No matter how many times they want to tell us there's something there, it just doesn't arise organically from the show so I remain unconvinced.
And this is it, in a nutshell.
Farscape is my poster child for How To Do Ship Right (and I don't mean Moya ;-). John and Aeryn's relationship grew organically over the years and it *worked*. They fought and argued and trusted and distrusted and watched each other's backs and sided against the other and before they knew it their lives were so intertwined it was hard to tell where one stopped and the other started. They were inevitable.
And they weren't born out of duct taped UST. They were born out of the *story* in a way mainstream shows seem to fear as if being true to the story will somehow brand them as Not Really Hollywood or Not Serious About The Business.
Maybe one of these days TPTB will wake up and realize the fans who pay their salaries don't give a rat's ass about The Business, we just want our storytellers to tell us a good tale of an evening around our high tech fires.
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on 2009-03-13 02:43 pm (UTC)And this is it, in a nutshell.
Farscape is my poster child for How To Do Ship Right (and I don't mean Moya ;-). John and Aeryn's relationship grew organically over the years and it *worked*. They fought and argued and trusted and distrusted and watched each other's backs and sided against the other and before they knew it their lives were so intertwined it was hard to tell where one stopped and the other started. They were inevitable.
And they weren't born out of duct taped UST. They were born out of the *story* in a way mainstream shows seem to fear as if being true to the story will somehow brand them as Not Really Hollywood or Not Serious About The Business.
Maybe one of these days TPTB will wake up and realize the fans who pay their salaries don't give a rat's ass about The Business, we just want our storytellers to tell us a good tale of an evening around our high tech fires.