welcome Ken. interesting thoughts here.

Thank you. I've posted once every six months. I'll try to do better

But help me! I have all the seasons, and a netflix-membership..but the boxes are just dustcollectors now.

I could have coped with season 4 and all that happend, IF the last 30 min of the series finale lived up to what it promised.

you mean a dawson and joey ending? that was the original intent, but pacey and joey got popular apparently. you must be a fan of dawson and joey as characters I'm assuming. and pacey was going to end with andie originally.

Of course I'm a D/J-fan. Every person with their head properly connected is.
I know all about how it was intended to be. and that Williamson suddenly changed it. Some say because "Andie" couldn't stay for filming, some say that Kevin got an epiphany..anyway, the endig ruined the show for me. I wish someone could un-ruin it.

True. I guess that happy moment in the sofa at the end of the series finale wasn't representing the months that followed - when Joey understood that she chose wrong, and Pacey understood that he would always be second to Dawson.

Come on, make the movie. Fix this.

Just finished season 1. That speech from Joey's father... It seems like the writers somehow just managed to forget everything they wrote back then.

Every once in a while my mind wanderes back to when I was 16/17 and found this TV show about someone who was my age. I instantly fell in love with Joey Potter, and I instantly felt that I could relate with Dawson Leery.
I think the very first episode I watched was the one were Dawson and Eve were caught on stage with Joey in the audience. I wuickly understood that this was a show about these two, and how they were bound to end up together.
I saw the first two seasons and I loved it even more. When season 3 came, with everything that went on there towards the end, I didn't mind at all. Pacey was a character I liked. Even with season 4 I endured, because I knew that it would all be ok in the end.

Here in Norway, we were a bit behind with the episodes, so when I read online somewhere that Joey ended up with Pacey, I couldn't believe it. I stopped watching. Pointless, I thought.

A couple years later I watched the episodes I missed, so I have seen everything.

Now I am 31 years old and at times I think about this show that was on my mind so much growing up. I want to watch episodes again and be nostalgic about it - but I just can't. On the one hand I want to forget about the whole thing and pretend it never happened, while on the other hand I want to watch these episodes that managed to "get into my head" when I was a teenager.
Just a simple re-write, something that showed me that these two persons would end up together, would make me watch it over and over again. With the "current" ending, I'm not watching - and that makes me a bit sad, actually.

I've asked this question before, but how do you manage to still love and watch the show. I can't just disregard the things I didn't like. I wished they would have ended it after season 4...