Episode Report Card Sars: D+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Sex and Death
By Sars | Season 4 | Episode 14 | Aired on 02.06.2001
As Joey folds her arms and sets her jaw, Pacey says that there isn't; he just wishes he knew "what that something was." Yeah, join the club, G. Pacey knows she's scared, he gets that, but she won't admit what she's scared of, and he thinks she knows "exactly what it is -- you're just too afraid to say his name." "Dawson?" Joey sneers, then starts whining that Pacey can't bring Dawson's name up every time their relationship hits a rough patch, and frankly I agree -- Dawson isn't the problem here, and I really wish the writers would stop trying to force that. Pacey says "fine" about a dozen times to shut her up, and confesses that he's scared, not of whether they sleep together but of "that little piece of [her] heart that will always belong to Dawson Leery." Joey fights to keep from crying as Pacey talks about that part of Joey "that always envisioned [her] first time being with" Dawson. Pacey's scared that that part of her doesn't want her first to be him. Joey says as coldly as she can manage, "That's how you feel?" and in so doing pretty much turfs any sympathy she'd built up with me. I could understand the sulking, and even the humorless whining, up to a point, but -- I've had it. Joey struggles to keep an even tone of voice as she asks why he stuck around for nine months if that's how he feels and what he believes. "I'm just a glutton for punishment, I guess," Pacey says, getting up to leave and bringing our meta-comment count to three. Pacey closes the door behind him, and Joey leans on her arms to cry in earnest. Hey, Joey? Looks good on you, virgin.
Jen and Jack's room. They sit facing each other in front of the fire, and Jen polishes off another makeshift highball of vodka while Jack says sourly that he's a lousy drunk. "Aw, baby, you're a great drunk," she reassures him, but he blithers on about how she gets entertaining when she's inebriated, whereas he just becomes "sullen and introspective." Jen calls "sullen and introspective" sexy qualities, but he corrects her, "Sexy is the ability to have a little bit of fun." You do see what's happening here, right? Anvil's not blocking your view? Can you hear the music? Here, I'll turn it up: "Bamp chicka bamp bamp, wah wah wah wahhhhh wahhhhhh, bamp chicka bamp bamp." Okay, on we go. Jack tells her that she's a sexy drunk: "You get brave and crazy." Jen says that he's much braver than she. He says no, he's scared. She asks what of, and he says he's scared he'll "end up alone," that he'll always be the friend or the brother or the confidant and "never quite somebody's everything," and mostly that he'll never find a guy he loves as much as he loves Jen. Aw. Jen is touched. She kisses her hand and touches it to his forehead. Then she kisses his forehead with her lips. Then there's an interminable moment where they get closer…and closer…and closer…and the flames leap in the background…and then they kiss. And then we go to commercial, and I wonder why the writers and the WB can't just have Jack kiss a boy instead, because this is ridiculous, and if it's Kerr Smith holding up the show, well, he's an actor and he can bloody well get over it. In short, WHATEVER. Also, bamp chicka bamp bamp.