ESSAY: TV Romance - The Way, if Writers Will
Part Three of a 3-part series.
(Previously….
Part one of this three-part series, "TV Romance," looked at the how romance on television changed with the introduction of serial elements, as well as the myth! myth! it's a myth! of the Moonlighting Curse. Myths in television-especially the symbolic underpinnings powering the One True Pairing-are great. ( Read more... )
I admit, I absolutely dislike UST. I loved Remington Steele and Scarecrow and Mrs. King as a child, but I never watched it for the UST. I watched it for the (in the first seasons) witty writing, and to oogle Pierce Brosnan and to cheer on Kate Jackson as kick-ass housewife. The romance was the least interesting part of both shows (admittingly, in that age my interest in romance in general was feeble at best). Plus, TV shows back then were vastly different from the ones today, because character development was more or less a new thing. Most show didn't do it at all, because the idea was that one could watch each episode seperatly without feeling lost. Today we have those long storyarcs (which is a good thing but sometimes results in the basic premise getting lost in favour of a weekly soap opera).
At the moment, I'm watching three shows in which UST plays an important part: Castle, Psych, Leverage. Castle already lost me last season with the UST. I'm abselutely bored by it, and I admit, I don't care if they are a pair next season or not. Psych nearly lost me, luckily, they took an u-turn and solved the UST just in time (and I admit, now that Shawn and Juliet are together, I'm actually interested in the pairing). And Leverage - let's just say that my favourite Characters of the show are Parker and Eliot (seperatly, not as a pair), and leave it at that.
There certainly is a reason why White Collar is my fav show at the moment....
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