09-13-2014, 12:24 AM
I take your point about multi-shipping, but most of us don't have contadictory ships. There's history, alot of us were on other sites that are less tolerant about using imagination, and so we formed a sort of alliance, where if someone could put forward a reasonable arguement, we would be tolerant, and accept their right to their own viewpoints. Love the 'watching a bird struggle in an oil slick', that's exactly what it's like. This is a traditional sitcom in many respects, a group of people in a location; who will have a relationship, who will have sex, who will be friends, or enemies. They are limited, but make the most of it by offering many different potential realities. I heard an interesting interview with John Slattery of Mad Men. He said, originally there was not supposed to be any interaction between his character and that of Christina Hendricks. But it was obvious they had on screen chemistry, and that affected the future writing. (I've never seen Mad Men, so not exactly sure how that went). But it indicates that not all shows are so rigid in their plot trajectories!