Here's my thought -
If you'd come up with this show about this man
and created a
Love Story with the
Pretty Girlbut then discovered that he actually had
major chemistry with the
Sexy Bossand decided to
explore that instead
and found you'd
opened up a whole gigantic story arcand you decided it was
so goodthat you wanted to
continue it into the futureand ultimately have them end up togetherBUT you wanted to
take several seasons to get thereand you'd reached the
Moonlighting Shark Jump pointand so you needed to find
a way to take a gigantic detour backwards / sidewards...
- is this the way you'd do it?
jl_in_the_lane
hopeful
...and really must get round to watching the finale...
...but...
..."moonlighting shark jump point"? Why the "moonlighting" bit?
No, I know, I posted it in house_cuddy, which is completely mental at the moment - it's all very depressing and blllllllllaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh
I was using this journal instead of the Memories functiony thing again, just cause I liked the way I'd phrased it.
I want someone famous to say it so someone else can turn it into an animated text thingy on youtube. :)
...and really must get round to watching the finale...
Ya-HUH. Allright, how would youspell it?
..."moonlighting shark jump point"? Why the "moonlighting" bit?
You know what the moonlighting effect is... right?
http://www.slate.com/id/2139176/
http://www.precogs.net/2006/04/moonlighting-effect.html
and, to be mean and nasty and use up your day:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Moonlighting
I have diligently not linked the many other tv tropes articles I have tried very hard not to read in the last ten minutes while collecting that link. But Will They Won't They is a relevant one.
I'd just like to offer up Frasier as an example of a show that avoided the problem quite nicely.
...did you ever read the fic shipping tvtropes and wikipedia?