Dawson's Creek Season 6
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Dawson's Creek sixth season started on October 2nd, 2002 and ended May 14th, 2003 with a 2-hour-special series finale. This season takes place on the characters' sophomore year of college while the series finale takes place 5 years after the last episode.
The Complete Sixth Season DVD was released on April 4th, 2006 including all the 24 episodes while the series finale was released on September 30th, 2003 including the 2-hour-special and special features. The version included on the Series Finale DVD was included on the season boxset.
Since the final episode released on the DVD Series Finale includes all the original songs featured on the actual airing, it also remained untouched for the version included on the season boxset (Including the original theme song "I Don't Want To Wait" just for the two-part episode).
As has been the case with releases of earlier seasons, the Season 6 DVD set contains replacement songs from what was heard during the actual broadcast airings:
- "As I Lay Me Down", which was heard 3 times in the first couple of episodes, was replaced. It is the song that Joey was waiting for to play on the jukebox and eventually danced with Dawson.
- In episode #605, Busy Phillips' rendition of "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" is replaced with an audio track of her song "Bad Times" which was seen/heard in episode #612.
- In episode #612, the scene with Busy Phillips' rendition of "Love Is All Around" was deleted.
- In episode #608, all of No Doubt's songs from the concert appearance remain intact.
- The original theme song "I Don't Want To Wait" (Paula Cole) has been replaced with "Run Like Mad" by Jann Arden. "Run Like Mad" was the song heard during the opening credits of the original Season 1 international airings.
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[edit] List Of Episodes
The following is a list of episodes from the show's sixth season.
- 6.01: The Kids Are Alright
- 6.02: The Song Remains The Same
- 6.03: The Importance Of Not Being Too Earnest
- 6.04: Instant Karma!
- 6.05: The Impostors
- 6.06: Living Dead Girl
- 6.07: Ego Tripping At The Gates Of Hell
- 6.08: Spiderwebs
- 6.09: Everything Put Together Falls Apart
- 6.10: Marry Mayhem
- 6.11: Day Out Of Days
- 6.12: All The Right Moves
- 6.13: Rock Bottom
- 6.14: Clean And Sober
- 6.15: Castaways
- 6.15: That Was Then
- 6.17: Sex And Violence
- 6.18: Love Bites
- 6.19: Lovelines
- 6.20: Catch-22
- 6.21: Goodbye, Yellow Brick Road
- 6.22: Joey Potter And The Capeside Redemption
- 6.23: All Good Things... (1)
- 6.24: ...Must Come To An End (2)
[edit] The Ending Of The Series
The reasons of why exactly the series ended has not been said by the show's producers. Paul Stupin has simply stated in some interviews that they knew "The sixth season would be the last one".
It has been inferred that the following factors influenced the network to end the series:
- The cast was already too old to play young-adult characters when some of them were already in their middle and late 20's:
- James Van Der Beek: 26
- Katie Holmes: 24
- Michelle Williams: 22
- Joshua Jackson: 24
- Kerr Smith: 31
- Busy Philipps: 23
- The show's ratings went down about 50% since the fifth season because of the storylines changed from High-School to College (A very common "Jump The Shark" moment from High-School shows)
- The cast's needs to move on to different projects.
[edit] Trivia
- Many episode titles are taken from songs, unlike previous seasons which are mostly taken from movie titles.
- Season 6 continues to show changes in the series that started at the fifth season: Joey becomes a central character, perfectly shown at the season premier when the recap of what happened in the summer is given by Joey. Also, Dawson does not appear in several episodes as well as the other castmembers, except for Joey.
- Kerr Smith and Joshua Jackson directed an episode each one, the first time a cast member directed in the show.
- It is believed that episode #6.22:"Joey Potter And The Capeside Redemption" originally was meant to be the season finale leading a Seventh Season when suddenly producers decided to end the show making a 2-hour-finale episode.
