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I completely agree with all of this. Pacey and Joey were a completely mismatched couple and their relationship was based on deception, betrayal, and the breach of an unwritten trust among friends, and neither Pacey or Joey were ever able to “exorcise” Dawson Leery’s “ghost” from their relationship.
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So well said. That’s the precise summary.
I find it interesting that even the pathetic series finale ended with Joey talking to Dawson.
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We saw Pacey make sneering comments about Dawson to Joey time and time again, and we saw Joey denigrate her relationship with Dawson to assuage Pacey’s never ending insecurities about Joey’s feelings for Dawson, but we’ve never seen them get past their “Dawson” issues, even though he completely stayed out of their relationship.
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PJers found a way to still blame Dawson too.
Think about how pathetic Pacey was to go behind Dawson’s back, hurt him in the worst possible way... then indirectly blame him for why he was never happy and couldn’t make it work with Joey. Pacey turned into such an annoying, even despicable, character.
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We saw Joey tell Pacey time and time again that she was completely over Dawson, but then we saw her react in an extremely jealous way whenever she saw Dawson and Gretchen together, even to the point where she tried to sabotage Dawson and Gretchen’s relationship before it really had a chance to begin, and we then saw Pacey try to sabotage Dawson and Gretchen’s relationship because he saw that it bothered Joey that they were together.
Therefore, from the beginning to the end, Pacey and Joey’s had failure written all over it.
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100%, which is why even their tacked on ending, stealing DJ lines, did nothing to make this pairing believable.