Episode Report Card Sars: C- | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Future Shock
By Sars | Season 6 | Episode 23 | Aired on 05.13.2003
Cut to Jen and her incredibly terrible hair, furtively taking a pill out of her purse. Pacey rolls on up. Jen makes this guilty little startled squeak. Pacey greets her by asking what she's taking, as though that were an appropriate question. Jen smoothly replies, "Oh, you caught me medicating. I'm an anxiety-ridden mother. They help." She pops her pill -- I mean, literally, tosses it in her mouth with this exaggerated neck jerk instead of just putting it on her tongue like a normal person; what is this, a silent movie? -- and Pacey hands her his glass so she can down the pill with a swallow of wine. As she swallows (which is, like, an eight-second process so that the director is totally sure we all notice that JEN TOOK A PILL OKAY A PILL DID YOU SEE THE PILL SHE TOOK), Pacey blandly asks if he can borrow one; he removes his sunglasses and says he could "really use it today." Jen takes a break from SWALLOWING HER PILL THAT PILL SHE TOOK I WONDER WHAT FOR to notice Pacey's slightly rough face. Oh no. Oh yes. Pacey glances back over at Virginia Madsen and groans. Okay.
Later. More dancing. This woman chases this kid across the dance floor, and for a second I think it's Bessie chasing Alexander, except I guess Alexander would be ten or eleven now, and this kid is younger than that. Gale and Mr. Extra dance. Joey and Pacey also dance, Joey asking whether he's going to tell her how he got that shiner. Pacey: "Let's just say that mistakes were made." He stares at her real hard. Joey asks "what's going on," and Pacey pensively replies, "'What's going on.' What's going on is that I forget how much fun I have when I'm with you, and it's really, really nice to be reminded." In the shot where we mostly see the back of her head and just the side of her cheek, Joey grins, but when we cut to a shot of her from the front, she's looking all grim. Whatever.
Jen and Dawson stumble up, and Jen -- a little giddy AND MAYBE IT'S BECAUSE OF THAT PILL SHE TOOK REMEMBER THE PILL -- cuts in, asking to switch partners because Dawson won't let her lead. Joey and Pacey acquiesce, Joey greeting Dawson with this really fond, indulgent "heeeeeey." Dawson grins that Joey left in a hurry that morning, and he has never looked more like Guy Smiley than he does at this moment. Joey says she had to get ready, besides which Dawson was snoring, besides which some blah about acid flashbacks. Dawson smirks that he's glad she's nervous, too. Joey's all, "Huh?" and Dawson says she babbles when she's nervous. Joey gets faux-indignant, asking whether this is "Rag On Joey Potter Day." Who else was ragging on you, bitch? Okay, other than me. And Sars. And Jessica (soon). Shut up, Joey. Dawson: "I like that you ramble when you're nervous. I like that I know you ramble when you're nervous. I like that I still make you nervous." Yeah, well, you probably make gerbils nervous, too; it's not necessarily a compliment. Joey stares. Dawson smirks, because James Van Der Beek is not a very good actor.