Episode Report Card Sars: C- | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Future Shock
By Sars | Season 6 | Episode 23 | Aired on 05.13.2003
The cast says nice things about the crew. Katie Holmes gets choked up. So does Joshua Jackson.
Wing Chun: Not! Line.
Sars: It would have killed them to name the baby "Sarah"? Or "Tara"?
Wing Chun: Don't get me started.
Sars: Oh, crap, it's back on.
Shut up, Kate Hudson.
Back from the break, Jen and Jack turn up, and there's lots of hugging and squealing and smiling, and Pacey bellows, "Open bar for everybody!"
Fade to later, with the gang around a table full of beer bottles. Joey leans forward with her glass of wine and asks Jack if he remembers the time she painted him in the nude. Jen bursts out, "Oh, and you got excited and sprouted a woo--" Jack cuts her off before she can finish that thought, and Joey smirks, "Got a little more than I bargained for." Jack's all, whatever, it's just as well, and snorts, "Besides, Dawson would probably eventually have killed me for taking away his only soulmate, right?" It's clearly meant as a joke, and any other group of friends -- a group of friends with, say, any perspective at all -- would have laughed. This group greets it with an awkward silence and some embarrassed smiles. God, could all of you just GET OVER IT, please? Jack quickly changes the subject to what Audrey's up to these days; evidently she's touring Europe with John Mayer, and she has an "anti-Pacey" boyfriend, whatever that's supposed to mean (Joey tries to explain it, but it makes no sense, and nobody cares about Audrey anyway).
Next, Joey thanks Pacey for reopening the Icehouse; she didn't know how much she'd missed it. Pacey cracks that if her father hadn't burned the place down, "maybe it would still be yours," and despite the fact that that remark is a country mile more inappropriate than Jack's, it gets an appreciative groan from the table. Yeah, arson's hilarious. What is wrong with these people? Dawson laughs that he couldn't write this stuff if he tried. No comment. "How long has it been?" Joey needles Pacey, who answers, "Not long enough, apparently." Heh. Jen soggily asks Dawson, "Remember when I devirginized you?" AAAACK. The rest of the table is like, "Yeah…TMI, blondie," and Jack wisely decides that that's their cue to leave and slings Jen over his shoulder. Jen gurgles, "Hey, guys -- remember the time when my boyfriend knocked me up and left me to raise a baby on my own?" and then she breaks up laughing. Um…okay. When I first watched that scene, the bitterness of that line felt weird, and it feels even weirder and more misplaced given what we find out later, but I don't have the energy, so, whatever. The Tinkling Piano Of Life Didn't Turn Out Like We Thought It Would tells us we're supposed to consider that poignant, so poignant it is, then. Jack's all, "Okay, then, see you all tomorrow," but Jen stops him to tell them all that they're the best friends she's ever had in her whole life. Wow, Jen's had some assy friends, then. "I love you so much. That is all. Good night," she finishes grandly, and Jack keel-hauls her out of there.