Showing and not telling is always more satisfying, I think - and a lack of the latter leaves more room for interpretation, which is nice.
I didn't mind Buffy's "I love you" because she was young and swooning and that, but I didn't really believe it. In, say, Becoming II? I believe it. The relationship has to earn that credibility first, and then we can't be constantly hit over the head with it. And it certainly can't erase all of their issues, because that's unrealistic and boring.
Heh, lack of 'I love you's can work for any Doctor 'ship, really. (See, my icon is relevant! :D) Though I think one thing I don't like about the Doctor/Rose ship is - she can say it, and he can't, and it kind of adds to the unbalance? Yeah.
(And I know we're supposed to assume Handy said it, but thinking it was "You're fantastic" just makes me wibble, because I am pitiful that way.)
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I didn't mind Buffy's "I love you" because she was young and swooning and that, but I didn't really believe it. In, say, Becoming II? I believe it. The relationship has to earn that credibility first, and then we can't be constantly hit over the head with it. And it certainly can't erase all of their issues, because that's unrealistic and boring.
Heh, lack of 'I love you's can work for any Doctor 'ship, really. (See, my icon is relevant! :D) Though I think one thing I don't like about the Doctor/Rose ship is - she can say it, and he can't, and it kind of adds to the unbalance? Yeah.
(And I know we're supposed to assume Handy said it, but thinking it was "You're fantastic" just makes me wibble, because I am pitiful that way.)