30 Rock, Jack/Liz, In The Dark, Prompt #5. Shooting stars

[michellek]

Title: Bump in the Road
Author: michellek
Challenge: drabble123
Fandom: 30 Rock
Pairings: Jack/Liz, Jack/Avery
Table: In The Dark
Prompt: #5. Shooting stars
Rating: PG
Word Count: 300
Summary: Avery isn't cool with it. (Follows " Give it to Me.")

Disclaimer: Not mine. Don't sue.

Comments

[michellek]

It is sort of cheating, but at least it's at least canon-supported cheating? I am finding it more and more easy to write Jack/Liz fic set in current canon because of how shaky and distant the Jack/Avery relationship has seemed. (Which I'm getting more and more convinced isn't intentional; not from any new evidence, just a general feeling that I think they're handling the relationship poorly as opposed to portraying a bad relationship.) I feel sort of weirdly nostalgic about how I portrayed Avery in the death fic I wrote a while ago; I think, if Liz-Jack's love interest tension exists, even fleeingly, I only want it to lead to Jack/Liz subtext, and if that's not going to happen (which it's not, in the show as it is currently), I'd prefer a canon where everyone gets along and Avery/Carol/whoever 'gets' the Jack/Liz friendship.

(I find that I'm generally more accepting of things in fic that I wouldn't dig in canon... That scenario, too, yeah. And personally, I would be completely okay with Jack and Avery getting divorced, at least. I feel like, in their attempts to kill Jack/Liz, the show has ended up getting me back in the 'Jack/Liz OTP!' zone. Because, man, I am not feeling Jack/Avery. And I feel like it's been so long since we've had a Liz/Carol scene that I don't even have an opinion on them as a couple. Also! I remember you saying a while back that you prefer hearing about Jack and Avery's dealings than watching Liz/Carol. Is that still true? Because, idk, I would like to see Carol again but am kind of dreading tonight's episode.)

[frey_at_last]

Yeah, I really don't know how Jack could seem more in love with C.C. in three episodes (or in the first half of the first episode) than he seems with Avery in ten episodes while she's carrying his child.

I used to just assume that any marriages in canon would be end-game, but maybe they're not, at least with Jack? I feel like Tina wouldn't get Liz divorced, though (which is why it's good, for me, that Carol is apparently on his way out). I've come around to imagining Jack and Liz having a couple of kids and raising the Avery-kid along with, because does Avery seem that sold on this baby? No. Of course, none of this would ever happen.

My opinion of them as a couple is still "boring" and "too same-y" and I just feel like Carol is a wet blanket - neither the writing nor the acting feels as genuine and spontaneous as, say, Floyd did in the early days, so idk. At this point I'd still go for Floyd, and I even thought HE was a little too indulgent/condescending with Liz. I want her with someone who actually challenges her a little. So maybe her cousin.

Anecdote: Today I was talking with one of my coworkers - I hooked her on 30 Rock last month at our convention thing. She's almost finished S3, and I kind of warned her about S4, but she was like, "I liked that guy! Who went to Ohio, or whatever," and I told her that was Floyd, and then I said, "But I gotta admit, I really want Alec Baldwin and Tina Fey to get together," and she said, "Yeah, I've wondered if they were gonna do that... some of the things they say sometimes." And internally I said VICTORY! But then I told her that Tina has said it will never happen. (Then she was like, "I really laughed at this one quote, I don't know if you'll know it," and I was like, "I PROBABLY WILL," and then she quoted the joke about graduate students and it made my day.) This veered off track, but I never get to talk about 30 Rock in real life!

[michellek]

I feel like C.C. is the only relationship I 'got'? Though my disdain for Jack/Elisa may have been tainted by the fact that Salma was not awesome at delivering comedic lines.

I could definitely get behind that in fic and, honestly, I'm not sure that this marriage will happen/last, so canon may make such fic easier again, though this time on purpose.

I do feel Liz/Carol is too 'same-y', but it has been having the edge over Jack/Avery since I did feel like Liz/Carol has the chance to be entertaining for me, but we haven't seen a scene between them since the premiere (I'm not counting the phone calls in the 'Live Show')... though I guess that won't happen before they break up, so eh. (I am still pissed at the idea of Liz being alone and Jack having a wife and kid. Meh.)

Hee, I approve of that anecdote.