Should I give Dawson's Creek a chance?
Oct. 27th, 2005 04:43 pmOr is it going to make my One Tree Hill watching seem pleasant in comparison? After all it does have Katie "Kidnapped by the cult" Holmes and James "oldest and baldest teen ever" Van Der Beek...
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Date: 2005-10-27 09:31 pm (UTC)The pics are very cute, but he isn't. :sad: Also, not tall. Maybe he's got a sizzling personality? I didn't think Logan was hot either, so there's always hope...
Naw, he isn't cute at all (even though, everything better than the Beek), but I do remember him having charisma and acting abbility. Not enough to keep me drawn to the show, but he struck me as fairly good. Plus you know me, can't stand pure relationship based shows.
On Dawson's Creek I liked the coupling of Pacey with his earlier girlfriend Audrey. And I liked Jenn (who was always trying to be the moody/bitchy/slutty one) being romances by a babyfaced footballplayer whom she keeps rejecting because he is one year younger than her. That was a very sweet storyline from what I remember (they do get together eventually, don't know how it ended though, because I had stopped watching at that point).
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Date: 2005-10-27 09:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-27 09:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-27 09:50 pm (UTC)Btw, I saw some more Pacey pictures, and I am out. Yuck. Both he and Dawson are WASPily hideous. Meh.
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Date: 2005-10-27 09:52 pm (UTC)Besides, chances are that it's probably pretty dated at this point anyway.
They had some extremely hysterical shipper wars though :D
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Date: 2005-10-27 09:53 pm (UTC)Yeah, nothing brings on them shipper wars the way triangles do. I am kinda surprised about the lack of shipper wars in Veronica Mars, so far.
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Date: 2005-10-27 09:58 pm (UTC)I think the problem was the Joey and Dawson were like the intended childhood sweetheart couple. But then Joey/Pacey happened, had a lot of fans, lots of chemistry, people started pushing for it and in the end they (potentially) changed the originally changed the original end around so Joey and Pacey could end up together.
Of course, I was never truely part of the fandom (I'm just one of those schadenfreude onlooker when fandoms I don't care about duke it out), so I might be getting this all wrong.
Ever tried Dark Angel? Another scifi-ish show I could never really get into. And it's relatively short I think (only two or three seasons).
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Date: 2005-10-27 10:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-27 10:10 pm (UTC)My other suggestions are still Lois&Clark (for campy fun) or La Femme Nikita (for lots of crazy angst).
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Date: 2005-10-27 10:11 pm (UTC)As to Le Femme Nikita, I object on principle to someone naming a female Nikita. It's a male Russian name, pretty common one too. It's like Having a character called Good Girl Michael. Yuck.
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Date: 2005-10-27 10:15 pm (UTC)Of course, there's always the X-Files. But you might not want to wait 9 seasons just to see them hug ;9
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Date: 2005-10-27 10:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-27 10:39 pm (UTC)Did I get her name wrong?
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Date: 2005-10-27 10:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-27 10:42 pm (UTC)You're the only person I've ever heard of that shipped Pacey/Andy. I heard that she was written off of the show due to her extreme unpopularity.
Gah! I really am revealing a shameful amount of Creek knowledge.
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Date: 2005-10-27 10:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-27 10:53 pm (UTC)Although I wouldn't really call my behavior regarding DC shipping. It's more like "I liked them when they were onscreen/they did no bug me".
Fondness of couples I have quite a lot. Actual shipper insanity is reserved for very few couples.
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Date: 2005-10-27 10:50 pm (UTC)Plus, apparently there were at least some people (not that I knew because I was never really in the fandom).
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Date: 2005-10-27 10:53 pm (UTC)There's something for everyone.
I'm all for obscure couples in theory but am often shamefully predictable in my own shipping preferences.
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Date: 2005-10-27 11:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-27 11:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-27 11:28 pm (UTC)And I have all this Creek knowledge, which is...fairly shameful, now that I think about it.