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Summary: How the mighty have fallen...
Review: When "Dawson's Creek" debuted in 1998, it was a delightful breath of fresh air. With an appealing, then unknown cast, and effectively attractive sets among the grassy creek banks and bridges of North Carolina (inexplicitly disguised as Cape Cod's "Capeside"), the show was the best teen drams since 1994's short lived fan favorite "My So Called Life". The show centered on a young dreamer, Dawson Leery, who knew nothing of life but what he had learned from watching films, his side cracking best friend, Pacey, and Dawson's childhood neighbor, Joey. Joey had been through the cancer death of her mother, and the incarceration of her father and was a harder edged character than her idealist best friend. As the show opened, the 3 friends' lives of high school and making amateur films was interupted by the onset of hormones. Sophisticated city girl Jen Lindley arrived, the granddauther of a Leery neighbor. Soon Dawson was caught up in attraction to Jen, overlooking the obvious crush Joey felt for him. Pacey, in his inimitable style, was indulging in an affair with his high school teacher ("Days of our Lives" Emmy winner Leann Hunley). For the first two seasons, I was a devoted fan of this show, feeling caught up in every twist and turn of Joey and Dawson's tragic first love. The show was just plain fun at times, mixing witty one liners with more heartfelt scenes, and an appealing pop music sound track ( I must have bought 10 CDs from watching this show!). Unfortunately, the show dipped considerably after season two. Blame it on Eve -- a character who introduced season 3 and was emblematic of the loss of creative control the show was suffering after Kevin Williamson ceded control to others. I think he left to pursue a movie career, but the move was a disaster for the show. Eve was introduced as a potential new love interest for Dawson, after Joey dumped him at the end of season two. In a story arc of singular stupidity, Eve was revealed to be the half sister of Jen, after a visit from their shared mother, played by Mel Harris. Hilariously, Mel Harris bore a much stronger resemblance to Joey and her sister Bessie (Nina Repeta), which may be part of the reason she was eventually replaced by Mimi Rogers. Inexplicitly, Eve disappeared from the show, without more than a single scene with her new sister and mother! Soon an original and fun show was lost to a spate of new and unappealing short term stories and characters --none of them as bad as Eve, thankfully!--and a protracted and at times infuriating conflict between Dawson and Pacey, as they competed for Joey's love. Although many fans enjoyed Joey and Pacey's playful banter and growing love, I never did. Part of the reason I didn't was that the show tried to have it both ways. Joey was never able to decide who she wanted to be with, to the point where the once adorable character started to seem flakey and divisive. The show was never able to resolve this awkwardly written love triangle, winding up in a truly unsatisfactory series finale, which aired this week to boffo ratings -- partly because the publicity tricked original fans into tuning in. The show promised that "Joey would finally make her choice between Dawson and Pacey" but that was a false promise, because the choice she made was nonsensical and badly written. I'm trying to remember another show that concluded with the hero losing his true love to his best friend, uttering the crige worthy line, "It doesnt matter how this ends up, because it's all fiction". In fairness, Dawson was talking about the fictional show based on his life, but that line was a howler. I was unsatisfied as a viewer, but as a writer myself I was disgusted by the sloppy writing and character resolution. Joey's choice rang all the wrong notes, not because she didn't love Pacey, but because the show continued to identify Dawson as her soul mate. The writers needed to make a choice, in order for Joey to. Instead, she hemmed and hawed, and finally made a choice that seem arbitrary at best.
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Summary: the best season
Review: I was so glad they released season 1 on DVD. It was by far the best season out of all 6. The writing was better and the transition these characters make to adulthood was heartfelt, sweet, and innocent. After season 2 the show crumbled as the plots became too much like a daytime soap opera (for example the annoying love triangle, to name one). Now that the show is over you can go back to when Dawson's Creek was at its best. Some of the best episodes are at the end of season 1 like episode 111 and 112. For those who have seen the series finale we know Dawson and Joey don't end up together. That kind of bummed me out since I am a D/Jer. So for those who feel the same way this first season will a be a reminder of the couple that should have ended up together. A must have DVD series.
