Former "Dawson's Creek" show runner Tom Kapinos spoke last night at a Los Angeles Times Emmy screening panel about "Californication," which he's currently involved with, and had some less than flattering things to say about his former series and its stars.

"The experience was miserable," he continued about Dawson's. "But it was a four-year boot camp. It was like going to TV grad school and learning how to run a television show. Anybody on that show who could make a decision was allowed to run it at some point. I inherited the very awkward college years, and I almost ran the show into the ground. But I learned everything that I needed to know about how to run a show."

When the panel moderator asked, "What was it specifically that made it such a challenge?" Tom dropped this bomb: "It was the four monstrous actors at the core of it." (Source)

OK, so maybe he didn't technically name Katie Holmes by name, but I think we all know who he's really talking about. I mean, everyone loves Michelle Williams and everyone already knows Dawson sucks and who was that other guy, even. I think he might be dead. So to cut through the so-called "business jargon," I think the rough translation of what he was saying goes something like: "Katie Holmes is a shitty actress, thoroughly unpleasant in every regard, and oh yeah, she also smells. The end."

More of monstrous Kate acting all important or some shit at the PBS National Memorial Day Concert: