Anyways I'm rewatching Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman and I am thoroughly convinced there has never been a more beautiful and perfectly crafted slowburn romance than Dr. Mike and Sully.
It's truly devious, they spend all of season 1 dancing around their mutual attraction to each other and slowly becomes more and more integrated into each other's lives. It's to the point where Sully is as good as the kids' Dad. Seriously. There's evidence as early as season 1 that Brian at the very least sees him as such. And then they end the first season with Sully and Dr. Mike acknowledging something might be there but Sully isn't ready to face it yet so they put it on hold.
AND THEN THE SHOWRUNNERS HAD THE GALL TO PUT WHERE THE HEART IS PT 1+2 IN THE BEGINNING OF SEASON 2
He travels hundreds of miles across the country to see her and she's caught up in this whirlwind romance and it's fucking painful. 20 episodes of some of the most palpable tension roars to a head as Sully struggles with the possibility that he could lose Dr. Mike and Dr. Mike struggles with receiving the attention and interest Sully has been unable to show her.
AND THAT ARGUMENT ON THE TRAIN?
The way he yells "I love you!" at her and the way she clearly wants to call him all sorts of untoward things for being such an ass and running away and saying such things when the train starts moving and they have no time so she has to turn tail and run.
And then she makes the decision to go back home to Colorado Springs because Sully loves her, and she loves Sully, and she loves that little frontier town and the life she made there. So her and the kids pack back up and head home and make that long journey out west again.
and getting off the stage she has only one thought on her mind. Where is Sully? Is he off moping? Has he pulled one of his disappearing acts? She ignores everyone on the street, friends and family alike. She only has eyes for him. And just as she's given up and turned to direct the drivers on the matter of the luggage, Colleen spots him and gets Dr. Mike's attention.
and she tells him "I love you too."
Now I'm only up to Giving Thanks which is the 8th episode of season 2 and its the first official episode of them courting (and the first episode to mark three consecutive episode of a story instead of self contained vignettes) so I can't be very detailed but holy fuck. We don't get the culmination of this clusterfuck until A SEASON AND A HALF LATER. They are still doing will-they-won't-they plots UP UNTIL THE EPISODE BEFORE THEIR WEDDING EPISODES. These two SUFFER for their romance. It never comes easy but its always there and choking you because it's so thick.
truly one of the best romances ever written. the most exquisite torture. Jane Seymour and Joe Lando's chemistry should be criminal. And I need to go to sleep instead of crying about this.
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