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For the novel by Octavia Butler, see Parable of the Talents (novel).
The parable of the talents, depicted in a 1712 woodcut. The lazy servant searches for his buried talent, while the two other servants present their earnings to their master.
The Parable of the Talents (also the Parable of the Minas) is one of the parables of Jesus, which appears in two of the synoptic, canonical gospels of the New Testament:
Matthew 25:14-30
Luke 19:12-27
Although the basic story in each of these parables is essentially the same, the differences between the parables as they appear in the Gospel of Matthew and in the Gospel of Luke are sufficient to indicate that the parables are not derived from the same source.[1] In Matthew, the opening words link the parable to the preceding Parable of the Ten Virgins, which refers to the Kingdom of Heaven.[1] The version in Luke is also called the Parable of the Pounds.
In both Matthew and Luke, a master puts his servants in charge of his goods while he is away on a trip. Upon his return, the master assesses the stewardship of his servants. He evaluates them according to how faithful each was in making wise investments of his goods to obtain a profit. It is clear that the master sought some profit from the servants’ oversight. A gain indicated faithfulness on the part of the servants. The master rewards his servants according to how each has handled his stewardship. He judges two servants as having been “faithful” and gives them a positive reward. To the single unfaithful servant, who “played it safe”, a negative compensation is given.
A thematically variant parable appears in the non-canonical Gospel of the Hebrews.
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1 Settings
2 Narratives
3 Version in the Gospel of the Hebrews
4 The values of a talent
5 Depositing funds with the bankers
6 Interpretations
6.1 As a teaching for Christians
6.1.1 As personal abilities
6.1.2 As love or mercy
6.2 As a critique of religious leaders
6.3 As social critique
7 Depictions in the arts
8 See also
9 References
10 External links
Settings[edit]
While the basic story in each of these parables is essentially the same, the settings are quite different.
The setting of the parable of the talents in Matthew 25 is the Mt. Olivet discourse. In Matthew 24-25, the overall theme is end-time events, warning, and parables. "The direct cautions and warnings (Matthew 24:42, Matthew 24:44; Matthew 25:13) must be for the disciples (his audience)—warnings to be watchful and to be ready for Christ’s coming".
The setting of the parable of the minas in Luke 19 was out in the open among the crowd. Zacchaeus had just believed and the Lord acknowledged his salvation. But, the crowd was now looking for Jesus to set up his kingdom.[2][unreliable source?]
Narratives[edit]
Parable of the Talents
The “Parable of the Talents”, in Matthew 25:14–30 tells of a master who was leaving his house to travel, and, before leaving, entrusted his property to his servants. According to the abilities of each man, one servant received five talents, the second servant received two talents, and the third servant received one talent. The property entrusted to the three servants was worth 8 talents, where a talent was a significant amount of money. Upon returning home, after a long absence, the master asks his three servants for an account of the talents he entrusted to them. The first and the second servants explain that they each put their talents to work, and have doubled the value of the property with which they were entrusted; each servant was rewarded:
His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’
—  Matthew 25:23, New English Translation
The third servant, however, had merely hidden his talent, had buried it in the ground, and was punished by his master:
"Then the one who had received the one talent came and said, ‘Sir, I knew that you were a hard man, harvesting where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not scatter seed, so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. See, you have what is yours.’ But his master answered, ‘Evil and lazy servant! So you knew that I harvest where I didn’t sow and gather where I didn’t scatter? Then you should have deposited my money with the bankers, and on my return I would have received my money back with interest! Therefore take the talent from him and give it to the one who has ten. For the one who has will be given more, and he will have more than enough. But the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken from him. And throw that worthless slave into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’"
—  Matthew 25:24–30, New English Translation
Parable of the Minas
In Luke's Gospel (Luke 19:12-27), Jesus told this parable because he was near Jerusalem and because his disciples thought the kingdom of God would appear immediately. The objective of investing or trading during the absence of the master was intended to counter expectations of the immediate appearance of God's kingdom. The parable of the minas is generally similar to the parable of the talents, but differences include the inclusion of the motif of a king obtaining a kingdom[3] and the entrusting ten servants each with one mina, rather than a number of talents (1 talent = 60 minas). Only the business outcomes and consequential rewards of three of the servants' trading were related. Additionally, Luke included at the beginning an account of citizens sending a message after the nobleman to say that they did not want him as their ruler; and, at the end, Luke added that the nobleman instructed that his opponents should be brought to him and then be slain as well as the unprofitable servant being deprived of his mina.
The parallels between the Lukan material (the Gospel of Luke and Book of Acts) and Josephus' writings have long been noted.[4][5][6][7] The core idea, of a man traveling to a far country being related to a kingdom, has vague similarities to Herod Archelaus traveling to Rome in order to be given his kingdom; although this similarity is not in itself significant, Josephus' account also contains details which are echoed by features of the Lukan parable.[8] Josephus describes Jews sending an embassy to Augustus, while Archelaus is travelling to Rome, to complain that they do not want Archelaus as their ruler;[9][10] when Archelaus returns, he arranges for 3000 of his enemies to be brought to him at the Temple in Jerusalem, where he has them slaughtered.[9]
Version in the Gospel of the Hebrews[edit]
Eusebius of Caesarea includes a paraphrased summary of a parable of talents taken from a "Gospel written in Hebrew script" (generally considered in modern times to be the Gospel of the Nazarenes); this gospel was presumably destroyed in the destruction of the Theological Library of Caesarea Maritima in the 7th century (by the Islamic invaders) and has yet to be found. In that gospel, Eusebius writes that while the man who had hid the talent was rebuked for his burial, only the man who had received two talents had invested and gained a return on his investment. The recipient of the five talents instead "wasted his master’s possessions with harlots and flute-girls;" it was he, in the Hebrew gospel, that was sent into the darkness (Eusebius expressly identifies the darkness as being imprisonment).[11][12]
The values of a talent[edit]
A talent (Ancient Greek τάλαντον, talanton ‘scale’ and ‘balance’) was a unit of weight of approximately 80 pounds (36 kg), and when used as a unit of money, was valued for that weight of silver.[13] As a unit of currency, a talent was worth about 6,000 denarii.[1] Since a denarius was the usual payment for a day's labour,[1] the value of a talent was about twenty years of labour, by an ordinary person.[14] By contemporary standards (ca. AD 2009) at the rate of the US minimum wage of $7.25 per hour, the value of a talent would be approximately $300,000 over 20 years, while, at the median yearly wage of $26,363, a talent would be valued at about $500,000.[15]
Depositing funds with the bankers[edit]
The third servant in Matthew's version was condemned as "wicked and lazy", for he should have deposited the talent he received with the bankers (Greek: τραπεζιταις, trapezitais, literally, table or counter-keepers, just as bankers were originally those who sat at their bancum, or bench).[16] The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges notes that this was "the very least the slave could have done, [as] to make money in this way required no personal exertion or intelligence",[17] and Johann Bengel commented that the labour of digging a hole and burying the talent was greater than the labour involved in going to the bankers.[18]
Interpretations[edit]
In Matthew, the opening words appear to link the parable to the parable of the Ten Virgins, which immediately precedes it.[1] That parable deals with wisdom in an eschatological context.[1] This parable, however, has been interpreted in several ways.
As a teaching for Christians[edit]
As personal abilities[edit]
Traditionally, the parable of the talents has been seen as an exhortation to Jesus' disciples to use their God-given gifts in the service of God, and to take risks for the sake of the Kingdom of God. These gifts have been seen to include personal abilities ("talents" in the everyday sense), as well as personal wealth. Failure to use one's gifts, the parable suggests, will result in negative judgment.[1] From a psychological point of view, the failure is the immediate result of the failure of feeling God's love. The first two servants are able to see God in a positive perception, as "understanding, generous, and kind", while the third servant sees God as "harsh, demanding, and critical".[19]
Finley suggests these interpretations among the teachings for Christians:
The nobleman (Lk 19:12), or the man (Matthew 25:14) is Christ.
