Any tears shed over the reunion of the Dawson’s Creek for Entertainment Weekly were likely shed by fans that just remembered they miss the show that bad. During it’s time it was one of the more popular shows around really, but once it was gone it was time to move on and a lot of people did just that. Even the fans that idolized this show were those that quickly tried to find something else to watch, as the teenage dramas on TV are so plentiful that when just one of them goes away another five or more pop up in their place, at least to offer up their pilots before two or three are axed and never seen again.
Since the who a few of the cast have one on to do great things while others have kind of done their own thing and just hung around for the most part picking up whatever parts or opportunities come along. At least a couple of them even had careers before the show even started, if you can recall that Joshua Jackson had a part in the Mighty Ducks movies that made him a well-known personality. Michelle Williams went on to star in a few movies, as did Steve Kerr, and James Van Der Beek has done a few things before and after the show. If you can recall he starred as Mox in Varsity Blues, he had a prominent part in Angus, and he even had a short cameo in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. In fact he even had a part in a Power Rangers short film that wasn’t sanctioned by the series, but was still kind of entertaining.
The cast were loved during their run on the show but after a while Dawson’s Creek was kind of just another teen show that depicted the love life and angst-ridden problems that kids continued to go through on a regular basis without much of an end to the nonstop drama that came and went with each episode. Some people loved it, they soaked up each and every episode and wanted more. But then when the show was gone they moved on despite the outpouring of emotion. The truth is that had the show continued it still would have had to end at some point since everyone was getting older and there was no way to stay in high school for that long. It could have possibly run into the college years but shows that have done that have notoriously ended on a bad note that leaves a sour taste in the mouths of the fans. Ending it before it had a chance to go bad or kooky in some way was probably for the best.
But now bringing the cast back for a reunion, if only for a photo shoot, is likely to remind people of what they loved about the show way back when, if only for a short period of time.
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