^ Insulting is really the best word for it overall. That's definitely how I felt when I first read that article, and it's how I still feel about it. Even looking at it objectively, whether you like EC or not, it's a bit of an insult to our intelligence to spend 3+ years building this up, pushing the sexual tension, making such a huge deal out of that triangle, and now suddenly just decide that all of that can be thrown out the window in favor of a sibling-like relationship. Um? Really??
Eric and Calleigh had such a strong base
before they got together. They were friends - possibly best friends, they trusted each other implicitly, and they had an easygoing relationship with flirty banter, plenty of fun scenes along with all the more serious moments they shared together. She was with him when he first found out Marisol had died. He was there with her right after Hagen committed suicide in her lab. They've
always had each other's backs like that. All that to say - I
do believe that if their romance were to fizzle out, they
could go back to that because I don't doubt for a moment that their friendship was one of the most important things in both of their lives.
But it would NOT happen overnight as we've been led to believe, and THAT is what I find so very insulting. That just doesn't happen -
maybe if you're coming out of a no-strings-attached, FWB kind of relationship, but that is NOT what EC was. Again, like it or not, we've been given too many indications that the feelings between Eric and Calleigh are/were
strong. He chased her for 2+ years; he
refused to give up. She finally stopped fighting him, and this is
Calleigh - if the feelings between them weren't strong, she could have fought him forever. I'll admit that I haven't come to the point where I'd say they're in love with each other yet, but it's clear that they care for each other far,
far more than they've cared about
most of their other significant others. One of his biggest fears has been the thought of having to live his life without her. She was terrified of something happening to him during all the Sharova business; she's been furious with him numerous times about his keeping things from her in the previous couple of seasons,
but she has stayed with him. Calleigh wouldn't do that if she didn't have such a huge investment in this relationship - she would have walked.
To think we're supposed to believe that they can go from
that to the supposed brother-sister relationship they have now is just infuriating. It's just not something that happens that quickly, and honestly, I believe it would take months, if not years for EC as we know them to make it back to that point - they're just too deeply ingrained upon each other.
Like some posters have suggested, this latest E/C detour is most likely the CSIM writers' lazy, inept way of dealing with the limitations of Emily's pregnancy, in terms of both action and romantic scenes.
This irritates me even more. Have Eric knowingly slip a bit too close behind her when he's walking by her in the lab; have them both smile at that. Have him touch her hand beneath the layout table or something during a team scene; have her throw out a casual "see you at home later" as he's leaving for the day. Have him ask if she wants to get dinner or something. I mean, damn, it's not rocket science. Sure, Emily's limited, but that doesn't mean Eric and Calleigh can't share the little moments that made me fall in love with them in the first place.
It's just uncreative - I guess they can't give her all these crazy nearly-kill-Calleigh stunts to do anymore, so they're just not going to do anything at all? Ugh.
I'm bitter.
In order for 2 characters to go on an emotional journey, there has to be at least some significant, periodic contact between them. Without that, there is no movement, and thus, no journey.
