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