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== Live Action TV ==
* Many ''[[Bones]]'' fans were let down by {{spoiler|Booth and Brennan's anticlimactic [[They Do]], in the form of their single night of cuddling that magically became a serious relationship in the season gap, especially since pregnancy was the cause. Emily Deschanel's real-life pregnancy had to be dealt with somehow, and fans wanted to see them together, but the time lapse felt like a cop-out.}}
* In [[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|the 2000s ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]]'']], Apollo was in a forced and loveless marriage with Dualla. [[Television Without Pity|TWoP]] even coined a term for it: "The Love That All of a Sudden". In fact, there were scenes in several previous episodes that showed them growing closer to each other, all of which ended up being cut. Eventually the writers just said "screw it" and threw them together without any buildup.
** It also didn't help that they hooked up in the very next episode after Dualla's boyfriend Billy was tragically killed, with the writing not being as clear as it could have been that at least a couple months had passed, making it look like they practically started making out over Billy's corpse.
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'':
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