Who ends up with who...

Soo, last night was it and I just watched it on Surfthechannel...

James Vanderbeek on One Tree Hill. I've watched most of the episodes now...sigh, my friend Ali was right, I'm hooked in. Gloat if you must Allison.

Anyway, he was brought in as a film director named Dixon (That's pretty close to a certain other name if you ask me!) because Lucas is interviewing him to see if he'll direct the movie version of Lucas's novel. First of all we've seen CMM and The Beek square off before. I don't know how many of those watching OTH at this point know that Chad played cheating rocker with a heart of gold Charlie on Dawson's Creek. Charlie starred in one of Dawson's epic love stories, much to Jen's chagrin, and Pacey's irritation (Audrey was playing the leading lady and Charlie was in hot pursuit of Joey at the time...you can see why Pacey'd be pissed about the choice.)

I was hoping, at least a little that this director would be a Dawson reincarnate, someone to match up with Lucas's good guy instincts and they could be sanctimonious together. But I was pleasantly surprised to see they did it differently. Dixon is like the counterparts Dawson finds in the later seasons. Oliver and that British guy. He's abrasive and pushy and hyperactive. It makes sense, because if you were to actually put Dawson and Lucas in a room together to work on a project it would be the most boring, drawn out and preachy piece of trash ever. So instead Dixon insists on two things, the couple you expect to end up together shouldn't, and you have to raise the stakes by killing off one of the younger characters. You have to have a knowledge of Dawson's to really understand the humor behind him asking for those things, one of which he phrases, "The one thing I know is that the audiences goes crazy over who ends up together in the end." Anyone with a remotely intimate knowledge of Dawson's Creek gets the humor in Dixon's requests.

1. The raise the stakes thing by randomly killing off one of the leads. Her name was Jen Lindley. Her story was overall the most interesting and least annoying of any of the characters on previously mentioned show. And what do they do? Halfway through the series finale Jen dies of a heart condition that until said series finale no one, including her best friend in the world Jack knew she had. Raises the stakes? Little bit. Breaks the audience's heart? TOTALLY!

2. The unexpected couple ends up together. OK, so Joey choosing Pacey isn't totally unexpected, and the emotional payoff is worth it. But it's definitely a twist. Dixon is specifically asking for Lucas to end up with Hayley in the movie. That's Dawson talking, Dawson who never got his Joey, wants the best friends to end up together. In all of Dawson's retellings of the story that's how it ends up. Sam chooses Colby, in that movie they make in Season 2 or 3, I can't remember, where Rachel Leigh Cook plays Joey, she ends up with the Dawson character. He wants to see it happen again, even from the guise of this guy who isn't Dawson.

Of course after this we've learned that something's going on with Peyton...my guess is she's pregnant or has cancer.

Or maybe she has a mysterious heart condition that she didn't tell anybody about.

Either way this is going to be a funn ride...Good to have you back Leery.