Ohhh, too many open canons, I hear you. NEVERTHELESS, SHOW IS AWESOME PITCH.
The thing about White Collar is that I am actually not sure what show most people are watching! I imagine that a majority of people (outside the fandom, obviously, although from observation some inside the fandom as well) are not watching a show about kinky poly shenanigans, but what other show they could be watching, I'm not entirely sure! Because in my brain the only reading of this show is that it is about amazing kinky poly shenanigans.
Which is not to say that there aren't other great things about the show -- I love the entire supporting cast, including badass competent dry-witted textually queer with onscreen girlfriend Diana, and I frequently love the episode plots though not always the season arcs, and it's one of the most consistently entertaining procedurals I've ever watched. But.
The kink is goddamn amazing. Basically Neal is collared via his tracking anklet, an arrangement he and Peter worked out together, and Neal spends lots of his time pushing boundaries and testing limits but pretty much always doing what Peter tells him to, and it's so great. (And, this season, also kind of awful, because Neal keeps exploiting loopholes and bratting like crazy and I just want them to be okaaaay.) And -- I have no idea if it's actually intentionally in the show! But I can't quite see how it's not.
The poly is also amazing, because Peter and Neal have this intense thing going on and meanwhile Peter and Elizabeth have probably the loveliest, sweetest, healthiest TV marriage I have ever seen, and El helps Peter process about Neal, and Peter sometimes asks for romantic advice from Neal re: things to do with El, and whenever El or Neal are worried about Peter they go to each other, and there is COMMUNICATION and lots of BURKE FAMILY DINNERS, and I can't even. The show does keep trying to throw love interests at Neal, like his plot-device ex-girlfriend, or this season Sara Ellis, whom a lot of people dislike (some on grounds of personality, and I suspect lots because Sara is A Threat to Neal/Peter in a way Elizabeth isn't). But I really love Sara, and I also love that, when Neal and Sara were having some relationship troubles, the tense season finale plot screeched to a halt for five minutes so that Peter and Elizabeth could have them over for dinner and teach them about better communication. Basically I ship EVERYTHING and the show LETS me.
What I am trying to say here is that it is Relevant To All Of My Interests and I love it so muuuuuch.
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The thing about White Collar is that I am actually not sure what show most people are watching! I imagine that a majority of people (outside the fandom, obviously, although from observation some inside the fandom as well) are not watching a show about kinky poly shenanigans, but what other show they could be watching, I'm not entirely sure! Because in my brain the only reading of this show is that it is about amazing kinky poly shenanigans.
Which is not to say that there aren't other great things about the show -- I love the entire supporting cast, including badass competent dry-witted textually queer with onscreen girlfriend Diana, and I frequently love the episode plots though not always the season arcs, and it's one of the most consistently entertaining procedurals I've ever watched. But.
The kink is goddamn amazing. Basically Neal is collared via his tracking anklet, an arrangement he and Peter worked out together, and Neal spends lots of his time pushing boundaries and testing limits but pretty much always doing what Peter tells him to, and it's so great. (And, this season, also kind of awful, because Neal keeps exploiting loopholes and bratting like crazy and I just want them to be okaaaay.) And -- I have no idea if it's actually intentionally in the show! But I can't quite see how it's not.
The poly is also amazing, because Peter and Neal have this intense thing going on and meanwhile Peter and Elizabeth have probably the loveliest, sweetest, healthiest TV marriage I have ever seen, and El helps Peter process about Neal, and Peter sometimes asks for romantic advice from Neal re: things to do with El, and whenever El or Neal are worried about Peter they go to each other, and there is COMMUNICATION and lots of BURKE FAMILY DINNERS, and I can't even. The show does keep trying to throw love interests at Neal, like his plot-device ex-girlfriend, or this season Sara Ellis, whom a lot of people dislike (some on grounds of personality, and I suspect lots because Sara is A Threat to Neal/Peter in a way Elizabeth isn't). But I really love Sara, and I also love that, when Neal and Sara were having some relationship troubles, the tense season finale plot screeched to a halt for five minutes so that Peter and Elizabeth could have them over for dinner and teach them about better communication. Basically I ship EVERYTHING and the show LETS me.
What I am trying to say here is that it is Relevant To All Of My Interests and I love it so muuuuuch.