Talk:Dawson's Creek

message: Canadian broadcaster Global TV has launched an online initiative called TV Classics, featuring full episodes of Dawson's Creek. While content is available to Canadian audiences only, I thought it valuable to add links to the External Links section with the appropriate disclaimers (Canada only). Is this deemed too commercial?
The destination URL is TV Classics.  
Web-enthusiast (talk) 17:50, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Full Episodes Online

message: It's stated on the page that there is controversy over the DVDs being released as 4 discs sets instead of 6, yet the pictures for Seasons 3+ claim 6 discs on the box art.  I have season 2 and there are only 4 discs.  Were there two versions released?  Her024 06:54, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: DVD

message: Maybe someone should remove the link for Jack McPhee on this page as it redirects directly back here again. Thanks
Or maybe we should just give Jack his own page, poor guy. Her024 06:54, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page Redirect 

message: An unregistered user changed the reference to Andie and Jack being twins.  They were so.  Do a Google search here for several citations.  PedanticallySpeaking 17:12, Mar 15, 2005 (UTC)
Actually, Andie and Jack are not twins. In the newsletter section of the official Dawson's Creek website , a member of the writing team addressed the issue as follows:
* "Jack and Andie are not twins. Jack is age 17 and Andie is age 16. However, they are in the same grade because they started school at the same time -- both are now juniors in high school. This was stated at the beginning of season three. Jack therefore is officially older."
* "The Jack and Andie question is always asked but never solved. Here's the deal: when the writers first created Jack they wanted him to be a year older or younger than Andie, they were leaning towards older but they weren't positive which way they wanted to go. But then Paul Stupin was doing an interview so he asked, "Is Jack older or younger?" and the writers said "older." But then we realized we liked Jack and we decided that even though he was a little older than Andie, they would be in the same grade. So the answer is: JACK AND ANDIE ARE IN THE SAME GRADE, BUT JACK IS OLDER THAN ANDIE! (Of course, it's our ongoing joke in the writer's room -- look in upcoming episode #404 for a joke regarding this very subject!)" (newsletter issue 97)
Rlw31 May 23, 2005
In one eposide, andie was talking about her and Jack's birthday being that day; which sounds like twins  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.181.34.197 (talk) 04:18, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Twins 

message: This article is to be the featured article of the day on May 30, 2005.  PedanticallySpeaking 17:24, May 25, 2005 (UTC)
:Wow.  Just wow. --Madchester 04:10, 2005 May 30 (UTC)
::It's official. This is Hell.  Roge Ebert 01:39, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: On the main page

message: "punchy dialogue"; "witty"?  How are the strings of smarmy self-satisfied quips and painfully melodramatic monologues that make up Dawson's Creek scripts in any way punchy or clever?  I agree that the standards of 'POV' shouldn't be quite as high when arts or drama are being discussed (otherwise it's difficult to describe the thing in question) - but stupid POVs are too much.
--163.1.167.63 11:15, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  scripts 

message: Am I the only one who thinks this article is far too long? The episode list should definitely be on a seperate page, and maybe even the various season summeries.  The credits list could either be done away with or moved. And the finale could stand to be its own article. 209.51.77.64 21:54, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Way too long

message: It's not the case in here if it is full of clever or lexical words. We have to analyze the photography, that's great, by the way, and the focus of the series. Who haven't passed by those dramas...may throw the first rock. And of course, there is still the great characters and very "good looking" actors and actressess. And by the way...it is classical. A cult series and anyone who could watch it with free-minded vision can see its value.
:Uh-huh. - Tbsdy lives (formerly Ta bu shi da yu) talk 03:36, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: A great story

message: I've completely reworked the article on Katie Holmes and have posted it on WP:PR in the hopes of advancing it to WP:FAC.  I would be grateful for your comments at Wikipedia:Peer review/Katie Holmes/archive1.  PedanticallySpeaking 19:02, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Katie Holmes]]

message: What's the source of the title?   Xander Berkeley 01:44, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Dawson's [[headwaters]]

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Dawsonscreekalbumcover1.jpg

message: There a large number of minor characters who could usefully get a mention but wouldn't justify a whole page.  Do people think it is worth creating one?  Some of the minor characters who do now have pages could be merged into it.Dejvid 10:27, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Minor Character Page?

message: I removed the Evelyn Ryan link as the wikipedia entry is for a completely unrelated feature film http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Ryan  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.99.61.139 (talk) 00:10, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  character link removed 

message: Why does this article not have a summary of the actual PLOT of DC? Can someone add this section? It needn't be more than 3 paragraphs for all 6 seasons.--Aquillyne-- (talk) 00:02, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Story summary?! 

