It is interesting how you can get used to something and then balk when it changes. This is affecting Doctor Who at the moment and also affected it when it came back...I remember being appalled at the very idea of a romance with a companion. And many of my old school peers kept on being appalled and took great joy in Rose being set aside while the Doctor went on having adventures.
I suppose the difference for me...is that I like a series to give me just enough of something...rather than one thing all the time. Like in the case of sexual tension...I don't feel that giving it up is the kiss of death...unless you have your whole story wrapped up in sexual tension. The proof of this is in soap operas. They have been rotating sexual tension between certain couples for decades...and yet...they also manage to have consummation. It makes me LOL when someone in prime time television scorns the idea of "soap opera" and then creates some outlandish melodrama to continue UST well beyond where it entertains.
It isn't that UST is that compelling, actually, it is that these shows forget to give us any other reason to watch. So when the sexual tension is gone...we are done. And in the Peabody series...when we moved on to Ramses/Nefret I simply wasn't interested. But, I can see if you started with them...you might enjoy the romances of it.
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Date: 2010-06-01 02:40 am (UTC)I suppose the difference for me...is that I like a series to give me just enough of something...rather than one thing all the time. Like in the case of sexual tension...I don't feel that giving it up is the kiss of death...unless you have your whole story wrapped up in sexual tension. The proof of this is in soap operas. They have been rotating sexual tension between certain couples for decades...and yet...they also manage to have consummation. It makes me LOL when someone in prime time television scorns the idea of "soap opera" and then creates some outlandish melodrama to continue UST well beyond where it entertains.
It isn't that UST is that compelling, actually, it is that these shows forget to give us any other reason to watch. So when the sexual tension is gone...we are done. And in the Peabody series...when we moved on to Ramses/Nefret I simply wasn't interested. But, I can see if you started with them...you might enjoy the romances of it.