Episode Report Card Wing Chun: D | 6 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Show Me Love
By Wing Chun | Season 3 | Episode 21 | Aired on 05.09.2000
Naturally, Dawson cannot leave matters there, and takes off running after Joey, who cries feebly on the boardwalk. Now his hair looks like Jack Wagner's did toward the end of his General Hospital days, and he tells Joey, "I'm glad he kissed you." She wipes her eyes and replies, "Well, that makes one of us." Dawson explains: "I'm glad he kissed you, because it forced me to deal with the notion of losing you, Joey, and I can't. I can't lose you -- not now, not ever." Okay, but if you had been able to wrap your mind around the possibility of being friends with her since she clearly has no more romantic feelings for you, maybe you wouldn't have "lost" her -- maybe she would still be able to stand the sight of you, and, again, that would make one of us. (And by "us," I mean "everyone else in the world, including all orders of animals from blue whales to paramecia and even some animate plants, like Venus flytraps.") Joey says, "Dawson, I'm no good for you. Look at the way you behaved today." Dawson says he behaved the way he did because he was threatened. Joey says, "Dawson, the size of your miniscule penis is genetically determined; try being threatened about aspects of your person you can actually control." And then Kim nudged me awake again and told me that Joey had actually asked what he meant, and he said he was trying to be the kind of guy she wants: "You went for a guy who beat up a bully and bought you a wall..." Joey says, "That's not you," which I read as, "That's why I don't like you," and Dawson says he knows: "I'm trying to show you how much I want you instead of just telling you."
Joey very astutely observes, "You don't want me, Dawson. You said it yourself. You just don't want to lose me." Dawson furrows his brow and insists, "Of course I don't want to lose you -- I want you more than I ever have." Joey stands up and, voice breaking, says, "If you really felt that way about me, Dawson, you'd realize that the last thing I need right now is another person with romantic intentions for me." Desperately, Dawson says, "Okay. What do you need?...I'm willing to do anything!" Joey looks exhausted as she says, "I need a friend -- someone who'll be there for me without any agenda. The person that you used to be." Dawson stammers, "Then I'll be that for you." Joey looks down, shaking her head because she knows he can't get past his own ego enough to give of himself unselfishly, and he adds, "Let me prove it to you. Let me show you." She looks up, and then walks off. Finally. Girlfriend, keep walking. In fact, RUN. How many times must I tell you that?