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Irrational Pet Peeve of the Day:
Every time I see someone asking a stupid question on Twitter, my gut reaction is to link them to let me Google that for you. Sometimes I even wanna do it to myself.
Unimportant Pet Peeve of the Day:I *can't stand it* when people are vague about downloading crap online. You know, when someone writes stuff like "I' ( Read more... )
Every time I see someone asking a stupid question on Twitter, my gut reaction is to link them to let me Google that for you. Sometimes I even wanna do it to myself.
Unimportant Pet Peeve of the Day:I *can't stand it* when people are vague about downloading crap online. You know, when someone writes stuff like "I' ( Read more... )
See, I do this a lot, under the impression that should there ever be legal repercussions and someone finds my LJ, I'll have plausible deniability. But you're right, that's just stupid, just the fact that I've seen all these episodes kind of gives it away. I'm going to try to stop doing that.
Personally, I still think that Moonlighting serves as a warning example, but the example isn't "don't ever put your characters together", it's "when you put your characters together, make sure you have a fucking clue about what to do with their arcs afterward". Because so many writers/showrunners just think in the short term - "it'll be really HOT for about two or three episodes" - and forget to make a game plan that still keeps them interesting after they're a couple. And also, a game plan that still shows the audience that they're also people, apart from all that coupledom stuff. THAT is by far the biggest problem I have with the post-getting-together time - the people in the couple are only defined by their relationship with their partner.
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it's "when you put your characters together, make sure you have a fucking clue about what to do with their arcs afterward".
Oh yes, that's definitely something worth warning. What bugs me re: Moonlighting having become synonym to "coupledom ruins the show" is that they did it wrong and yet the excuse still gets used to this day and age.
My current favorite example of awesometastic follow-up on the will-they-won't-they trope is Charlie and Amita in Numbers. They spent a couple of seasons doing the UST thing, then they got together and will you look a that -- their relationship developed very organically, they had their ups and downs and doubts and even some external interference, but they still do their jobs brilliantly, maybe even better now that they're together, because they support each other in their professional ventures.
[Though I do realize Numbers is an ensemble show, and when you have a Mulder/Scully or Booth/Bones very obvious LEAD couple around, it's obviously harder to do.]
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