Romance makes the world go round.

D.. I love the new look, much better than the Exorcist puke green :P

Now on to my post.

Lot of things going around and around in my head at the moment, but the most prominent one would be D’s reference to a “coping mechanism”.

She is quite right we have used our ship’s to distract us, and it’s been something we have been doing for a really long time. 

I remember going back to the original Moonlighting days, obviously we shipped Maddy and whatshisname, but there were ships before that. So many, and a lot of them actually came in, in one form or another.

Scarecrow and Mrs.King... I loved that show and recently re-watched it and I have to say if Kate Jackson had not become too ill to carry on, that would have been a show everyone could point at and say Moonlighting what? The chemistry between Amanda and Lee just got better and better after they got together.

Remington Steel, technically they did not do the actual deed (have sex) until the final episodes, a fact that I’m still debating over with D, she thinks not and I think they were going at it like bunnies just not being talkative about it :P 

However with or without bumping uglies, they did start falling in the lo-ove and doing the kiss kiss smooch smooch thing as early as season 3? 

Which means that ship came in, and yet the show still continued for anther 3 or 4 seasons. Giving us the obligatory dinner and wine in front of the fireplace smooch at the end of the occasional episode.

What kept them interesting where other show’s failed? Not the bed, the kisses or even the “I love you’s”. 

It was those Mummy moments.

For D and A, I won’t have to explain what that is, but I’ll explain anyway. 

In The Mummy, Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisse have unbelievable chemistry, made so much more intense by BF’s characters reaction to falling in love and the woman he’s falling for. 

Never from the moment he kisses her in the Egyptian prison to the end of the second film, do you doubt that he would die for this woman, she is everything, and his entire being is focused on her. 

Rick looks at Eve as if she is all his christmases and birthdays past, present and future wrapped up just for him. It’s there in his face, in the way he touches her, in the way he talks to her and in the way he holds her, and that is what makes me watch those films over and over again. 

And that’s what made five years of no sex work in RS, or getting married in secret in SMK.

It was there in 5 seasons of Bones, and it was there in Murdoch Mysteries, and it is there in Castle. Sadly the last two seasons of Bones have not had that, and Murdoch Mysteries is just a phenomenal disappointment.

(sorry could not resist)

It’s Alpha male meets his soul mate, his other half, and his to cherish and protect from all, even herself. (Sexiest scene in a film... Rick throwing Eve over his shoulder.. OMG can anything get hotter?) 

Con Air... Cameron Poe and his Hummingbird, the way he looks at her at the end, as if he’s afraid to touch her incase she disappears. (And really what woman with a pulse does not have it speed up and get hotter when he turns to walk off that plane?)

Much mentioned and still deserving of a mention, The Notebook, the look on his Noah’s face when he looks at his Allie, the kiss aside that look alone does it for me.

The Wedding Date, Nick had the words but he also treated Kat and looked at her as if she were his only reason to live.

Dear John, he’s big and tough and does not say much, but the eyes, oh man they truly light up when that tiny woman walks into his life.

The Last of the Mohicans, that “I will find you”, scene is one of hollywoods finest moments, and I’ve seen it used in romantic film clips many many times. 

And there are thousands more, and each and every one of them have “The Mummy Touch” though to be absolutely honest, none of them quite do it as well as Brendan Fraser, but I digress.

The single biggest seller in book genre’s has always been and still is the Romance genre, be it Paranormal, Futuristic, Fantasy, Erotic, Historical or Contemporary, they sell more copies than any other genre, and we all know how those end. We want our happy ever after, we need it, we deserve it and it’s time the show writers woke up and realized not giving it to us is what kills their shows.

Why do they not realize the death of any good series is giving the audience a romance and then destroying it.

Then there is how our hero treats his heroine, I know times have changed and women are shown to be more in charge and likely to do the protecting and ass kicking than the guy, and I love that, but there is nothing wrong with treating her like a woman even while she’s kicking down the doors he wants to open.

The Ghost and Mrs Muir, I remember even as a kid thinking they are so in love but he’s a ghost so its never going to work, and to be honest I don’t remember if it did or not, but I know through out the entire series he treated her with respect and adoration.

Respect and Adoration, now there I think is the rub in it all, in an age where it seems to be cool to call ourselves bitches and ho’s, and even cooler to be called that by your significant other. There is not much respect and adoration being shown. 

Sure we don’t need men to open our doors, or pull out our chairs, or hold our arm when we walk up and down stairs, but it’s really nice when they do, and it’s still nice to watch because all those little things say the same thing... he protects and cares.

So I will carry on looking back, and watching old shows, from a time before fear took all the good writers and turned them into wimps, but I will hope and watch for the day one writer will have the courage to break through that wall of fear and give us a show that finally puts an end to all the nonsense.