I feel like quite a few shows that kind of toe the line between 'procedural' and 'character-driven' genres tend to do this with their would-be couples. And it never makes any sense. Characters should be put together when it makes sense within the story. Dragging it out until the very last episode of the series isn't going to do anything but bore the audience to death or make them cease caring about the two characters in question because the storytelling has become unrealistic. (Ranting, I know, but this is a big pet peeve of mine).
You are preaching to the choir, here. Besides leading to frustrating tv, never getting main characters together really limits the number of stories that are told, which sucks.
In HIMYM both actresses (playing Robin and Lily) were pregnant (around the same time) but the show didn't put it in. Robin has never wanted kids, and Lily wasn't specifically trying for one yet with her husband, so it really made sense that the show did this. Now Lily is pregnant, and it makes sense within the story (though admittedly she and her husband trying for kids had some definite cliches thrown in there).
HIMYM is one of the examples I mention when I talk about tv shows doing it right - they didn't let a cast pregnancy manipulate the narrative arc (and as a bonus they had some really funny tv in-jokes about the pregnancies).
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You are preaching to the choir, here. Besides leading to frustrating tv, never getting main characters together really limits the number of stories that are told, which sucks.
In HIMYM both actresses (playing Robin and Lily) were pregnant (around the same time) but the show didn't put it in. Robin has never wanted kids, and Lily wasn't specifically trying for one yet with her husband, so it really made sense that the show did this. Now Lily is pregnant, and it makes sense within the story (though admittedly she and her husband trying for kids had some definite cliches thrown in there).
HIMYM is one of the examples I mention when I talk about tv shows doing it right - they didn't let a cast pregnancy manipulate the narrative arc (and as a bonus they had some really funny tv in-jokes about the pregnancies).