The journey of the master to another place and his return (Matt 25:14-15, Matthew 24:19; Luke 19:12, Luke 19:15) speaks of Christ’s going away to Heaven at his ascension and his return at the time when he comes again.
His entrustment to his servants of his possessions while he is away on his journey should be Christ’s gifts and various possessions (“capital”) given to the believers in his church in anticipation of them producing a spiritual “profit” for Him in the kingdom of God. While he is away, he expects his believers to “'Do business with this until I come back.’” (Luke 19:13).
His evaluation of the business they have conducted during his absence takes place upon his return and is an account of their activity (Matt 25:19; Luke 19:15). This must be the Judgment Seat of Christ, which is only for believers. This pictures an evaluation of stewardship.
The positive rewards for two of the servants is based upon their faithfulness to properly use what Christ entrusted to them. This probably speaks of positive reward for believers who are faithful to serve Christ.
The negative reward (recompense) for the unfaithful servant likely speaks of some negative dealing by Christ with an unfaithful believer.[2]
The poet John Milton was fascinated by the parable (interpreted in this traditional sense),[20] referring to it repeatedly, notably in the sonnet "When I Consider How My Light is Spent":[20]
When I consider how my light is spent
Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide,
And that one Talent, which is death to hide,
Lodg'd with me useless, though my Soul more bent
To serve therewith my Maker, and present
My true account, lest he, returning, chide
Some critics interpret the poem's exhortation to be ready to receive God's will as a critique of a misunderstanding of the parable as literal or economic, and that waiting—rather than amassing wealth to prove one's worth—is the proper way to serve God.[21] While the narrator worries over his limited accomplishments, Patience reminds him that God does not need "man's work". Milton may even be contrasting God (as King) with the lord of the parable.[22]
As love or mercy[edit]
Catholic Bishop Robert Barron says that the talents in this parable are "a share in the mercy of God, a participation in the weightiness of the divine love", rather than personal abilities or wealth. He utilizes the interpretation of Old Testament professor Robert Schoenstene, who argues that a talent in ancient Jewish times was very weighty thus five talents was extremely heavy. Such heaviness would remind to the heaviest weight of all, the kabod (lit. heaviness) of God in the Temple of Jerusalem, accordingly the most heavy of all is the mercy of God.[23] Similarly, a reflection in the Carmelites' website defines the talents as "love, service, sharing", the "money of the master".[24] In other words, Erasmo Leiva-Merikakis says, "Our greatest talent and treasure is our ability to love, and in this enterprise the champion is the greatest risk taker, which means the one most willing to invest himself where the odds appear most against him."[25]
As a critique of religious leaders[edit]
Joachim Jeremias believed that the original meaning of the parable was not an ethical one about every man. Instead, he saw it as aimed at the scribes who had withheld "from their fellow men a due share in God's gift."[26] In his view, Jesus is saying that these scribes will soon be brought to account for what they have done with the Word of God which was entrusted to them.[26]
Jeremias also believed that in the life of the early church the parable took on new meaning, with the merchant having become an allegory of Christ, so that "his journey has become the ascension, his subsequent return ... has become the Parousia, which ushers his own into the Messianic banquet."[26]
As social critique[edit]
In the Parables as Subversive Speech: Jesus as Pedagogue of the Oppressed (1994), William R. Herzog II presents a liberation theology interpretation of the “Parable of the Talents”, wherein the absentee landlord reaps where he didn't sow, and the third servant is a whistle-blower who has “unmasked the ‘joy of the master’ for what it is — the profits of exploitation squandered in wasteful excess.”[27] Hence, the third servant is punished for speaking the truth, and not for failing to make a profit. From the critical perspective of liberation theology, the message of the “Parable of the Talents” is that man must act in solidarity with other men when confronting social, political, and economic injustices.[27]
To describe how scientists are awarded authorial credit for their work, the sociologist Robert K. Merton applied the term The Matthew effect of accumulated advantage, in which the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. With the “Parable of the Talents”, Merton metaphorically described the system of authorial rewards used, among the community of scientists, whereby famous scientists usually are awarded credit that is disproportionately greater than their contributions, while less-famous scientists are awarded lesser credit than is merited by their contributions; see also Stigler's law of eponymy: “No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer.”[28]
Depictions in the arts[edit]
The teachings of Jesus: the Parable of the Talents, as etched by Jan Luyken.
The Parable of the Talents, depicted by a modern artist. Oil on canvas, 2013
The “Parable of the Talents” has been depicted by artists such as Rembrandt, Jan Luyken, and Matthäus Merian. In literature, the Threepenny Novel (1934), by Bertolt Brecht (1895–1956), presents a social critique of the parable as an ideological tool of capitalist exploitation of the worker and of society.[29]
In religious music, the hymn “Slave of God, Well Done!”, by John Wesley, notably alludes to the “Parable of the Talents” (Matthew 25:23), which was written on the occasion of the death of George Whitefield (1714–1770), the English Anglican cleric who was instrumental to the First Great Awakening (ca. 1731–55) in Britain and in the American colonies.[30]
The hymn “Slave of God, Well Done!” begins thus:
Slave of God, well done!
Thy glorious warfare’s past;
The battle’s fought, the race is won,
And thou art crowned at last.[31]
See also[edit]
Five Talents, a Christian microfinance charity.
Life of Jesus in the New Testament
Matthew 25
Matthew effect
Ministry of Jesus
Monasticism
Sabbath economics
Stewardship
Usury
References[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g Arland J. Hultgren, The Parables of Jesus: A Commentary, Eerdmans Publishing, 2002, ISBN 0-8028-6077-X, pp. 271-281.
^ Jump up to: a b Finley, Tom. The Parable of the Talents and the Parable of the Minas (Matthew 25:14-30 and Luke 19:11-27). Online: "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-02-22. Retrieved 2015-04-17.
Jump up ^ Luke Timothy Johnson and Daniel J. Harrington, The Gospel of Luke, Liturgical Press, 1991, ISBN 0-8146-5805-9, p. 292.
Jump up ^ Steve Mason, Josephus and Luke-Acts, (1992), pages 185-229
Jump up ^ Gregory Sterling, historiography and Self-Definition: Josephos, Luke-Acts and Apologetic historiography (1992)
Jump up ^ heinz Schreckenberg, Flavius Josephus and the Lukan Writings (1980), pages 179-209.
Jump up ^ Max Krenkel, Josephus und Lukas (1894)
Jump up ^ Luke Timothy Johnson, Daniel J. Harrington, The Gospel of Luke (1991), endnote 12, page 289
^ Jump up to: a b Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, 17:11
Jump up ^ Luke Timothy Johnson, Daniel J. Harrington, The Gospel of Luke (1991), endnote 14, page 290
Jump up ^ Eusebius, Theophany on Matthew 22
Jump up ^ Ronald Allen Piper (1995). The Gospel Behind the Gospels: Current Studies on Q. BRILL. p. 297. ISBN 90-04-09737-6.
Jump up ^ Ridgeway, William, "Measures and Weights" in Whibley, Leonard (ed). A Companion to Greek Studies, Cambridge University Press, 1905, p. 444.
Jump up ^ At the rate of 6 days of paid work per week, at the rate of 50 weeks per year, 6,000 paid days equal 20 years.
Jump up ^ The median U.S. wage in 2010 was just $26,363 Washington Post by Suzy Khimm 10/20/2011
Jump up ^ Ellicott's Commentary for Modern Readers on Matthew 25, accessed 21 February 2017
Jump up ^ Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges on Matthew 25, accessed 21 February 2017
Jump up ^ Bengel's Gnomon of the New Testament on Matthew 25, accessed 21 February 2017
Jump up ^ Wilkie Au; Noreen Cannon Au (2016). God's Unconditional Love: Healing Our Shame. Paulist Press. ISBN 978-1-58768-570-5.
