DAWSON CREEK OBESSESSION STARTS

While I was in the US I brought the season one boxset of Dawson's Creek. I ended up watching this during my summer break from work and some how managed to get so caughted up in the series I raced out and brought seasons 2,3 and 4.

Before I go on I should introduce the characters in the series so that you can understand who I am talking about.

The two main characters are Dawson and Joey, who have been spending the nights together since they were little kids in the quiet town of Capeside, but at 15, this ritual takes on complicated elements that change and intrude into their comfortable relationship.

Though Dawson pretends to think about nothing but filmmaking, Joey knows that sexuality is bound to hit him over the head soon, and to her dismay, it does so with force when the blonde and lovely Jen appears next door visiting from New York.

Jen, the wilder one of the group who we later find out was caught having sex with her boyfriend on her parents bed at the age of 15 is spent away to live with her grandmother.

Meanwhile, their friend Pacey, who is rather a social outcast, decides to exercise his budding hormones by conducting an improbable flirtation with an older woman who turns out to be his English teacher.

The only sexually satisfied people seem to be Dawson's parents, who still vigorously lust for each other, but behind whose passion may lurk an ugly secret.
The secret that Dawson's mum is having a flithy affair with a co-worker.

Dawson like myself seeks to be making short films using his closest friends while he dreams of becoming a movie star like Steven Speigberg. Unlike Dawson however I don't have a framed picture of Steven sitting on my desk.

Season one concentrates on the love triangle between Dawson, Joey and of course the newly bombshell Jen. The minute Dawson captures his eyes at Jen he is struck by her georgeous looks which of course ticks off Joey's feelings for her best friend.

Jen is also interested in the town dork Dawson and soon they start dating in Joey's disgust. However Dawson soon finds out that his got more to deal with than he thought when Jen reveals that she had been leading life in the fast lane in New York, which is why her parents sent her away. Completely put off, Dawson doesn't know how to respond to the fact that Jen is not a virgin.

Things start to stire up when Jen's old boyfriend Billy from New York pays a visit to Capeside to try to rekindle the relationship that abruptly ended when she left the city. Of course this sends Dawson into a mire of insecurity about their relationship. Hence Dawson and Jen's relationship comes to an end.

Meanwhile, Pacey presses Joey about her feelings for Dawson. While she continues to deny her attraction, her actions make her true feelings perfectly clear to everyone but Dawson.

It's all good and well until the beauty contest where true feeling are revealed. Jen persuades Joey to enter in hopes of winning the $5,000 prize for her college tuition.

As Jen begins to regret breaking up with Dawson, he starts to see Joey in a new light, while Jen becomes increasingly jealous. The beauty contest episode ends when Dawson realises that he is in love with his best friend aka Joey.

However Joey does tell him that once she takes off the makeup and the hair down that she will once again just be Joey - the best friend. Dawson however now see's Joey in a different light.

The final episode of Dawson's Creek for season one is jam packed and kicks off with Joey finding out that she has been offerend the opportunity of a lifetime when she is chosen to represent the highschool for a year in France.

Escaping Capeside has been her life's dream, but now that Dawson sees her in a more romantic light, she is terribly torn. Adding to the stress, it is Joey's turn to visit her father in prison for his birthday and she decides to confront him with all of her anger and hurt. One thing I love about Joey is the fact that she has so much anger built up against everyone in Capeside. Her mother past away and her father went to Jail for trafficing drugs and she has been on her own, living with her sister trying to deal with the fact she has no parents to guide her.

Meanwhile, Jen and Grams are elated when her grandfather comes out of his coma but when his conditions worsens Jen turns to Dawson for comfort and this is the moment that conviently Joey decides to slide through Dawson's window to capture them in bed together.

However the season ends when Joey and Dawson share their first kiss. However who knows what the next season will bring to them......

All I know is that I'm hooked!