By the time the 6th season of this show came it was clear that the show was in its death bed with boring storylines, terrible new characters and sinking ratings.
They had to make a move to bring back viewers and they knew that people wanted Pacey and Joey to have a romance again, so they came up with an episode to force this down our throats in the most cliché-driven forced and fake way possible.
By the way, they should have named this show Pacey's Creek instead of Dawson's Creek since 5 out of 6 episodes are about Pacey.
They had to make a move to bring back viewers and they knew that people wanted Pacey and Joey to have a romance again, so they came up with an episode to force this down our throats in the most cliché-driven forced and fake way possible.
By the way, they should have named this show Pacey's Creek instead of Dawson's Creek since 5 out of 6 episodes are about Pacey.