Episode Report Card Wing Chun: D | 1 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT Stolen Kisses
By Wing Chun | Season 3 | Episode 19 | Aired on 04.25.2000
Outside the pool hall, Will and Pacey are walking down the sidewalk in broad daylight counting out bills, as if that isn't conspicuous, and Andie is shrieking that she can't believe Pacey and Will hustled the pool hall dudes. Blah blah blah cheatcakes (like you're one to talk, Ruth Shalit), she finally shuts up when they give her her share of the winnings. Next to Will, Meredith Monroe looks about fifty. The kerchief doesn't help.
Oh God. Okay, while Aunt Gwen, Pacey, Andie, and Will all...wash...a horse...that Aunt Gwen owns, I guess from the proceeds of her crappy-ass art, Dawson and Joey sit above them in the hayloft and, of course, talk about "old times." Dawson asks her whether he seems different to her. She asks what he means, and he says that after devoting "all this energy to reinventing" himself, he doesn't feel any different. You don't look, sound, or act any different, if you ask me. You certainly aren't doing any of those things better. She says that he is different -- that he used to have to be the centre of attention, but that lately she'd noticed him receding into the background "to let others shine." From where we recappers sit, that has meant that Dawson's appearances have been limited to no more than four scenes per episode -- and we've enjoyed it. He smiles, and says that this trip is reminding him of what they're good at: "We make sense in each other's lives. Always have."
Joey's smile fades a bit as she looks at her feet. The Piano of Poignancy starts up as she warns him, "Things are changing, Dawson. People evolve, and some things drop away." Dawson intensely says that "things don't have to be a certain way" and that "growing up doesn't have to equal growing apart." Oh, God, sell it to Hallmark; don't peddle that shit to me. She tells him that it does. Man, her lips are chapped! Dawson says she needs to find faith: "Faith that, whatever set us off in different directions is the same thing that'll --" "Bring us back together," she finished for him, smiling wearily, and adds, "I take it back. You haven't changed a bit." He says, "I'm starting to forget why." "'Why' what?" she asks. "Why we're not together," he replies. Dude, see above. Plus, you used the word "soulmate" so much that it not only lost all meaning but has been officially retired from the English language. Joey gazes at him guiltily. Pacey appears beneath the hayloft and invites them to come down and help with the horse-washin'. Dramatic Irony tries to struggle to his feet, but Undramatic Non-Irony is sitting on his back, leafing through the new issue of InStyle. "Hey, have you read this yet?" he asks me. "No, so don't get any food on it," I reply, "and shut up because it's almost the commercial." Before either Dawson or Joey can answer Pacey, the camera pans down to the toe of Joey's shoe, where "DAWSON + JOEY CODEPENDENT I MEAN BEST FRIENDS FOREVER" is carved into the wood.