Happy Belated Festivus! (+ The Airing of Grievances)

Yesterday, was Festivus and I forgot to post it. Well, I want to wish all who celebrated yesterday a wonderful Festivus. Below are a couple of grievances that I wanted to air.

The Airing of Grievances:

- Why are there so many reboots, remakes, sequels, prequels, etc.? Why are the Hollywood executives not taking more chances with new and different ideas? Instead they are just rehashing old shows and movies. And a lot of times, the new and different tends to get cancelled before the show can find viewers. I can't believe there is this much of a demand for all these reboots, etc., it just feels like Hollywood found a low stakes form of creating. Instead of investing in new ideas.


- Platonic male best friends on shows has been the norm since the beginning of TV, which is why I don't understand where all these negative articles and posts are claiming that there aren't any anymore. They claim that there are too many slow burn friends-to-lovers relationships that have caused the decline in platonic male best friends. I don't understand how they can make that claim when there are no slow burn male best friends-to-lovers that's has happened. Where are all of these relationships at, that they are seeing?

I notice that these same critics don't have the same energy for platonic women and men friends-to-lovers relationships. Especially since this is where the majority of TV show relationships are created from. For instance, there's: Lorelai Gilmore and Luke Danes (Gilmore Girls), Janine Teagues and Gregory Eddie (Abbott Elementary), Seeley Booth and Dr. Temperance "Bones" Brennan (Bones), Monica Geller and Chandler Bing (Friends), Whitley Gilbert and Dwayne Wayne (A Different World), Rachel Green and Ross Geller (Friends), Lucy Chen and Tim Bradford (The Rookie), Jessica Day and Nick Miller (New Girl), Penny and Dr. Leonard Hofstadter (The Big Bang Theory), Amy Santiago and Jake Peralta (Brooklyn Nine-Nine), Jemma Simmons and Leo Fitz (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), Laura Winslow and Steve Urkel (Family Matters), just to name a few. I love all of these relationships which is why I don't understand why there is negative enegery towards the idea of slow burn male best friends-to-lovers.

There are a few male/male friends-to-lovers: David Rose and Patrick Brewer (Schitt's Creek), Charlie Spring and Nick Nelson (Heartstopper) and Dr. Oliver Wolf and Dr. Josh Nichols (Brilliant Minds) but they are not slow burn. It didn't take long for the characters to end up dating. Lately, a lot of this negative discourse started up because the popular non-canon ship of Edmundo "Eddie" Diaz and Evan "Buck" Buckley from 9-1-1 is getting a lot of attention. For the past seven years, fans have been hoping that Buck and Eddie will get the chance to go canon. And with the ship's fanbase increasing, the ship appears to be garnering more attention from fandom and entertainment sites. If Eddie and Buck do go canon, I believe this will be the first slow burn male/male friends-to-lovers relationship. Which would be wonderful but also disappointing that this ship would be the first (but hopefully not the last).