Episode Report Card Wing Chun: D | 2 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT High Risk Behavior
By Wing Chun | Season 2 | Episode 10 | Aired on 01.12.1999
Back at the drugstore, Andie is telling Pacey that she's put a lot of "fantasy thought" into the circumstances surrounding her first time, which she wants to be special: "You know, the perfect evening. Like, dinner at a French restaurant, a romantic after-dinner stroll by the dock, and then on to a nice historic bed and breakfast." Gee, Andie, your fantasy is pretty conventional, but whatever. "'A bed and breakfast'?" Pacey repeats skeptically. "It's my fantasy, go with it," Andie replies, and continues: "Lavender candles and Sinatra, or somebody equally old-style and romantic." Barf. All I can think is, that sounds a lot like Bailey and Sarah's abortive First Time on Party of Five. Anyway, Pacey asks, " Do you schedule in bathroom breaks, or does a poor guy have to hold it all evening?" Andie tells him that losing her virginity is a huge deal: "I didn't hold onto it for sixteen years just to lose it in one drunk, fleeting moment in some skanky backseat of a late-model American car, okay?" "Damn," says Pacey. "Someone's leaking all my best lovemaking secrets." Andie says, "It's just that I wanna remember this for the rest of my life, and I just think that if we put a little planning into it to ensure that it's worth remembering, it would be really nice." Pacey tells her he knows how important the first time is: "And I know, with my tainted past, I might not be the most likely of candidates, but if and when you do decide it's the right time for you, I'd really like to be the one that helps to make it a memorable evening." Sadly, he looks at her all cross-eyed while saying so. Andie says, "Well, when you talk like that, it makes me wanna to jump you." Pacey says, "Oh really?" Andie says, "Yeah."
After some pointless landscape shots, we're back inside the high school auditorium, where Dawson is whining at Jen: "It's so frustrating to have this dream of making this movie, to actually get the money to make the movie, and then to realize that it still might not happen." Uh, Dawson? You've been trying to cast it for a day. Real filmmakers sometimes take years. Try to deal. Jen smirks, then bites her lip and says, "Just like in the script." Dawson says: "Meaning?" Jen says, "I mean, you and Joey. You know, you're in love with her for fifteen years, and then when you're just about to have her, you lose her. It's tragic." Jen gets up and walks over to the stage. Dawson says, "The script's not about Joey," and goes over to the stage as well. Jen says, "Dawson, gimme a break; it reads like an autobiography. It's funny; I thought that we had something too, but even with my flair for the dramatic, my role's been reduced to the first act." Dawson says, "Jen. You were important to me. You know that." Jen says, "Was I?" Dawson says, "Absolutely. More than you know." Jen says, "Then, I want to ask you something Dawson. Since we're friends and all, what did you like about me?" Dawson says, "What did I like about you?" Jen laughs sheepishly. Dawson goes on: "We had fun together. You know? I mean, you opened me up to stuff. Skinny-dipping didn't suck, you know? You were sexy." Jen asks, "'Were'?" Dawson corrects himself: "Are. Are." Jen says, "You know, I think Chris may be right about your script. I think that the two young lovers should do it." Since Jen has spoken the forbidden words, Dawson flares his nostrils, stomps up on the stage, and yells, "It's about romance! Not sex!" Jen says, "Who says that sex can't be romantic, Dawson? Come on, I mean, look at your target audience." Dawson reverts to his version of "We were on a break!!" and says, "I wanted to make the less obvious choice!" Jen chuckles and says, "That's funny when you think about it." Dawson says, "What?" Jen says, "Just that if you hadn't gone for such an obvious choice of girl, maybe the ending to your script would have been a little less obvious." She walks away, leaving Dawson staring perplexedly after her, and then cutting to more pointless exterior shots on the way to...