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I don't get attached to TV couples very often. I know TV's gimmicks and I never fall for them.

As I've said before, I hate it when shows treat me like a cow, putting a carrot on a stick in front of my face and telling me to march on the false promise I'll get to eat it. I'm not that stupid. And I don't see why so many people are.

I really feel sorry for people who watch Bones. By now, you would think they would have caught on. That show is built entirely on the tension between Temperance Weirdname and the Other Guy, and if they took it away, it would just be a show where people looked at bones for an hour. I don't know why, as a producer, you would WANT to make a show like this, when it's obvious to me you can only paint yourself further and further into a corner with it. If you keep them apart too long, people will get annoyed and walk away. But if you finally put them together, the show will be over and people will walk away anyway. It's hard to get steady work in Hollywood. If I were making a show, I'd want it to....last.

And of course, "Castle" is the same show, only with cops. A TV.com blurb stated, "Will this be the episode when they finally hook up?" HA! Dumb.

I was certain Chuck was also the same program. In fact, if its renewal had been more assured, it probably would have been, but everything pointed to a final 13-episode season and the writers figured, "let's go all-out." I just shook my head when people kept expecting Chuck and Sarah to suddenly jump on each other NEXT EPISODE. That's not how this kind of show works.

But this time, it did. And it caught me off-guard.

NBC added six more shows to the season after the first 13 were finalized. This meant they had no choice but to go forward with what they'd ended up doing -- ending the tension between C&S for good. I like them better as a couple than as a stupid David/Maddie clone, but if I'd known in advance I was going to get these scenes of tenderness at ALL, I wouldn't have approached the relationship so cynically and gotten a little more into it.

I didn't care if Chuck and Sarah got together because I didn't think I'd see it. The couple I was actually rooting for was Morgan and Anna. I couldn't help myself. I think Anna is more interesting than Sarah -- Sarah is kind of a cookie-cutter hot blonde stereotype, but Anna is a smart mysterious offbeat Asian cutie, and the female point of view the Buy More sorely lacked after she started disappearing.

I mean.....the facts are there. I don't see how anyone can think otherwise. It's way easier to like Anna than Sarah. It's like how the only likeable person on NCIS is Abby. Same deal, same appeal.

Since Morgan and Anna are supporting cast members I figured the writers wouldn't make tension a priority, so I was safe to root for them -- and I was right. They got together rather quickly and I was happy. Then the show started using less and less of Anna, until she finally disappeared. Then....I was not happy.

The slashed budget for Season 3 meant Anna couldn't appear at all -- until the other six episodes were added and she was announced as a guest star. I was never expecting to ever see her again. I've been looking forward to this week's episode for a long time, but with slight caution, in case it was a one-time deal.

But what if it wasn't? An interview with creator Josh Schwartz stated he was "excited about Julia Ling returning." Returning forever? Eeeee!!

So the episode began and Anna's appearances were extremely light, which was irritating, but I figured it was going somewhere. She approached Morgan twice trying to say something but he ran off somewhere else both times. I nervously awaited what she was trying to do. The final act came on.

Anna: "I just came to return some stuff you left with me."
Rats.

Anna: "But now I want to give you something else!"
*BIG KISS*

AAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!
IT HAPPENED! I CAN'T BELIEVE IT REALLY------

Morgan: "No, Anna, I've changed. This is really the end. Goodbye forever."
*walks away*

Guh----------buh---------whaaaaaa..........

Seriously. That was it.

That. was. IT.

It was a miserable evening. I felt like just locking myself in the basement and eating detergent. Then the stages of grief shifted and I fell into uncontrollable rage. So many things about this scene make me angry -- the fact that it was intended to take Anna off the show for good, and the really bitter fact that I'm in the minority here and that most people, who don't care about Morgan and Anna, will be writing "Good for him for sticking up for himself" in their reviews tomorrow.

This is why I've resisted getting attached to TV couples in the first place. For THIS EXACT REASON. I can't believe it. They found my one vulnerability, the ONE TIME I let myself get shippy, and fired with everything. They KNEW what would get my hopes up -- they KNEW I would accept nothing less than a full on-screen kiss, and THEN they trashed me! Damn you to hell, Josh Schwartz.....DAMN YOU TO $##@^^ HELL!

In over twenty years watching television, I've never felt so sucker-punched by a show in my life. Now I want Chuck to get cancelled, just because of this.

Oh, and Takineko, if you're reading this....Sheldon and Penny are NEVER GETTING TOGETHER. Give it up.
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