Heresy is exactly what the show needed. Not only did we have a story, we had a story engine , a dramatic problem that would create many other stories. It is still satisfying to watch in And in , it did its job.
The Joey-Pacey-Dawson love triangle would ultimately power the show through its remaining four seasons. Joey sacrifices a trip to Paris when Dawson wants her to. She organizes her entire life around him. So the introduction of the love triangle fundamentally destabilized the show. It suggested the possibility of a universe in which Joey did not belong to Dawson, an idea to which everyone involved even Pacey, whose crush on Joey kicked off an existential crisis reacted with deep and profound horror.
That horror is perhaps best summarized by a plot line in season four in which Joey, newly admitted to her dream college, finds out she has not received enough financial aid to attend and does not want to take out crippling student loans to make up the difference. At the time, this decision was roundly mocked by fans, but in retrospect, good thinking, Joey Potter. The offer prompts Joey to burst into guilt-stricken tears. She slept with Pacey.
Nonetheless, both Dawson and Joey treat the idea that she might have slept with someone else as a kind of theft. The subtext of the moment is not hidden: The thing Dawson was buying is no longer for sale, and that is horrifying. The world might as well be falling apart. This romantic values system is fundamental to a certain kind of pop cultural romance, in which sex and love and ownership are messily intertwined, so that when a man chooses to fall in love with a woman, he takes ownership of her.
A woman, in contrast, has no choice: She falls in love because she is loved, and in so doing, she cedes ownership of herself. These stories can be profoundly satisfying, but part of the pleasure and the romance of the formula comes from its suggestion that when the heroine falls in love with the hero and they have sex, she is at last paying him what he is owed. With Dawson and Joey, that belief went from subtext to text — but adding Pacey into the mix was designed to destabilize that assumption.
The Joey and Pacey love story was not a complete break with this romantic formula. Nor did the story entirely avoid the idea of Joey as a prize for Pacey to win.
Viewers rooted for Pacey and Joey to be together not because they thought Joey loved Pacey more — her feelings had to remain ambiguous for the love triangle to work — but because they thought Pacey deserved her more than Dawson did.
Structurally, as the Joey-Pacey storyline took over the show, Joey stopped representing the prize that demonstrated that the world revolved around Dawson and started representing the prize that demonstrated that Pacey had become a better man than Dawson. So how do you feel? Veronica Mars had Veronica go from Duncan to Logan. Quotes Bessie Potter : The way I see it, the second kiss is always tougher then the first one.
User reviews 1 Review. Top review. Can I say how much I love Pacey? He's evolved so much compared to last season, while Joey and Dawson feel watered down. I used to love to watch the shenanigans of the two as Dawson was this film obsessed dude who wanted to script everything and Joey the sarcastic girl who is pretty much done with everything.
I do see that this show is slowly becoming more soap opera like, repeating the same things over and over. I did like how realistically it portrayed first relationships though, but this is just the first episode.. Details Edit. Release date October 7, United States. United States. Technical specs Edit. Runtime 44 minutes. Contribute to this page Suggest an edit or add missing content.
Edit page. Hollywood Icons, Then and Now. See the gallery. Watch the video. Recently viewed Please enable browser cookies to use this feature. I don't think they see enough of each other. I think Pacey and Joey are very much still together and have kids. I think they have had some ups and downs that have only enriched their relationship and made them stronger. There you have it, after 17 years, Pacey and Joey are still together, and it seems that Joey flip-flopped for the final time in the final episode.
Pacey was the better choice anyway.
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