While surfing the web, I came across a list of “TV Couples That Should Have Never Gotten Together.” Included on this list was one my ultimate OTP’s, Dawson and Joey. And no. Just no. This is entire site is hereby discredited by this severe lapse in judgment.
Not only did this particular couple have the most epic love story (rivaled only by Brooke and Lucas of One Tree Hill), despite not ending up together, they got the most beautiful swan song of any star-crossed pair in television history. At least in my eyes they did, but I am rather biased.
DJ are soul mates. Plain and simple. She pined over him for years before the lights turned on and he realized they’re meant to be. They see the best in each other when others don’t. She’s the stereotypical girl-next-door with a tomboy streak and he’s the aspiring filmmaker who lives in a fantasy world. Separately, I find them unlikeable and giant pain-in-the-asses. Together they are perfect. Greatest best friends turned lovers storyline ever? I think so.
I will never be a Pacey & Joey shipper. I would even hold up well under torture. PJ are oil and water. That relationship should have drowned to death in the creek as soon as it started. She’s too good for him and he’ll only weigh her down. They constantly had to reassure the other of their feelings. He made her feel like crap. She made him feel like crap. PJ were fine as frenemies, in fact, I found them wildly entertaining. But as a match made in heaven? Bite me.
Dawsons is my favorite show of all-time. DJ is my favorite couple of all-time. I am prepared to rant and bitch for hours on end. Bring it on, PJers, I’m not going down without a fight.
Witness the magic…
haha I blocked this show from my mind. I was like 8 when my sister watch the show religiously.
Let me preface this by saying that you are entitled youopinion, but that i think the article got it right. Joey and Pacey were not oil and water, nor were they “frenemies” after the truly became friends.
They were more alike and made more sense as a romantic couple than Dawson and Joey ever did.
I’m sure it’s your selective memory that prevents you from fully seeing what actually happened in the show as opposed to what you wanted to see happen. The “concept” of best friends turned lover is a fine one, seen many times on the big and small screen; however it was poorly executed on DC.
Are Joey and Dawson “” who knows, what I do know is that they are friends who weathered many storms and still managed to be a part if each other’s lives. I personally did noting them as friend however as a couple? Belch!!!! Didn’t work for me at all.
Joey was too good for Pacey? He would always way her down? That’s just laughable. Pacey had one of the better character developments in this teen drama, the Dawson I saw at the end was still “trying” to live his life instead if actually living it…still trying to orchestrate a fantasy instead if living in reality…still using his friends’ lives as a way to make his own look better.
Pacey wasn’t perfect, god knows he wasn’t. But he was real, and flawed and genuine and love Joey in a way that Dawson never could – without judgment, ultimatums, tantrums, jealousy…shall I go on.
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I could never be a Pacey Joey shipper because their relationship seemed so forced. I think a lot of fans romanticized their relationship because Katie and Josh dated in real life. To put it plainly Joey was a bitch. Ironically the only time she acted like a normal girlfriend was when she was with Jack McPhee.
Pacey and Joey would never work on account of Dawson; as Joey never truly let go of him. Every time she had a fight with Pacey she ran to Dawson. Dawson would always hover over that relationship.
During their year of so called bliss all they did was bicker and basically miserable all the time. It finally cumulated with the incident at the senior prom. Pacey had enough of her pity and disrespect. After that blowup I don’t think any girl would even think about going back to that boyfriend.
Pacey and Joey were never meant to be end game. She was a fling and nothing more.
The writers who took over after season two had a different vision to the series than Kevin Williamson, but even they did not see a lasting Pacey Joey relationship. I personally think that her boyfriend Eddie was to be her end game. He was just as bitchy as she was.I strongly suspect that the show ended a season or two before they had anticipated.
Why Joey was not really end game for Pacey till the last minute.
1. At the 100th episode celebration Joshua Jackson wore a picture of Meredith Monroe over his heart with “I love Andie” written across it. I think he made his sympathies well know by that action.
2. Kevin Williamson was originally going to end the show with Dawson / Joey Pacey / Andie.
Ironically Meredith Monroe who was forced off the show as her character would have been in the way when the broke up pacey and Joey could not return to the show for the two weeks Kevin Williamson needed her for. She was able to give him one day and they filmed the scenes that were cut from the TV series but are on the DVD.
At the very last minute Kevin Williamson decided to change his ending from Dawson / Joey to Pacey / Joey Without Meredith Monroe he could not write what he wanted and Meredith would have appeared to be a consolation prize for Pacey; which was not his intent. Like I said he needed her for two weeks. So he changed the ending to Pacey Joey with the logic Pacey got the girl and Dawson got his dream.
So to all the Pacey / Joey shippers; you were lucky Meredith Monroe was occupied. You would have had a very different ending.
Meredith Monroe and the character Andie were favorites of Kevin Williamson and did not agree as to why she was taken off the show. He was no longer attached to the show thus he had no input.
Season two was very early in the shows tenure and I think a lot of people forget the wonderful romance he wrote for Pacey and Andie. Those two characters were written to be end game
Pacey and Joey never radiated the love that Pacey and Andie did. Their scenes were magical
Indeed! I agree. I like Pacey and Andie love story. What they had was perfectly magical and seemed to be more real than any of the other romance in the T.V. series.
Andie and Pacey were great in Season Two… Dawson and Joey were too.. I loved all of them and from the start of season two I knew that Pacey and Joey were end-game (i saw the finale) and I thought.. OMG This is so lame. Then I started watching season 3 … And with every episode I started liking PJ a lot. By the end of the season I was head over heels inlove with them . And then Dawson came in the picture. I think that Pacey always put Joey first and Dawson never did it . Pacey is just the perfect guy for any girl. In the fourth season we saw the magic that True Love had and i really really loved them. I think that their break-up was lame because the writers made Pacey someone he isn’t. I mean when in the searies did you see him like this – jealous of Joey. I saw it coming because of the all college thing. And Joey-Dawson was forced because Joey should’ve greeve more about her break-up with Pacey. And I hated DJ in season 5-6. I hated them so much that i rewinded more than I wached
PJ had the chemistry, the writing, best quotes, best moments – True Love. I was thrilled when I saw them in 6.14 and 6.15 they were great. And in the end True Love remains the same. After all the tears and whining that Dawson had to offer he finally backed off as a man with at least a little dignity 
I never liked Joey/Pacey, never, since I’m a deeply shipper of Andie/Pacey. I was very upset that they didn’t end up together, but after reading some posts above that actually they were meant to end up together I think I may rest in peace now, thank you very much !
Dawson Creek lost 1.4 million viewers per episode from season 2 to season 3. I believe a good number of them left on account of the destruction of Andie. I never understood it. The sweet innocent girl that worshipped the ground Pacey walked on became a cheating, lying, thief. I don’t think a lot of people understood that