ALL: Convenient Couples

[SteelCity]

They had chemistry and all but, it was super rushed! Didn't they get engaged in like two months. There was no build up.

[carolineg]

It was super rushed and ultimately pretty pointless.  No one ever brings up John/Kate were engaged.  I chalk some of the rush up to John's addiction issues although the entire quad of Roman/Marlena/Kate/John was awful.  John/Kate were better than Roman/Marlena though.

[Khan]

Anything was better than Josh Taylor's Roman and Marlena.

[carolineg]

I obviously agree lol.  I should have worded it better.  John/Kate weren't half bad even if they had some crappy writing.

[SteelCity]

I tend to agree with you in hindsight. They could work with better writing but, those post JER years were... something. Lots of insta-couples.

[carolineg]

Those JER years were a mess (he wrote John/Kate I believe).  I could see why Kate and John would be attracted to one another, so it did make sense to me especially coming off losing their 'true' loves.  It was less forced than John/Hope and I think it would have had more of a chance if the John/Marlena fangirls weren't so loudly, openly, and rudely against it.

[SteelCity]

Then it was just dropped completely as though it never happened! You'd never know they have that kind of history.

[Paul Raven]

I'll add John and Barbara on ATWT. Both had been on the show for years and interacting to various degrees before getting into a relationship. Seemed like something to give 2 vet characters at loose ends a story.

[P.J.]

Hal/Emily, ATWT. 

[Michael]

John & Barbara definitely feel like one. Even at the time, when I didn't know the history of the show that well, it felt random as hell. That was a period when it seemed like Barbara could've faded into obscurity.

Hal & Emily might've been borne out of convenience, too, but I thought that pairing worked well and created some interesting material.