Episode Report Card Jessica: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Merry Mayhem
By Jessica | Season 6 | Episode 10 | Aired on 12.10.2002
Casa Leery. Natasha and Dawson are trimming the tree. She leans over and kisses him. Why is Natasha with Dawson for Christmas? Doesn't she have a family of her own? Is she an orphan? "What was that for?" Dawson asks. Natasha simpers that it was just a thank you for bringing her home to meet Gale...and for just being himself. "I's [sic] a lucky girl, Dawson," she tells him. Blearf. Dawson looks toward the kitchen, where Gale is carrying Lily on her hip and chatting up an already soused Todd (who is also, apparently, an orphan). Dawson wonders absently if Gale really "grilled" Natasha. Natasha shrugs that Gale just wanted to know what Natasha's intentions were. Dawson raises a quizzical brow. "I told her that, aside from ringing in the new year with her one and only son, I didn't much know or care," Natasha chirps. Dawson looks vaguely shocked. "Nicely put," he says, then, changing the subject, wonders if his mother is safe in the kitchen with Todd. "Oh, I don't think anyone is safe from the drunk and horny Todd," Natasha snickers, and gets up to go chat with her director.
As Natasha exits the living room, Gale enters with a plate of cheese. I'd like to point out that Gale's skin tone is, for once in her life, a totally normal color. No fake-and-bake, no body bling. Just...skin. Way to go, Gale. I'd long suspected it that is was the influence of the Flash that led to your almost pathological dependence on Mythic Tan. Gale sets the cheese on the table and tells Dawson that Natasha is "a trip." Dawson makes some evasive noises, and Gale casually wonders what the situation is with the two of them, anyway -- is it serious? Is Natasha his girlfriend? Or is this "some kind of casual sex thing?" Dawson shudders. "Okay, first of all, that's disgusting," he says, then tells his mother that he simply doesn't know. He has no idea where he and Natasha are heading or how to define their relationship. "And that's okay with you?" Gale pries. Dawson shrugs that he really doesn't have a choice. "So, that's how they do things in California?" Gale asks. Dawson snorts noncommittally. Yes, folks: that's how we do it in California. It's all just casual sex and tofu out here. Gale looks at the tree and chuckles that if someone had told her that one day her son would be bringing home his "movie star girlfriend" and "a big time director," she would have "laughed in their face." How kind. Dawson snickers awkwardly as Gale folds her arms and sighs that the Flash really would have enjoyed this. "Although I don't think he would have enjoyed watching your boss hit on me," she adds. Oh, come on. Like Todd would be putting the moves on Gale if the Flash were there. At this moment, Todd and Natasha stroll in bearing nog, and Gale drags Natasha into the kitchen to check on dinner. Todd swigs his nog and wonders if Dawson would mind if he "had a go" at Gale. Dawson flares his nostrils, disgusted. "What?" he asks. And...yet another stellar end of scene.