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I feel like a teenager fangirl all over again when I think about Shelby and Caleb.
I have rewatched their scenes on youtube at least 100 times and I think I have watched every fanmade video that I could find.
I feel pathetic

At least for me, they are the most convincing couple of the show.
I really hope we get to see more of them in season 2 because I feel like they still have so many things to talk about and they never really had a chance to come clean about everything that has happened after she basically stopped speaking to him at Quantico.

Exactly!

I never quite believed this whole Shelby/Clayton thing. I mean he helped her at Quantico and offered her a job at his office and he even supported her when Caleb went behind her back with the whole drama with her parents, but still, I cannot imagine that she would start an affaire with him.

In the "General Discussion Thread" I posted some questions that remained open for me after the season. I'll post them here and highlight the ones that concern Shelby and Caleb. Maybe some of you guys know the answers?

Wow, thank you so much for this long response!
I am a huge Shaleb Shipper so I can definetly see how we agree on so much, so You are welcome.



3) Shelby's parents: Having them die off screen and mention that in a small sentence where half of the audience probably forgets about that seemed so anti-climatic for me. I don't know, it just didn't seem right to me, after we basically spent most of the season seeing Shelby being involved in her parents-drama and then all we get is one single sentence, "Oh by the way, they are dead". I wish we could have gotten more. Seeing her grieve or tell Caleb about it etc.


And did Clayton maybe help her take them down? I am sure she must be sad about their death. I mean she wanted to bring them to justice and put them in jail, but she sure as hell didn't want to kill them.
I hope we get to hear more about this in season 2, because for me the whole situation seemed unresolved.

4) I was so confused when I heard that in the present time line, Shelby and Caleb were talking to each other on the phone again. I mean in the Quantico time line they hated each other at the end, at the Grand Central time line he hated her too, because he found out that she was having an affair with his dad. And then in the last time line they were friends all of a sudden? What happened in the meantime? And if they were in contact (he called her when Alex helped him "escape" from his mother's house), why didn't she try to help him with his drug addiction? I hope we get an explanation in season 2 as to why they started having contact again.

6) So the deposit box was just another red herring? We were supposed to believe that Caleb had something to do with the bombings, but in fact it was just pure coincidence that the bank where he rented a deposit box and the command center of the FBI after Grand Central happened to be in the same building?
Okay, I know this show doesn't really stick to logic all the time, but this is ridiculous

8) Yeah, I'm glad that some people agree with me and think that there is more to the Shelby/Clayton/Caleb storyline. I mean I get why Shelby might have liked Clayton as a friend (he helped her with her parents' stuff when Caleb basically went behind her back) BUT I don't understand why she would start an affair with him. From the Shelby that we got to know at Quantico, I would have NEVER expected this. It is completely out of character. Even if she had developped some feelings for Clayton, she would have NEVER given in to her feelings for him. No matter how much she hated Caleb at that point, she would have never done THIS to him.
At least this is my opinion.
So either, there really is more to the affair and we find out about it in season 2, or the writers did a terrible job with writing Shelby's character development, just for the sake of creating a cheesy and stereotypical father-son-love-triangle-drama-cliché.

Sorry for my rant.

I just think that there were quite a lot of unanswered questions at the end of season 1.

At least I know that I am not alone with all of these frustrating questions.

But knowing our luck, we will never get an answer to most of them in season 2.

However, I think we deserve an explanation for Shelby's parents death. I mean we had to go all this parental drama for almost half a season, and then we get one single sentence: "They were killed in a plane crash in Jordan while being on the run from the authorities"? That's all??? Very unsatisfying.

And as much as I still hope that we will get to know that there was more to the affair between Shelby and Clayton (e.g. some undercover work), I guess the writers will simply forget about that and next season they'll pretend it never happened.
I could imagine that the writers really just used the affair to create a cheesy father-son-girlfriend drama that was super far fetched and soapy just to shock the viewers and put obstacles in Shaleb's way.

However, I am not giving up hope that all of the open questions will be addressed in the upcoming season. Let's just hope that the producers are giving us this Caleb-uncertainty on purpose

I agree!! I mean not only was it frustrating because we never got an actual answer after all the drama had happened but also it was fishy to me, Like they die in almost the same way they lied about dying. Why?? I don't think it was a coincidence so why can't they explain it more and will we get more explanations?
I agree though, I think that maybe they had always had the whole Affair in mind but what they didn't bank on was us loving Shaleb so much, I think the Writers had wanted Ryan and Alex to be their Break out Hit Couple but that is not what happened, I also think us Fans are why They killed him off, I don't think that was their intention.
YOU KNOW I was thinking that maybe there is some big secret as to why they haven't mentioned Caleb on the show, Now the Shaleb shipper in me is wishing that is something like them being "married" or something like it but the reality is if there is a "secret" it could be something huge that has to do with him and Alex taking down his Mom

Yeah, I think what angers me the most from all of these open questions is the parents storyline. You are right. In the end, they basically died in exactly the same way that they supposedly died 15 years. Isn't that a little bit suspicious?
And I just rewatched the scene from 1x19. Shelby says: "They died 5 month ago in a plane crash in Jordan" That means that they died BEFORE the events of the first bombing at Grand Central. And that also means that Clayton was still alive at that point! So maybe he did help her bring her parents to justice, or at least track them down, like he promised her back at Quantico. And as much as Shelby might have wanted some sort of revenge on her parents, I guess she would still be sad about their deaths, right?
Maybe in these dark times, she found comfort with Clayton, and this is how the whole affair started? What do you guys think?


I agree, I think the producers didn't expect that Shelby and Caleb would turn into such a popular ship. I think they always intended for Alex and Ryan to be the main ship of the show. Don't get me wrong, I like Alex and Ryan, but I have the impression that Shelby + Caleb are just as popular?
Or am I dellusional?
Let's just hope that they'll recognize the popularity of Shaleb in season 2!