Popgurls.com: Entertainment: TV: Dawson's Creek: Woes from the Creek:
I look not so fondly back on the seasons that were. Don't get me wrong, there have been high points: Pacey and Tamara, though wrong and illegal, were hot. Sophomore Pacey, despite his bad Caesar haircut, won the hearts of women everywhere.
Joey, in Season One, was sassy and pining. Half the girls in the viewing audience related to her. How many of us have loved from afar, never being noticed by the object of our affections, made even worse when the boy of our dreams is our best friend and as oblivious as the day is long? That was Joey. And that was so many of us, so Joey was cool.
In the beginning, Jen was nothing more than a slut made to impede Joey's progress to get to Dawson. We reviled Jen much the way many reviled Kelly Taylor in the heyday of the Brenda/Kelly/Dylan triangle of 90210. right I figured that was the comparison, Jen - Kelly.

I'm actually not finding (well not as readily as I expected) comparisons btw the 2 shows -
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