Oh, okay, thanks, anon! That might help the other anon. I feel like this is how it’d be for me too, if I’d started with just the clips. Alex and Vero are just so central to the show, it’s just a better experience watching the whole thing. it’s an enjoyable show on its own, but even as just a shipper, their love story is enriched by watching the whole thing. By everything we learn about their characters, by the contrasts between other characters and them, other relationships and theirs. Like, it’s totally understandable that you’d skip the Oscar and Conrado parts, but seeing Alex following Oscar’s footsteps in the first season, the way she seems to helplessly fall for Veronica and Albufera and Sol in the same way, it’s fun to watch.
Not all shows are like that, in Nurses there’s no mention of Ash and Caro outside their scenes, nobody talks about them, we don’t see Ash thinking about Caro away from her, their relationship isn’t treated better or differently from anyone else’s (although I guess it is the first to be brought into the friendship group and treated so domestically), aside from their characters being introduced separately in the first ep, we don’t learn much about them. I do think they’re very cute and I watch the full eps anyway, it’s an easy background watch show, but I’m just saying, I don’t push for watching the whole show for every series or ship. It’s just super rewarding for The Pier.