Thanks! Yes, it's an interesting one to explore. I have a much clearer understanding of how the show manipulates the viewer emotionally now. No wonder the Clex reading is so strong! Because more than any other relationship, the possibility of a 'happy ending' for the two of them is teasingly and constantly dangled for three seasons and even intermittently thereafter. That's why it's painful at times, because our intellectual understanding of what will happen is at war with our emotional sense of what is 'right', what will complete the picture properly, and let all the jigsaw pieces fall into place.