Your interpretation is not totally dissimilar to what happened on the show, actually. (To wit: Pre-show, Maggie leaves the confining upper class family she was born into and rebuilds herself as a bush pilot in Alaska. In the pilot, Joel comes to Alaska to work off a scholarship, desperate to get back to New York ASAP. They irritate the crap out of each other. He eventually, reluctantly, becomes part of the small town community he's moved to, falls in love with and gets engaged [briefly, like for three hours] to Maggie, but contract issues with Rob Morrow ensured that Joel returned to NYC pretty soon after, in theory five years older and wiser, while Janine Turner was still contracted for the rest of the season Maggie realized she belonged in Alaska. Alas.)
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Date: 2010-05-30 02:22 am (UTC)Your interpretation is not totally dissimilar to what happened on the show, actually. (To wit: Pre-show, Maggie leaves the confining upper class family she was born into and rebuilds herself as a bush pilot in Alaska. In the pilot, Joel comes to Alaska to work off a scholarship, desperate to get back to New York ASAP. They irritate the crap out of each other. He eventually, reluctantly, becomes part of the small town community he's moved to, falls in love with and gets engaged [briefly, like for three hours] to Maggie, but contract issues with Rob Morrow ensured that Joel returned to NYC pretty soon after, in theory five years older and wiser, while
Janine Turner was still contracted for the rest of the seasonMaggie realized she belonged in Alaska. Alas.)