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#i know you can't take chris and their dynamic with him out of the equation
littlespoonevan · 3 years
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I hate when shows (heavily) imply a pairing or a possible love interest or whatever and it gets super popular but then nothing happens and its not canon. Like why eveb bother
oooh boy, anon, do i have opinion about this!
see the things is, right. i don’t actually need all my ships to become canon, particularly those that are the so-called “unintended” pairings. it happens, y’know? sometimes actors have more chemistry than anticipated, sometimes characters are thrown together for a necessary scene and it works. and if it were the case in a lot of these shows that, y’know, the writers/creators had a specific pairing in mind for endgame then i don’t expect them to compromise that. i know tv show writing is a different, more fluid thing but as a writer myself i’ve learned my story always comes out better when i follow my own plan rather than trying to change it to please other people (this is another, much longer convo but this is the gist for now). so if showrunners want character A and B to end up together then i understand why they wouldn’t want to entertain character A being with character C.
now here’s the issue: if these showrunners just turned around and were like, look. it’s great that you ship them and we love how passionate you are about the show and while their dynamic is definitely an intrinsic part of the show, we don’t have plans to explore that romantically right now. if they did that, i’m p sure most fans would be fine and be very accepting of that. we have fic, we have fanart, there’s a part of us that knows deep down it probably won’t happen anyway, y’know?
the problem is when these showrunners keep things ambiguous~ on purpose, have the actors play it up on social media, use the pairing for promo etc. etc. without ever intending to follow through. like there are definitely levels and it varies from fandom to fandom and i’ve seen it happen with both straight and same sex couples and it’s just. like fine? put in the subtext if you want, i’ll eat it up!!!! but also. don’t get pissed then when people start to have expectations??????? that’s always been the thing that’s bothered me.
also to circle back to my original point about not expecting the ship to happen if there’s already a planned endgame pairing and to look at the flipside: i’ve often found it’s actually the characters who Don’t have a definitive love interest that end up becoming popular fan ships because they are literally forced together by the circumstances of their own show since they’re the single ones. and it’s fine while the characters are single bc it doesn’t matter what people ship, but it inevitably always gets to that point of Expectation and showrunners try to do damage control by giving one or both a love interest that resembles the other half of the ship or that tries to replicate their dynamic and it’s just. sad tbh. because in those cases they actually could explore it if they just- let themselves?????(and i know, i know networks - particularly mainstream networks - have a say too and that can be an issue but still)
idk i’m still waiting for that one day where a showrunner sees the fans hyping up a specific pairing and they just decide, “fuck it. let’s make this happen.”
not sure it’ll happen but i can dream lmao. anyway, to sum up this unnecessarily long response, i agree with you askdjhs
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