Episode Report Card Wing Chun: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Escape From Witch Island
By Wing Chun | Season 3 | Episode 7 | Aired on 11.16.1999
However, instead of finding their way back to the gift shop which is open, and where we know there's food, and OUT OF the apparently haunted or at least damn spooky church, the gang decides to light every single candle and hang out in the church for the night. WHATEVER. Joey reads Mary's diary by candlelight. Jen asks how it is; Joey says she just got a letter from William. Joey reads the date, and Jen says, "That's today." Joey says, "It's also the anniversary of the fire." Oh, lord. The diary reports that, in the letter, William promised to come get her that night, but also revealed that "there are those in town" who wanted to punish the girls further. Joey says that's the last entry. Jen asks if Joey thinks that William came to get Mary. Joey says she doesn't: "He probably played her for a fool and took up with some well-bred hussy from the mainland." Jen, of all people, tells Joey to "hop on the happy train," and says that she thinks that Mary and William were "profoundly in love." Joey says that she hates to be "one of those girls who mistakes pop lyrics for profound truth, but 'sometimes, love just ain't enough.'" Uh, in the interest of parallelism, were the writers trying to find musical references from the seventeenth century? Jen tells her that she hates to burst "this subtextual bubble," but that Joey shouldn't let someone else's love life dictate Joey's. Joey starts to sneer, and then turns it into a pensive look instead.
Dawson sits in a pew near the back of the church, regarding his camcorder. Pacey asks why he's stopped filming, and Dawson says he isn't feeling very visionary. Long story short, Dawson asks Pacey if Pacey thinks Dawson made a mistake ending things with Joey. Pacey says that Dawson consistently wears his heart on his sleeve, and that Dawson was just following his heart, which means that it's not possible for Dawson to have made a mistake. Hey, but wasn't Andie, arguably, following her heart when she slept with the dude in the crazy house? I'm just sayin'.
Later, Dawson sleeps in a pew, Joey stares into space mopily, and behind the pulpit Jen and Pacey discuss whether they can pull off the no-strings sex deal. They assure each other, again, that they don't have any feelings for each other. She asks what they should do now, and he says, "Should I take my pants off?" which was kind of funny. She suggests that they kiss first. They gingerly lean in, and then Jen stops to ask, "Is this wrong?" Pacey says, "I don't know. I don't care. All I know is that in November of 1999, four hyper-verbal teenagers wandered off into the woods on Witch Island to film some ridiculous documentary for History class, and eight hours later, two of them started making out." They kiss, agree that it was weird, and "try again." Just then all the fakey shit starts happening. Windows flap open and closed, the fire flares up in the stove, all kinds of runic-looking characters appear on the walls of the church, a cacophony of voices starts making indecipherable noise, and I roll my eyes so hard that one of them actually does get stuck there and I black out.