Should I give Dawson's Creek a chance?

[dangermousie]

Or 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...

Comments

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yeah, BSG is one of those really complicated concepts shows and if you come in, in the middle, you are a bit lost. I do recommend renting the first few eps of season 1. I know you get interested in concepts, and this one is quite good. Plus, no severe dragged out UST.

[thelana.livejournal.com]

Ah, I'll see. After all I do like SciFi a lot. Then again, I don't really need a new show right now. Plus? I thought Firefly was very, very boring. And I saw all episodes except the never shown on tv ones (and I think I even saw one of those).

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Well, YMMV of course.

Btw, I saw some more Pacey pictures, and I am out. Yuck. Both he and Dawson are WASPily hideous. Meh.

[thelana.livejournal.com]

LOL, you wont miss that much ;) (again the show had like 7 or 9 seasons? I saw like half a season; so I'm not your biggest expert)

Besides, chances are that it's probably pretty dated at this point anyway.

They had some extremely hysterical shipper wars though :D

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

9 seasons? 9?????? Good Lord.

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.

[thelana.livejournal.com]

I just looked it up and apparently they only had 6 seasons after all. Still felt too frikking long to me and I wasn't even watching (I could just tell based on how long the shipper wars were going on).

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).

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Dark Angel didn't finish its story arcs, so I am staying away...

[thelana.livejournal.com]

What can I say? I wouldn't know, I wasn't watching :D

My other suggestions are still Lois&Clark (for campy fun) or La Femme Nikita (for lots of crazy angst).

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I saw some L&C long time ago, and not high pressure enough for me.

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.

[thelana.livejournal.com]

Darn, I'm racking my brain trying to think of any other shows which were infamous for their couples, but I'm drawing a blank.

Of course, there's always the X-Files. But you might not want to wait 9 seasons just to see them hug ;9