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“Ships”, though, are like “morals”. If a person likes one, then it’s right and good and unquestionably the way things ought to be, as far as the believer is concerned.
Yes, I agree. Also, based on the interview, I think Adam and Eddy are being a bit coy — if not straight up disingenuous. They are essentially saying “Oh! Look! The fandom, such a weird beast it is! We’re so flabbergasted by this whole “shipping” thing! We just wanna tell stories, and the rest is fans projecting! Ah ha ha, fans, they are so silly.”
This isn’t their first rodeo, they’ve had a huge and active fandom with Lost, and while I don’t know whether the same “shipping wars” were happening then, I doubt this is a new and unexpected phenomenon for those two.
I think what they’re doing — and who they’re really talking to with this interview — are their peers and professional critics, not the fans. Essentially, they are trying to argue that they are writing a show like Game of Thrones, and not Outlander. Which is to say, a show about events and relationships more broadly, where romantic entanglements are only one element of the complex narrative tapestry. Rather than the picturesque backdrop for the central romance that’s, in fact, the main point.
But based on 5A, they are writing Outlander. Except, badly.