Good example.

It made my skin crawl.

It’s clear TPTB had to not only wreck many relationships to facilitate a PJ pairing, but they also had to write out of character moments too. No way in hell does the real Pacey do that to Andie.

Another moment was when Pacey took Dawson fishing just to tell him that he didn't like him being with Gretchen.

Good one.

Another one was Pacey using the trip to Dawson’s aunts in order to get close to Joey. :rolleyes:

I think that was the worst one.

I think so too. :mad:

It is bad enough he had every intention to go for it with Joey. But to actually use Dawson in order to continue pursuing her is disgusting. How did he not feel any guilt or shame? He had the nerve to sit there and watch Dawson and Joey singing together and deliberately pout as well. He knew his response would cause Joey to run after him too. He was devious and manipulative. I seriously could not stand him during this time period.

I also hated the notion that the writers foisted on us through Aunt Gwen who told Joey the story of leaving her husband (the “safe choice”) for someone that made her “feel alive” that being with Dawson was the “safe choice”, meaning that he was basically boring while Pacey made Joey “feel alive.” :rolleyes:

Hated that so much!

It negates everything we learned about Joey's feelings for Dawson in seasons 1/2. Her feelings were so strong and made her feel so alive they scared her. It was her dream that came true. Dawson was never her safe choice. That was an edited post-season 2 artificial revelation.

There was so much rewritten history and character destruction done to facilitate the Pacey and Joey paring.

There was, indeed. I know some PJ fans will admit as much but they’ll claim seasons 1/2 were bad so they’re glad drastic changes happened. Whatever.

I have never seen a series literally, deliberately, self-destruct in order to facilitate one controversial romantic pairing. It blows my mind. After all these years, I still can’t believe it.

Probably was about the time they decided to make Joey the IT girl.the show was originally about four friends making there way through life. After season two it wasn't.

Then the destruction of Dawson and Andie, and somewhat Jen.

Absolutely. I don’t even understand why they felt the need to push Katie/Joey on the audience. Ratings were fine. Usually when you change direction it’s due to low ratings. Even if a new showrunner happened, I still don’t understand the drastic changes just for one pairing. Dawson was shoved aside in seasons 3/4. Dawson was based on Kevin Williamson. He left so maybe the new showrunner wanted to erase this fact or tone it down. Kevin stupidly allowed all of this to happened. All his hard work to create the show, produce mult-layered characters was crushed in favor of essentially a low quality new series seasons 3-6.

he barks at andie for cheating and then goes and does it to audrey. :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

So true!

What a perfect hypocrite example!

Especially when Andie had so much going on. Which is another thing I will never understand… He really dismissed mental illness at the beginning of season 3. He was so understanding and loving throughout all of season 2 and then season 3 happened and he was cold and dismissive.

That's so true. Andie did cheat, but she cheated while she was in a vulnerable position far away from home and she regretted it immediately. The Pacey of Season Two would have understood and forgiven her, but the writers took all the characters in a different direction once Kevin Williamson left.

Absolutely. As a psychologist I was furious in general given how this show treated mental illness. Berlanti learned his lesson from Dawson’s Creek since Amy’s situational depression was flawless. The way Dawson’s Creek treated mental illness via Pacey in early season 3 was disgusting. He basically laughed. He almost looked possessed, evil, it was absolutely appalling. People liked this version of Pacey? How? Why? Then he goes from that cold jerk to a pouty, jealous, paranoid moron who barely graduates all because he was attached to Joey Potter.