For many of us, “Dawson’s Creek” was a major component of our early emotional development.

But Jackson, for one, thinks it’d be a bad idea to go back there.

Jackson continued, “Nobody needs to know what those characters are doing in middle age.

Kerr Smith smiling big in 2002

We left them in a nice place.

Nobody needs to see that Pacey’s back hurts.

I don’t think we need that update.”

Kerr Smith smiling at an event

“We kind of ended it.

The last episode was five years in the future.

We put a nice button to it,” Williamson reasoned (viaE!

Kerr Smith smiling on the red carpet

In fact, when Jack came out during a special two-parter episode, it was headline news.

“We were the first ones to do that,” Kerr confirmed withToo Fab.

There’s always a gay storyline, a lesbian storyline or whatever."

“Every character in ‘Dawson’s Creek’ is an extension of Kevin Williamson,” Smith explained.

Moreover, “Doing the first male-male kiss, I remember it was intense.

I’m glad we did it and it was part of history.”

People that were going through the same situation."

“This job for me has been full circle.

From my days in ‘Dawson’s Creek’ I mean, the high school’s the same.

The characters are, of course, different but the walls are the same,” he shared.

“I’m walking around Riverdale High, but in my mind, it feels like Capeside!”