Thanks much to Valeria for the scans and the translation :) Dawson: Goodbye epilogue After six season with loves, friendship, and dramas, the show “Dawson’s Creek” ends brilliantly with a special two hour episode. Kevin Williamson, DC creator, after a 4 seasons absence, cames back to write the epilogue of his work that had been able to renew the genre of teenage shows. “I think I have done all possible for the show….I only want to give to fans a good end of an adventure that lasted six years” [James Van Der Beek] From the begining of February, The WB had announced the news: starting next year Dawson’s Creek will never be produced again. The show will end after six seasons, that is after 128 episodes. A few times before that the news was divulged, the actors showed signs of tiredness. When the six season wasn’t confirmed Joshua Jackson (Pacey) said : “I’m 23 years old. I’ll get back this nine months of my life traveling, and doing all what I want to do” . James Van Der Beek (Dawson) said:”I have done all possible for the show….I only want to give to fans a good end for an adventure last six years” After all, we can understand them. When you spend all this years to play always the same character, from August to April, (shooting time), it's inevitable that you'll get bored and want to move on. But monotony among actors isn’t the main reason that caused the end on the show. When Pacey, Dawson and friends had left High School at the end of season four, the situation wasn’t the same, the charm of Capeside wasn’t there anymore, now the plots are diminished and not convincing. The audience goes down. Bigness…. Come back at the end of 1996. Kevin Williamson, a young writer of 31 years, gains success with “scream”. This movie, (Kevin had written the script) reaches a great success in the USA and revives a fashion of horror film. Everyone wants him to write film like that: “I Know what you did…,” Halloween: 20 years….” “The Faculty”….But the boy is ambitious and he don’t want his name to be connected only with horror genres. He had a different project at heart: Dawson’s Creek, the show that telsl the story of four teenagers, who live in Capeside, Massachusetts. The pilot, shot during the spring of 1997, persuades WB , a little television network, that's trying to make a name for itself. The WB commissions to Williamson a season total of 13 episodes that will be spread out at the beginning of the next year. The first season will be totally shot before ihe premiere of the first episode (01.20.1998). Dawson’s Creek immediately shows a new style: simple stories, fresh and deep at the same time, deep characters, good dialogue, a language that you have never heard among teenagers of 15, humor, cinema situations, pop-rock music as soundtrack, and totally settled in the natural scenery (Set) of Massachusetts. All these things really work. Dawson’s Creek talks with the approximation of adult age in a right way and after it (DC) Felicity, Roswell, and Smallville draw its inspiration from it. Televiewers seem immediately attracted, and the show go on. But at the end of the second season, Williamson left the show for other projects: his first film as director, “Killing Mrs Tingle” and a tv new show “Wasteland”. His departure provokes a general unbalance. Characters aren’t faithful and coherent to themselves. Fans start to have some questions. Fortunately the show will tell about the relation of Pacey and Joey that will share the fans forever. But writers will be never able to satisfied many Televiewers. “The last episode go on for two hours and the action will take place five years later, ten years later from the story of the pilot.” …Decline During the fourth season, the audience goes down, but remains acceptable. The season has good plots and high quality episodes, until Dawson, Joey, Pacey and Jen end high school, and go to campus in Boston. Then go out the season 5 and 6, but stories are never interesting like once upon a time. Writers have no inspiration, and they can’t run the relation about Dawson and Joey. Both fans and actors start to feel that the end is near. So, to finish in a good way, The WB with James and Katie'shelp, decide to call back Kevin Williamson. In spite of the fact that he didn’t know about the new episodes, he accepted gladly, above all because they offered him to write episodes in the future, so he could imagine everything without committing temporal errors. The last episode goes on for two hours and the action will take place five years into the future - ten years from the story of the pilot. The news of the comeback of Kevin Williamson has brought up a dilemma: Who will Joey chose: Dawson or Pacey? . American fans know the answer , but those Italians have to wait a little… but it is worthwhile. Actors future Comforted at the end of the show James Van Der Beek, Katie Holmes, Joshua Jackson, Michelle Williams, Kerr Smith are living during an uncertain period, because they had known glory in a tv show and know they want to work in the cinema. Katie Holmes seems the most favored - she has worked with directors like Ang Lee (Hulk) Sam Raimi (Spider-Man) Curtis Hanson (Wonder Boys) Joel Shumacher (Batman)- receiving laudation from critics at Sundance Film Festival last January, for her performance in Pieces of April. James Van Der Beek has been able to change the image of good boy. In spite of the fact his films hadn't succeeded, he had obtained a lot of offers: acting in the theatre (New York) in “Rain Dance” and in the cinema comedy “Standing Still” . After his leading role in The Skulls, Joshua Jackson has obtained minor parts as well as in Ocean’s Eleven, waiting for better projects. Michelle Williams, seems destined for acting in independent films, like Prozac Nation. Finally, after Final Destination (2002) all Kerr movies seems good-for-nothing. But all isn’t lost, and with the talent they showed during the seasons, and their great experience, some of actors on Dawson’s Creek could became big screen stars in the future. We only can say : Good Luck!

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