Originally Posted by
Ambaryerno
I'd say don't. A lot of the fanbase didn't like some of the decisions they made during the film.
The key thing about these three shows is that while the characters' relationships were a significant part of their story, they weren't the ONLY part. They had lives and conflicts of their own, and didn't NEED constant artificial drama keeping them apart or breaking them up to generate interesting stories (in fact every time the writers did so the fanbase was NOT pleased, especially when the writers tried to find increasingly convoluted means of dragging out the final hookup).
And that's GOOD WRITING. Too many writers focusing on romance subplots hook the couple up and then shrug and say, "Now what?" because they can't think past the Will They/Won't They angst and find other things to mine for stories. It's like they forget the characters have lives outside the relationship and can't evolve the story telling past the drama. Well, IRL couples have challenges and conflicts of their own, and it isn't 24/7 partner drama. I'd rather see stories where one partner is experiencing a problem of their own, and the other supports them through it. For example, the primary conflict through the first half of season 4 of Chuck was whether Chuck's mother was good or bad. One of Sarah's main roles in the plot was protecting Chuck's "blindspot," since he admitted he wasn't able to trust his own judgment where she was concerned. It played to the strengths of their relationship and generated some secondary conflicts between them, (particularly when Sarah has Chuck's mother arrested behind his back after her cover story fails to check out) but without introducing dysfunction or toxicity (I still say that anyone writing relationships should be made to sit down and watch Chuck, because that staff nailed it).