Omggg Dutch categorizing their relationship as “hate flirting.” TBH the writers haaaaad to do Delle seyah/aneela Bc this shit is BLATANT & I for one woulda been pissed if I’d been an ongoing viewer and they kept teasing me like this w no follow thru lol. Delle seyah on the verge of passing out & Dutch telling her not to fantasize about this later Bc she was half carrying her omfg they’re cute I hate that I ship this lol
Oh, THAT ep. Oof, yep, they have a few eps that are extra shippy and that was the final one. And probably the most explicitly so.
For real, it was getting to be on the verge of genuinely promising something. Obviously many shows have gone farther and then ultimately done less, but I guess they were just like, why not? I might be misremembering, but I think I read that Aneela was always planned (it was Delle Seyah who stayed longer than intended by being that watchable), so they just decided to take advantage of their chemistry and put them together in at least this form?
Which was super weird because Aneela is SO MUCH not Dutch. Dutch has a sense of humor, warmth, she’s savvy. Aneela…might have a sense of humor and be savvy, heh, but not like Dutch. I joked with my friend that Aneela is Helena to Duch’s Sarah Manning but she’s also…Rachel? Though maybe their massive differences made it easier to accept the substitution?
I just deleted a bunch of stuff that was probably unnecessarily spoilery, even though I assume you know the gist of the following seasons. Let me know how the watching goes!