More German Ice-Skating Soap Opera
This show is so shameless at using fanfic clichés!
Bored with 'fuck or die' as a method of getting your favourite two guys together?
How about, "Hello, boys, you're locked into a modelling contract with a gay American fashion house called Male Function. Oh, you didn't read the small print about how you had to pretend to be a real couple desperately in love? And to frequently update your internet diary with videos of your romantic exploits? Fear not, for I, Simone Steinkamp your scary ex-boss will direct the videos! You will enjoy your gay picnic or you ARE IN BREACH OF CONTRACT AND OWE €50k EACH."
But the real riffling through the picnic basket of fanfic methods comes with the character of Jennifer Steinkamp, who the writers decided needed a Draco Malfoy-esque plot arc. The fanfic plot arc. The plot arc where the vaguely redeemable but generally evil character get pushed gently over the line into redemption and Love. I picture the planning going something like this:
WRITER X: So, we need to engineer a point where she's crying and saying that all she's ever tried to do is make people love her but it never works. And he realises he may be the first person to ever see Jennifer Steinkamp this vulnerable.
WRITER Y: Definitely. How about we lead up to that by having him tie her up with duct tape in a deserted cabin for days?
WRITER X: Works for me! There can be spiders in her hair. Spiders always lead to love.
some weeks later
WRITER X: The spiders didn't lead straight to love the way I thought they would. Writing is hard!
WRITER Y: Never mind! The 'hurt/comfort' basket is absolutely overflowing.
X: Right, she's homeless. Reduced to nothing. He's taken her in.
Y: Hmm. Still doesn't trust her. We need hypothermia.
X: Hypothermia? Are you sure?
Y: Never fails.
X: Dammit, he used soup instead of naked body heat!
Y: Here's what we'll do. Her ex-boyfriend will try to drown her! She's shaken, she's soaking wet, mascara tears, he's now the only person in the world who can feel sympathy for her... it's going to happen, IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN!
Then it happened. :)
Bored with 'fuck or die' as a method of getting your favourite two guys together?
How about, "Hello, boys, you're locked into a modelling contract with a gay American fashion house called Male Function. Oh, you didn't read the small print about how you had to pretend to be a real couple desperately in love? And to frequently update your internet diary with videos of your romantic exploits? Fear not, for I, Simone Steinkamp your scary ex-boss will direct the videos! You will enjoy your gay picnic or you ARE IN BREACH OF CONTRACT AND OWE €50k EACH."
But the real riffling through the picnic basket of fanfic methods comes with the character of Jennifer Steinkamp, who the writers decided needed a Draco Malfoy-esque plot arc. The fanfic plot arc. The plot arc where the vaguely redeemable but generally evil character get pushed gently over the line into redemption and Love. I picture the planning going something like this:
WRITER X: So, we need to engineer a point where she's crying and saying that all she's ever tried to do is make people love her but it never works. And he realises he may be the first person to ever see Jennifer Steinkamp this vulnerable.
WRITER Y: Definitely. How about we lead up to that by having him tie her up with duct tape in a deserted cabin for days?
WRITER X: Works for me! There can be spiders in her hair. Spiders always lead to love.
some weeks later
WRITER X: The spiders didn't lead straight to love the way I thought they would. Writing is hard!
WRITER Y: Never mind! The 'hurt/comfort' basket is absolutely overflowing.
X: Right, she's homeless. Reduced to nothing. He's taken her in.
Y: Hmm. Still doesn't trust her. We need hypothermia.
X: Hypothermia? Are you sure?
Y: Never fails.
X: Dammit, he used soup instead of naked body heat!
Y: Here's what we'll do. Her ex-boyfriend will try to drown her! She's shaken, she's soaking wet, mascara tears, he's now the only person in the world who can feel sympathy for her... it's going to happen, IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN!
Then it happened. :)