Episode 6 (real title: "Baby") opens with Joey and Dawson watching a movie. She says she has to leave because her sister's all pregnant and about to pop, and then we find out that Jen is there too. She feels awkward for intruding on Joey and Dawson's "personal ritual" of watching movies in his creepy room. Turns out Joey feels awkward that she's there, too, so the two of them have a passive-aggressive conversation about how they should both leave. Throughout all of this, Joey is wearing overalls. Short overalls.
Episode 5 (real title: "Hurricane") opens with ominous music and a shot of a table in Dawson's room. There’s his weird framed photo of Spielberg and a BABY DOLL HEAD
and Joey’s there and they're watching movies, naturally, and I do not know why she keeps coming back into his room, for a lot of reasons,but right now, specifically, BABY DOLL HEAD.
Episode four (real title: "Discovery") opens in Dawson's room, where Dawson and Joey are watching footage of Jen walking in slow motion.
Joey is super annoyed at having to watch this slow-motion reel of Jen walking and decides to use the footage to predict Jen's future (maybe she also has access to the DVDs). Apparently, Jen is going to attend a small liberal arts college, marry a bond trader and have boring kids in Connecticut. Joey sucks at this game because she doesn't mention Heath Ledger at all. Dawson changes the subject and asks Joey what he should get his parents for their anniversary, but before Joey can answer Pacey and Tamara's sex tape pops up on the screen. They realize pretty quickly that the woman is Tamara, but they can't tell that the dude is Pacey because the only part of him that appears is the side of his ear. That makes it a pretty bad sex tape. Since Dawson technically filmed it, I imagine that's a blow to his ego.
Episode three opens with Dawson and Joey in his room watching "From Here to Eternity." I have never seen this movie and I don't know what it's about but it's got that iconic scene with the guy and girl making out hardcore on the beach, which most people recognize, I think. That scene is supposed be the pinnacle of movie romance, but Dawson keeps pausing it in places that make it look like the guy (Montgomery Clift, I think) is just giving the girl (Deborah Kerr) mouth-to-mouth. YOU RUIN EVERYTHING, DAWSON.
Episode 2 (real title: "Dance") opens with the sad realization that Dawson's swamp-thing movie is still happening. The script calls for Joey to kiss Pacey but she totally doesn't want to do it, I guess because she doesn't know that he was in all three Mighty Ducks movies. Dawson says, "Do it for me?" which is way manipulative and gross. She says, "Why can't you just kiss him?" which is dumb since Dawson isn't even in the movie, and Dawson says, "My lips are reserved for someone else." Joey tells him he better hurry up with that because Jen's from the big city, yo, and things happen fast there. Dawson reminds Joey that Jen is a virgin. It turns out the mask he’s been painting is a fake Joey head, which is frankly a pretty good likeness.
In honor of the 15th anniversary of Dawson's Creek - which premiered on Jan. 20, 1998, and which filmed here in Wilmington - we're revisiting season one, one episode at a time.
