Episode Report Card Sars: D+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Discovery
By Sars | Season 1 | Episode 4 | Aired on 02.09.1998
TaMAHra drinks cappuccino and reads at an outdoor café. Her hair looks, in a word, terrible. Pacey runs across the street from the video store. Chit-chat. TaMAHra solicits suggestions on the next book the class reads. Pacey suggests "something with a little action in it this time," i.e. sex, and TaMAHra rolls her eyes as Pacey starts ranting about the students' ability to "handle this stuff" now. Pacey complains that "every time somebody in one of those books has sex, something bad has to happen to them," citing Romeo And Juliet, The Scarlet Letter, and Oedipus Rex [and if I were Pacey right then, that's not a title I'd talk about too much -- Wing Chun] as examples, then saying, "It has been known to happen that every once in a while two people sleep together, they enjoy it, and afterward everything works out fine." TaMAHra asks, "You really think that is possible?" In answer, Pacey takes her hand, but after only a moment TaMAHra looks around and quickly removes it. Pacey frowns. Whatever.
Oh, for the love of Pete. Footage of It Came From Dawson's Forehead, or whatever he calls his movie. Jen screaming, Leafy Creature chasing Jen, Dawson asking Jen, "Reaction. And I want complete honesty," and Sars feeling a sudden pang of longing for La Filmette. Jen gets up from her seat in front of Dawson's editing machine (no comment) and starts to answer, but she literally hasn't gotten two words out before Dawson interrupts, "But before you say anything, just, just know that your opinion means a lot to me, and if you hate it, I can't even anticipate the downward spiral it might send me into." Shut up, Dawson. Jen smiles sympathetically and says, "Well, my pathetic shriek aside, I think it's really good, Dawson. Very promising and I'm sure it's gonna turn out great." Dawson: "Great?" Jen: "Really great." Dawson smiles like he knew that all along and makes a non-self-deprecating comment about still having a lot of pre-dubbing to do. What the hell is "pre-dubbing"? Anyway, Dawson invites Jen along to his mom's station to help with the mysterious pre-dubbing process, and when she accepts, he says, "Really?" Jen asks, "Why are you so surprised every time I jump at the chance to spend time with you?" Again, no comment. Dawson says, "I don't know -- natural skepticism, perhaps?" Jen teases him, "Well, get over it. Not everything in life has to be so complicated." Dawson, non-master of non-subtlety, makes a weird "eh heh" noise, then gets up and sits down next to Jen. He coyly tells her that, in old movies, when two characters appeared in bed together, the censors made them keep at least one foot on the floor, "which I never really understood, because I figured if the characters were clever enough, they could still do almost anything." Gee, thanks, Dawson -- I guess nowadays the foot goes in the mouth, eh what? Jen twinkles at him. They start kissing, and not only can I almost hear a feedback whine from the lip mics, but I saw way more of James Van Der Beek's tongue than I needed to, but anyway, Dawson slings an arm over Jen's shoulder and starts leaning her backwards onto the bed, but before they've tilted so much as five degrees, Jen stops him cold: "Dawson. We've got plenty of time to prove our censors wrong. We don't have to prove our case today. All right?" She tickles his chin -- no, I have no idea why she does that either -- as Dawson crosses his eyes and says, "Okay." Oy vey.