"The Creek, as you called it when you explained why you were busy on Wednesday nights, blew up out of the box, helping The WB find its teen serial lane along with shows like Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Felicity, and later Charmed and Smallville. Like the characters on the rest of those shows, the kids on The Creek had superpowers, and theirs was the coolest of all: they talked like wise, insightful grownups who'd read a lot of books."
"You may not be able to slay vampires or do witch shit with your sisters or be a developing Superman, and you would certainly never have Keri Russell's hair, but you could talk like a thesaurus and come off like you understood more than you did, like the kids on The Creek did. Dawson Leery's superpower was an enthusiasm for film and a wide vocabulary."
James Van Der Beek rose to prominence in 1998 as the title character on Dawson's Creek, a show that helped define The WB's teen-serial identity alongside Buffy, Felicity, Charmed, and Smallville. The Creek's teen characters spoke with unusually grownup wisdom and wide vocabularies, making intellectualism a central appeal. Van Der Beek projected a mix of handsome features and palpable intelligence that made him a compelling heartthrob. He first appeared on film in 1995's Angus, then broke through in 1999's Varsity Blues as Jonathan Moxon, an athletic talent who preferred reading to football. Van Der Beek pursued varied, left-field choices afterward.
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