^ Jump up to: a b David V. Urban, "The Talented Mr. Milton: A Parabolic Laborer and His Identity" in Milton Studies, Volume 43, Albert C. Labriola (ed.), Univ of Pittsburgh Press, 2004, ISBN 0-8229-4216-X, pp. 1-18.
Jump up ^ Lewalski, Barbara. The Life of John Milton: A Critical Biography, Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2003. Ebook. Page 306.
Jump up ^ "When I Consider How My Light Is Spent (On His Blindness)." Shmoop Editorial Team. Shmoop.com. Shmoop University, Inc., 11 Nov. 2008. Web. 5 Aug. 2014.
Jump up ^ Robert Barron (September 22, 2014). "The Deeper Meaning of the Parable of the Talents". Catholic World Report.
Jump up ^ "Lectio Divina: Matthew 25,14-30". The Order of Carmelites. Retrieved November 21, 2017.
Jump up ^ Erasmo Leiva-Merikakis (1996). "The Meaning of the Parable of the Talents". Taken from Fire of Mercy: Heart of the Word: Meditations on the Gospel According to Saint Matthew Vol. 1. Ignatius Press.
^ Jump up to: a b c Joachim Jeremias, The Parables of Jesus, Scribner, 1954.
^ Jump up to: a b William R. Herzog II, Parables as Subversive Speech: Jesus as Pedagogue of the Oppressed, Westminster John Knox Press, 1994, ISBN 0-664-25355-5, pp. 150-168.
Jump up ^ Gerald Holton (December 2004). Robert K. Merton, 4 July 1910—23 February 2003. 148. American Philosophical Society. ISBN 1-4223-7290-1.
Jump up ^ Bertolt Brecht, Threepenny Novel, Penguin Books, 1962, ISBN 0-14-001515-9, p. 365.
Jump up ^ James Thomas Lightwood, Samuel Wesley, Musician: The story of his life, Ayer Publishing, 1972, ISBN 0-405-08748-9, p. 222.
Jump up ^ The Cyber Hymnal: Slave of God, Well Done!
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Present; regular
Profile
Other names
Abby Rachel Carlton Newman[1]
Abby Rayburn
Occupation
Businesswoman
Business Investor
Marketing Executive
Reality television star
Sales promoter
Home
Genoa City, Wisconsin
[show]Family
Family
Newman
Abbott
Father
Victor Newman
Mother
Ashley Abbott
Adoptive father
Brad Carlton
Stepfather
Tucker McCall (2011–12)
Stepmother
Nikki Newman (2002–08, 2013–)
Sabrina Costelana (2008)
Diane Jenkins (2011)
Sharon Newman (2012)
Half-brothers
Nicholas Newman
Adam Newman
Half-sisters
Victoria Newman
Colleen Carlton (adoptive)
Husband
Ben Rayburn (2015–16)
Stepsons
Max Rayburn (2015–16)
Grandfathers
Albert Miller
Brent Davis
Arthur Kaplan (adoptive)
John Abbott (legal)
Grandmothers
Cora Miller
Dina Mergeron
Rebecca Kaplan (adoptive)
Uncles
Matt Miller
Jack Abbott
Billy Abbott (legal)
Aunts
Traci Abbott
Stephanie Kaplan (adoptive)
Nephews
Noah Newman
Reed Hellstrom
Johnny Abbott (adoptive)
Connor Newman
Christian Newman
Nieces
Eve Nicole Howard
Cassie Newman (adoptive)
Summer Newman
Faith Newman
Katie Newman
First cousins
Keemo Volien Abbott
Kyle Abbott
John Abbott III
Colleen Carlton
Johnny Abbott (legal)
Katie Newman (legal)
Abby Newman is a fictional character from the American CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless. The character was introduced on November 13, 2000, as the daughter of Ashley Abbott (Eileen Davidson) and Victor Newman (Eric Braeden). The role was portrayed by Darcy Rose Byrnes as a child until 2008, when the character was rapidly aged to a teenager, with Hayley Erin assuming the role the following year. In 2010, the character was rapidly aged again to an adult, with Marcy Rylan cast as Erin's replacement. Rylan was let go in 2012 due to budgetary cuts, but returned months later in February 2013 on a recurring status following viewer complaints.[2][3][4][5] However, her return was cut short once Rylan vacated the role to join General Hospital as Lulu Spencer.[6] Melissa Ordway was then hired as her recast, who made her debut on April 16, 2013. Rylan compared Abby to her previous role, Lizzie Spaulding on Guiding Light, saying they were both wealthy rich heiresses who cause trouble.[7] Upon Abby's return in 2013, Rylan felt that she had become "more mature".[8]
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1 Casting
2 Development
2.1 Characterization
2.2 Romance
3 Storylines
4 Reception
5 References
6 External links
Casting[edit]
In 2003, Darcy Rose Byrnes began portraying the character on both The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful. Byrnes' run came to an end in June 2008 when Noah Newman was aged to a teenager, and Abby's character was soon to follow. In December 2008, it was announced that Hayley Erin had been cast to portray a teenaged version of the character.[9][10] In March 2010, it was announced that the character had been rapidly aged again to an adult, with Marcy Rylan scheduled to join the cast. Erin made her final appearance on April 14, with Rylan's debut on May 18, 2010.[11] Previously, Rylan was known for her three-year portrayal of Lizzie Spaulding on Guiding Light.[12]
In December 2011, Rylan took a maternity leave and was absent from the soap opera for several weeks.[13] In September 2012, it was announced that Rylan had been let go from The Young and the Restless reportedly due to budgetary cuts,[2][3][4] with her last airdate on October 23, 2012.[14] Within two months of her departure, it was announced that Rylan would be returning due to viewer complaints;[5] her recurring return began on February 11, 2013, however, Rylan was announced to exit again soon after when news broke of her casting in the contract role of Lulu Spencer on ABC's General Hospital, Rylan vacated the role on April 10, 2013. Melissa Ordway was then announced to take over the role, with her debut on April 16, 2013.[15][16][17][18]
Development[edit]
Characterization[edit]
"Now that I’m in the trenches, I don’t feel that way... After hitting the stage, I realized immediately that Abby and Lizzie are very different, especially when it comes to the relationships they share with their family."
