Me: Oh, nothing. I was just thinking about how crappy it's
been lately.
You: You actually watch that shit?
Me: Yeah, I used to.
You: Katie Holmes is fucking hot.
Me: Well, yeah. But the show used to be worth watching,
too.
You: What?!
Me: No, seriously. Back in the day, it was great. The
characters were interesting, the storylines were about stuff you could actually
relate to, the dialogue didn't talk down to you --
You: The girls were babes --
Me: Yes, the girls were hotties, alright?!
You: But you think it's no good now?
Me: I dunno; it seemed to lose it's way at the outset of the whole
"Dawson's Dad dies" deal.
You: Wasn't his Dad the Flash?
Me: Way back when, yes. Now he's dead.
You: The Flash is dead?
Me: No, Dawson's Dad is dead. Stay with me here, dude.
You: So Dawson doesn't have a dad; big deal.
Me: Well, instead of writing about college life and all the stuff
that goes down during one's campus days, the show's writers seemed to get
bogged down in this very heavy story-arc about mourning, and things just
seemed to get shittier from there. The story stopped being any fun
at all; it was like the writers started getting off on throwing horrible
things at the characters.
You: Real life is shitty sometimes, too, man.
Me: Yeah, I know, but they really dropped the ball with the other
characters. I mean Joey falls for her fucking teacher? That's
been done to death!
You: You going somewhere with this?
Me: Just that I've been thinking about it a lot lately. About
where it went wrong.
You: Because??
Me: Because I'm at that same cross-roads with OFF CAMPUS.
Dawson's Creek started having problems when the kids graduated high school
and the show seemed to be unable to function within a new dynamic.
You: And you're freaked because the OFF CAMPUS characters are
getting ready to graduate college?
Me: Exactly. And frankly, I'm not sure I can pull off the
transition from college to the "real world" in the comic strip.
You: You killing anybody's dad?
Me: Wasn't planning on it.
You: Then what's the problem?
Me: It's just going to be difficult to write the next few months
worth of story, is all. I'm not sure how "real" I should make it.
You: You need to just write, man. Whatever comes, comes.
Me: And if I fuck it all up?
You: Then draw a comic about how Rachel and Suzie become lesbians.
Seriously man, no one reads this comic for the story. They read
it because you draw women with big tits.
Me: Can we pretend that's not true?
You: Whatever helps you sleep at night.
Seno
4/11/03
Today's Question: So that's the scoop. Anything
you absolutely don't want to change in the coming weeks?
Let me know
.
Good Shit: Go to the movies. There's a lot
of good films out right now, and a bunch more getting ready to come out.
