Ammo For Your Shipper Arsenal

[kostgard]

Okay, so this is only tangentially related at best, but it deals with a question that seems to get a lot of mileage out there on the internet, including sites/discussion boards about this show - the question of television ships/couples, how long the writers should drag out the UST and the "Will They or Won't They" and how their refusal to resolve

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[kostgard]

She claims he’s her best friend, but she doesn’t always show it (especially as of late). We know she’d move heaven and earth for him, and he for her, but I’d like to see more of the soft side of this amazing friendship before we move on to romance. She is so emotionally damaged that she needs a friend more than a lover at this point, and as her relationship with Raph eventually succumbs to the pressures of her job and emotional distress, she will need a true friend to lean on.

Totally agree with you on that. I actually want them to put Mary's love life on the back burner for a while after this thing with Raph ends (and dammit, they better end it). Since the network apparently wants to focus on more work stuff, that's the perfect opportunity to explore this kind of stuff. We haven't really seen Mary move heaven and earth for him since "Trojan Horst" in the first season. It's been all Marshall doing things for Mary - even when Marshall's witness (whom he obviously liked a lot) killed himself in "Duplicate Bridge" it still felt like it was a little too much about Mary. I would like to see Mary become a little less self-involved and become a better friend.