—Rylan, TV Guide[7]
Abby was conceived when Ashley Abbott, desperate to have Victor Newman's child to replace the one whom she aborted years prior, stole his sperm from Diane Jenkins, who had obtained the sample illegally from a fertility lab. Ashley then secretly inseminated herself, and Abigail, "Abby" for short, was born on November 13, 2000.[10] Abby believed her father was Brad Carlton, and was consequently given his last name. When Ashley had cancer, she recorded a video message for Abby to see when was older, and revealed Victor was her biological father. Ashley survived her cancer, but Abby saw the video without her mother's knowledge, and ran to Victor. After the truth came out, she changed her name to Abigail Carlton Newman. In 2008, Abby's birth year was revised to 1994 when she was said to be 14 years old in December 2008.[10] With the role being recast in 2010, Abby's birth year is revised to 1988 when she is aged to 21.[7]
Rylan was initially afraid that Abby was very similar to Lizzie Spaulding as they were both wealthy rich heiresses who caused trouble.[7] Rylan embraces typecast and stated that as an actor, it is good to be seen as someone who can play "good, bad, and the in-between."[7] Rylan's Abby first appears in May 2010, promoting herself as an animal rights activist.[19] She garners the nickname, 'The Naked Heiress' when she flashes photographers in the lobby of Jabot Cosmetics.[7]
Rylan states that Abby is a member of both the Newmans and the Abbotts and "Abby is a little more half-and-half."[7] Marcy Rylan believes that Abby is such a rebel because she needs attention to feel like she matters to those around her. Abby's reality-TV star personality leads many to believe that Abby is the next Paris Hilton.[7]
After a short departure, Abby returns to Genoa City in 2013. Rylan felt that she was "more mature" and said, "For the first time, Abby is feeling a little embarrassed about her previous choices [...] She's trying really hard to be a better person...and figure out where she fits if she's not running around naked."[8]
Romance[edit]
In 2010, Abby was romantically linked with Daniel Romalotti.[20] Soon after, she began flirting with Daniel Romalotti when the two begin sharing romantic interactions.[20] Abby had sex with Daniel in the Newman pool house, and she recorded it for her reality show.[20] Abby and Daniel's relationship was outed when Nikki Newman and Daniel's mother, Phyllis Summers, saw Abby and Daniel making out in public.[20] Their relationship continued for a while, but when Abby found out that Daniel fathered a child with Daisy Carter, she broke up with him.[20]
Upon Abby's return, Abby was romantically linked to Marco Dapper's Carmine Basco, when the two begin dating much to him being shunned by the town, but Abby is able to convince some of them that Carmine is a good soul.[21] However the relationship wasn't given closure upon Rylan's exit from the soap opera.[21] Dapper admitted in an interview that the writers "didn't really know what to do with him after Abby left the first time".[21] He also stated that he hoped Carmine would have more of a "darker turn", and that he still believes there is a "left over spark" with Abby as their storyline "was never finished" and "nothing was wrapped up properly".[21]
Shortly after her failed relationship with Carmine, Abby took romantic interest in Detective Ignacio Serricchio's Alex Chavez, and they began dating.[20] However, the relationship was short-lived when the writers soon began developing Abby's relationship with Redaric Williams's Tyler Michaelson.[20] According to Williams, Tyler is "intrigued" by Abby's unpredictable nature and said that their natural attraction could lead to romance.[22][23] However, Williams hinted that Tyler's interest in Abby could be his attempt to "suppress his feelings" for Lily.[23] Abby and Tyler's relationship faced some interference from Tyler's ex-fiancee, Mariah Copeland, but she seemed to back off leading to Tyler proposing to Abby and they became engaged.[20] However, Abby breaks off the engagement when Mariah's interferences causes Abby to believe Tyler is still in love with Mariah.[20]
Storylines[edit]
Abby went with Ashley when she left Genoa City to work for Jabot International in Hong Kong. Ashley later moved to Los Angeles with Abby, and later London, United Kingdom for Ashley's work with Forrester Creations. Ashley traveled to Paris, France in search of Abby's father, Victor. Abby's parents eventually reunited and Brad became jealous when Abby bonded more with her real father Victor. However, Brad fatally drowned in 2009, and his daughter, Colleen Carlton, died by a similar fate several months later in 2009, leaving Abby as the sole beneficiary to the Carlton estate. After the deaths of the Carltons, Abby began to rebel against her parents. She pursued the much older Ryder Callahan, and she unknowingly assisted with one of his schemes with his sister, Daisy Carter. Eventually, they were caught, and Abby decided to avoid the siblings.
Abby protested in front the lobby of Jabot Cosmetics after Tucker McCall became the company owner. Abby did not know that her mother returned to become CEO. Then, Abby planned to start her own reality television show, entitled "The Naked Heiress", but she didn't have the money to fund her dream. After her parents refused to help her, Abby hired Rafe Torres as her lawyer to sue her parents for her inheritance. Soon after, she began flirting with Daniel Romalotti. When Billy and Victoria Newman Abbott refused to help Abby with her reality television dream, she blackmailed Billy in order to be featured in his magazine, Restless Style. She eventually revealed Billy and Victoria's secret Jamaican marriage to their family and friends. Seemingly unstoppable, the judge then denied Abby's plea for her inheritance. Meanwhile, Abby had sex with Daniel in the Newman pool house, and she recorded it for her reality show. Abby and Daniel's relationship was outed when Nikki Newman and Daniel's mother, Phyllis Summers, saw Abby and Daniel making out in public. Their relationship continued for a while, but when Abby found out that Daniel fathered a child with Daisy Carter, she broke up with him. After she witnessed her mother kissing Tucker McCall, she asked him to go into business with her. When Tucker turned her down, Abby decided to take a bubble bath in Katherine Chancellor's pool at the annual Chancellor Fourth of July party. Abby's inheritance was then withheld indefinitely. To spite her parents, Abby rode a horse, while naked, inside the Genoa City Athletic Club while Victor and Nikki were celebrating their engagement. She was arrested and thrown in jail. Upon her release, Abby decided to reopen her lawsuit against Victor, with the help of her uncle Jack Abbott. Later, Abby's half-siblings Victoria and Nicholas Newman joined her in her lawsuit. Victor tried to bargain with his children, but they wanted his cosmetics line, Beauty of Nature. He refused their offer, and with the help of testimonies from their estranged half-brother Adam Newman and Neil Winters, they each received $500 million in the settlement.
When a powerful storm hit Genoa City, Abby searched for her mother, and she found Tucker with Diane Jenkins. When Tucker proposed to Ashley in 2010, Abby was disgusted with her stepfather-to-be. Meanwhile, Abby now had the funds to produce The Naked Heiress, and she made her debut by stripping at Gloworm. She was then arrested and thrown in jail for indecent exposure. Abby invited her mother on a girls' night out in an attempt to repair their relationship. In reality, she lured her mother to a cabin where she had manipulated Tucker into meeting Diane. On the way, Abby accidentally crashed into Tucker, leaving him severely injured. Ashley switched places with Abby, and she was jailed for her "reckless driving". Abby soon remembered that she was the driver, but her parents sent her to rehab to prevent her from confessing the truth. Before she left, she made a confessional tape with the truth about the accident, and the tape fell into the hands of Diane Jenkins and Deacon Sharpe. Abby returned from rehab after only a few days, and Tucker woke up from his coma soon after. He married Ashley from his hospital bed the next day. He, too, remembered that Abby hit him, not Ashley. Abby decided to come clean to Tucker, and he forgave her. They decided to keep the truth between the two of them. With Diane threatening to reveal her confession tape to the public, she met her in the town park. The next day, Abby woke up with dirt on her clothes to hear the news that Diane's body was found in the park. Abby remembered wrestling with Diane for a key to a safe where her confession tape was located. Detective Ronan Malloy revealed that a key was found in Diane's throat. Ashley also met with Diane on the night of the murder, and she learned that Tucker did actually have an affair with Diane. Ashley apologized to Abby for not believing her. Detective Malloy eventually found a flash drive with Abby's confession hidden in a piece of evidence. The police arrested Abby for hitting Tucker with her car, but Tucker saved her when he told the police that Abby was not the driver. After Ashley and Tucker's official wedding ceremony in 2011, Abby went on vacation to Los Angeles, California for the holidays.
She is now working at Newman alongside her sister Victoria and father Victor and just married Ben Rayburn on December 31, 2015, but is having dealts.
Married life seemed to be agreeing with Abby. It looked as if Ben and Abby had the perfect life laid out for them. That is until Stitch's (Ben Rayburn's) son Max was orphaned after his mom (Ben's ex) was suddenly killed in a fatal car accident the day of his and Abby's wedding. Stitch's son and mother were en route to the wedding so Max could be a part of his father's wedding. But misfortune took and Ben's son ended up at the Genoa City Police Department with the department's police chief and lead detective, Paul Williams. Following the wedding, Ben is phoned by Paul from the station of an emergency and he and Abby rush to join Max and Paul there.
