The romance even worked for me, because it wasn't overdone or the focus of everything. I can't ever see M&S's lives becoming romance novels, the end of IWTB notwithstanding. If they were going to get together, it was always going to be squeezed into the cracks between meetings and coffee and departure lounges and cheap hotels and murder cases. I love that Laws of Motion "gets them".

Yes, this works for me because the romance is portrayed in a way that feels very consistent with who they are as characters on screen. Syntax6 really does "get them" and she doesn't change them to fit into her story line. She fits her story into the canon, which is why their interaction never feels like its sliding into conventional romance. It's brilliant. And it's rare.