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[lazalot_anreads]

Hey, everyone! I'm new (I know, I know) to not only Shassie, but also Psych itself, and while I DEFINITELY intend to watch every episode eventually, I was hoping ya'll could recommend some of your favorite episodes with awesome Shassie moments. For instance, I've been watching some fan vids, and I haven't seen the episode where Shawn slaps Lassie's

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[trixietru]

To Dinahqueen's excellent list of episodes, I would add: The Head, the Tail, the Whole Damn Episode, 65 Million Years Off, Cloudy with a Chance of Murder, Last Night Gus, SantaBarbaraTown 2, Talk Derby to Me, and Murder...Anyone...Bueller?

Huh, there really are a lot of episodes with decent Shassie moments!

I know, right?!

[lazalot_anreads]

I honestly believe - and have since before I heard about the part where Shassie is actually mentioned on the show in that one episode, even though as I said I really haven't seen very many eps yet - that the Shassie stuff is like (not very subtle at all) the true canon pairing. From what I've seen those two bicker and flirt and stuff with each other way more often than with their so called real romances. I think writers for TV shows these days check out fan fiction - well obviously but as stated I thought that before they outright mentioned it - to see what we like. Fan fiction - and maybe it's me but it seems like slash is bigger than het, at least these days - is exploding all over the place. Another show is Supernatural - I swore I wouldn't get hooked into Wincest 'cause it weirded me out, then I went and watched the show and ended up having to rationalize about how they're just characters and at least both guys so no poor kids with problems that make me wanna cry unless they have even more balls than they've already shown and go

Re: I know, right?!

[trixietru]

Well, my biggest fandom experience has been with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, where the writers definitely knew about fanfic, and when the series ended, the creator of the show basically said that he hoped the fans would go on writing fanfiction for the characters. It didn't bother him at all that a lot of the fic being written was slash.

I think that in a lot of cases, including Psych, the people in charge realize that a couple of the actors have particularly strong chemistry and so they give them good material to work with. And with a pairing like Shawn and Lassiter, there's always some tension between the characters because they do things differently, even though they have the same goals, and that makes them fun to ship, at least for me.

Re: I know, right?!

[lazalot_anreads]

I didn't know about BTVS, though I'm a huge Spander girl and also indulge in quite a few other pairings in that fandom. That's awesome, I'm glad you told me about it

[dinahqueen]

I completely forgot about Last Night Gus! :D Good looking out ;)

[trixietru]

That's one of my favorites just because it's so funny, but it doesn't hurt that it has some nice moments between Shawn and Lassie!