Reception[edit]
Tommy Garrett of the website Highlight Hollywood slammed executive producer Jill Farren Phelps for her initial firing of Rylan, who he described as "the best thing on Y&R in decades". Garrett was unfavorable of Ordway's performance, calling her "Melissa Ordinary" and stating that she is "as exciting to watch, as being stuck in traffic on the L.A. Freeway".[24] Soap Opera Digest wrote that letting Rylan "slip away" to join General Hospital was "puzzling".[25] Soaps In Depth was also critical of the soap opera's decision to let Rylan leave for General Hospital, writing: "Turns out if you snooze, you really do lose. Anyone requiring proof that The Young and the Restless corrected a recent blunder by bringing Emme Rylan back as Abby... and then allowed her to be stolen away by General Hospital, where she'll take over the role of Lulu. Adding insult to injury? Just how much Rylan's return reminded us of how much we loved her as Abby!" They also wrote that they would "never understand how Y&R was foolish enough to let Rylan slip through their fingers not once but twice".[26] The magazine praised the character's change in maturity, describing her as the "new, improved Abby". They wrote:[26]
“ Almost immediately, it became clear that this was a different Abby than the one who'd left Genoa City a few months earlier. While she still had a way with a quip, her remarks were less pointed and more loving. Gone were the antics of the Naked Heiress and in their place was a young woman determined to take full advantage of her position as the rare Newman/Abbott hybrid. Despite Abby's newfound maturity, Rylan had plenty of opportunity to let her alter ego's mischievous side to play... especially where her former beau Carmine was concerned. ”
References[edit]
Jump up ^ Abby proclaims that her name is just "Abby" when someone referred to her as "Abigail". May 30, 2017.
^ Jump up to: a b "Y&R's Marcy Rylan Next To Go". Soap Opera Digest. September 13, 2012. Retrieved September 14, 2012.
^ Jump up to: a b Kroll, Dan J. (September 13, 2012). "Marcy Rylan is Y&R's latest cut". SoapCentral. Retrieved September 14, 2012.
^ Jump up to: a b Bowe, Jillian (September 13, 2012). "Y&R Star Fired". Daytime Confidential. Archived from the original on September 15, 2012. Retrieved September 14, 2012.
^ Jump up to: a b "EXCLUSIVE: Marcy Rylan Back To Y&R!". Soap Opera Digest. American Media Publishing. December 7, 2012. Retrieved December 7, 2012.
Jump up ^ "GL, Y&R vet Emme Rylan is GH's new Lulu". Soap Central. March 6, 2013. Retrieved March 6, 2013.
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h Nelson Branco (June 16, 2010). "Interview with 'Y&R's Marcy Rylan". TV Guide Canada. Retrieved April 14, 2012.
^ Jump up to: a b Giddens, Jamey (February 4, 2013). "Marcy Rylan on Abby's Young and Restless Return: "She's Trying Really Hard to Be a Better Person". Zap2it. Tribune Media Services. Retrieved February 7, 2013.
Jump up ^ Bowe, Jillian (December 13, 2008). "Heeeeeere's Abby?". Zap2it. Tribune Media Services. Archived from the original on November 5, 2013. Retrieved August 13, 2013.
^ Jump up to: a b c "Who's Who in Genoa City: Abby Newman". Soap Central. Retrieved April 14, 2012.
Jump up ^ Jillian Bowe (March 6, 2010). "BREAKING NEWS: Marcy Rylan IN at The Young and the Restless!". Zap2it. Tribune Media Services. Archived from the original on April 2, 2012. Retrieved April 14, 2012.
Jump up ^ "Marcy Rylan Bio". Soap Opera Digest. Retrieved April 14, 2012.
Jump up ^ "Y&R Star Returns". Soap Opera Digest. Retrieved January 9, 2012.
Jump up ^ "No More Naked Heiress!". CBS Soaps In Depth. October 22, 2012. p. 11.
Jump up ^ Giddens, Jamey (March 6, 2013). "EXCLUSIVE: Hollywood Heights Beauty Melissa Ordway is New Abby on The Young and the Restless!". Daytime Confidential. Zap2it. Archived from the original on March 10, 2013. Retrieved March 6, 2013.
Jump up ^ "Rylan Leaves Y&R For GH!". Soap Opera Digest. American Media, Inc. March 6, 2013. Retrieved March 6, 2013.
Jump up ^ Masters, Megan (March 6, 2013). "TVLine Items: GH's New Lulu Is Y&R Fave, Voice Champ's Series, Supernatural Shakes and More". TVLine. Retrieved March 9, 2013.
Jump up ^ Kroll, Dan J. (March 6, 2013). "GL, Y&R vet Emme Rylan is GH's new Lulu". SoapCentral. Retrieved March 9, 2013.
Jump up ^ Luke Kerr (May 18, 2010). "First Impressions: Marcy Rylan as Y&R's Abby Newman". Daytime Confidential. Retrieved April 14, 2012.
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i "The Young and the Restless CAST - Abby Newman". SheKnows Entertainment. Retrieved August 29, 2014.
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Jump up ^ "Ins&Outs (CBS): A Lady For Tyler?". Soaps In Depth. Bauer Media Group: 11. May 6, 2013.
^ Jump up to: a b "Is Abby The Gal For Tyler?". News (CBS). Soaps In Depth. Bauer Media Group: 7. July 1, 2013.
Jump up ^ Garrett, Tommy (July 29, 2013). "On Jill Farren Phelps, Highlight Hollywood Readers Ask, Why Does She Hate Women So Much? Jealousy Perhaps?". Highlight Hollywood. Retrieved August 2, 2013.
Jump up ^ "Thumbs up! and down!". Soap Opera Digest. American Media, Inc. June 3, 2013. p. 36.
^ Jump up to: a b "Gold Star". Soaps In Depth. Bauer Media Group. April 8, 2013. p. 90.
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Abigail "Abby" Carlton Newman's profile on SoapCentral
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Joey Potter
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Joey Potter
Dawson's Creek character
Katie Holmes as Josephine Potter
First appearance
"Pilot"
(episode 1.01)
Last appearance
"...Must Come to an End"
(episode 6.24)
Created by
Kevin Williamson
Portrayed by
Katie Holmes
Information
Full name
Josephine Lillian Potter
Nickname(s)
Joey (by everyone)
Jo, Potter
Occupation
Junior editor and writer
High school student
(at Capeside High; graduated)
Waitress (at the Yacht Club)
Waitress (at the Ice house)
College student
(at Worthington; graduated)
Family
Mike Potter (father)
Lillian Potter (mother; deceased)
Bessie Potter
(sister)
Significant other(s)
Pacey Witter

Dawson Leery
(ex-boyfriend)
Christopher (ex-boyfriend)
Eddie Doling (ex-boyfriend)
Charlie Todd (fling)
Jack McPhee (ex-boyfriend)
A.J. Moller (ex-boyfriend)
Drue Valentine (kiss)
Professor Wilder (kiss)
Relatives
Bodie Wells (brother-in-law)
Alexander Wells
(nephew, via Bessie)
Hometown
Capeside, Massachusetts
Residence
New York City, New York
Formerly:
Boston, Massachusetts
Josephine Lillian "Joey" Potter[1] (born September, 1983)[1] is a fictional character and de facto lead role from the WB television drama Dawson's Creek, portrayed by Katie Holmes. Joey appeared in all episodes of the series, which ran from 1998–2003.
Contents
[hide]
1 Fictional biography
1.1 Background
1.2 Season 1
1.3 Season 2
1.4 Season 3
1.5 Season 4
1.6 Season 5
1.7 Season 6
1.7.1 Series finale
2 Notable relationships
3 Holmes' thoughts on Joey Potter
4 Reception
5 Notes
6 References
Fictional biography[edit]
Background[edit]
Joey has been friends with Dawson Leery since they were very young. She lives with her older sister, Bessie, Bessie's son Alexander and (sometimes) boyfriend, Bodie. Her father Mike, is in and out of prison for drug trafficking. Her mother, Lillian, died of breast cancer when Joey was thirteen. Joey is also the only character to appear in every episode of the series.
