I LIKE that things were hard for them and that there were legit obstacles to them becoming the 'couple' that we never got to see, but at some point just throwing up another barricade for every one they broke through got tired and read as contrived and lazy writing.
This - so very much this. I think it's doubly frustrating that they keep putting artificial barriers and plot devices in place because they way K/L were written even as they were writing in reasons to keep them apart meant that to me at least they never felt like they didn't want to be together. It was just that the writers never decided that the time was right. I think I could have been almost reconciled to K/L being kept apart if it felt like they wanted to be that way - that they wanted to quit one another.
It bothers me because the foundation was not built for doomed. It was built from a 'this will be a bumpy journey along a long and winding road that will eventually lead to the big payout' foundation.
Exactly. They laid down so much groundwork and then failed miserably to follow through, but the awesome groundwork made it seem so artificial that they were kept apart. And we were even getting awesome shippy moments right until they end (the don't care speech in Islanded? Beautiful, and so shippy) and then they leave it like that?
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Date: 2011-08-15 11:05 pm (UTC)This - so very much this. I think it's doubly frustrating that they keep putting artificial barriers and plot devices in place because they way K/L were written even as they were writing in reasons to keep them apart meant that to me at least they never felt like they didn't want to be together. It was just that the writers never decided that the time was right. I think I could have been almost reconciled to K/L being kept apart if it felt like they wanted to be that way - that they wanted to quit one another.
It bothers me because the foundation was not built for doomed. It was built from a 'this will be a bumpy journey along a long and winding road that will eventually lead to the big payout' foundation.
Exactly. They laid down so much groundwork and then failed miserably to follow through, but the awesome groundwork made it seem so artificial that they were kept apart. And we were even getting awesome shippy moments right until they end (the don't care speech in Islanded? Beautiful, and so shippy) and then they leave it like that?
Blah :/