My salty thoughts for anyone who wants to join the pity party.
Woof. I actually held off on creating a ghoulcy sideblog because I had a bad feeling. Not so much about it being canon. Which yeah that was a pipe dream. But just a wariness about what the ship would look like after the finale. I actually thought Barb was popping out of a cryo tube and maybe the next quest was for Janey.
I was still attracted to the chemistry and the story setup though. As long as the relationship remained intimate and important there could still be fuel to the fire. Even with one half of the ship in a marriage. The way so many detective/partners 'will they/ won't they' operate. (Benson & Stabler cough)
But yeah no fucking way. Cooper is 100% in love with his wife and Ghoulcy aren't even partners. They had a very nice platonic full circle story. Which I could've been pleased with if we hadn't of had this way cooler story dangled in front of us.
I'm baffled and irked right now most about why play keep away with BarbCoop? Now I don't ship it at all, but the writers chose to alienate affections towards it. S1 "Alimony" most flashbacks about Barb being evil, Coop was "searching for 'her' (singular). You might say it was for the fake divorce reveal, but... there was no reveal. He asked where his 'fucking family' was in s1 and that was post-divorce. S2 opened up with Lucy knowing he had a WIFE and daughter. We already had the same s1 sympathetic (I guess) motive for Barb, she wanted her family in a good vault. So really it just served to wedge the audience against what should've been this epic sweeping romance we're DYING to see reunite. Instead, it left Coopers family like a matte finish backdrop. As real as the Punisher's family is. Sure, they're a powerful motive, but you don't actually want to see Frank Castle back with them.
THIS should've been an epic uplifting moment. Instead, it just left me ice cold.