Aww, I'm gonna miss talking about RB with you! Though, I know what you mean. I'm feeling less crazyeyes about that show in general. I've fallen behind this season on the episodes and I'm not even stressed about it. I just read the spoilers now. What a difference a year makes. Maybe over the long break I'll renew my enthusiasm. However, we're all going to have to find another show in common!
Same here! And yeah, what a difference a year makes indeed - I'm sort of heartbroken just thinking about how last year at this time we were still on such a high from the hookup, even with the ambiguous "cliffhanger" which seems like a happily ever after compared to this. I haven't watched the last 4 episodes and I won't - I read the spoilers and I just cannot watch that. It's not just the pain for the ship, for me, I'm equally devastated about seeing a show I love just basically throw it all away in the stupidest way possible. So yeah, I hope we can find a new fandom! I did kind of feel like RB was on it's last leg even before this - not a lot of flailing even when they were still together and not a lot of posts on it at all. Possibly this was for the best (although it doesn't feel like that now).
I don't understand why it is so very necessary to breakup after the hookup. Was there ever a show where the pair got together and then writers managed to keep it interesting? I was betting that Rookie Blue would pull it off. But this season just feels like water turning cold mid shower.
I knoooow, it is the single most infuriating thing about being a fangirl to me. I will rant and I will rave about this until my last dying breath probably, because the very worst part of it is that no one even TRIES. I can count the number of ships that stayed together even a whole season after hooking up on my one hand, and still have fingers left over. The one show I can think of that has kept it up indefinitely is The Office with Jim and Pam, who got married and has a kid (possibly more at this point) and are still together as far as I know. A lot of people complained they got boring but I feel like that was more an issue of the SHOW getting boring and running out of steam, which shows will do after 6 seasons, and that's why I stopped watching. I was totally fine with the Jim/Pam stuff, except for maybe wanting to see them in more storylines both together and seperately, and I think most people who complained they were boring actually just felt that they were under-utilized and that the show as a whole had run it's course
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No, not TLDR, I agree. I don't watch Office, so I cannot comment on that, but I refuse to think that everyday stuff couples go through is necessarily boring.
It's like TPTB failed a test they should have aced. All the little crumbs of the characters they could have build together and they just let it water away. What happened with gorgeous Luke and Gail's chemistry? Cause Nick came and it could have been an interesting twist, but then when Luke came back he just looked really good being all scruffy, tired and miserable and serious and nothing. Eh, also I feel as if we didn't get Sam at all this season, why couldn't we get more of interaction between him and anyone; OK so there was that watch moment, but - dunno, I feel as if they didn't know what to do with any of the characters.
And Oliver - they had fantastic opportunity to give us romance #1 with Oliver and Zoe and they just let it water away. The interaction that happened between Sam and Oliver in the finale? Something I would have expected to have happened mid season.
I thought of another one BTW! Jules and Grayson on Cougar Town, they did like a season's worth of WTOWT and then got together and has so far survived a surprise-child of Grayson's along with some other general potential drama stuff with minimal fuss and still got married last season. Remains to be seen how long that lasts, but so far it counts and has been handled awesomely
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I would like to hug this post (also you) for expressing so many general sentiments I do not know how to put into words. I'm aso getting sad on your behalf because the RB fandom seems like a generally magic place and I would like to smack anyone responsible for ruining that.
*HUGS* Thank you for this comment, I always feel weird whenever I can't stop my fangirlyness from showing (and whenever I'm being sincere instead of snarky) so it really makes me happier than I can say. <3 And yeah, the RB fandom was truly a magical place for a while, one of the best ones I've ever been in, I really do think it stings more that the writers ruined that for me than that they ruined the ship for me. :/ But, all good things, etc etc, I guess. Atleast the fall season is starting up, which means distractions and new possible obsessions.
:( Just for the record, once the ILUs are out of the way - this didn't really happen. Andy said it, Sam didn't. I don't think they changed anything at the core, I don't think they're jerking us around - Sam has always been terrible with emotions and relationships and he continues to be. For me there was 10% heartbreak but 90% I-love-these-characters-they-are-so-legit-and-plus-faces. I still really really love the show, and it makes me sad that you don't. But at the same time I get it. *hugs that only exist in text form*
Haven is back so soon!!! Are you excited?? (slash scared)
I thought Sam did say it in the finale? Not that I care, or am still accidentally thinking about this show on a daily basis, or anything... >_> IDK, I just got TOO invested to the point where it wasn't fun anymore, especially since I didn't like what they did with Sam as a character and how they dealt with him and Andy as a couple, and I could write whole essays on why and how but I really don't want to. I just want to move on and box it away with all the other shows that burnt me and try and find a new fandom.
I ... sorta am? Although my recent epiphany that hookups = doom means I'm a lot less excited about Nathan/Audrey, but you never know, maybe this will be the one show that actually manages to avoid the doom. ... Yeah, even as I was writing that I did not believe a word of it. :p But it'll be nice to have it back, I need all the distractions I can get still.
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So yeah, I hope we can find a new fandom! I did kind of feel like RB was on it's last leg even before this - not a lot of flailing even when they were still together and not a lot of posts on it at all. Possibly this was for the best (although it doesn't feel like that now).
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It's like TPTB failed a test they should have aced. All the little crumbs of the characters they could have build together and they just let it water away. What happened with gorgeous Luke and Gail's chemistry? Cause Nick came and it could have been an interesting twist, but then when Luke came back he just looked really good being all scruffy, tired and miserable and serious and nothing.
Eh, also I feel as if we didn't get Sam at all this season, why couldn't we get more of interaction between him and anyone; OK so there was that watch moment, but - dunno, I feel as if they didn't know what to do with any of the characters.
And Oliver - they had fantastic opportunity to give us romance #1 with Oliver and Zoe and they just let it water away. The interaction that happened between Sam and Oliver in the finale? Something I would have expected to have happened mid season.
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Haven is back so soon!!! Are you excited?? (slash scared)
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IDK, I just got TOO invested to the point where it wasn't fun anymore, especially since I didn't like what they did with Sam as a character and how they dealt with him and Andy as a couple, and I could write whole essays on why and how but I really don't want to. I just want to move on and box it away with all the other shows that burnt me and try and find a new fandom.
I ... sorta am? Although my recent epiphany that hookups = doom means I'm a lot less excited about Nathan/Audrey, but you never know, maybe this will be the one show that actually manages to avoid the doom. ... Yeah, even as I was writing that I did not believe a word of it. :p But it'll be nice to have it back, I need all the distractions I can get still.
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