Season 1[edit]
In season one, Joey is the "girl next door." She is confused by her growth into a teenager and her developing feelings for her longtime best friend Dawson, who she also admitted is her soulmate. She immediately becomes jealous when Jen Lindley arrives and steals Dawson away from her. She is intimidated by Jen, who grew up in New York and does not know how to compete. She lives with her pregnant sister Bessie, and she works for her at the Ice House, the Potter family restaurant. She is frustrated with having to deal with work and taking care of her sister along with significant helpings of teenage angst. Nonetheless, Joey manages to be helpful with the birth of Bessie's son, Alexander, as does their critical neighbor, Evelyn Ryan. One day she is convinced to compete in the beauty pageant, which she does so that she can win the cash prize. But instead of winning the contest, she wins Dawson's heart, as he finally sees past his best friend image, and realizes that he has strong romantic feelings towards her. At the end of the season, she finds herself with the opportunity of going to Paris for a year, but rejects it in favor of staying in Capeside with Dawson after she and Dawson kiss.
Season 2[edit]
At the start of the season, she and Dawson are a couple and things start out well, but Joey begins to think that she is losing her identity, as she can't see where Dawson ends and she begins. During a full moon, the new guy in town, Jack McPhee, kisses her. Dawson finds out during a school dance. After a huge argument, Joey decides to break up with him, even though for the first time they both say that they love each other. She says that she wants to "find herself," and so she breaks up with him.
Joey and Jack begin dating afterward but the relationship ends just as quickly when Jack realizes that he's gay. Joey's father is released from prison and comes back into her life. At first this change is uneasy, but they heal the rift between them and she gets back together with Dawson. However, Dawson finds out that Joey's father is dealing cocaine. After a fire at the restaurant which was started by rivals of Joey's father, Dawson tells his parents who advise him he needs to go to the police. He tells Joey instead. He convinces her to wear a wire, and get a confession from her father so that nothing like the fire will happen again. She gets the confession from her father and shows him the wire. Knowing that she had betrayed her father, she is understandably heartbroken and angry with Dawson. She breaks up with him and tells him she doesn't even want to know him and that she will never forgive him.
Season 3[edit]
After Dawson returns from visiting his mom over the summer, Joey offers herself to him but Dawson rejects her. Joey flees and Dawson asks Pacey Witter to keep an eye on her. As the season progresses, it becomes obvious that Pacey and Joey's friendship evolves into something deeper. Joey has a brief relationship with a college student, A.J. Moller (Robin Dunne). This relationship makes Pacey jealous and forces him to confront his true feelings for Joey. After months of build up, Pacey finally kisses Joey after she confides in him that he and Dawson are the only ones to "have ever known her in a way that no one else does." Joey initially is angry when Pacey kisses her; however, later she comes to realize that she may also have feelings for him, as well.
Joey took a job at a Logan's Marina, where she received unwanted sexual advances from her supervisor, Rob Logan.
During a trip to the home of Dawson's aunt, Gwen (Gail's sister), Joey and Pacey confront their feelings for one another. Joey confesses that being around Pacey makes her feel more alive resulting in Pacey kissing her again. Pacey tells Joey she needs to figure out what she wants and leaves. Joey stops him and pulls Pacey into a kiss, having made her choice, but Dawson's aunt Gwen sees this happen. After this realization, they begin a secret romantic relationship.
When Dawson finds out about Joey and Pacey's relationship, he is furious, and the friendship between the three is never the same again. Dawson gives Joey an ultimatum- him or Pacey. Joey stupidly pulls back from Pacey in an effort to mend his and her friendship with Dawson. Dawson, however, sees Pacey as his enemy and opponent in winning Joey's heart. Dawson tries his best to win Joey back, including throwing an alternative prom with Joey as his date. However, Dawson witnesses Joey and Pacey share a romantic dance before the night is over.
In the season finale, Joey comes to realize that while she's just fearful of losing her oldest friend, Dawson, she has fallen in love with Pacey. With Dawson's urging, Joey rushes off to tell Pacey that she loves him before he departs for a summer at sea on his boat. She joins Pacey on his boat and the two then sail off into the sunset.
Season 4[edit]
Joey and Pacey return to Capeside from their summer at sea in the fourth season, and are quickly brought back to reality when they must confront the events of the past year and the subsequent fallout. Joey is eager to mend fences, though Dawson is still hurt by what happened. Pacey's relationship with Dawson never quite recovers until the end of the series, though the two are civil and acknowledge a shared history and group of friends.
Joey and Dawson get chosen as class couple as a practical joke by Drue Valentine. Also, Pacey has returned to academic probation while Joey dreams of admittance to the prestigious Worthington College in Boston. On a ski trip with the senior class, Pacey and Joey finally sleep together for the first time. However, when Dawson questions her, she lies about losing her virginity. Pacey finds out about the lie and is unsettled. He is further disturbed when Joey accepts money from Dawson to attend Worthington.
After Joey returns from New York with Jen, she discovers from Gretchen that Pacey was arrested for public drunkness and that she also believes she may be pregnant. Bessie soon finds out that Joey believes she may be pregnant at Gail's baby shower, and Bessie argues with her about not being ready to have a baby, and having an immature boyfriend who would never cope with a child. Joey later defends herself by saying that whatever happens in her life will be different. Joey later does a test and finds out she is not pregnant, but the situation draws the sisters close together. When Joey finally reaches Pacey on the phone, she lies about the pregnancy scare and is disappointed that Pacey didn't tell her about his arrest.
Pacey soon begins to feel insecure about Joey's success and their relationship despite her insistence that her future lies with him, believes that he isn't good enough for her, and that their futures are worlds apart. At their senior prom, Pacey breaks up with Joey, who is devastated. The season ends with Joey headed to Worthington and Pacey to another summer at sea.
At the end of the season, as Dawson is preparing to leave Capeside for Los Angeles, in a scene reminiscent of Season One's ending, Dawson and Joey share a kiss.
Season 5[edit]
In season five, Joey attends Worthington University in Boston, where she meets and befriends her roommate Audrey Liddell. Joey is studying English Literature, and for a time starts seeing her college professor, David Wilder.
Throwing everyone for a loop, Mitch is killed in a car accident leaving Gail, Dawson and baby Lily behind. Having been a witness to her mother's painful last days, Joey thinks that she can help Dawson through the process of grieving for his father. She attends Mitch's funeral, but is rejected when she tries to help Dawson deal with his whirl of emotions. Upon returning to her dorm room in Boston, a crying Joey is comforted by Audrey. While Jen convinces Dawson to go to counseling, Joey catches Jack in a 'bid' to get one of his frat brothers in bed with Audrey during the fraternity's Winter Formal.
Joey later joins the band, Aggressive Mediocrity, as lead singer with Jen's cheating ex, Charlie Todd (Chad Michael Murray). They embark on a whirlwind romance before she tells him to leave to pursue his dream of being a touring musician. She has an unforgettable run-in with a mugger, who luckily for her, gets hit by a car shortly after robbing her at gunpoint. However, when she is requested to be at his side in the hospital, Joey discovers that the mugger is also a drug addict, and has a young daughter, Sammie, with his wife, Grace. When the mugger dies with Joey at his side, she returns to the waiting room, all of her belongings returned, including the money. Thinking of Sammie, whose situation reminds her of the relationship she has with her own father, Joey leaves all the money hidden in Grace's backpack.
At the end of the season she returns to Capeside, and Dawson confesses to her that he wants to be with her. She rejects him saying that all those feelings were in the past, but in the last episode she rushes to the airport, to declare her true feelings for Dawson. She catches him, and they kiss. Joey tells Dawson to go to Los Angeles as that is his destiny, and that they'll meet up after the summer. As she goes to get a refund, she is offered the chance to go to Paris, and the audience is left hanging.
