But I find myself wanting them to suffer, before I make them happy. Not any of the kidnappings and stuff that people like to throw onto their characters, but emotions.
Oh yeah, I'm a sucker for emotional pain. Makes the happy ending that much sweeter. And these fellas suffer so nicely. Danny in Clare de Lune is a wonderful thing (and subtly worried!Martin at the very end was very sweet). I wish we'd gotten to see a smidge more of Martin's reaction to the ending of "In Extremis," but the hints we got were good, and of course there's always the possibility of fic.
Viv is indeed married- when Jack's complaining that someday he'll be Bitter Old Divorced Guy in the dating video in whatever episode that was (maybe "Friendly Skies," but I forget and I'm too lazy to check), she jokes that her husband is looking better all the time (her kid was a cutie, though, wasn't he?). Sam is (understandably) a little gun-shy when it comes to dating, I think, what with Jack, the youthful ex-husband, and whichever bad exes gave her that "thing about men." But in general I bet it is hard for them to date outside of work (for lots of reasons, including the stress and lousy hours), and I'm pretty sure there are fraternization regs that make dating at work complicated (regs between peers, I mean, since we know from AYN... that there are rules against subordinates dating superiors). Poor kids.
the other is that "everyone" seems to love William Peterson
Yeah, why is that? I mean, he's not unattractive, but he's certainly not the Adonis that I see him treated like on various lists and messageboards. He looks like somebody's dad, or maybe a high school science teacher. Maybe we're missing something?
And since you don't object, I'm off to friend you. I know it's irrational, since it's really a "people I like to read/I have things in common with/I think are neat" list, but I still feel a little awkward randomly friending people, or I would have before now. This whole LJ adventure has been a learning process, that's for sure. *g*
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Oh yeah, I'm a sucker for emotional pain. Makes the happy ending that much sweeter. And these fellas suffer so nicely. Danny in Clare de Lune is a wonderful thing (and subtly worried!Martin at the very end was very sweet). I wish we'd gotten to see a smidge more of Martin's reaction to the ending of "In Extremis," but the hints we got were good, and of course there's always the possibility of fic.
Viv is indeed married- when Jack's complaining that someday he'll be Bitter Old Divorced Guy in the dating video in whatever episode that was (maybe "Friendly Skies," but I forget and I'm too lazy to check), she jokes that her husband is looking better all the time (her kid was a cutie, though, wasn't he?). Sam is (understandably) a little gun-shy when it comes to dating, I think, what with Jack, the youthful ex-husband, and whichever bad exes gave her that "thing about men." But in general I bet it is hard for them to date outside of work (for lots of reasons, including the stress and lousy hours), and I'm pretty sure there are fraternization regs that make dating at work complicated (regs between peers, I mean, since we know from AYN... that there are rules against subordinates dating superiors). Poor kids.
the other is that "everyone" seems to love William Peterson
Yeah, why is that? I mean, he's not unattractive, but he's certainly not the Adonis that I see him treated like on various lists and messageboards. He looks like somebody's dad, or maybe a high school science teacher. Maybe we're missing something?
And since you don't object, I'm off to friend you. I know it's irrational, since it's really a "people I like to read/I have things in common with/I think are neat" list, but I still feel a little awkward randomly friending people, or I would have before now. This whole LJ adventure has been a learning process, that's for sure. *g*