Ross and Rachel were one of TV's greatest couples. For ten years, we watched Friends every Thursday. We were strung along unwillingly, hoping to catch a hint of when they would finally be together, once and for all. Every year there would be some kind of incident that would make us believe that would be the year. He realized he was still in love with her when she was with someone else. Then she realized that she loved him, just when he decided to get married for the umpteenth time. It was not until the very last episode, the very last half hour in the Friends saga, that we were finally satisfied.
I have been addicted to TV for as long as I can remember. I dedicate my time and emotion to select television shows, and become bothered when that dedication is not rewarded. Television has an awful tendency to present its viewers with two people who are obviously soul mates, and then proceed to bring them together and tear them apart in a maddening pattern.
Every series does this. It seems to me that the producers think that once the two characters are together forever, the show can only go downhill. Gilmore Girls, a show I have been dedicated to for five years, seems to employ this philosophy. Everyone who watches the show knows that Lorelai and Luke belong together-even people who do not watch the show know that. It has been obvious from the pilot episode. At this present moment, however, Lorelai is married to Christopher, Rory's dad, and we are forced to wait for something to go wrong before she runs back to Luke. It is frustrating really.
Gilmore Girls should take a page out of the Grey's Anatomy book. Since day one, we have known that Derek and Meredith belong together. In a move that stunned me, the producers of the show decided that in its third year, it was finally time the two got together. This is much better than the seven years of Gilmore Girls, and the ten years of Friends. What's more is that the show is better than ever. Grey's Anatomy will not fall apart because their power couple is now together-if anything, it will become stronger as the relationship is explored.
I hope more shows follow the example set by Grey's. The steadfast fans of any television show will not stop watching once their two favorite characters find love. Of course I know I should not get my hopes up. Grey's still has the power to break McDreamy and Meredith apart, and keep their fans in pain for seven more years.
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