#anyway i think i've rambled enough that i can tag for my own filing system now

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One of these days I’m going to learn how to make gifs Specifically so I can make Silent Witness gifs that aren’t bloody Harry/Nikki, I am fed up

Things that are infinitely more interesting than a tired Will They/Won’t They that ended in a Nope, They Won’t:

The genuine and loving and multifaceted and complicated friendship that Harry and Nikki have with each other completely independent of the wibbly unspoken romo thing

Harry and Leo’s bickering but deeply caring friendship that’s endured through innumerable rocky patches caused by them both being stubborn asshole idiots

Nikki’s friendship with Leo which took longer to develop because she joined the team later but became just as deep and has its own variety of drama

Leo’s whole existence in general? Where’s the love, he’s Great and also tragic and very drily funny and he had a great friendship with Sam Ryan while she was around that deserves so much more attention

Sam Ryan, while I’m on the subject! Loved her, wish she’d gotten to meet Nikki

The trio with their fascinating habit of switching off between the classic Spock/Kirk/McCoy trio roles (logic/balance/emotions) depending on who’s most Involved(TM) this week, but usually settling out with Nikki as the relentless McCoy, Harry as the angry Spock and Leo as a Kirk who will pick a side as often as mediate

Nikki as a person in her own right, this brilliant insightful scientist who frequently gets herself into trouble because she believes in telling people’s stories and damn the politics, who struggles with her need to have faith and how hard her job makes it to hold on that faith

Harry as a person, bloody hell, I could talk for hours about how he’s this incredible three-dimensional character who’s the rationalist and the sceptic and also loves so deeply that he gets his heart broken again and again by cases and friends and lovers but he never stops caring, and even though he tries to cover it up with glib jokes and sarcasm and his sharp temper you can see how much he cares because he wears his emotions on his sleeve and is allowed to cry and generally exhibit deep emotions so much more than that character archetype usually is

Any of the fascinating thematic stuff that the show gets into, like how different people react to death in general and personal loss specifically

The fact that Harry is Clearly Bi and yet somehow the writers didn’t notice

All the fascinating what-ifs if you keep Harry and Leo around but still bring in Jack and Clarissa because they’re Incredible and we’ve been Robbed by not getting to see Harry come to visit and immediately become instant best friends with Clarissa

I could go on forever!

The show is so much more than just that one ship! And I’m not saying don’t ship it, knock yourself out if that’s what you enjoy, I’m just a crotchety aromantic who couldn’t give a shit about will they/won’t they plotlines and Really Wishes that there was content for all the other elements of the show because they are brilliant and underrated. Where are my gifsets of Harry’s ridiculous jokes and of his banter with Leo and of the team doing their trio thing? If I wasn’t snowed under with art stuff I’m serious that I’d be learning to gif out of spite by now. There! Is! So! Much! More! To! This! Show! Than! One! Ship!

/end rant

I’m doing my once-every-few-months intense crime drama obsession thing, don’t mind me