I love the good ol' shiptease too. Sometimes it only works to fandom-ship. For example, "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic" is all about the friendship, so to suddenly have it be about dating would be rather jarring. (Which is part of the reason I don't care for Spike/Rarity. :P I love how the "Hearts & Hooves Day" episode was handled though, and the show's creators were VERY wise to be ambiguous about Cheerilee and Big Mac's future relationship) Then there's subtext where it's obvious that those two characters have something going on, even sharing a bed together, but canon itself is still insistent on telling us, "NOPE, THEY'RE JUST BEST FRIENDS" while milking more money from shippers and fanservice and the potential audience they'd lose if they outed said characters. :/

But yeah. This is why in my stories, all couples get equal amount of blatant squishy sappy moments and sex scenes. Media needs to get over itself or conquer its fear of moral guardians' temper tantrums. Just...let people be gay and be together in a show with straight couples and let them have equal amounts of screen time and affection. If the show runs on YAAAAAY WE LOVE EACH OTHER SOOOO MUUUUCH happy romantic fluffies, let the lesbians make loud proclamations of eternal foreverness, too! If the straight couple is shown having hot sexytimes, let the gay couple give each other blowjobs! And all that good stuff!

Yep. I agree to this. ♥