James Van Der Beek has died at 48, leaving a Dawson-shaped hole in the heart of many a millennial TV fanatic. A role model to all of a certain age, Dawson Leery taught us how to break and enter, how to be a bad friend and, most importantly, how to yearn. His years-long pursuit of the girl next door is still, for some of us, the reason we keep sending late-night texts to people who absolutely do not want to hear from us.
So, as we grieve the floppy-haired man who became the less-hot lead as the series went on, let’s look back at some of the most iconic moments spent in Capeside.
From its rousing piano intro to its stirring snare drum climax, Paula Cole’s I Don’t Want to Wait became the anthem of 90s romantics everywhere. We felt those lyrics deep in our teenaged hearts – we’re 15, we’ll be dead before we know it, there’s no time to waste. I thought about walking down the aisle to this song, but my literal wedding somehow didn’t seem romantic enough to justify it.
In my memory, Jen Lindley’s taxi pulled up much later in the show’s run, but she actually arrives in the pilot episode. NYC transplant and love interest Jen is everything Dawson’s childhood pal and longstanding flame Joey isn’t: blonde, cosmopolitan, and blonde. Sent to live with her Grams after a life of sex and drugs (rarely mentioned), Jen throws back her shiny hair, swishes her summer dress, and drives an immediate wedge between Joey, Dawson and his best friend Pacey, setting the next six seasons in motion.
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