I was just looking at that pic of Leland Orser and thinking that Revolution was coming down with love interests this year. It seemed a ridiculous amount, so I decided to make a list… I have issues
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Are we counting living ships? Cause both Ben/Rachel and Ben/Maggie were canon.
I refuse to accept Miles/Rachel as anything other than in-laws who may or may not despise each other, but have to work together.
I kinda LOL at everyone's look in the group picture- it's like they're sighing and saying "oh come on!"
I will say this- while there's a lot of ship potential on the show, in the first half there was very little actual romance on the show, for which I'm grateful. Jason/Charlie? One sided on his part, he kept saving her life and she was gonna let Miles kill him in 1X5. Miles/Nora? We knew they had a thing (1X3) and they shared a goodbye kiss in 1X8, nothing beyond that. Ben/Rachel has been more about the blackout and the family than them as a couple. Ben/Maggie weren't very romantic in the little screentime they had. And while Miles/Monroe had a presence all season, they've actually interacted only in 4 episodes (1X1, 1X3, 1X9, 1X10) and one of those was a hallucination. I'd say Tom/Julia were the most couple-y couple we've had on the show and they're awesome and deserve to be happy and romantic.
I'm not counting Aaron/Priscilla cause it was pure background story for one episode and Aaron is a dick who doesn't deserve a love life.
Ah no, I was just counting how many ongoing ships that they are juggling going forwards. I thought about Ben and Rachel, since they'll be in flashbacks, but stuck with the ongoing ones.
I think it's a mistake to make the romance-elements too much the focus of the show. I love the various odds and sods of potential in there, but fandom can make the most of that without the show getting slogged down in soap opera romantic love-triangles and surprise babies. They have a lot to do, there's not much time for romance!
Or shouldn't be, if they're doing it right.
(I've hung my hat firmly on Aaron being the big character that gets offed - although I will give Kripke a bag of jelly beans if he dies of a bee sting instead of basscopter)
I refuse to accept Miles/Rachel as anything other than in-laws who may or may not despise each other, but have to work together.
I kinda LOL at everyone's look in the group picture- it's like they're sighing and saying "oh come on!"
I will say this- while there's a lot of ship potential on the show, in the first half there was very little actual romance on the show, for which I'm grateful. Jason/Charlie? One sided on his part, he kept saving her life and she was gonna let Miles kill him in 1X5. Miles/Nora? We knew they had a thing (1X3) and they shared a goodbye kiss in 1X8, nothing beyond that. Ben/Rachel has been more about the blackout and the family than them as a couple. Ben/Maggie weren't very romantic in the little screentime they had. And while Miles/Monroe had a presence all season, they've actually interacted only in 4 episodes (1X1, 1X3, 1X9, 1X10) and one of those was a hallucination. I'd say Tom/Julia were the most couple-y couple we've had on the show and they're awesome and deserve to be happy and romantic.
I'm not counting Aaron/Priscilla cause it was pure background story for one episode and Aaron is a dick who doesn't deserve a love life.
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I think it's a mistake to make the romance-elements too much the focus of the show. I love the various odds and sods of potential in there, but fandom can make the most of that without the show getting slogged down in soap opera romantic love-triangles and surprise babies. They have a lot to do, there's not much time for romance!
Or shouldn't be, if they're doing it right.
(I've hung my hat firmly on Aaron being the big character that gets offed - although I will give Kripke a bag of jelly beans if he dies of a bee sting instead of basscopter)
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