The thing I hate most is how they’re trying to frame Cat and Spencer’s relationship as two people who are in love with (or at least attracted to) each other despite their natures. I hate it so so much. The show always stops short of having Spencer out right deny he has feelings for Cat and she treats it like a very real possibility.
Maybe I am misreading their chemistry or unspoken signals or whatever but for me they don’t have the right power dynamic for enemies to lovers or even enemies who hate each other but are still attracted to each other.
Look, I like villain/hero romances. They’re difficult to do well and it tends to only work in fanfic but I find the dynamic interesting. So the reason I hate Cat/Spencer (Spat?) isn’t because he’s the hero and she’s the villain it’s because she’s the abuser. Their power dynamic has always been really skewed. He’s law enforcement, she’s criminal but in every encounter Cat has always had some emotional leverage that upends that. For a conflict point of view its GOLD, but as a relationship? nah
Entropy: Yeah it’s a date but Spencer is there because Garcia, one of his best friends/his family is in danger. His goal is to save his friend.
Red Light: She abducted his mother.
Given what we know about Spencer sense of loyalty I don’t think attraction would factor into either of those circumstances. I can definitely see him viewing her as an adversary that’s more dangerous than any other (Hankel for instance) and their animosity is definitely personal but how can it be tinged with attraction or love or whatever? It’s not that Cat’s hurt him, it’s that she’s hurt people Spencer cares about. That’s the hurdle I can’t get over.
All that “she’s right you can’t fake that” shit about kissing Cat in “Date Night” makes zero sense.
(Wow this turned into a rant)
