They have sex in the fourth season ("Ill Wind"), but decide that it was purely the product of these winds that make everyone in town kind of crazy. They say there's no way they'll ever have a romantic relationship.
However, in the middle of the fifth season, without much fanfare, they...start dating. It stays on the backburner for the rest of that season and into the sixth, although it does provide for some lovely moments between them. (Like "Fish Story," where Maggie wants to prepare Seder dinner for Joel and he feels weird about it; he then has a dream where he and his old rabbi are in the belly of a big fish and the rabbi says that not sharing Passover with Maggie means he's denying her intimacy; they have Passover with a bunch of other characters, and it's a really lovely ending.)
In the mid-sixth season episode "Full Upright Position," they're on a plane to St. Petersburg and have a real knock-down, drag-out fight, at the end of which Joel proposes. (Yeah, it's a bit of a headscratcher.) When they get back home, they decide to get unengaged, and just live together for a while. This lasts, um, half an episode. In "Upriver," every time they try to have sex, a gun goes off somewhere nearby. Joel is understandably freaked out. Maggie finds it kind of a turnon. She realizes it's not going to work, and kicks him out. He goes very native for several episodes up in an Indian village, and they bring in the doctor who replaced Rob Morrow. (So if only Rob had wanted to stay, this madness might not have happened!)
Several episodes of that later, Joel comes back, finds Maggie, and drags her on a quest for the Tlingit version of Atlantis. What follows is an episode so allegorical I'm not totally sure what it's allegorizing. In any event, in the middle of the woods, he sees the skyline of New York. He somehow realizes it's like a transdimensional portal, and asks Maggie to come with him. She says her place is in Cicely. He kisses her goodbye, and...goes back to New York. Or something. Days later, Maggie gets a postcard in the mail reading "New York is a state of mind. Love, Joel."
And then the rest of the season gets sadder and sadder. Maggie takes up with Chris. The doctor who replaces Joel is really boring.
So, yeah, I basically disown the sixth season, except for a few really good ones at the very beginning. *g* And this was kind of essay-like, wasn't it? Sorry! But then again, I suppose "complicated" is a given with this show...
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Date: 2006-11-07 05:04 pm (UTC)They have sex in the fourth season ("Ill Wind"), but decide that it was purely the product of these winds that make everyone in town kind of crazy. They say there's no way they'll ever have a romantic relationship.
However, in the middle of the fifth season, without much fanfare, they...start dating. It stays on the backburner for the rest of that season and into the sixth, although it does provide for some lovely moments between them. (Like "Fish Story," where Maggie wants to prepare Seder dinner for Joel and he feels weird about it; he then has a dream where he and his old rabbi are in the belly of a big fish and the rabbi says that not sharing Passover with Maggie means he's denying her intimacy; they have Passover with a bunch of other characters, and it's a really lovely ending.)
In the mid-sixth season episode "Full Upright Position," they're on a plane to St. Petersburg and have a real knock-down, drag-out fight, at the end of which Joel proposes. (Yeah, it's a bit of a headscratcher.) When they get back home, they decide to get unengaged, and just live together for a while. This lasts, um, half an episode. In "Upriver," every time they try to have sex, a gun goes off somewhere nearby. Joel is understandably freaked out. Maggie finds it kind of a turnon. She realizes it's not going to work, and kicks him out. He goes very native for several episodes up in an Indian village, and they bring in the doctor who replaced Rob Morrow. (So if only Rob had wanted to stay, this madness might not have happened!)
Several episodes of that later, Joel comes back, finds Maggie, and drags her on a quest for the Tlingit version of Atlantis. What follows is an episode so allegorical I'm not totally sure what it's allegorizing. In any event, in the middle of the woods, he sees the skyline of New York. He somehow realizes it's like a transdimensional portal, and asks Maggie to come with him. She says her place is in Cicely. He kisses her goodbye, and...goes back to New York. Or something. Days later, Maggie gets a postcard in the mail reading "New York is a state of mind. Love, Joel."
And then the rest of the season gets sadder and sadder. Maggie takes up with Chris. The doctor who replaces Joel is really boring.
So, yeah, I basically disown the sixth season, except for a few really good ones at the very beginning. *g* And this was kind of essay-like, wasn't it? Sorry! But then again, I suppose "complicated" is a given with this show...