DISDAIN

[karabou]

Am I the only one who is cranky about this whole Nightwing and Starfire are meant to be!!!!!11 crap that has suddenly come up?

Because if Dick is going to end up with anyone who isn't Tim or Bruce or Clark or Roy it should be Barbara, damnit! Isn't it bad enough that Batman/Wonder Woman isn't really canon except in the freaking JLU cartoons? I

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[skalja]

*shrugs* Sorry, I've never quite gotten shipwars. So far as I'm concerned, there's no meant to be, only good writing and bad writing. That's just personal philosophy, though.

I'm sorry you are sad about comics? :( *snuggles*

[karabou]

Not even Clark and Lois? Peter and Mary Jane? Those are the set-in-stone comics characters for me, anyway. ^^;

I'm not actually sad, just sort of baffled. I like to complain when I'm sleepy.. don't mind me. *gladly snuggles*

[skalja]

Honestly? No. I don't know Clark and Lois, and while Peter and MJ is about as close to OTP as I can actually get, and I would be very, very unhappy (maybe even angry) to see them broken up, a lot of the reason for the latter is because after all they've been through it would be just plain lazy writing (though I'm not going to claim there MIGHT, might just be a brilliant bit of storyarcing which would make me go with it).

Frankly, MJ's development as a character and the Peter/MJ relationship has been so fraught by authors with differing opinions and random plotline intersections that it's a wonder they have anything remotely coherent, much less one of the cutest pairings in comics. Knowing that, I can't really say they were Meant to Be because they ... weren't. It happened beautifully and organically, but a few pivotal stories' difference and Peter would be married to Gwen or Felicia, or still single.

[karabou]

You do make good points! I guess I've always been more the type to pair people off for good, a happily ever after kind of thing that growing up on Disney movies clearly brainwashed me with.

I haven't been reading comics (to this degree) for that long. And I know they're on-going and must be kept fresh and interesting, so couples form and endure and break up and get back together and so on and so forth. But I guess I figure if there ever was a true ending for the Spider-Man comics.. like, all the way until Peter's death (and no, not a fake out where he isn't really dead) or old age, I would hope he would still be with MJ.

[skalja]

Oh, me too, totally! But just because I think something is the ideal doesn't mean I can say it's Meant to Be, you know? I'm just weird that way. I think I became allergic to OTPs while in HP fandom, where the shipwars are just insane (whatever the merits of the fandom as a whole).