happy people bore me - meta of sorts
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noelia_gI probably should have realised this sooner - but as I said, I am so slow snails honk on me - but I have a deep dislike for Established Relationships.
I'm like Joss this way, only not so smart. He usually kills at least a half of the happy couple. I just get bored with the show.
This is probably most evident in my Gilmore Girls' watching. I ship Luke/Lorelai quite vividly, had since the very beginning. And though I love Christopher, he's a joy whenever he's on the show, I want Lorelai to be with Luke in the end... But when they actually did get together on the show, I snored my way through most of the seasons five and six. The only spike in interest was during their breakup and getting back together.
In the days of Buffy, I never had any interest in Buffy/Angel. We were told over and over again, quite loudly, as Buffy has a tendency for dramatics, that they love each other, blah blah blah. So boring. I was much more interested in, at the beginning, Buffy/Xander and Xander/Willow, pairings where at least one person was clearly uninterested and in love with somebody else. That makes for interesting watching.
In Buffyverse, I finally settled on Buffy/Giles and Giles/Xander, pairings we'd never see on the show, no matter how long it would last (even if we got seven seasons more, come on, what are the chances?). And I'm quite happy with that. Yes, I do have a tendency to yell at the screen and tell the characters to get over it and make out already, but I'm content in the knowledge that this is not going to happen. Fanfic will give me happy endings and porn, from my shows I want emotional melodrama and heartbreak.
Ah, yes. I apparently hate the characters I love, don't I?
Well, not exactly. I do want them to be happy... just not during the show duration. I'm fine with happy endings, weddings in the last episode, every relationship tied up neatly at the end. Of course, with all the shows getting cancelled rapidly, small chances. But then, fanfic comes in and repairs all damage. I love happy endings in fanifcs.
Then there is Fred/Wesley. One of my absolutely favourite pairings ever, and one that neatly ties in to my love for the unrequited love. Two and a half of season of heartbreak and Wesley looking depressed. Yay. Then, all went to hell as they got together for no good reason and for such a short a time you'd missed it if you blinked. Wham, bam, she's dead. Good for me because I have angst now?
Not quite. I love angst, but I want a hope for happy ending. I want the possibility of them being together in a far future, I want longing looks and innuendo and I want my subtext, damnit. I don't want them killed.
As of late, CSI and CSI:NY are annoying me with pairings happening. Yes, I know people waited ages for Sara/Grissom and they are infinitely cute and awesome together but where is my angst? I shipped Sara/Grissom for as long as I watched this show, but if we're now canon, I may switch to Sara/Greg, or Grissom/Nick, since this one has slim chances of happening in canon.
And CSI:NY, I'm looking at you. You're fooling me with Danny's unrequited crush to give me an Oficial Pairing? Not nice. Not nice. And what's with the sudden love in the air? Of all people, *Mac* is dating? Don't get me wrong, I'm all for Gary Sinise being cute and adorable and for Mac to finally get some (preferably with Flack, though. Or, you know, Danny), and I even like Peyton, and together they are very cute indeed, but oh my god, so boring.
It seems like I have only Veronica Mars and Bones to fall on for some UST in the air. Although I just know that the current state will last shortly. Logan and Veronica will get back together (again) and Booth and Brennan will get together as well (first time). And then what?
I'll have to stick to fandoms where my pairings won't happen. Firefly and Simon/River. Apart from the show sadly being caput, incest? No way they're making this canon, not even Joss. Speaking of incest, Supernatural? Slashy incest, that's a way to go if you don't want a wedding and a happy married life and a white picket fence. Although the thought of Dean and a white picket fence and a golden retriever and a swing in the garden... excuse me while I die laughing. Or, you know, I could watch House. Hugh Laurie may be 'game', but chances of House/Wilson happening? Slim on the side of non-existant (But feel free to prove me wrong, dear show, I'd love to see them make-out. Then break-up).
The thing is, I could really ship only pairings that have very small chances of happening, but you can't really choose that way, can you? You either see the chemistry and have no chances of not-shipping, or you don't and you don't give a damn.
So while everyone around me is rejoicing when their ships are becoming canon, I'm going 'meh' in the corner, because all that love in the air wrecks havoc with my allergies.
Anyone with me?
I'm like Joss this way, only not so smart. He usually kills at least a half of the happy couple. I just get bored with the show.
This is probably most evident in my Gilmore Girls' watching. I ship Luke/Lorelai quite vividly, had since the very beginning. And though I love Christopher, he's a joy whenever he's on the show, I want Lorelai to be with Luke in the end... But when they actually did get together on the show, I snored my way through most of the seasons five and six. The only spike in interest was during their breakup and getting back together.
