I don't think the show has aged well. I didn't rewatch it in a while, but I remember that it was too ... artificious, I think? I don't know if watching it now, I would feel compelled. (I watched it when I was 14 yo and then, later, when I was 19, so I was still a teen) But I surely remember it as a part of my teenage years and I was very passionate at the time.
It also resulted in some great actors (For me the two faves are Joshua Jackson, whom I saw and liked in "Fringe", and obviously Michelle Williams)
I watched it as a teen as well, I was so obsessed with the first three seasons, especially when Joey and Pacey first got together! I was done watching it after P/J split up lol, but then years later I did buy the complete set of DVDs and catch up. It hasn’t aged that well I agree, but still there are episodes like the Detention episode, or the prom episode (‘I remember everything’), that will forever be great and timeless. And of course there was Pacey buying Joey the wall <3
Awww, I remember that bit about the wall! It was SO ROMANTIC and I was a Joey/Pacey shipper back then, I was so happy when they got together in the series finale. Yaaayyy!
I don't remember the detention or the prom episode though, but some bits all around that stayed in my mind like the episode with all the timey wimey. I remember Pacey and the professor and Jen and her gradma (I wished a better fate for them tbh) Wow, now I'm curious to see those scenes again!
The one where events keep repeating themselves was The Longest Day! The detention episode was from season 1, that was just a really fun cast episode with the four of them hanging out all episode together and playing truth or dare. Ooh also there was Castaways which come later, but that was a really good one as well where it was just an entire episode of Joey and Pacey together after getting locked in at a store overnight.
And tell me about it, I’m really tempted to have a rewatch now....
I was kind of surprised that Kerr Smith didn’t get a limited edition cover actually, he never seems to get included with the main four, even though he was there for every single season after the first one.
I was only ever a casual viewer of Dawson's Creek, but I like all the actors on the cover ( which is a lovely picture of them btw ), even James Van Der Beek, bc I saw him in other projects where he was quite good. The entire series is on Hulu now from what I heard, I might check it out sometime.
James Van Der Beek didn’t play my favourite character in DC, but he was actually really funny on Don’t Trust The B In Apartment 23. All of the main cast members did pretty well career wise after the show actually
The first episode I watched of Dawson's Creek was the detention episode (and being a fan of The Breakfast Club it really stuck with me, I liked that they made the reference to it along with Mighty Ducks, all the meta, lol). I didn't watch the show to the end, but I remember watching the first few seasons or so. I can't remember when I stopped, but it must've been before Joey/Pacey got together because I didn't remember that happening when I was watching it. I didn't really have a favorite relationship on the show when watching, I was just a casual watcher at that time but some episodes and even characters deeply affected me.
I've been always meaning to get the DVDs, though knowing that Paula Cole's "I Don't Wanna Wait" isn't used for the theme song on them has put me off a bit.
Haha yes, I remember the looks that Joey and Jen gave Pacey when he mentioned how funny The Mighty Ducks movies were *g* That one was always one of my favourite episodes. It sounds like you must have stopped watching after the second season as it was the third season when they started building up to Joey/Pacey?
And it was absolutely ridiculous that they had to change the entire theme song of the show, it’s not like it was even by a famous artist that you’d expect to demand a ton of extra money, she was pretty much only known for the DC song! They butchered a lot of other scenes with the music changes as well, it wasn’t just the theme song sadly. I can still remember how beautiful I found the scene of Pacey and Andie dancing to, ‘And everything stands so still when you dance’, and then the DVDs changed it to an entirely different song :( :( :( They should take advantage of the 20th anniversary to rerelease the DVDs with the original music! I know so many fans who would pay a lot to keep those original scenes intact, and other shows from the 90’s have managed it with their dvd sets, so it’s not like it’s impossible to do
It sounds like you must have stopped watching after the second season as it was the third season when they started building up to Joey/Pacey?
Maybe? It's been a long time since I watched the show. I probably watched a little bit of the third season or something. Again, I was more of a casual watcher of the show so idk how my memory is with it.
