Ug this list be still my heart. Your choices are great choices. Walter and Jesse, Sid and Tony, Buffy and Faith, the Mills sisters -- yes forever on those, I'm in total agreement. (Esp. for Walter and Jesse let's be real that basically wins this category for meeee).
This topic is so interesting to me it has dragged me out of my unofficial LJ hiatus to comment with some other of my faves because oh man fucked up relationships forever <3 <3
-- Stringer Bell and Avon Barksdale (The Wire) are the only ones who might beat Walter and Jesse for me. I won't say more because IIRC you haven't watched The Wire yet but oh man, everything about them is just so great in such a co-dependent way.
-- Seth Bullock and Al Swearengen (Deadwood), because people being forced to be allies even though they naturally distrust and dislike each other and are sometimes working against each other too is just the greatest. Really the interrelations of everyone on this show could count. Disparate people thrown together and forced to try to make a town and always plotting against each other and having new team ups and struggling to survive and win and protect their town from bad outside forces. I love it.
-- Mellie Grant and Cyrus Beene, Mellis Grant and Olivia Pope (Scandal). Really Mellie is just queen of my heart, but both of these relationships are A+. Mellie and Cyrus because whether they're plotting together or plotting against each other they are always so fun and smart and destructive and powerful and terrible, and Mellie and Olivia because their relationship is so fucking complicated -- the President's wife and his lover. They're at odds, but they are also in agreement about wanting to see Fitz in power and being willing to do almost anything to make that happen and it's dark and beautiful and awesome.
-- Emily Thorne and Victoria Greyson (Revenge). Best. Enemies. Ever. I could watch them plot against each other allllllllll day.
-- House and Wilson (House). Because co-dependance forever and ever and ever and ever! (Though really I do ship them, so I don't know if that counts).
I will watch The Wire some day. Though tbh with you I live in fear of it.
Heee that's fair. It's spectacular, but it is also...a lot. A lot of sad. A lot of characters. A lot of feelings. But when you do get around to it I will be shocked if you don't love String and Avon (by the end of Season 3 if not much earlier).
I haven't watched Deadwood either! /o\ You make it sound tempting. Damn you.
*evil laugh* It's pretty fantastic. Lots and lots of morally grey characters, and AMAZING dialogue. I think you'd love Al Swearengen. He's a really fantastic no fucks given villain/very very very anti anti-hero. The kind of character who is truly a bad person, but is not only somehow sympathetic (to at least some degree), but also just likeable, and entertaining.
Yes to Mellie/everyone. I can only really bring myself to watch Scandal casually, but Mellie is OBVIOUSLY my fave.
<3 <3 <3 MELLIE FOR PRESIDENT/QUEEN OF THE WORLD.
Yes also to Emily and Victoria. Which reminds me, I totally forgot about Emily and Nolan!!! /o\ /o\ /o\ Yeeees to Emily and Nolan. Though since he's gotten a bit more of a backbone with her this season it's seemed less totally fucked up. Though they are still trying to rain terrible revenge on people...
The new Revenge season hasn't started airing over here. Intrigued by Nolan's new "backbone" though, lol. AND RAINING TERRIBLE REVENGE IS GOOD NEWS TBH. BABIES.
This topic is so interesting to me it has dragged me out of my unofficial LJ hiatus to comment with some other of my faves because oh man fucked up relationships forever <3 <3
-- Stringer Bell and Avon Barksdale (The Wire) are the only ones who might beat Walter and Jesse for me. I won't say more because IIRC you haven't watched The Wire yet but oh man, everything about them is just so great in such a co-dependent way.
-- Seth Bullock and Al Swearengen (Deadwood), because people being forced to be allies even though they naturally distrust and dislike each other and are sometimes working against each other too is just the greatest. Really the interrelations of everyone on this show could count. Disparate people thrown together and forced to try to make a town and always plotting against each other and having new team ups and struggling to survive and win and protect their town from bad outside forces. I love it.
-- Mellie Grant and Cyrus Beene, Mellis Grant and Olivia Pope (Scandal). Really Mellie is just queen of my heart, but both of these relationships are A+. Mellie and Cyrus because whether they're plotting together or plotting against each other they are always so fun and smart and destructive and powerful and terrible, and Mellie and Olivia because their relationship is so fucking complicated -- the President's wife and his lover. They're at odds, but they are also in agreement about wanting to see Fitz in power and being willing to do almost anything to make that happen and it's dark and beautiful and awesome.
-- Emily Thorne and Victoria Greyson (Revenge). Best. Enemies. Ever. I could watch them plot against each other allllllllll day.
-- House and Wilson (House). Because co-dependance forever and ever and ever and ever! (Though really I do ship them, so I don't know if that counts).
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This topic is so interesting to me it has dragged me out of my unofficial LJ hiatus
The most flattering thing you could say to me.
I will watch The Wire some day. Though tbh with you I live in fear of it.
I haven't watched Deadwood either! /o\ You make it sound tempting. Damn you.
Yes to Mellie/everyone. I can only really bring myself to watch Scandal casually, but Mellie is OBVIOUSLY my fave.
Yes also to Emily and Victoria. Which reminds me, I totally forgot about Emily and Nolan!!! /o\ /o\ /o\
House and Wilson ;_________; R.I.P. when that show was good.
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Heee that's fair. It's spectacular, but it is also...a lot. A lot of sad. A lot of characters. A lot of feelings. But when you do get around to it I will be shocked if you don't love String and Avon (by the end of Season 3 if not much earlier).
I haven't watched Deadwood either! /o\ You make it sound tempting. Damn you.
*evil laugh* It's pretty fantastic. Lots and lots of morally grey characters, and AMAZING dialogue. I think you'd love Al Swearengen. He's a really fantastic no fucks given villain/very very very anti anti-hero. The kind of character who is truly a bad person, but is not only somehow sympathetic (to at least some degree), but also just likeable, and entertaining.
Yes to Mellie/everyone. I can only really bring myself to watch Scandal casually, but Mellie is OBVIOUSLY my fave.
<3 <3 <3 MELLIE FOR PRESIDENT/QUEEN OF THE WORLD.
Yes also to Emily and Victoria. Which reminds me, I totally forgot about Emily and Nolan!!! /o\ /o\ /o\
Yeeees to Emily and Nolan. Though since he's gotten a bit more of a backbone with her this season it's seemed less totally fucked up. Though they are still trying to rain terrible revenge on people...
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The new Revenge season hasn't started airing over here. Intrigued by Nolan's new "backbone" though, lol. AND RAINING TERRIBLE REVENGE IS GOOD NEWS TBH. BABIES.
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