Popularity
Pacey was originally planned to be portrayed as Dawson's funny best friend who was just there to make a joke. However he soon became very popular with the media, causing the writers to give him a more prominent role in the series. It was eventually decided that Pacey would end up with Joey, due to the on-screen chemistry and fan devotion that culminated around the two, although Kevin Williamson had originally intended for Dawson to end up with Joey. He also outgrew some of his lethargic, clownish ways; becoming more mature.
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Famous quotes containing the word popularity:
“Here also was made the novelty ‘Chestnut Bell’ which enjoyed unusual popularity during the gay nineties when every dandy jauntily wore one of the tiny bells on the lapel of his coat, and rang it whenever a story-teller offered a ‘chestnut.’”
—Administration for the State of Con, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of “spirit” over matter.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)
“There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1845)