The Pacey/Joey Guide to Dawson's Creek
Joey: You gotta learn to read between the banter, Pacey.
Much like dangermousie 's guide to the shippy episodes in East of Eden, I've decided to compile a guide to the Pacey/Joey shippy episodes in Dawson's Creek, so that any who come after me and don't want to have to watch 6 seasons of crap to get the good stuff. Of course I'll miss out on some things as I'm skipping around a good deal, but here goes.
Summary:
-Season 1 has 3 worthwhile PJ episodes
-Season 2 I skipped this season completely and I recommend the same for PJ-ers - it's the DJ season full-out all the way through, and very dark times(read: nonexistent) for our couple(read the IMDB episode summaries if you don't believe me)
-Season 3 - the first half showcases the delicious gradual build-up of the PJ relationship as friends, then things take off romantically in episode 12(halfway through the season)
-Season 4- it's the PJ season much as season 2 was the DJ season
-Season 5-dark, dark, dark times:( both go through a constant succession of other people whom they're in love with, and apart from a handful of scattered scenes out of the whole season, there's almost no interaction at all, and the finale leads back to the DJ storyline(yech)
-Season 6-first half basically a continuation of the PJ nonexistence/black-out that was season 5, but halfway through it they finally snap back into action in episode 14
Season 1:
Ep 1(so you know what the series is about)
Ep 8
Ep 10
Ep 13-it's mostly Joey/Dawson but there's this one delicious scene where PJ talk
Season 2:
er...
Season 3:
Watch all except for below
skip ep 10-Pacey isn't in it at all
ep 11 has Pacey and Joey individually but not really any Pacey/Joey
Ep 12-oh God, so good-things start heating up around episode 12 and just get great from there
Season 4:
watch all - it's the Pacey/Joey season
Season 5:
Season 5 is a very dark time for PJ shippers, but fortunately for us, their pairing is capable of inspiring enough dedicated fanaticism that a Youtube member went through and posted clips of virtually all the PJ clips in season 5(she has other seasons too but season 5 is the only one that it's necessary to resort solely to clips instead of entire episodes I think).
Eps to watch:
503,504,(509 may look good, but honestly there's like 2 minutes of extremely platonic conversation in the whole episode)
510(see below clips for the best parts)
In the following clip from 510, stop once it gets to them walking home together and skip to the next one, which has slightly more content.
Click to view511-has more PJ scenes than half the season combined, and also re-introduces Chad Michael Murray of One Tree Hill as Joey's love interest
512-see below clip
only good part of ep 513:
517
523(the finale) has only one Pacey/Joey scene and it's well worth watching cause some of their famed chemistry comes back but if you take my advice skip the episode itself, especially the last scene, because it's all DJ in the most sickening manner(most of the time I don't hate them but this one - yuck)
Season 6:
The first half of the season has a few scattered bits of PJ, but overall it's very dark land, with them both being involved with other people and not even interacting as friends. Episodes 611-613 have zero Pacey/Joey interaction(at all), and it's not until episode 614 that PJ snaps back into action in a big way.
No Pacey/Joey interactions in ep 619, either.