[ SECRET POST #4405 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4405 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[fscom]

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[(Anonymous)]

It's always boring when sexually tense pairings finally become a thing. For me, anyway.

[(Anonymous)]

It doesn’t have to be, but generally writers don’t know what to do to maintain characterization... Which is weird because in real life your chemistry with your SO doesn’t just magically disappear once you do them. I think too many people grew up with stories ending at “happily ever after.”

[(Anonymous)]

IRL your chemistry doesn't disappear. It changes. It either evaporates entirely, or it gets awkward, or it grows into something lasting and easy and joyful that would be extremely boring for me to watch on TV, no matter how it's written. Seeing as I watch for the tension and conflict.

NAYRT

[(Anonymous)]

it grows into something lasting and easy and joyful that would be extremely boring for me to watch on TV, no matter how it's written. Seeing as I watch for the tension and conflict.

NAYRT but I never understood this idea at all. You can still have tension and dramatic conflict, it just has to come from different places than it did before - from external things, or from things that can't be resolved immediately by chemistry and trust and good sense.

Re: NAYRT

[(Anonymous)]

I thought I was clear that it was boring to me, I mean I'm not going to sit here and argue preferences with you.

Re: NAYRT

[(Anonymous)]

I'm sorry, I'm not trying to argue preferences. The part that doesn't make sense to me is that conflict and tension don't go away after a couple gets together, they just take a different form

If the point is that the new forms of tension and conflict don't interest you as much, that makes sense then, so thanks for clearing it up

Re: NAYRT

[(Anonymous)]

Right, before they do it, the tension and conflict is sexually charged. Which is the interesting part to me.

Of course there are some antagonistic relationships that never stop giving in that regard. They get mad at each other, it leads to hot sex, rinse and repeat. That's interesting to me as well.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not sure it's exactly an issue with maintaining characterization... it's more that when you build up the sexual/romantic tension between two people for so long (seasons, sometimes!) that starts to define their relationship, period. So when the will they/won't they question is answered, it's as if there's nothing left. Writers don't seem to know how to write an evolving romantic relationship because like you said, it's reached the point where it feels done.

[(Anonymous)]

This is why I always get scared about the possibility of a character pairing I like becoming canon. Canon romances are almost always never turn out as good as what exists in the mind.

[philstar22]

I shipped them pretty hard too. And the show ruined them. It wasn't just the loss of tension for me or that they got boring. Brennan changed so much, but Booth was the same guy he was in the first episode. Brennan was always wrong and Booth was always right. I got sick of it even before they actively got together.

It isn't like I personally think tension is always ruined when the couple gets together. I loved Castle all the way through its run, even after Castle and Beckett got together. Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman worked after Lois and Clark got together. So sometimes it can work. they just didn't know how to do it in a good way, IMHO, with Booth and Brennan.

[(Anonymous)]

I lost interest when they hooked up & I stopped watching when she got pregnant. Boring.

[boneknives]

God, I was OBSESSED with this ship, and I was soooo mad that once they got together, everything I liked about them was gone. :( Sometimes making the will-they-or-won't-they pairing canon is... worse? Lmao.