Episode Report Card Wing Chun: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Crossroads
By Wing Chun | Season 2 | Episode 2 | Aired on 10.13.1998
Then there's another commercial break, thank God, including an ad for Pleasantville, and I would just like to say to those few people who know what both are about that I giggle inside at the thought of the market confusion between that movie and Happiness, since they both open in the same week. Tee hee!
Back on the dock Andie is for some unknown reason following Pacey around like a skinny blonde gadfly wearing a bikini top and sarong and an inane exchange follows in which Andie comments that she is nervous around new people and ends up falling completely silent, to which Pacey replies that she hasn't stopped talking since they met, and she says that's because he makes her mad, not nervous, and "mad beats nervous" in the rock-paper-scissors game that evidently is her emotional landscape, and then she points out some more cheerleaders and comments that "some older women like younger men" (as Pacey chuckles knowingly to himself) in another deft use of dramatic irony except for the deft part (tm Sars) and then Pacey says he wishes he made her nervous, and I have to agree as she smirks back at him cocking her head back and forth about forty times like a noddy dog in the back window of a car and although everyone around is bikini-clad, it looks pretty cold there, and I wish that someone in the continuity department could remember that in the timeline of the show, it's really only about November, if not later in the year, and while I know nothing about Cape Cod I have an idea that the northern parts of the Eastern Seaboard get kind of cold around that time of year.
So then there are some more shots of too-scantily-clad extras milling around the dock (and does Pacey own this dock? And if not, why does he get to host a party there? Whatever), and playing beach volleyball and Pacey tries to be all Steve Rubell gazing out over his happening, but evidently it freaks him out since he can't actually approach any of these strangers and when he does get close to a girl she pours her beer into the water and very overdubbed, pronounces that "this is skunky" as Pacey slinks away.
Then we get a shot of Dawson approaching the party in his powerboat and then another shot of Pacey as he watches Dawson approach and rolls his eyes and then cut to Jen and Abby who are both in sundresses (and Jen is, by the way, showing a great deal of her bosom, to the point where she seems to be in imminent danger of a pop-out) and are totally shit-faced and giggling and Jen is saying that "three" is her "limit" like, what happened to the Jen who had a crazy weekend in Atlantic City before Charlie had to ship out? So they're staggering around and carrying on and then Abby looks over and sees Dawson mooring the boat and says, "I bet you don't have the berries" to kiss the next guy that comes by, and I say, "berries?" and Jen says "you're on, sister-friend!" and of course since the next guy happens to be Dawson she has no problem lurching over to him and planting one on him, and he of course takes it amiss and asks what's wrong with her as if it weren't painfully obvious and a cliché besides, and she looks wounded and wobbles away and Abby chastises Dawson, "Nice going, Romeo," as he takes off in the opposite direction.