Who remembers Dawsons Creek? Who? Yes You! You remember it right.
You devoured it, You waited for it, Our week wouldn’t go, not knowing what will happen next.
The theme tune stuck in our head 20 years later
“…. I don’t want to wait for our lives to be over….”
Okay so now that’s stuck in our head for the foreseeable future.
So the plan was to go down a fun nostalgic trip into my teenage years, 4 episodes in, and all I got is “the Dock” is the place to be sad, and cry a little.
All that tells me is that I need a ‘Dock’ in my life.
Dawsons Creek
This is no teenage series, this is a fully invested psychological thriller, wrapped up in very emotionally intelligent 15 year olds with the 90’s soundtrack in the background.
So lets do this guys, Lets dive deep into how Dawson’s creek was the biggest lie of my life.
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Put your feet up and grab your cuppa.
These ‘Children’ they are 15 right? 15! ( I say this as I look at my 18 year old, wearing mismatched socks, and his top inside out.)
How did I believe these were children? Why did I believe they were children? Why are they talking like they have come out of a Shakespeare Novel?
My 18 year old calls me ‘Bruh’.
Surely nobody in high school has a vocabulary like that? Nobody as a teenager has this much emotional awareness, and the dramatic emotional pauses. Urm excuse me? (insert dramatic pause)
My biggest issues in high school were acne, high speed dial up, and wash off dye paints.
I was waiting for teenage crushes, a three way relationship, a hero and a villain, a teenage drama.
Instead I got these teenagers that look like they are 20, employed by The Independent Newspaper, and so emotionally articulate that they give us adults a bad name.
Another Awakening…(insert dramatic pause)
Joey may have been the main character but Jen was definitely the realist one in Capeside.
I never thought I would say that out loud. I always believed that Jen was the ultimate villain. Up until now.
Don’t believe me? Watch the first 4 episodes, that’s all. Everything is in there.
Jen owned her own trauma, She owned her mistakes, she called out bad behaviour, and she actually developed as a character. I really think we could be friends.
Jen deserved way more that what the writers had given her.
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And Joey? well it took her 4 whole seasons to tell us she likes a boy, and then goes and kisses the wrong one. (Big Joey style Eye roll, followed by big pause)
I was exhausted with her. She’s that long draining friend we have who is ‘always confused‘ and uses her childhood trauma to justify it, rather then develop from it.
I have got to remember they are 15, and really have their whole lives to develop, but the way they talk, you would think that they have life figured out.
Props to her though, this teenager rocked a cardigan.
Watching Dawson’s creek again was a ride, a ride I really was unprepared for. At 15 Joey was everything to me, I felt she was misunderstood and she deserved better. Today I realise that she’s full of jealousy, needs therapy, and at 15 she really needs to stop taking life so freaking seriously! (cue the dramatic music.)
But I guess that’s what kept us hooked as teenagers.
These absolutely beautiful teenagers who speak like poetry, feel misguided and misunderstood and spray us with emotions on a dock.
Its gold TV actually.
Shall we do Dawson and Percy next?
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