In the days of Buffy, I never had any interest in Buffy/Angel. We were told over and over again, quite loudly, as Buffy has a tendency for dramatics, that they love each other, blah blah blah. So boring. I was much more interested in, at the beginning, Buffy/Xander and Xander/Willow, pairings where at least one person was clearly uninterested and in love with somebody else. That makes for interesting watching.
In Buffyverse, I finally settled on Buffy/Giles and Giles/Xander, pairings we'd never see on the show, no matter how long it would last (even if we got seven seasons more, come on, what are the chances?). And I'm quite happy with that. Yes, I do have a tendency to yell at the screen and tell the characters to get over it and make out already, but I'm content in the knowledge that this is not going to happen. Fanfic will give me happy endings and porn, from my shows I want emotional melodrama and heartbreak.
Ah, yes. I apparently hate the characters I love, don't I?
Well, not exactly. I do want them to be happy... just not during the show duration. I'm fine with happy endings, weddings in the last episode, every relationship tied up neatly at the end. Of course, with all the shows getting cancelled rapidly, small chances. But then, fanfic comes in and repairs all damage. I love happy endings in fanifcs.
Then there is Fred/Wesley. One of my absolutely favourite pairings ever, and one that neatly ties in to my love for the unrequited love. Two and a half of season of heartbreak and Wesley looking depressed. Yay. Then, all went to hell as they got together for no good reason and for such a short a time you'd missed it if you blinked. Wham, bam, she's dead. Good for me because I have angst now?
Not quite. I love angst, but I want a hope for happy ending. I want the possibility of them being together in a far future, I want longing looks and innuendo and I want my subtext, damnit. I don't want them killed.
As of late, CSI and CSI:NY are annoying me with pairings happening. Yes, I know people waited ages for Sara/Grissom and they are infinitely cute and awesome together but where is my angst? I shipped Sara/Grissom for as long as I watched this show, but if we're now canon, I may switch to Sara/Greg, or Grissom/Nick, since this one has slim chances of happening in canon.
And CSI:NY, I'm looking at you. You're fooling me with Danny's unrequited crush to give me an Oficial Pairing? Not nice. Not nice. And what's with the sudden love in the air? Of all people, *Mac* is dating? Don't get me wrong, I'm all for Gary Sinise being cute and adorable and for Mac to finally get some (preferably with Flack, though. Or, you know, Danny), and I even like Peyton, and together they are very cute indeed, but oh my god, so boring.
It seems like I have only Veronica Mars and Bones to fall on for some UST in the air. Although I just know that the current state will last shortly. Logan and Veronica will get back together (again) and Booth and Brennan will get together as well (first time). And then what?
I'll have to stick to fandoms where my pairings won't happen. Firefly and Simon/River. Apart from the show sadly being caput, incest? No way they're making this canon, not even Joss. Speaking of incest, Supernatural? Slashy incest, that's a way to go if you don't want a wedding and a happy married life and a white picket fence. Although the thought of Dean and a white picket fence and a golden retriever and a swing in the garden... excuse me while I die laughing. Or, you know, I could watch House. Hugh Laurie may be 'game', but chances of House/Wilson happening? Slim on the side of non-existant (But feel free to prove me wrong, dear show, I'd love to see them make-out. Then break-up).
The thing is, I could really ship only pairings that have very small chances of happening, but you can't really choose that way, can you? You either see the chemistry and have no chances of not-shipping, or you don't and you don't give a damn.
So while everyone around me is rejoicing when their ships are becoming canon, I'm going 'meh' in the corner, because all that love in the air wrecks havoc with my allergies.
Anyone with me?
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Date: 2007-03-05 07:00 am (UTC)Plus, when it's canon, there's no room for fantasy. They already love each other, why bother setting them up? That being said, I'm actually a Spuffy shipper, because there's so much room for actually growing into love.
~e!
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Date: 2007-03-05 07:20 am (UTC)Tara+Willow=4ever
~e!
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Date: 2007-03-05 07:13 am (UTC)CSI-Vegas has Grissom and Sara whom I cannot stand together. I never liked Sara much to being with, and I like her even less now.
Stargate SG-1 keeps hinting at Jack/Sam, and while I like the characters individually I hate them together.
Without a Trace, which I just finished watching, has Danny/Elena, and I don't like them together. I don't really like Elena much to begin with.
Maybe I just hate canon couples because they're forced on us.
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Date: 2007-03-05 08:13 pm (UTC)WaT. We have the first season in Polish TV right now, but they're showing the episodes out of order, as they often do with good tv shows in Polish tv... Has Elena appeared in the first season? Oh, well, I watch this show for Martin anyway.
