"Boyce, leave them alone, they've probably got chlamydia!"

[mooging]

I was watching Green Wing today. (What follows has spoilers for, er, the whole shebang, just to warn people who are staying away from GW spoilers for whatever reason).

And I was thinking, you know, Mac/Caroline is just the pairing. I mean, it's the pairing you watch that makes you sit up a bit and clutch your hands together and squeak when anything looks remotely likely, it's the pairing that makes you go all incoherant and rubbishy when there's kissing, or looking, or touching, it's the pairing that makes you cry at all the kissing (hormonal today, sorry), and go all flaily at the looove.

But it's also the pairing that sodding hurts the most, you know? Just, just, every time you think something's finally going right, there's always something to get in the way. I was watching the Holly episodes today, and I forget which episode it's in, but, but, when Caroline's waiting at Mac's (ridiculously nice) home for him and then he turns up with Holly and the kid, and she's mortified and he's that mixture of angry and defeated and doing-the-right-thing, because that's what he does, and she leaves without even taking his jacket, and he sits on the edge of the pool table and is very quiet, and, and, I just, I can't watch that scene too much.

Also, I can't watch the season 2 finale at all, and the special hurts me too, and so I have to stop at 2x07, but even then there's that dinner where Sue White just pops up and Caroline goes home and I, augh, I don't know.

But then there's Guy/Caroline, which I have annoyingly mixed feelings about. I mean, I love that Guy is just clearly so so about her, despite the initial I-will-have-her-because-I-can at the start of season one, and Caroline, well, she likes him, and she cares about him, but he's the second choice, he's always going to be the second choice, and both of them know it, which is just not healthy grounds for any relationship, not when she's always going to be thinking 'what if I was with Mac' and he's always going to be wondering if she would rather be with Mac, and both of them knowing that if Mac suddenly became an option...he would be the option, insomuch as there wouldn't even be a choice to really consider.

So that's always the painful bit to Guy/Caroline, but the way Caroline just gives in to it, knowing that at least there's something to be had rather than the eternal maybe with Mac and the way Guy keeps going after it, knowing that he;s never really going to be the one she really wants, that makes it all so much more painful to watch than if you were just seeing it as another obstacle to Mac/Caroline.

And then, and then, there's Mac/Guy, which...in the programme, not so much blatant slashy canon as undertones of slash but the friendship, that completely cracked out, dependent, bantering, competitive, understanding of a friendship that both of them take so completely for granted because they can, you know, it's not like either of them is actually going to walk away from it, and it just, augh, I don't know.

All of this in a comedy.

Aha, look at me over-thinking - well, I say 'thinking', I actually mean 'typing complete bollocks when I should be getting an early night', but there we go.

Oh, right, and I wanted to talk about the kissing (as one does).

Well, no, that's a bit of a lie, I wanted to talk about the Mac/Caroline kisses.

Every single one (and seriously without exception, because I am a sappy sap mcsap pants) has made me go 'oh!' and then go all squeaky with love. They're always so...so...unexpected, even when there's build-up, like leaning in or something, and they just seem so heartfelt, you know, there's nothing forced or ambiguous about them. It's like they know something's going to happen afterwards, like Mac suddenly remembering his inability to express himself ever, or Sue White, or accidental incest at Guy's, or Holly the Baby-Killer re-appearing with oodles of crazy, or unexpected fatal diseases with an 'a' and an 'e' in, or sudden Guy-in-nice-person shocker, or, you know, something, and so there's always that touch of melancholy, or, or, resignation to them along with all the sweet, romantic, surprise kissing aspect, and, and, eeeeee.

Oh, and if you forced me to pick a Mac/Caroline kiss, I know which one I'd choose. Not the party kiss (although eeeeeee a lot there, clearly) and not the one in 1x09 (yaye shadows) or the post-proposal one, or the one in 2x08 (tainted with OH NOES MAC JUST PLEASE GO TO THE TRAIN STATION panic there, I'm afraid), for me, it's the one in 2x05, before Holly the Baby-Killer suddenly has Unexpected Fake-Sprog-of-Mac's-Loins, the one that Caroline prefaces with 'what's a proper kiss then?' and Mac just grabs her and afbjhfbghngbgxsjhb.

That one.

I'll shut up now, having bored you all to death. Here, have some pictures (I have discovered a shameful bias towards Mac/Guy in my picture choices. In that I only have a group shot that has Caroline in. Oops.)

Er, in non-Green Wing related stuff:

- I have a tub of Ben and Jerry's 'Half Baked' ice-cream in the freezer, waiting for me.

- My mother bought me the first season of Grey's Anatomy (my guilty pleasure show, shh) on dvd, which I shall watch with the aforementioned ice-cream

- Tomorrow, I attempt to make an omelette for dinner.

- Does anyone know why the UK and the US differ on the length of Grey's Anatomy's first season? The US sells it as nine episodes long (the original first season) while the UK sticks the first five episodes of the second season in the first season boxset. Hmmm.

- ED BYRNE ON MOCK THE WEEK AGAIN THIS THURSDAY.

- You remember those fic requests you all made back in June? Yeah, I'm going to try and get through those before next Friday, so keep an eye out!

- I'm going to try and re-vamp this journal over the next week, in that I want to have a header, damn it, and I've got the time on my hands this week to try and make that happen. Any tips/advice?

PS: MAC IS PRETTY.

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[yaminokurisu.livejournal.com]

ED BYRNE <3

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ED BYRNE. ED BYRNE WHO IS SO PRETTY.