Earlier than you determine this text isn’t price your time and also you bounce to the feedback based mostly on the title alone, I urge you to listen to me out.
As somebody who loves the supporting solid of Tracker immensely, I’m not in opposition to Colter ultimately having a companion. They don’t essentially must be concerned in each case, but when the recognized lone wolf shed his standing and had somebody by his aspect as a rule, I’d welcome it.
However that individual shouldn’t be Billie Matalon.
When Billie was first launched throughout Tracker Season 1 Episode 6, I cherished the flirty banter between her and Colter and the way they helped one another but additionally needed to study to belief one another once more.
Their relationship did really feel lived in (maybe as a result of star’s real-life marriage), and I used to be completely okay together with her being somebody who would pop into Colter’s life every now and then to spice issues up.
Tracker is the sort of present that works nicely for visitor stars who discover their method right into a random episode when the necessity arises.
We’ve seen that twice now with Jensen Ackles’ Russell Shaw and Billie herself.
Billie confirmed up on Tracker Season 2 Episode 3 on her residence turf, and he or she and Colter had been dropped into an odd case a few lacking teen and bio-hacking firm that buys and sells blood.
Except for the case being a dud, the hour had a heavy concentrate on Billie in a method that we by no means see for practically some other character not named Colter. The hour served as a Billie Begins installment, whereas long-term characters like Reenie, Velma, and Bobby haven’t had close to the exploration.
The second pairing of Colter and Billie didn’t have the identical chunk as the primary one. The 2 rapidly went from long-standing rivals to allies after their first rendezvous, muting their chemistry.
Issues between them labored higher when there was a component of angst, and Billie’s motives weren’t solely clear.
They took away the very best elements of their dynamic once they dropped these pretenses and had Billie turn into simply one other tracker, with no actual cause for him to doubt her or them to need to one-up one another.
If Colter and Billie had been to crew up completely, it will be way more like Billie’s second look, which was bland at finest, and fewer like her first, which was enjoyable and way more charming.
For Colter to need to companion with somebody completely, he’d want to seek out somebody like himself.
He will get together with folks just like him, which isn’t irregular, however contemplating how a lot he likes to be alone, he gained’t be eager to companion with somebody he doesn’t belief.
A part of Colter and Billie’s preliminary lure was that they didn’t belief each other. Now, they’ve sacrificed that to make their relationship extra about understanding one another—with extra romantic undertones.
This was predictable and would make a longer-term partnership between them lackluster.
The perfect elements of their dynamic have concerned them toying with each other and determining who the opposite is. You lose a lot of that if you happen to make them pair up and primarily flip Billie into Colter’s shadow as an alternative of her personal individual.
As a result of make no mistake about it; that is the Colter Shaw present.
If Colter ever acquired a companion, they’d play second fiddle as a result of that’s the present’s design.
Billie ought to have popped up now and again, and the 2 ought to play a cat-and-mouse recreation as they chase the identical rewards and see if they will ever overcome the occasions of the previous.
As an alternative, that they had Colter and Billie let bygones be bygones after one profitable job collectively, making their relationship about twenty instances much less pleasing.
Colter Shaw can get a companion if the celebrities align, and he decides he’s keen to separate these paychecks and belief somebody sufficient to embark on his harmful line of labor with him, however will they transfer into the Airstream with him?
How would a everlasting companion actually work with the way in which issues are presently constructed?
That could be an essay for one more time, however I’m crossing one companion’s identify off the record proper now: Billie.
Alright, Tracker fanatics! What do you consider the potential of Colter getting a companion?
Would you wish to see him crew up with Billie?
Is there another person you assume would make a greater match?
Let me know within the feedback if you happen to agree with my ideas or have a very totally different viewpoint. I’d love to listen to from you!
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