Episode Report Card Wing Chun: D | 1 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT Reunited
By Wing Chun | Season 2 | Episode 20 | Aired on 05.11.1999
Outside, Joey grabs Dawson from behind and asks what's on for tonight. He at first says he thought they'd rent a movie. She makes disappointed noises since that's what they've done the last four Fridays in a row. To cut to the fishcakes, he's actually made reservations at a fancy restaurant to celebrate their "one-month anniversary [sic]." Whatever. The only notable things that happen in this scene are: first, Dawson pronounces that they "are boring, trite people." Well, you're half right. The other is that Dawson says the dinner was going to be a surprise, but then Joey got all "persnickety" on him. No, actually, she didn't get persnickety, but thanks for carrying on the proud Dawson's Creek tradition of using multisyllabic words incorrectly.
Night falls on the Leery Home for Wayward Piglets, Poodles, and Post Cereal (formerly the No-Fault Hacienda) where Jen sits on the porch gazing mournfully in the direction of Grams's house. Mrs. Flash comes on the scene, follows Jen's line of vision, and remarks, "You could call her." "Who?" asks Jen unconvincingly, looking at her feet, then says that she doesn't think they have much to say to each other. Mrs. Flash doubts that. Jen says, "It's not that I don't want to talk to her, but where would it lead? Maybe I'd move back in, a few weeks of mild reconciliation, and then the inevitable ideology clash." Maybe, except for the fact that Grams is the only one with an ideology; what you have is a petulant and not terribly original teenage affectation. Anyway: "I've just accepted that there are certain people who weren't meant to fit in your life, no matter how much you want them to be [sic]." Mrs. Flash says, "I am intimately acquainted with that predicament." Jen looks stricken and quickly says, "Oh. I am so sorry! I didn't mean to imply...." Mrs. Flash says it's okay, and suggests that they "have a night of good food, good music, good conversation, and just put the past on the back burner for a few hours." Jen says, "I'd have to say that's the best offer I've gotten in quite a while." Mrs. Flash affectionately puts her arm around Jen, who squeezes in close. Aw. I mean, I agree with sTARBABY that it's sort of sad for Mrs. Flash to be seeking this kind of communion with a sixteen-year-old instead of someone her own age, but it was still touching to see Jen get a little uncomplicated love from someone in loco parentis for a change.
In town, the Flash and La Filmette are walking down the sidewalk wearing matching gray and black outfits. The Flash wonders what "entre nous" means in French. La Filmette says it means "just between us." The Flash says, "Like a secret." They kiss. Then they discuss the kiss for a little while. I enter a fugue state until the end of the scene, at which time they reach the restaurant and exchange a couple more conventional French phrases in a not-especially-cute manner.