so it never fails, that when i make some grand pronouncement about my not watching TV, i spend the entire night, in effect, watching TV. sure it’s TV on DVD and i did specify how that is an exception the rule that i made, but still.
i’m a little nervous because the very next episode is gonna be the one where dawson’s dad died. i’m getting some kleenex and a cookie to prepare. last time i watched this episode, i turned into a big sobbing heap. i expect a repeat of that behavior in a matter of minutes.
as i was sort of misting up over the first meeting of pacey and joey, i sort of chastised myself. i mean come on. i’m a woman over 30. a smart woman over 30, there is not a single reason on earth that i can think of that i should be so emotionally attached to a fictional show about beautiful teenagers with impossible vocabularies. but yet, here i am. sitting on the couch crying over something so inane, it’s laughable. and the only that makes it even more laughable is that i KNOW how the show turns out. i know that in the very next episode dawson’s dad’s gonna die. i KNOW that in the end joey will choose tom cruise and we’ll all be living in some bizarro world where we pretend that he’s not gay.
and yet, i will still cry. clearly i am the biggest goober that ever lived.
Yes, clearly.
What, you wanted some sort of validation? Hah! This is a tough audience, baybee.
Supports your right to blubber as he did the same with the kids from the creek whilst unemployed.
Here’s to good times with kleenex and cookies!
JJ
i have recovered. i think. it’s just so sad!
The reason it is called the lowest common denominator is because it appeals to the lowest among us and up. We all need to switch off our brains sometimes and let the waterworks flow.
My mom, who is 62, would watch these reruns on cable and call me to gossip about them. I admit that I may have gotten a little teary eyed a few times myself, but I think that’s when Jen sobered up and quit being the wild hosebag that she was. The show was a cultural entity destined for time capsules everywhere;)
you know, when I read that entry really fast, it seems like you are crying because Tom Cruise is gay.