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Summary: Can't Stop Thinking About [It!!!]
Review: This is definately the best DVD I have ever bought, probly just because it is DC. The only thing is that I am missing episodes 8 and 9 on my DVD set! Has this happened to anyone else?? I don't know what to do or if they are all like that! Other than that all I can say is that this is a must buy and i am just hoping and waiting for the rest of the season's to come out on DVD as well!!!
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Summary: Been There From The Begining
Review: I would recomend this series to anyone who has or has not watched "Dawson's Creek" at some point or another in the past 6 years. I have been there from the begining and I can't believe it's already over. For the past 6 years "Dawson's Creek" was my Wednesday night routine, and now that it's over I have nothing else to do until the rest of the seasons come out on DVD. Buy this season, and i can gurantee that you will be hooked from the pilot episode.
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Summary: Dawson's Creek - Season 1 is the best dvd I have ever owned.
Review: I love this dvd! It is truley the best dvd I have ever owned and totally worth the money. I watch it all the time. Besides 13 episodes, there are extras on the dvd that have commentaries from Kevin Williamson, the cast, and much more.I can't wait to buy the next 5 seasons!
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Summary: Awesome show
Review: I loved this box set. I hope that they release all six seasons. I would love to have it. The first season is excellent. The extras that are on this set, I've watched this set so many times, I can't count.
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Summary: Dawson's creek--so great!
Review: Dawson's creek 1st season is so great because it allows you to remember episodes from way back in the day. However i feel that seasons 2-6 should also be put on dvd and sold because this would make the collection complete and allow us to remember our favorite tv show for many years to come!
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Summary: All Good Things Must Come To An End
Review: They said it wouldn't last. HA! I have watched the show since it started and tonight ten friends and I will get together and watch it end. We'll laugh, we'll cry but we know that we can always come back to the Creek now that thet have released Season One with Season Two to follow soon after and so on until all the Seasons are with us. Since tonight is the last show I had to put a post.
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Summary: The start of something great.....
Review: It wasn't that long ago that I avoided the WB like the plague. In part because of just plain bad shows like Happily Ever After and 7th Heaven, but mainly because I dismissed the teen dramas the WB is known for (and which Dawson's Creek is the poster child for) as silly soap operas. In fact, even after starting to watch some of the WB's "teen dramas", I still sneered at the Creek, which continued to seem pretentious and silly. Then the WB reran the series premeire, and I watched. And quickly enjoyed, to the point of yelling at Dawson for being so dense, and Joey for not kicking Jen's butt for "stealing" Dawson. So, now interested in what happened next, I bought the Season 1 DVD set. The episodes are very good, and the core four-Dawson, Joey, Pacey, and Jen-are genuinely likable (if flawed) characters. Additionally, the supporting and recurring characters (Dawson's parents, Gail and Mitch; Joey's sister, Bessie; Grams; Pacey's brother, "Deputy Doug", and father; Joey's father; and Capeside's resident ice queen, Abby Morgan) add nicely to the main cast, providing more than a little bit of conflict along the way. The extras, while a bit sparse, are informative, but don't even begin to illustrate the hype that once existed with Dawson's Creek. Still, if you want to relive the past, or discover something new, this set is certainly a good place to look.
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Summary: Up all night with Dawson's Creek
Review: I had never seen any episodes from the series Dawson's Creek, so it was all brand new to me when I purchased season one. I figured that the lovely Katie Holmes was worth purchasing the DVD's of season one. I am very glad I bought the DVD's. I started to watch the first episode around 8:00 p.m. on a Friday night and I was hooked and ended up watching all 13 episodes until about 6:00 a.m. I am now a fan and I can't wait for Season two. In my opinion this is the best teenage TV series of all time. It triggered nearly every emotion in me as I quickly became familar with each of the characters. Being almost 29 years of age I still related with everything in this series. I think this series can help anyone with their own personal dateing experiences. Great series! I am hooked and am looking forward to seeing the next four seasons on DVD!
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