I completely agree. The whole "she likes it when you're corny" thing worked for me, too--the mockage and the affection there. It could have worked for me.

All the faffing about with coma!Paul and their "connection" being sacrificed for the active architecture didn't work for me at all.
I hated it. In much the same way that I hated in AtS when suddenly Cordy stopped acting like Cordy and her and Angel's relationship was FATED LOVE OMG instead of her being the one to call him out when he was being broody and stupid.

(Though we have more to go on than Firefly, and just look what people make of that!)
True! I'm so incredibly excited about the idea of fic for this fandom!