The Lost and Felicity Shipper Verdict
Well kids, it's time to add two more ships to the ever-growing pantheon of my romantic preferences. And they are...(drumroll please):
Jack/Kate from Lost, and Felicity/Noel from Felicity. I've watched the first 3 episodes of each over the past few weeks and my ships are already set. (Ironically enough I just realized both are JJ Abrams shows). Why I ship Jack/Kate: well, to be honest, I knew I'd ship them even before starting the show - Jack is just my kind of guy, and I disliked Sawyer/the actor who plays Sawyer from almost the first moment I set eyes on him. I'm really glad he's there - he's a necessary part of the plot - and I probably won't even mind the parts where Kate gets with him - but overall, I think the Jate ship is really really well done, because even though Jack's a good guy and Kate's a bad girl, Jack has enough strength about him to handle her, and Kate's drawn to him because of that strength, that stability, and also because he represents the opposite of her world, a world of lies and running and deception. Plus, they have great chemistry and (never to be underestimated) they look great together.
Click to viewI like Felicity/Noel not because Noel is the most amazing hero/romantic lead ever created - although he's slowly but steadily growing on me - but because he has absolutely no competition whatsoever. Ben, at least so far, is one of the most insensitive, shallow, blank, uninteresting, and self-centered losers I've ever had the misfortune to see as a television lead. I don't hate him - he's got good qualities, and his good looks and charm to spare offset the shallowness somewhat, but all that leads to is a lead whom I'm so ambivalent about that I can't even care enough to despise him. He's so, ultimately, inoffensive, or at least that is what it seems like the drama is tryign to write him as(I've no doubt they're attempting to go for "deep", "complex", or "charismatic" but y'know, television writers, you should really check the dictionary definitions of those words. Just maybe). Which leads to apathy apathy apathy slight despisement. Nope. Noel, on the other hand, may not be as good-looking, but he's got ten billion times' Ben's emotional maturity and character depth, and he's got an offbeat, boyish charm that 's very appealing.
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In other news, I watched North and South for the fourth or fifth time yesterday, and God, I always forget how much I love it, and every single time I appreciate it more. Wrote some thoughts on it that struck me this time here