There are some canon pairings that I can tolerate, some I can like, but usually... meh. There's no fun in people being together and happy...
...I sound like a terrible person :D
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Date: 2007-03-05 08:31 pm (UTC)I am a fan of Danny/Martin. WaT also has a Jack/Sam, but they have very little chemisty. Their Sam strikes me as a big whiner.
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Date: 2007-03-05 01:14 pm (UTC)Except Spock/Nurse Chapel because she's had a crush on him since forever and that would be the greatest thing ever.
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Date: 2007-03-05 02:42 pm (UTC)I think I'm happier staying with semi-closed canon, like Sixth and Seventh Doctor Who serials. New audio plays and books are still coming out, but they're only semi-canonical; if they do bad things to my OTPs, i can ignore them. Win-win all the way!
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Date: 2007-03-05 08:05 pm (UTC)Hadn't seen anything before Ninth Doctor, but I have a similar situation with Star Wars novels. I have my ideas about who Wedge Antilles is with after movies, and I choose to ignore any book that proves me otherwise. Tie-ins shmy-ins.
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Date: 2007-03-05 07:44 pm (UTC)I just tend to be a NOROMO (no romance) when it actually comes to my shows (Farscape being a singular exception) and get a little huffy when it's forced on us.
Jack/Sam makes me gag. Those two just have no chemistry together. I mean, even the WRITERS know it or else they wouldn't have given us the "Sir" at the altar gag. Me? I love Dan/Cam. Because it would never happen. Except that it almost did when Joe wrote one of those AU SG-1 teams with them in a relationship. But it didn't get filmed so it doesn't count. Except that it does because it still inspires me to write fic for them. Did that make sense? I didn't think so.
Don't think I shipped anyone in BTVS, but I will admit the Spuffy sex scene where they screwed the building down? I think I liked that WAY TOO MUCH. Cause I kept watching it over and over and over and over...but did I like it when they kept at it? Not so much. Giles is too much of a father figure for the Scoobies for me to ship him with anyone (especially not Buffy/Giles cause that, along with Mal/River, just squicks me BIG GIME), but Faith/Wesley might have been hot.
Angel and Spike are doing it. Period. Ok, they're doing it when they aren't doing Lindsey and Marcus. I have no memory of anyone else having relationships in that show. *is happily ignorant*
I stopped watching CSI when that travesty happened, cause personally I think the only one I could ever imagine having sex with Grissom is Lady Heather. *fans self* But Nick/Greg is pretty.
Firefly? Wash/Zoe, Simon/Kaylee? *yawn* And even with the maybe so UST of Mal/Inara--bored now. Thus my love of all people having sex with Jayne. And Simon/Mal. And Simon/Jayne/Mal. And Simon/Jayne/River. Reaaaaaally like that last 3some. *is pervy and likes it*
Flack and Messer are soooooo doin' it. So I don't know why TPTB bother showing us anything different. Where in the WORLD did that "fly to bumf*ck to show her I care" scene come from? Cause if I remember correctly he was all "meh" and "whoa its not serious" before--and I REALLY hate sudden changes of heart. Because it just seemed like TPTB were writing that to fit the show rather than having the relationship determine where the plot takes them.
And finally, Wincest. How I love thee.
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Date: 2007-03-05 08:01 pm (UTC)The entire Danny/Lindsay thing seems way too forced for me. Especially since we didn't really have a chance for Lindsay to grow as a character of her own, and now she'll just be a part of a canon ship that doesn't have much basis.
Grissom sex? Erm... no, thanks. I mean, I love William Petersen, I do, but if I got a sex scene with him... My brian would short-circuit and not in a pleasant way as it does when I think of, say, Jensen Ackles.
Giles. Let's agree to disagree, because I never saw him as a father figure... authority figure maybe, to some extent, but never a father figure, no matter what Buffy novels were trying to tell me (Christopher Golden, I'm looking at you). Besides, Giles will always be my biggest fictional-character-crush ever, so...
Angel and Spike, yes. It's almost canon (actually, due to a throw-away line Joss gave us, it is canon), but it's a brief enough mention to give me my non-canon happies and still be way probable.
Simon/Mal. Yes, please. And Simon/Jayne, come to think of it... And giving in to my het side, Simon/Inara could be nice.
Jack/Sam... no. Never could see it, as to me they have no chemistry whatsoever. I could, maybe, see Sam/Cam, but really, I'd just take Daniel with everyone, preferably Jack, Cameron or Vala (lately mostly Cameron, though. Mitchell has a tendency to bring out the most annoyed in Daniel... come to think of it, so do Vala and Jack. And I like annoyed, pissy Daniel. He's a sarcastic joy).
Good to know there are other people with canon-ships issues...