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Hey now people are talking about vidya-as-art and AAA games.

Remember Dawson Leery?

That’s not even a hypothetical question, do you remember Dawson Leery, the half-titled character of “Dawson’s Creek”, the 1998 show that was key to the WB’s efforts to rebrand themselves from the black network to the teen network? 1 year after Buffy, same year as Felicity, 5 years before The OC, 8 years after Beverly Hills 90210? Everyone talked fast and thesaurical, in a way that middlebrow pophist now accords to Gilmore Girls (female div.) or Sports Night (male div.)? Dude wanted to make movies, dude’s hero was Spielberg?

And how the ‘70s were the fruition of New Hollywood but they were also the dawn of the blockbuster and Spielberg and George Lucas and the franchise and marketing and man remember Dawson Leery? If Dawson’s Creek was a thing now would it have a fandom and who would you ship him with first caller?

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