I feel like people can't come to terms with the fact that some scenes can be intimate without them being romantic or sexual. I lot of the complaining about romances are either bugs, which were sorted months ago, or just people being unable to process intimacy with a character they don't find sexually appealing.
Even in real life, most people share intimate moments with friends, an experience that would likely be heightened under extreme circumstances.
Conversely, I feel like you are bending yourselfin into a pretzel to make up contrived excuses for some of this stuff.
Some of the default behavior and body language on these scenes goes DEFINITELY past "friendly intimate moments".
