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Jul. 8th, 2003 09:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ealgylden"A love triangle will develop among LaPaglia's Jack Malone, who's estranged from his wife; Poppy Montgomery's sexy Samantha Spade; and Eric Close's Martin Fitzgerald. Enrique Murciano, who plays Danny Taylor, will also find romance."
Ahh! Boo! No! That's just what I was afraid of! Martin and Sam have no romantic chemistry. None. They are a vast sucking black hole of romantic chemistry. They don't even like each other! Argh.
Of course the slasher in me doesn't like this, because it's so blatantly obvious that if Danny "finds romance" with anyone, it should be with Martin. But I've overcome bigger obstacles than stupid, misguided love triangles for my preferred couples before- heck, Boromir's dead and that's never stopped me from slashing him. But I'm also just a fan of the show, and I want it to live up to all of its potential. And this triangle thing sounds like a baaad idea. The best way it could play out, in my book, would be with Martin asking Sam out in the season premiere, Sam saying no because she loves Jack, and Martin going off to find solace in Danny's embrace because they're so much better suited for each other (hence Danny finding romance too). The end. WaT becomes a big success and makes its actors rich and happy, and Joan and her pairing live happily ever after.
Also from TV Guide, the first line of a mini-review of History Detectives (looks like a CSI-goes-Smithsonian deal on PBS)- "History is part fact, part speculation and part tedious nitpicking." Hey! That's my field you're... summarizing fairly accurately, unfortunately. Hm. Never mind.
Ahh! Boo! No! That's just what I was afraid of! Martin and Sam have no romantic chemistry. None. They are a vast sucking black hole of romantic chemistry. They don't even like each other! Argh.
Of course the slasher in me doesn't like this, because it's so blatantly obvious that if Danny "finds romance" with anyone, it should be with Martin. But I've overcome bigger obstacles than stupid, misguided love triangles for my preferred couples before- heck, Boromir's dead and that's never stopped me from slashing him. But I'm also just a fan of the show, and I want it to live up to all of its potential. And this triangle thing sounds like a baaad idea. The best way it could play out, in my book, would be with Martin asking Sam out in the season premiere, Sam saying no because she loves Jack, and Martin going off to find solace in Danny's embrace because they're so much better suited for each other (hence Danny finding romance too). The end. WaT becomes a big success and makes its actors rich and happy, and Joan and her pairing live happily ever after.
Also from TV Guide, the first line of a mini-review of History Detectives (looks like a CSI-goes-Smithsonian deal on PBS)- "History is part fact, part speculation and part tedious nitpicking." Hey! That's my field you're... summarizing fairly accurately, unfortunately. Hm. Never mind.
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Re: Yes!
Date: 2003-07-11 11:05 am (UTC)Re: Yes!
Date: 2003-07-15 02:34 pm (UTC)I love getting to talk things like this out - it always forces me to take a really intense look at the characters to make sure I'm not making things up or going the fanon route. (Not that there's much fanon in this tiny fandom. *g*) And it may take a while, but the stuff brought up usually works its way into my stories (like the whole baby-steps idea will soon). *g*
I don't think he's at that point yet, poor repressed fella.
Definitely not. And it's going to take a lot of work (IMO) to get him there, even if he's already started heading that way. *g*