which I realized that this show is now, officially, irredeemably awful.
In response to Pacey's remark, Dawson muses that maybe she wasn't real, so Pacey asks, "What about the one that is real?" Dawson hesitates and asks, "What about her?" Pacey reminds Dawson -- and North America -- that Dawson and Joey haven't seen each other all summer, and that everyone is waiting to see what will happen when they finally do. Dawson has apparently graduated from Katie Couric fantasies to Katie Couric hair; it's hot-rolled and mushroomed-out to such an extent that it looks like his head is wearing a blond life preserver, which is ironic, since that bean is the size of a buoy as it is. Anyway, Dawson says that maybe Pacey wasn't listening the first fifty thousand times he said it: "It's over." Pacey says it's only over until Joey speaks to Dawson. Dawson says she won't. Pacey says that Dawson underestimates the healing power of time to convince people to forgive and forget. Dawson says that even if Joey did come up to him and tell him that she forgives and forgets, he himself wouldn't: "I wouldn't forget that most of the past year has been a hellish nightmare." Amen to that. "I've been verbalizing and angst-ing [sic] instead of living. I need to learn how to exist and ask questions later." Pacey asks if, at school today, Joey comes up to Dawson, apologizes, and "does that cute little hair-flip thing she does," what Dawson would do. Dawson says he'd tell her that "it's over, it's been over, and that we're both better off without each other." Oh, how I hate it when Dawson and I agree. At that moment, the Flash comes in and tells Dawson he's on his way to his coaching conference. Pacey expresses confusion, and Dawson pulls a Basil Exposition and tells Pacey that "Substitute Mitch" (which was kind of funny) is Capeside High's newest Varsity football coach. A conference of high school football coaches would be held at the same time school was starting? When high school teachers have nearly three months of summer off? Whatever. Pacey needles the Flash about the team's losing streak, and the Flash assures Pacey that, speaking as a former "Minuteman" (no comment) himself, this season "will be a winning one." He starts to hustle his buns of steel out of there, and Pacey asks him why he isn't leaving Dawson with any parting words of wisdom, or warnings about keeping the house in an appropriate state in Mitch's absence, and whatnot. The Flash says that's a good point, and tells Dawson to keep Pacey out while the Flash is gone. Ha.