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Date Posted: 07:00:19 10/21/04 Thu
Author: Islandgirl
Subject: UST on "JAG" and a shipper rant from me

This is an excerpt from a long article on "JAG" that I came across on the AP Entertainment Wire. I'm just focusing on the shipper aspects of article. Comments from me at the end.

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Catherine Bell, 36, London native who moved to California with her Iranian mother, plays Lt. Col. Sarah ‘‘Mac’’ Mackenzie, the JAG officer and Marine who prosecutes cases or defends clients, often in trials where the opposing counsel is her fellow JAG officer, Naval Cmdr. Harmon ‘‘Harm’’ Rabb Jr. (David James Elliott).
In the series’ early episodes, Mac emphasized her desire to be taken seriously as a lawyer, Bell said.
‘‘Mac has changed a lot. She’s softened up,’’ Bell said, but added, ‘‘Mac is a pretty strong woman.’’
Bell said she would like to see Mac and Harm finally become romantically entangled after all the sexual tension that has happened since ‘‘JAG’’ premiered in 1995.
‘‘Mac really wants a baby. You’d think she and Harm would get together,’’ Bell said.
Zito agreed fans would like to see that romance.
‘‘When we can see the end of the show coming, we’ll consider it. Fans will be discouraged if they don’t end up together. But do you remember ’Moonlighting,’ or a more recent example, ’The Guardian?’’’
(Both series were canceled after they ended the sexual tension between their main characters.)
In the case of ‘‘Moonlighting,’’ the question of whether a romance would happen had kept viewers watching. The series lost much of its humor and drive when the characters finally got together.
As much as Mac might want a husband and a baby, starting a family while building a career is difficult, Bell said. ‘‘I’m glad I found my husband before the success of ’JAG.’’’

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My comments: ARRRGGHH!!!!
1.) I really think we need to declare a statute of limitations on bringing "Moonlighting" into these kinds of arguments. I'll concede that the UST between Maddie and Dave was the main reason most people watched the show and, for that *particular* show, ending the UST pretty much killed the show. But it debuted over 20 years ago. I think we can be relatively safe in assuming that even if they *had* kept the UST going, the show would probably be off the air by this point.
2,) I didn't even know they had UST on "The Guardian"; I thought the primary "relationship" that show focused on was father/son. I can't really comment on the UST there, because I never watched the show. However, the general feeling when it got cancelled last year, despite relatively strong ratings, was that it was being axed because it had committed the "sin" of appealing almost exclusively to viewers in the 35+ age range, rather than the 18-34-year-old crowd so desperately sought by advertisers. . .not because of anything the characters had done.
3.) Why don't any of these types of articles ever mention the large number of shows that get cancelled *DESPITE* having unresolved UST between their main characters 'til the bitter end?? A good recent example of this was "Dark Angel." They kept the UST between Max and Logan going through season two because conventional wisdom dictated that, once it was resolved, the show would lose viewers and quickly be cancelled. Guess what?? The show was cancelled after the end of the second season anyway!! Refusing to resolve the UST didn't "save" the show, it just left the loyal viewers without any sense of closure. Another example would be "Jake 2.0" which set up a UST relationship between Jake and Diane, didn't even come close to resolving it (they never so much as kissed), and got cancelled midway through its first season.
Rant over.

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