message: The article says the following:
*A large number of episode titles were also those of films, e.g. The Longest Day, Hotel New Hampshire, Secrets & Lies, Falling Down, The Lost Weekend, High Anxiety, and The Kids Are Alright.  Many were allusions to William Shakespeare, e.g. the finale, All Good Things…Must Come to an End, Two Gentlemen of Capeside and "To Be or Not to Be...That Is The Question".  One title, Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang, was the title of a volume of film criticism by Pauline Kael. Due to the possibility of legal action, the names of individual episodes were changed after their initial airing to reflect a more generic theme. Hence, a lot of earlier episodes are known under two alternate titles. 
What is the source for this last bit on legal action? Also, this would be better off in the main article. - Tbsdy lives (formerly Ta bu shi da yu) talk 03:24, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Episodes with film titles 

message: The following is unsourced information:
*There was an incredible spike in the popularity of the name "Dawson" after the show premiered.  According to the Social Security Administration, the name was the 744th most popular boys name in 1997 but leapt to 198th in 1998 and 136th in 1999.  It has since dropped to 206th in 2004.
*The necklace worn by Dawson throughout the first seasons was James Van Der Beek's. The wardrobe department centered his wardrobe around it.
*Supposedly, episode 6-22 "Joey Potter and The Capeside Redemption" was going to be the season six finale, leading to a seventh season—however, the decision to end the series came up and the two-hour finale was made.
While this is interesting, we can't use it unless you provide a source. Also, none of this is really trivia, as trivia by its definition is "unimportant information" - it therefore shouldn't be in a trivia section but instead the information should be incorporated into the main article.
*Actress Meredith Monroe (Andie McPhee) shot three scenes to be used in the series finale but they were not used because of time constraints.  In the unbroadcasted footage, Andie was shown to be as a medical student and living in Boston. The uncut version complete with Meredith's scenes can be seen on DVD.
*The Ice House restaurant burned at the end of the second season because the owners of the location used for filming did not wish to continue their association with the show—thus the building was written out of the program.
There is also some questionable material:
* In the German version, the male lead characters: Dawson, Pacey and Jack were dubbed by the brothers Dennis, Gerrit and Florian Schmidt-Foß. Dennis, who dubbed Pacey, married Dascha Lehmann, the voice actress dubbing Joey Potter.
While this wikilinks to the German Wikipedia versions of the article, these are not reasonable sources. We never reference ourselves, regardless of the language being pointed to. 
*Chad Michael Murray, Hilarie Burton, and Lee Norris of The CW (then The WB) show One Tree Hill originally guest starred in Dawson's Creek. Not surprisingly, One Tree Hill is also filmed in North Carolina. John Driscoll who played Blossom on Dawson's Creek also guest starred in an episode of One Tree Hill. He played a guy at a bar that Brooke had hooked up with on a previous date.
*Owing much of its early success to Dawson's Creek, The WB fittingly reaired the pilot episode at 9 pm EST on the network's final broadcast day, September 17, 2006, making it the last program to ever air on the network.
The above last two bits are not really NPOV, and seem a bit trivial. - Tbsdy lives (formerly Ta bu shi da yu) talk 03:30, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Questionable material 

message: I know this is a pretty stupid question, but what was the creative background behind the title? Elfred (talk) 23:33, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Title explanation? 

message: Does anyone know who the father of Jen's daughter was?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.158.3.150 (talk) 09:19, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: No one knows but people imagine sometimes its CJ. 98.15.83.179 (talk) 16:47, 2 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jen's daughter 

message: "By the end of its run, the show, its crew, and its young cast had been nominated for numerous awards, winning four of them."
I don't know if this quite counts as weasel words, but it definitely counts as poor writing.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.111.7.31 (talk) 09:52, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Could we be more vague? 

message: Under the Production section, in Filming Locations it is stated that "Capeside is a fictional town [...]located on Cape Cod, possibly somewhere mid-Cape between Falmouth and Yarmouth [...] and is located between the cities of Providence, Rhode Island and Boston, Massachusetts." Neither Providence nor Boston are located on Cape Cod; one cannot be both on Cape Cod and between Providence and Boston. This is a physical impossibility. The only question is whether these (impossible) facts are mentioned in the show itself, or are the result of a geographical misunderstanding by the wiki page contributor. If the latter I suggest an edit.
MusicPapa (talk) 15:52, 12 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bad Geography 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: I noticed that a few of the character pages have been deleted, however, I was unable to find any discussions as to why they were deleted, it seemed they were just deleted without any discussion. Also, of the ones that were deleted, they were of more prominent characters (Jen, Pacey, Jack, Andie, etc.) while less notable characters' pages (Mitch, Gail, Bessie, etc.) are still there, but redirected. Perhaps we should either bring back the articles that were deleted and make them better, or create a Characters page with with briefer descriptions of each character, particularly of the minor characters. I liked the individual character pages that we had, and I do not like how they were deleted so suddenly. Perhaps bring them back, create a separate Characters page and have each one redirect to them, or bring them back how they were. Arilicious (talk) 19:05, 1 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Character pages deleted? 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Why the infobox shows a simple black rectangle as the logo? It's strange because after clicking on it a correct image displays.
Can someone fix  into  ?
--37.30.20.249 (talk) 00:06, 2 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  logo 

message: Link to composer Adam Fields sends you to the wrong Adam Fields’ page. There are two, one is a producer, which is where the links take you. Adam Fields the composer, who actually wrote the ending credits, does not have a Wikipedia page at this time. 2600:4040:7EF9:3B00:84A:5CBC:AF20:2A4B (talk) 02:52, 23 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Composer link incorrect 

message: Both Pacey and Joey are listed as Dawson's best friend. Choose one! 31.94.62.68 (talk) 01:09, 21 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: () A person can have more than one best friend. It is allowed. Novemberjazz 19:24, 21 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dawson's Best Friend? 

message: I wanted to add a little paragraph talking a little bit about how Jack's kiss with Ethan was the first romantic kiss shared on screen between two men, during prime time. However, I'm not too sure about where that would fit. I thought about doing it under the reception/controversy section. Annajanostiac (talk) 02:07, 21 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Historic Kiss