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“Im FINE with shipping but (person A) snd (person B) are platonic! Again, I’m FINE with shipping but I will continue to make posts about how terrible it is to ship this couple, and why youre not allowed to. Again, I am FINE with people shipping whatever they want.”

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Can we bring the veep fandom back. Can we have a veep renaissance. Who can I talk to to make this happen.

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Would you be willing/interested in doing an analysis of Dan and Amy from Veep? Specifically how their relationship changed with the new showrunner, the seemingly over the top horrible treatment Dan displayed towards her in season 7, and what Reid said about him not actually feeling romantic love towards Amy? And I searched your tags and saw you thought the writers were just too coward to make them actually happen, could you expand?

OK. So. We have Reid's quote

“I think Dan has a lot of love for Amy, but I think from his part, none of it is romantic. One, it’s just getting his rocks off, And two, I think he really appreciates her. I think he sees that we’re birds of a feather,” he said. “I think Dan is certainly more immoral than she is, but I think he’s like ‘if I can just get her to come down to my level, we operate really well together. Because she’s sharky, she’s cagey, she’s smart, and she’s vicious. I think Dan sees himself a little bit in her. I think that’s where that connection comes. But I don’t think Dan has romantic love for… almost anyone.”

and my main issue with this quote is that he says "But I don't think Dan has romantic love for ... almost anyone" because the 'almost anyone', the exception to this, would be Amy because of everything he said before that.

Because yes, Dan does not put any value on romantic relationships. It is established in the pilot that Dan's primary priority is his career and that he will use romantic relationships to advance it

and he discards these relationships as soon as he feels like they're no longer of value to him

which is something Dan does consistently. He doesn't value interpersonal relationships at all, including potential friendships. He cuts off Jonah when he realizes that he can't use him for information.

But he never does that with Amy. He never sees Amy as valueless to him

Certainly, they'll compete, and it might not stay clean, but he wants her career to advance with his, he wants them to advance together,

when he thinks that she's pregnant, he is genuinely concerned about what that would do for her career

when she leaves to be with Selina, he's flabbergasted because he thinks it's career suicide

He wants to win but he also wants to see her win

That is the highest form of intimacy for a character like Dan, and in the earlier/Iannucci seasons (and sorta season 5), that is present.

Yes, Dan is self-obsessed, yes, he is self-centred, yes, he is narcissistic, yes he is opportunistic and insensitive, but he looks out for Amy

to the point that even though he's bad with "basic empathy", he does do his best to be of comfort to her regarding her dad

and even saves her from her family at the hospital while also allowing himself to be dragged to a family Thanksgiving a few seasons later.

I also find his jealousy of Ed in season 2

interesting because of how he says, "You swore you were only going to date outside of D.C."

because I don't think it would be a stretch to say that Dan would want to be a power couple with Amy and it may not be romantic in the traditional sense of the word but in the context of Veep and in the context of Dan and in the context of Amy, and Dan and Amy, hitching himself to the one person who consistently helps him with jobs and access and who he in turn consistently helps with jobs and access and who have an odd sense of loyalty to each other

there is a type of romance to that.

So the earlier seasons do all of this while also being aware of Amy and Dan actually having chemistry and acknowledging that there is tension there and showcasing that tension in their interactions. In the later seasons --- which I think butcher all of the characters --- it's almost as though Dan and Amy don't have a personal relationship at all. Dan becomes such a caricature of himself that he's almost not a human character anymore and therefore how he treats Amy is absent all of the subtleties and -- Selina's favourite word -- nuances that made their dynamic work and that also made it fun because Dan is written exactly as how the characters facetiously describe him without any other layers, which then impacts the Amy and Dan relationship.

I don't remember when I said the writes were cowards but I think I meant it more like, PUT THEM TOGETHER, YOU COWARDS.

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