What's in a word?
Feb. 14th, 2011 05:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
butterflyDawson's Creek is sometimes known as the show that ruined the phrase 'soul mate' and stomped all over it with big boots and then attempted to redeem it in the finale.
See, we are sold Joey Potter and Dawson Leery as soul mates (literally; I think they use that phrase for them dozens of times in-show. Or at least it felt that way). But every time that they end up in a relationship together, it's pretty much poison all the way. So, in the finale, Kevin Williamson recasts the phrase 'soul mate' to mean 'platonic friend for life' (he has Joey spin it that way to Dawson, who is feeling the sting of Joey totally not choosing him as a romantic partner, and also has (gay character) Jack call his BFF Jen his 'soul mate').
Anyway, I hear that Kevin has called Stefan and Elena 'soul mates' and it makes me wonder which of his own definitions he's using. Stefan and Elena do sometimes come across as a less horrible version of Dawson/Joey. Golden boy (who doesn't really appreciate how favored he's been)/feisty brunette (who is an orphan being raised by hersister aunt).
See, we are sold Joey Potter and Dawson Leery as soul mates (literally; I think they use that phrase for them dozens of times in-show. Or at least it felt that way). But every time that they end up in a relationship together, it's pretty much poison all the way. So, in the finale, Kevin Williamson recasts the phrase 'soul mate' to mean 'platonic friend for life' (he has Joey spin it that way to Dawson, who is feeling the sting of Joey totally not choosing him as a romantic partner, and also has (gay character) Jack call his BFF Jen his 'soul mate').
Anyway, I hear that Kevin has called Stefan and Elena 'soul mates' and it makes me wonder which of his own definitions he's using. Stefan and Elena do sometimes come across as a less horrible version of Dawson/Joey. Golden boy (who doesn't really appreciate how favored he's been)/feisty brunette (who is an orphan being raised by her