While there are no plans for a Dawson’s Creek Season 7 revival, showrunner Greg Berlanti has opened up on the series finale of the teen drama in a chat with Vulture:
“Kevin had been away from the show and hadn’t been there for any of the Joey and Pacey stuff at all,” Berlanti said. “He had always envisioned the show as one thing — Joey and Dawson — and I think he always thought he had to write that. As we were breaking the story, Kevin felt like the rest of the show had happened without him, [and it] had gone in this [other] direction. There’s a scene in the end, where there’s a phone call and the three of them are all talking — Dawson is in his office in Hollywood, Joey and Pacey are together. [Williamson] decided in his own genius way to go that way.”
What was more important to Williamson, Berlanti added, was that Dawson be successful in his aspirations. “That’s what he chose to dramatize in the end. To him, they all got something they wanted, and in some way each didn’t get something they wanted, which was very poignant,” Berlanti said, admitting he cried as he wrote some of the final scenes for the characters. Except for one. “He killed Jen!”
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