Pacey Witter Appreciation Thread #13: Baggy pants and Hawaiian Shirts-He's our Pacey!
 

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Yay! Finally a new thread :love:

Thanks for the new Thread. I didn't even notice that we needed a new one.

Thanks for a new thread!

Question I often wonder: did Pacey like or hate his job in s6? He seemed to like the money and being good at it, but I never thought he actually enjoyed being there.

I think he liked the fact that he was good at it and since he never really felt he was good at anything (besides being a chef), I think he just wanted to succeed and of course the money didn't hurt. After all he was prepared to call it quits part way through because it just wasn't him, but changed his mind when Rich gave him his bonus cheque, so money did play a factor.

It is nicely established in the earlier seasons that Pacey and Joey are the ones without much access to money while Dawson and Jen and Andie have it easier that way. Remember Pacey doing the pageant just to get out of his house? (season 1 is really kind of super dark about Pacey's homelife - his father in particular.)

And Joey's comment about entering to win so she can go to College because that would be the only way she could get out of Capeside.

Isn't he just the cutest thing ever?

Grace Anastasia ‏@geeanastasiaa Nov 10
Joshua Jackson as Pacey Witter. The one whos responsible for this whole Dawson's Creek obsession of mine. #teamPacey

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This probably made it to the Board before, but just came across it again, so posting in case it hasn't been here before.

8 times Pacey from Dawson's Creek ruined us for all other men

I know this storyline was wrong, but I still love what Pacey said here. Besides, I'm sure all of us at some point fantasized about an older person or maybe even a younger one.

https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...0e&oe=58FFF022


And right here Pacey captured our hearts.

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Pacey's not in the wrong in the Pacey/Tamara storyline, Tamara is. She's the one committing the crime.

I know that, but some fans just can't get past it. The only thing that keeps me liking this is that Josh was actually older than the character, but I loved Josh through the whole Pacey/Tamara storyline.

Yeah, because if it were Josh at 15, that's D2 Josh or D3. Either way, I dislike the storyline because even if the writers didn't think of it as a crime, it's written as classic gaslighting and abuse. It never once came off to me as a love story.

It's funny all the people talking about how gross the storyline is now they're repeating it on Riverdale with Archie at 15 sleeping with a teacher. Much more than you heard at the time from Pacey and Tamara. I think it's a good change. (But I think a lot of s1 Dawson's Creek portrays horrible attitudes about sex and abuse. Don't get me started on Jen "I had sex at 12 when I was drunk but that's not anything bad, I was 'oversexed'" Lindley.)

I never thought of it as a Love story, for me it was about Pacey learning how to treat a woman and of course other things. It wasn't that I liked them together so much as I liked how Pacey was within the storyline and of course it showed early on how mature he could be by taking the wrap for the so called rumour about him and Miss Jacobs.

I just finished watching episode 3 of Riverdale tonight and when I first saw Archie and Miss Grundy, it immediately brought me back to Pacey and Tamara.

Funny thing about Riverdale is there were a couple of references in DC where Joey and Jen were referred to as Betty and Veronica :lol:

You can find fanfiction where it's an adult love story, and I've heard other fans talking about it that way. I'm fairly sure the writers thought of it as a romance, just judging by the other stories where underage sex came up. Look at Riverdale where it's still not cast as abuse, from what I've read.

But even writing it as a romance, it comes across as abuse to me on DC. Especially given how casually abusive Pacey's homelife is in s1. He's an insecure, immature 15 year old who wants to be grown up and wants someone to care about him. I hope Dawson's version doesn't have that storyline, lol.

Oh Tamara definitely took advantage of Pacey and 15 is too young for sure. In Riverdale the characters seem to be more Senior than Freshman, so it doesn't seem as bad and Miss Grundy looks to be in her 20's whereas Miss Jacobs was definitely in her 30's.

I wonder when the fanfiction is going to start for Riverdale :lol:

I have seen a couple fanfics for the Pacey/Miss Jacobs pairing, but I mainly read PJo fanfic, the rest just don't seem as good IMO.

From what I've read, the riverdale kids are also supposed to be 15! Although the kid playing Archie is about the same age Josh was.

He may not have been 15, but he sure looked it.

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Yes, but they cast someone everyone knew from movies so he actually looked like this at 14/15:
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He was such a cute youngster.

He really was super cute. Of course, he was also shorter, too. These stories generally come off as not as stanky because the male actors aren't 15 and don't look 15 and are taller than their female counterparts. At 14/15 Josh was much shorter - he shot up a lot between D2 and D3 and D3 and Dawson's Creek.

I remember a line in D3 when he's talking to the possible love interest. He says almost 6 feet tall.

Look how tall he is here next to Emilio who is about 5"7'

http://www.josh-jackson.net/images/a...mal_D3_013.jpg

This is the scene I mentioned where he's talking to the girl.

http://www.josh-jackson.net/images/a...mal_D3_066.jpg

But back to Pacey just because :love:

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Right, in D2 he's about the same height as Emilio Estevez - he shot up between the two movies. (And he's a bean pole in D3!)

Didn't he get even taller while on DC? I think I read here something about how they had to buy an all new wardrobe for Pacey one season.

I never heard the wardrobe story before, but it wouldn't surprise me. I remember a couple of years ago when Josh was on Live with Kelly, he came out and she looked up at him and said he got taller every time she saw him. I think I melted when she said because I love a tall man and a tall Josh even better :melt: