Episode Report Card Wing Chun: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT A Perfect Wedding
By Wing Chun | Season 2 | Episode 18 | Aired on 04.17.1999
I'd just like to note that at this point, my tape lost video entirely, leaving me to write the rest of the wrap-up with the audio only. See what I do for your people? Stupid cheap-ass Maxell tapes. Who knew that the No-Frills house brand was more reliable?
Back at the wedding, the guests continue to get restless. Back outside the bathroom, Jack and Dawson continue trying to talk the bride out. Eventually she opens the door and says that she feels like she's going to be sick, she's scared that Alan isn't her soul mate and that if she marries him she'll risk missing out on her one chance for perfect love, blah blah blah fishcakes. Jack says, "You could spend your whole life looking for a perfect love, and I promise you, you'll never find it." At this, the bride starts sobbing again, so Jack quickly goes on: "No, no, it's 'cause love isn't perfect. Everyone's flawed, including you -- including Alan. But I bet that he loves you, and that love is real. Are you sure you want to walk away from something that's real, for a pipe dream that may not exist? Huh?" At this the bride seems to relent, so Jack goes for the closer: "You're just suffering from an acute case of wedding-day jitters. It wouldn't be a wedding without 'em -- It's tradition! It's like throwing the bouquet or taking off the garter. Besides, I bet that when you start to walk down that aisle and you look into Alan's eyes, all your fears are just going to dissolve away."
I think at this point the bride did end up walking down the aisle. But like I said, I couldn't see.
After the ceremony, Pam approaches Jack and says, "I don't even know you, but you saved my life. You were right. Thank you. I'm so happy!" As she walks away, Dawson turns to Jack and says, "So I talk to her for twenty minutes, and she wants to jump out the window. You come in and in ten minutes save her marriage. How do you do that?" Jack says, "I trained with this Indian shaman who lives up in the woods...I don't know, I just happened to say the right thing." Dawson says, "There was a time when she used to come to me." Jack says not, "Oh, here we go," but, "Joey?" Dawson says, "Yeah. Whenever she had news or something she wanted to talk about, she'd climb through my window and we'd talk for hours and hours. Now she goes to you." Jack says, "Dawson, I don't think you should draw any conclusions about your relationship with Joey based on something so circumstantial. Besides, I may be friends with her, but you're her soul mate." Somewhere in New York, Sarah introduces a fork to her eye. But there's more! Dawson says, "You just told the bride you don't believe in soul mates." Jack says, "I don't believe in perfect love, but I do believe that there are people whose lives are inextricably intertwined [oh lord] -- you know, who have a bond that lasts forever, can never be broken. And she needs you now, man! You're the only one that knows her whole history, okay? You are the only one who knows what she's going through." Dawson doesn't even pretend to be at all modest about this, and says, "I know! It is so frustrating; I keep on reaching out to her, but between her pride, this wedding, I can't connect." Jack says, "Maybe what she needs is for you to force a connection." I don't even know what that might entail, but I don't like to think about it.
Elsewhere, Pacey and Andie are messing unsuccessfully with the cake top. Then the bride comes along and Andie has to stall her. It's official -- Andie is the Donna Martin of Dawson's Creek. Andie berates him some more after the bride leaves, not helping in the reconstruction of the cake top, and Pacey at least has the presence of mind to point out to her that it was her "wild gesticulations" that smashed up the cake top in the first place. Finally, Pacey says he isn't going to work on the cake any longer until Andie admits she's a wedding junkie. So she does. Whatever.