Jack Malone and Samantha Spade – Without a Trace
Oh the fanfic I wrote. I was deep into this fandom. It was my first fandom. I ran a fansite, I made up music lists (complete with art for CD covers), I did fanart generally with wallpapers and icons and stuff(it was early 2000′s it’s what people did). I wrote countless metas. I screencapped episodes and uploaded galleries as a resource. Oh I made fanmixes where I interspersed dialogue with music, I also made actual fan videos. If it was a fan thing, you name it then I did it. Ah can’t forget the fanlistings! I never was lucky enough to run the actual relationship one but I grabbed whatever I could get e.g. key episodes.
So yeah I really was very deep into this. Then I fell out of love with the show. I don’t know if they had a change in writers, showrunners, or just a change in direction. I adored the first two seasons and season three was ok but season four? It was like watching people pretending they were playing the characters I’d come to know and love. It just didn’t feel right.
Basically I quit the show. I stayed on the edges of the fandom for a long time afterwards, finishing up fanfics etc. but I closed down a lot of what I was doing. That was less to do with the show/pairing and more to do with where my life was at. I was 16, I was graduating high school, I wanted to write more original fiction. That was basically the start of when I got out of fandom. I was out for about ten years before Rumbelle pulled me back in.
In answer to your question, no they aren’t my favorite anymore. Rumbelle has that honor! Do I still ship them? Well it’s been a very long time since I’ve even watched the show (I’m getting nostalgic now, I might have to pull out my DVD’s) but I can’t see why I wouldn’t still ship them. I’m not active but I haven’t forgotten why I fell hard and fast for this pairing.