Ah, my eyes, my eyes!

[rhienelleth]

Why do I venture onto message boards and forums about my favorite shows, like ever??  Especially spoiler forums.  I have two questions:

How old are these people who frequent and post?

and

WTF, are they all blind and dumb?

So, I admit it.  My main reason for watching CSI: NY last season was shallow, in the form of the Danny/Lindsey moments every ep had that were flirtatious and fun.  And Without a Trace has made me fall in love with Danny (er...this is confusing.  Both shows have completely separate characters named Danny, for the uninitiated.  Though if you don't know that, I wonder why you're still reading this.)  I knew the moment they introduced her, that TPTB had plans for Elena and Danny - they made it pretty obvious, while only giving us tiny tidbits of their past all season.  And really, the show needed another character.  Six is better than five for an ensemble cast, and I rather like Elena.  She comes from a different [vice] background than her co-workers, and brings something new to the table. 

So, is it any big secret that these two pairings have canon support?  Danny/Lindsey and Danny/Elena, respectively?  Is it any secret that, even without the benefit of any spoilers, one can assume the shows will continue on the paths to these pairings in the new seasons?  No, it's not.  But damn, I feel sorry for anyone who posts on a spoiler board expressing hope and/or glee at the idea of either one happening.  Cause suddenly there are twenty people flaming them and saying things like "OMG, I can't believe anyone likes this pairing, I will HATE this show if TPTB bring this about and stop watching 4ever, and I will buy voodoo dolls of the show execs and stab them repeatedly if they are so stupid as to go ahead with this.  Elena/Lindsey (<-take your pick) sucks and I hate her, OMG, how dare she go after the hotness that is Danny, there is NO CHEMISTRY between them and I wanna puke every time they're on screen together.  Blah, blah, blah [insert more hateful spewage here]." 

OMG, pages and pages of it!  That, if you want to read any actual spoilers, you have to sift through to find the goods.  It made me run for the hills with my back browser button, never to return.  Do these psychotic fangirls automatically hate any female character who dares show an interest in "their" man?  Good grief, get a life.  I didn't particularly care for Syd/Vaughn in the Alias days, but even I could see that it was definitely happening halfway through the first season.  And it wasn't that the actors didn't have chemistry.  It was the heavy handed approach the show took with the pairing, making their love oh-so-pure, and then daring to compare it to the perfection that was Jack/Irina.  There was no tension, and tension makes the shipper world go round, yo. 

Which, btw, Danny/Lindsey and Danny/Elena have!  There is chemistry and tension!  Just because it is not sloppy puppy eyes and little floating hearts, half the population of a message board which shall-not-be-named seems doomed to blindness and idiocy!

Case in point, the season finale of WaT:

(After a gunman shoots up the FBI office and kidnaps a fellow agent, Ann)
Danny (to Elena ): "I'm glad you're ok."
Elena: "Ann's the one you should be worried about."
Danny: "I can worry about more than one person at the same time, Elena."

I mean, hello!  This is a classic example of great romantic tension between characters.  A similar conversation between Sydney and Vaughn would have gone something like this:

Vaughn: "Syd, I'm so glad you're ok!"
Sydney, tearfully: "Oh, God Vaughn, me too!"
(They hug joyfully while Sydney cries, because she always cried whenever they hugged.)

OMG, I must go scrub out my eyes, now.

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[mspooh.livejournal.com]

Vaughn: "Syd, I'm so glad you're ok!"
Sydney, tearfully: "Oh, God Vaughn, me too!"
(They hug joyfully while Sydney cries, because she always cried whenever they hugged.)

Ahahahahaha. *dies laughing*

Then Vaughn fed her ice cream, and all was good in the world.