Episode Report Card Sars: D | 2 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT The Longest Day
By Sars | Season 3 | Episode 20 | Aired on 05.02.2000
Joey dismounts the ladder to see Pacey striding up the front lawn, and she breaks into a run to stop him in time, and she catches him on the porch and they hug and she says she has to tell Dawson about them because things between her and Dawson -- well, we've seen this already. When we get to the part where she drags Pacey out onto the lawn, we cut up to the Sanctum, and Dawson, brooding in his chair, hears them talking on the lawn and goes to the window in time to hear the part where Pacey accuses Joey of not coming to tell Dawson at all, but coming to stop him from telling Dawson. Then we cut back to Pacey saying his "let me guess -- you failed" line, and then Nostrilla looms over the Capeside horizon: "I thought I heard something out here." Joey "oh, uh, duh, we were just" blah blah blah Dawson "having an argument -- obviously. What about?" blah blah blah Pacey "us -- we were having an argument about us" blah blah blah looks of horror all aroundcakes. As the Donner party emerges stunned from Dawson's left nostril -- and have I mentioned that Dawson's hair looks like a small, extremely angry octopus died on his head? Because it does -- Pacey apologizes, saying that "we didn't wanna tell you this way," and Dawson looks very satisfied indeed with his own righteous anger and snits, "You didn't tell me." Joey looks up, shocked, and says, "You know, don't you," and Dawson nods, with a mixture of bitterness and his trademark intolerable smugness, "Yeah, I know."
I've got Tom Green's Road Trip right here -- IN MY PANTS (tm Bryan).
Here we go again -- take three of Trashomon (tm notworking). Sunset. Waterfront. Flashmobile. Champagne. "Where's Joey," "she's at the library," blah dee blah, cut to Joey and Pacey kissing, and agreeing to tell Dawson, and kissing some more. Um, whose point of view have we got here? Joey stops the kissing, thank god, and tells Pacey to go ahead and she'll catch up. More kissing. Dear sound editor: please turn down the lip mics, because I can hear snippets of molar conversation. Love, the tattered and bleeding remains of Sars's eardrum. Pacey appears, Jack comments, Andie says they can get started, Dawson says not without the champagne they can't, and as Pacey stammers that sparkling cider would have worked just as well, Joey appears and does The Walk Of Overly Casual Guilt over to sit next to Jen.
Dawson says condescendingly that Pacey took something "destined for the scrapheap" and made it "a thing of beauty" and "a viable mode of transportation." Like, buck up, little sailor! Pacey doesn't know what to say, so he makes that grim chuckling noise again; from the dock, Jack urges him to "get this show on the road," and Pacey tells him to hang on before asking Dawson if he'll "be home after all this." Dawson says yes, for a little while, but he has to work later; Pacey says, "Cool," and trots down to the boat, saying he'll keep it short. Joey watches him go by with adoring eyes, which she drops when Dawson follows Pacey down and stands beside Joey. Dawson greets her warmly; she responds awkwardly. Pacey gives a speech thanking Hurricane Chris for letting him afford the boat to begin with, and thanking everyone who helped him get the boat in seaworthy condition, and then he christens the boat "True Love" with a quick glance in Joey's direction, and Jen gives Joey a look, which Joey avoids, and Pacey smashes the bottle on the side of the boat and everyone claps. Whatever.