Season 6[edit]
In the beginning of the sixth season, it is revealed that Joey didn't end up going to Paris, but went home to Capeside. After not talking all summer, she and Dawson meet up and have a one-night stand in her dorm room. The next day it is revealed that Dawson has a girlfriend in California. Joey breaks things off with him. She takes a job as a waitress at Hell's Kitchen, with the help of aspiring drummer, Emma Jones. Joey eventually falls for the bartender, Eddie Doling (Oliver Hudson). They both have a love for writing and literature, but it turns out that he is not officially a student at Worthington, as his family was too poor to afford the tuition.
After Christmas, Eddie disappears without telling Joey, going back to Worcester to live with his parents. In trying to find him, Joey gets some help from Harley Hetson—the 15-year-old, alienated, headstrong daughter of her snobbish and somewhat misogynist English professor, Greg Hetson (Roger Howarth), whom Joey clashes with several times during the entire season. Harley lies, telling Eddie that Joey was pregnant with his child in order to lure him back to Boston.
Joey and Pacey begin to rekindle their romance after sharing a kiss at his apartment. After being locked overnight in a K-Mart together, they discuss their past and current relationship. Each admits that they miss the other. They briefly reunite, but when Eddie reappears in Joey's life, she breaks it off with Pacey (ironically Pacey and Joey break up at another high school dance resembling the prom).
After Pacey and Dawson have another falling out after Pacey's stocks tank and Dawson loses his entire investment, Joey decides that it's time they worked things out for themselves without her in the middle because it "is not her fight" and that it never has been, and never will be. After a heart to heart with Pacey on the dock, Joey brings everyone together to help Dawson make his movie. Joey finally goes to Paris and the final episode of the season ends with her standing before the famous Eiffel Tower.
Series finale[edit]
The final two episodes are set approximately five years after the season finale. Joey is a junior editor living in New York with her writer boyfriend, Christopher (Jeremy Sisto). During this double episode, the five friends return to Capeside for Gail Leery's third wedding (but second husband). Although she had originally planned to spend the weekend with Christopher, Joey runs scared after finding an engagement ring hidden in the couple's dresser while she is packing for the trip.
The five friends reunite at Pacey's restaurant to reminisce about the past. Afterwards, Joey drops by Dawson's house, and the two reestablish their friendship. During Gail's wedding reception, Joey and Pacey kiss (reigniting lingering feelings between the two), but the moment is interrupted when Jen collapses. It is later discovered that Jen has a deadly heart condition.
At the same time, Joey ends her relationship with Christopher and chooses between Dawson and Pacey. Though she loves Dawson, she acknowledges that he is her soulmate who is tied to her childhood, a love that is pure and eternally innocent. She also cannot deny she is still in love with Pacey. After Jen's death, she decides to stop running and confront her feelings for Pacey.
In the midst of their romantic entanglements, Joey, Dawson, Jack, and Pacey are brought together at the Ice House, now owned by Pacey, to say goodbye to Jen, who dies from pulmonary congestion.
In the epilogue, Joey and Pacey watch Dawson's semi-autobiographical television series The Creek in their apartment before calling up Dawson together, where they discover he is going to meet his hero, Steven Spielberg. They have renewed their romantic relationship, and the series ends with them as a couple living together in New York.
Notable relationships[edit]
Anderson Crawford
Fling
Beginning: "Kiss" (1.03)
Broke Up: "Kiss" (1.03)
Reason: They didn't continue because she lied about who she was.
Dawson Leery
Kiss
"Detention" (1.07)
Reason: They were dared to kiss each other despite him being with Jen.
Boyfriend
First Relationship:
Beginning: "Decisions" (1.13)
End: "The Dance" (2.06)
Reason: After Jack kisses her, she gets confused about who she really is and what she wants.
Second Relationship:
Beginning: "A Perfect Wedding" (2.18)
End: "Parental Discretion Advised" (2.22)
Reason: Dawson convinced her to get her father to confess to burning down the ice house and his drug use while she wore a wire.
Third Relationship
Beginning: Coda" (4.23)
End: "High Anxiety" (5.06)
Reason: Dawson shuts Joey out when his dad dies and eventually tells her it made him lose all interest in getting back with her.
Fourth Relationship:
Beginning: "The Kids Are Alright" (6.01)
End: "The Song Remains The Same" (6.02)
Reason: After they sleep together, she finds out he had a girlfriend.
Jack McPhee
Kiss
"Full Moon Rising" (2.05)
Reason: She was still with Dawson.
Boyfriend
Beginning: "The Reluctant Hero" (2.08)
Broke Up: "...That Is The Question" (2.15)
Reason: He finds out after writing a poem that he's gay
A.J. Moller
Boyfriend
Beginning: "Northern Lights" (3.13)
Broke Up: "Cinderella Story" (3.17)
Reason: Didn't continue to be a couple because she finds out his best friend loves him and he loves her but doesn't know it yet.
Pacey Witter
Kissed
"Double Date" (1.10)
Reason: She didn't feel the same way and he knew that she liked Dawson and Dawson liked her even though he was still hung up on Jen.
Kissed
"Cinderella Story" (3.17)
"Neverland" (3.18)
Reason: She didn't fully realize that she liked him yet.
Boyfriend
First Relationship:
Beginning: "Stolen Kisses" (3.19)
End: "The Longest Day" (3.20)
Reason: She feels guilty when Dawson finds out about their relationship and ends things with him
Second Relationship:
Beginning: "True Love" (3.23)
End: "Promicide" (4.20)
Reason: They realize that they are different and it seemed like she had a bright future ahead of her while he felt like he was being left behind.
Third Relationship:
Beginning: Castaways" (6.15)
End: "Love Bites" (6.18)
Reason: Eddie comes back.
Fourth Relationship:
Beginning: ...Must Come To An End" (6.24)
Note: Jen tells Joey her final wish is for Joey to choose between Dawson and Pacey. She chooses Pacey.
Drue Valentine
Kissed
Beginning: "The Tao of Dawson" (4.11)
End: "The Tao of Dawson" (4.11)
note: they got locked in a storage locker together, he caught her when she fell and kissed her. She pushed him away immediately, and punched him. She was in a relationship with Pacey.
Charlie Todd
Kissed
Beginning: "Something wild" (5.11)
Broke Up: "Something wild" (5.11)
Reason: Because he cheated on Jen.
Fling
Beginning: "100 Light Years From Home" (5.19)
Broke Up: "Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)" (5.20)
Reason: She tells him to go off and fulfill his dream of being a musician
Elliot
Almost Fling but never kissed
Beginning: "Sleeping Arrangements" (5.12)
Broke Up: "Guerrilla Filmmaking" (5.14)
Reason: She met him when she wasn't over Dawson. Then she thought he slept with Audrey, and after finding out he never slept with her, she gives him another second chance. But she later bails on a date with him (by claiming she was sick) to go to a thing with Wilder who she later kissed and the next day tells him she can't go out with him off-screen.
Professor David Wilder
Kissed/Almost Fling
Beginning: "Something Wilder" (5.13)
Broke Up: "In A Lonely Place" (5.16)
Reason: Joey inadvertently stands David up after getting mugged. This gives him the time to reflect upon the relationship and he realizes that he can't have an affair with a student.
Eddie Doling
First Kiss:
"Instant Karma!" (6.04)
Eddie thinks she only kissed him to get back at Dawson; so it doesn't lead to anything until later episodes.
Boyfriend
First Relationship:
Beginning: "Ego Tripping At The Gates Of Hell" (6.07)
Broke Up: "Rock Bottom" (6.13)
Reason: He left without telling her
Second Relationship:
Beginning: "Love Bites" (6.18)
Broke Up: "Catch-22" (6.20)
Reason: They didn't see a future with each other
Christopher
Boyfriend
Beginning: About a year or two before "All Good Things..." (6.23)
End: "...Must Come To An End" (6.24)
Reason: Joey breaks up with him over the phone after having found a ring in his drawer back in New York.
