Episode Report Card Wing Chun: D | 2 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT None Of The Above
By Wing Chun | Season 3 | Episode 3 | Aired on 10.12.1999
With his back to the camera, Dawson sits on a picnic table and stares at the creek. Eve walks up to him wearing a...dress...I guess, but it's so short, and so tight, that it looks more like a wet suit. She asks if he got "it" back, presumably referring to the test. Dawson turns around to display his shiner. "Not exactly," he says. She asks what happened. He says that's what he's been trying to figure out, and that the only thing he can come up with is her: "You happened to me, Eve. You and that stupid test." Hey, I'm not fond of her, but she didn't hand him the test with a gun to his head -- and if she had wanted to, she could have had a clear shot from three counties away. She asks whether it was her or the test that gave him the black eye. For once, Dawson admits to having some responsibility there: "I accept my blame in this, but don't even try to tell me that you didn't know what giving me that test would do." She chuckles, and tells him that if making her the villain in this scenario helps him sleep at night, he can go ahead, but that, in fact, "we're all criminals, Dawson, in one way or another. It's just the stupid ones who get caught." Put on your safety goggles, everyone -- Eve's busted out the aphorisms again. Dawson turns his back and says, "Nice knowing you, Eve." He starts to go, but she and her terrible posture stop him, asking (in baby talk, no less), "Is that how it works? Someone offers you a view of human nature that's even remotely truthful, and you just walk away from it? It terrifies you, doesn't it? That wholesome Dawson Leery could be so overwhelmingly attracted to someone so flawed -- so real?" Oh, gack. Someone certainly has an unjustly high opinion of herself. And, FYI, anyone would be attracted to someone with a "Get It Here" tattoo on her forehead and a skirt that barely clears her ass, so don't rest too long on your laurels. She leans in for a kiss, but Dawson pulls back. Dawson puts on his steel face again, and says, "The purpose of our spending time together was to get to know each other. And you know what? Now that I know you, I don't really like you." She has no reaction to this line. As he strides off, she chuckles, and then looks wounded and lost. Boo hoo. Not.
At football practice, Henry watches as the cheerleaders run through their routines and Jen makes her way through their lines trying not to touch any of them, and certainly not joining in on any cheering. Jack is about to run the gauntlet again. He has a mantra. It's "Fug." I'm thinking this is an attempt on the WB's part to sneak in some almost-swearing, though I'm not sure why. Anyway, Jack starts chanting "Fug" and makes it the whole way through the gauntlet of tackles. As if. The cheerleaders start spontaneously cheering. Henry watches as Jen breaks away from the group of cheerleaders. Yelling "FUG," he runs straight at her, and then past her, into a table. Nonplussed, Jen asks, "What the hell was that?" I don't know why -- it must have been Michelle Williams's line delivery -- but I laughed out loud at that.