Talk:Seddie/@comment-5115575-20160820125354/@comment-3247345-20160828061938

I'll be even more blunt about it than you're being: This is only the 2nd episode they've interacted in any significant manner and they're having them date with close to zero buildup. Everything you said is correct of course. There wasn't even a pretense of Zaya being a romantic pairing before the promo for Bear. None. Zilch. This was blatant laziness on MJ's part and he didn't handle it with a cool plot to make up for it like he did with the purse for Shawn and Angela in BMW.

I'll also say that this was totally predictable. I predicted this exact result back in October. It really wasn't hard. Think about it: The writers said that it would be a surprise. We knew that Lucas would end up with one of the girls once the love triangle started in Texas 1. We knew that it would be Riley once they began tearing down Lucaya in Texas 3 (granted not everyone saw this at the time, but I did). We knew from BMW that MJ likes putting interracial couples together to teach that there's nothing wrong with it. We knew that an African-American character conveniently showed up in season 2. To top it all off the interracial couple involved the rebel/latchkey kid on BMW, which would make Zaya a total repeat of that. The whole thing just fit together too perfectly. I really don't understand why more people weren't calling this when I was.

It seems every time we think MJ can't make the shipping situation any worse he outdoes himself. He's managed to piss off both the Lucaya and Riarkle fandoms. He ripped off the Zaya fans by not making building up the pairing to make it believable. Even Rucas is being deprived of moments despite the fact that they're freaking dating. For someone who favors the Rucas fandom so much MJ is doing a piss poor job at portraying Rucas. If I didn't know the backstory I probably wouldn't realize that Riley and Lucas are dating. It really feels like everything is back to normal even though it shouldn't be. They didn't have to waste a season on a stupid love triangle to get this result.