I know so many fans who would pay a lot to keep those original scenes intact, and other shows from the 90’s have managed it with their dvd sets, so it’s not like it’s impossible to do
Seriously! It makes me so mad and frustrated. Like, I understand that a lot of it has to do with getting those rights and everything, which I know can be a pain to acquire, but at the same time it makes no sense that some shows can maintain most (if not all) of the original broadcast music while most shows just don't when it's put on DVD or during syndication. Some shows can survive without it since it's hardly that noticeable, but with other shows the music was a huge part of the experience. There have been some DVDs from shows, esp during the early 00s, I have that either have replaced certain music that makes some scenes not work as well as originally broadcasted or have absolutely no music featured, which makes scenes so awkward to rewatch.
On one hand we should be grateful that there are DVDs at all, but at the same time it would've been nice if they actually maintained the nostalgia that came with the era of music, y'know? That is half the fun of reliving these shows.
Couldn’t agree more, I was amazed at just how big a difference it made when I rewatched Dawson’s Ceeek and Roswell with the music changes. You can’t enjoy those nostalgic moments at all when it absolutely does ruin the feel of the original scene to change the music, it just feels subtly wrong when you have always associated that moment with a different song
Same, it was one of my earliest fandoms and I used to get pretty passionate discussing it on TwoP lol, it would be fun to rewatch it this year when I have time
and apparently they photoshopped the hell out of them, too. /o\
I did love DC way back when, and I could still kick myself for not downloading the whole "Joey/Pacey story" from youtube before it got taken down. I loved to rewatch it. Ah, the good ol times.
It’s probably on a streaming site somewhere if you really want to rewatch! Tbh I brought it on iTunes a while ago as the complete series was available for just £19.99 which seemed like too good a price to ignore, although I haven’t actually got around to rewatching any of it yet
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That's pretty awesome. I need to track this down.
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It also resulted in some great actors (For me the two faves are Joshua Jackson, whom I saw and liked in "Fringe", and obviously Michelle Williams)
The photoshot colors are great.
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I don't remember the detention or the prom episode though, but some bits all around that stayed in my mind like the episode with all the timey wimey. I remember Pacey and the professor and Jen and her gradma (I wished a better fate for them tbh) Wow, now I'm curious to see those scenes again!
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And tell me about it, I’m really tempted to have a rewatch now....
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I've been always meaning to get the DVDs, though knowing that Paula Cole's "I Don't Wanna Wait" isn't used for the theme song on them has put me off a bit.
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And it was absolutely ridiculous that they had to change the entire theme song of the show, it’s not like it was even by a famous artist that you’d expect to demand a ton of extra money, she was pretty much only known for the DC song! They butchered a lot of other scenes with the music changes as well, it wasn’t just the theme song sadly. I can still remember how beautiful I found the scene of Pacey and Andie dancing to, ‘And everything stands so still when you dance’, and then the DVDs changed it to an entirely different song :( :( :( They should take advantage of the 20th anniversary to rerelease the DVDs with the original music! I know so many fans who would pay a lot to keep those original scenes intact, and other shows from the 90’s have managed it with their dvd sets, so it’s not like it’s impossible to do
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Maybe? It's been a long time since I watched the show. I probably watched a little bit of the third season or something. Again, I was more of a casual watcher of the show so idk how my memory is with it.
I know so many fans who would pay a lot to keep those original scenes intact, and other shows from the 90’s have managed it with their dvd sets, so it’s not like it’s impossible to do
Seriously! It makes me so mad and frustrated. Like, I understand that a lot of it has to do with getting those rights and everything, which I know can be a pain to acquire, but at the same time it makes no sense that some shows can maintain most (if not all) of the original broadcast music while most shows just don't when it's put on DVD or during syndication. Some shows can survive without it since it's hardly that noticeable, but with other shows the music was a huge part of the experience. There have been some DVDs from shows, esp during the early 00s, I have that either have replaced certain music that makes some scenes not work as well as originally broadcasted or have absolutely no music featured, which makes scenes so awkward to rewatch.
On one hand we should be grateful that there are DVDs at all, but at the same time it would've been nice if they actually maintained the nostalgia that came with the era of music, y'know? That is half the fun of reliving these shows.
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I still remember Jensen Ackles on DC haha :p
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Did you watch Dark Angel? Floppy hair Jensen!
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Yaaaaaas!
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I did love DC way back when, and I could still kick myself for not downloading the whole "Joey/Pacey story" from youtube before it got taken down. I loved to rewatch it. Ah, the good ol times.
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Time flies so fast, it's almost scary.
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