Holmes' thoughts on Joey Potter[edit]
"I'm a lot like Joey," said Holmes. "I think they saw that. I come from a small town. I was a tomboy. Joey tries to be articulate and deny that she doesn't have a lot of experience in life. Her life parallels mine, which is all about new everything—relationships, personal perceptions—and about being guarded." Holmes filmed the pilot of Dawson's Creek in Wilmington, North Carolina, during spring break of her senior year of high school in 1997.[2] When the show was picked up by The WB, Holmes moved to Wilmington, where the show filmed.[citation needed]
Dawson's Creek ran from 1998 to 2003, and Holmes was the only actor to appear in all 128 episodes. "It was very difficult for me to leave Wilmington, to have my little glass bubble burst and move on. I hate change. On the other hand it was refreshing to play someone else," she said in 2004.[3] Holmes confirmed that, as often happens on soaps, the character was a caricature of the actor:
“ I miss her spirit, and her spunk, and I miss her anxiety. She always had these long speeches about her fears and her future and love. It was a great tool for me personally because I got to get it all out. I was able to psychoanalyze all of it everyday [sic?] with her and then I wouldn't have to do it on my own. So much of me is in Joey and it really felt like I grew up on television.[4] ”
Reception[edit]
Katie Holmes received high acclaim during second season and has since been referred to as the series' central character by the media.
"Joey Potter is a headstrong, vibrant, wily, sultry, and determined go-getter. And yet, in a gloriously contradictory manner, in spite of her tough-as-nails exterior demeanor, Joey's also a frail, sometimes uncertain, emotionally sensitive, in-need-of-love person", said the show's official book.[5] Joey, named for Jo in Little Women, for years had been climbing in Dawson's bedroom window and platonically sharing his bed. Joey's mother had died from cancer when Joey was thirteen and her father, Mike (Gareth Williams), was in prison for "conspiracy to traffic in marijuana in excess of 10,000 pounds." Her harried, unmarried, and very pregnant sister, Bessie (Nina Repeta), about ten years older than Joey,[n 1] was raising her while running the Ice House restaurant, where Joey worked as a waitress. GQ described Joey as "kind of an uptight fussbudget—one who's always twisted up over doing the right thing and bungling-up ways to hook up with her crush and across the creek neighbor, Dawson."[6]
The 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) tall[6][7] brunette enchanted the press, writers of both sexes commenting how Holmes was the sort of girl one wants to bring home to meet the parents and to marry.[8][6] "The Audrey Hepburn of her generation", was one typical comment.[9] Time called her "impossibly lovely" and Entertainment Weekly said she was "next up for idolhood."[10][11] Variety, reviewing the pilot, said Holmes "is a confident young performer who delivers her lines with slyness and conviction."[12] Holmes made such an impression in Hollywood, The New York Times Magazine claimed everyone was seeking to cast a "Katie Holmes type", who, the reporter claimed, "is a throwback to the 1950s: she is a smart girl next door (as opposed to the babe-o-rama blondes)"—the sort represented by her Dawson's Creek co-star Michelle Williams.[13] But her "type" was no less attractive, Arena magazine declaring her "the most coquettishly sexy woman on television. Anywhere."[14]
Holmes was soon on the covers of magazines such as Seventeen, TV Guide, and Rolling Stone. Jancee Dunn, an editor at Rolling Stone said she was chosen for the cover because "every time you mention Dawson's Creek you tend to get a lot of dolphin-like shrieks from teenage girls. The fact that she is drop-dead gorgeous didn't hurt either."[15]
Reviews were mixed. The Blade said the characters "just talk like they came from a planet ruled by Manhattan psychologists, one where small talk is punishable by death."[16] Holmes herself needed help with the dialogue. "Sometimes before we read a script, I have to get my dictionary and call people to make sure I'm pronouncing some of the words correctly."[17] The show brought her national attention and many fans back home; Toledo's Thanksgiving Day parade in November 1998 had record attendance when Holmes was named grand marshal.[18][19]
"As Joey", said Life magazine, "Holmes has had seismic influences on teen life... Through it all, Joey has managed to hang on to her integrity... The show—and Katie's character in particular—has touched a nerve."[20]
Her relationship with Pacey was included in TV Guide's list of "The Best TV Couples of All Time".[21] Flavorwire chose the show's other central pairing, Joey and Dawson, in its list of "TV's Best '90s Teen Power Couples".[22]
Notes[edit]
Jump up ^ Dawson's Creek, Season 2, confirmed Bessie was in high school when Joey was in kindergarten
References[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b Season 6, Episode 1"The Kids Are Alright" and Episode 2 "The Song remains the Same"
Jump up ^ Cohen.[not in citation given]
Jump up ^ Nancy Mills. "A 'First' for Katie: President's daughter is Holmes, grown." Archived June 29, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. New York Daily News. September 23, 2004. 45.
Jump up ^ Graber. "Holmes Sweet Holmes."
Jump up ^ Darren Crosdale. Dawson's Creek: The Official Companion. Kansas City, Missouri: Andrews McMeel, 1999. ISBN 0-7407-0725-6. 77–78.
^ Jump up to: a b c Adam Rapoport. "Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon." 200 times GQ. April 2002. 141+.
Jump up ^ Leslie Graber. "Holmes Sweet Holmes" Cosmopolitan. v. 237, n. 4. October 2004. 58+.
Jump up ^ Judith Newman. "The Last Girl Scout." Allure. v. 13, n. 6. June 2003. 182–189.
Jump up ^ Jay Mathews. "Dawson's Peek: Teen TV Fans Hit Wilmington, N.C." The Washington Post. July 4, 1999. E1.
Jump up ^ Michael Krantz. "The bard of Gen-Y." Time. December 15, 1997. 105
Jump up ^ Chris Nashawaty. "Teen Steam". Entertainment Weekly. Issue 405. November 14, 1997. 24.
Jump up ^ Ray Richmond. Review of Dawson's Creek. Variety. January 19, 1998. 71.
Jump up ^ Lynn Hirschberg. "Desperate to Seem 16." The New York Times Magazine. September 5, 1999. 42+.
Jump up ^ Richard Galpin. "Special K." Arena. Issue 127. October 2002. 170–176.
Jump up ^ Christopher Borrelli. "Toledoan Captures Coveted Cover of the Rolling Stone." The Blade. August 27, 1998. Living, 31.
Jump up ^ Christopher Borrelli. "'Dawson's Creek' Runs Too Smoothly: Characters Have Typical Woes But Adult Vocabularies." The Blade. January 18, 1998. TV Week section.
Jump up ^ Christopher Borrelli. "Katie Holmes for the Holiday: She Left Toledo With a Big Dream and Returns a Big Star." The Blade. November 22, 1998. G1
Jump up ^ Vanessa Winans. "TV Star Home for Holiday Event: Record Crowd Steps Up for Parade." The Blade. November 29, 1998. A1
Jump up ^ Vanessa Winans and David Patch. "Biggest Hit of the Day? Katie Holmes (And Her Mom)." The Blade. November 29, 1998. A11.
Jump up ^ Marilyn Johnson and Andrew Southam. "Nice Girls Finish First: So what does it mean that a very nice girl playing a very thoughtful girl has become TV's teen idol? Consider it a good sign." Life. March 1999.
Jump up ^ "Couples Pictures, Dawson's Creek Photos – Photo Gallery: The Best TV Couples of All Time". TV Guide. Retrieved June 20, 2012.
Jump up ^ Lewis, Jennifer (January 3, 2012). "TV's Best '90s Teen Power Couples". Flavorwire. Retrieved January 26, 2013.
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