Sadly, at the beginning, it wasn't so much the slash fen as the living clichés of romance-novel junkies who would have been perfectly happy if the show had been nothing but 43 minutes of shirtless Mac swinging a sword around. Tess couldn't be good enough for him (and was, in fact, the Antichrist) because she wasn't them. Apparently they lacked the imagination to just identify with her.
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