When a TV Show Finale Pays Off, Appreciation Never Ends

As I write this, my viewing of the last of Dawson’s Creek, the final sixth season, is almost over. It’s one of those moments I’d have to call bittersweet. The entire show, (the series as well as the finale episode ‘All Good Things… Must Come To An End’) is a love letter to friendships, soul mates, crushed love, unrequited love, forgiveness and the power that it holds, belonging, loyalty, old love, new love…all of those words that seem so simple and overused but mean so much in our lives.

In the final chapter, I feel as though all of the characters (characters created with love) are delivering (via life lessons from the writers) final words - statements that an entire generation of adults who grew up with the show as teens, needed to hear and know. Reaffirmed, even. Jen’s message to her daughter was just one more goodbye from the show, to us. And if you don’t cry during it, I don’t know if you are even human.

(Don’t stop now, there’s more.)

I wonder where Kevin Williamson is now. I also find myself curious about the real life counterpart to Joey (edit: except I know that she had a baby around the time of Williamson’s commentary for the finale), and if the other characters were based on real people. And with semi-autobiographical venues like this, what does that feel like to be a character on a show?

On DawsonsCreek.com there is a ‘journal of the last days’ by Joe Ferroni (who is passionate and talented in a way I always wish I could be seen as). I’d like to show this excerpt that he wrote about what someone said…except it’s copywritten! And, the exact URL will not copy and paste, so that doesn’t help any of us. Gah. But, to paraphrase a paraphrase (which sounds ridiculous, I’m aware) Joshua Jackson said something to everyone on one of the last days, about family, growing up with people, and because of them. And well, that’s mighty and eloquent.

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Say goodnight, not goodbye.

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