Forever
Why do these kinds of posts always take so everloving long to compile?
Well, here we go. That Quotes Meme which is now turned into a Gifs Meme. You know, I’m a nerd. I didn’t even read the whole structure of the rules before I went ahead and started posting quotes. I didn’t realize we were going to have to talk about the couples.
Don’t get me wrong, I totally love all the couples on this list. And in a way, I’m kind of relieved I didn’t pick my Top 13 Of All Time. For one thing, I can never do that. And also...a lot of couples I feel like I’ve just talked to death, and also a lot of my couples aren’t great to quote. Or they’re way too obvious to quote.
*Does this happen to anyone else? I try to put these big posts together in a Word Doc, because they usually take me a while, but the quotation marks in my word doc don’t work with LJ coding so I have to add them again when I cut and paste into a post. ANNOYANCES.
Anyway on with the show...
Angela Chase/Jordan Catalano (My So-Called Life)
“Sometimes, someone says something really small, and it just fits into this really empty place in your heart.”
She said this in a monologue (Angela Chase invented The Voiceover, for those of you who didn’t know) in their break-up scene. He was giving her advice about driving, which somehow transcended that moment into giving her advice about sex, and standing up for herself, and life. That show was me, more than anything, more than Friday Night Lights. That show, and Angela and Jordan, portrayed perfectly how absolutely inconsequential and also how End Of The World your teenage years are. Also, they kissed ridiculously pretty.
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Bill Compton/Sookie Stackhouse (True Blood)
“I always thought, as different as we are, somehow we could still be together. And now I don’t know.”
Why did I start shipping them? Plain and simple, because they were the hottest thing I’ve ever seen. Pretty much ever (yeah, I said ever). They love each other like lunatics. I’ve given up on trying to defend Bill/Sookie from a moral standpoint, nobody on this show can take the moral high road. But they do love each other, madly. Oh, and King Bill is a total badass.
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Becky Sproles/Luke Cafferty (Friday Night Lights)
"You are so pretty...I gotta tell you something. You like me. And I’m gonna take you out some time. I’m coming for you, Sproles."
If you cut out of FNL after season 3 (or season 1, or whenever you cut out), you did yourself a serious disservice by not getting to know the second generation kids. First of all, Becky and Luke are both amazing characters by themselves but by putting them together in season 5 (after one of the most powerful storylines in FNL history {and that’s saying something} being condensed into one episode of season 4), it was almost overload for the senses. Plus, wouldn’t you melt right into a puddle if a boy said that to you?
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Blair Waldorf/Dan Humphrey (Gossip Girl)
DAN: “For someone who’s just a friend, you’re really good at choreographing reasons for us to kiss.”
BLAIR: “That’s because I’m willing to suffer for love.”
DAN: “Whatever. Just don’t get too handsy.”
I’ll tell you, these two really snuck up on me. I was pretty diehard Blair/Chuck, and kind of didn’t even understand anything else. It kind of all rushed me this year, that [provided you wanted to see it] B/D is a story that has been building all along. Blair and Chuck are pretty epic [*shudder* I still kind of hate that word], but I do kind of feel like the landscape of GG has shifted. Buckle up. Season 5 will be a bumpy ride.
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Caroline Forbes/Matt Donovan The Vampire Diaries
“I can’t believe I hurt him. He’s the one person on this entire planet that I never wanted to hurt.”
Why don’t more people love them? It honestly makes me sad. Well, I guess, for me, this goes back to Vampire Caroline isn’t the ‘real’ Caroline. She stayed the person she was before she turned, with the same hopes and dreams (even if she knows that all of them can’t be realized). I don’t know. I just love these two kids who found each other and supported each other when it felt like the whole world had left them behind. I hope season 3 gives Matt some time to catch up (but I’m not holding out hope).
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Rhett Butler/Scarlett O’Hara Hamilton Kennedy Butler (Gone With The Wind)
“My darling, you’re such a child. You think that by saying *I’m sorry*, all the past can be corrected. Here, take my handkerchief. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.”
I love when he comments about the handkerchief. It kind of reminds you that he has been there , through all sorts of major crises of her life (though she’s had to do a whole lot of standing on her own feet as well, I’m not discounting that). I just loved his weariness in that line. (But I love their twirling in that gif even more.)
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Peter Pan/Wendy Darling (Peter Pan)
WENDY: “I daresay you’ve felt it yourself. For something...or someone?”
PETER: “Never. Even the sound of it offends me. Why do you have to spoil everything? We have fun don’t we? I taught you to fly! What more could there be?”
WENDY: “There is so much more.”
PETER: “What? What else is there?”
WENDY: “I don’t know.”
If you’ve never seen the 2003 film version, starring Jason Isaacs as Captain Hook/George Darling, do yourself a favor, sit your ass down, and *watch it*. This was the first version I’d seen that really played out the Peter/Wendy love story as [I believe] James Barrie intended it. (Not to mention the Captain Hook fantasy/daddy issues, but that’s a whole other tangent.) This is a story about a girl who was seduced away from her bed by her girlish dream, only to find that she wanted to go home to her parents, and stave off the ‘fantasy’ of ‘reality’ a little while longer. I have too much to say about the psychology and fairy tale and *horror* and *wonder* of Peter Pan. I’ll just stop now.
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Cherry Valance/Dallas Winston (The Outsiders)
“I hope I never see Dallas Winston again. If I do, I’d...probably fall in love with him.”
The only scene they have together in the movie (or the book). And yet somehow, they kind of took over my imagination in my middle school years. I probably wrote some horrible fanfic (I used to write horrible fanfic, and just change the names- I can’t remember what I used as their aliases). I would love Real Fic of them, horribly hard to find. (Do you know any?) I love when Dally echoes these sentiments later to Johnny and Ponyboy, ”Man, that little broad sure does hate me...So...You think she might like me?”
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Elizabeth Webber/Ric Lansing (General Hospital)
“Just listen to me, okay? I know I wrecked everything. I’m not asking for forgiveness, I know I don’t deserve it. I just wanted you to know that you made an immense difference in my life. You made it sparkle. And given enough time, you probably would have erased the darkness all together.”
They were my first GH couple, my first *new* couple when I started watching the show again in 2002. Everything about them made so much sense, it was such a wonderfully classic soapy set-up. Bad man falling for a good woman (and you have to admit, Elizabeth was a totally different character in those days- I always say that Ric fell in love with the most beautiful version of Elizabeth). I remember her snowflake wish, cutting to him mournfully playing his guitar in Alcazar’s prison. And then running into each other around town before she just knocked on his door at Kelley’s. And that scene- he thought he was dying. I mean, as deathbed declarations go, it’s not too shabby. (Also, re: the sparkling...this was 2003, so pre-Twilight and any negative connotations sparkling might conjure up.)
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Brenda Barrett/Jasper ‘Jax’ Jacks (General Hospital)
“No one has ever loved me the way he loves me. One time Sonny said to me that we were like drug addicts and that we were just addicted to each other. And I think he was right. ‘Cause I always thought that sick feeling inside of me was what love felt like. And Jax is just showing me that is not true. You know, with Jax I don’t have to trick him, or beg him, or want to die for him to love me. He just does.”
They ARE my OTP. You’ve heard me mention them a time or two, right? I don’t know how much of this next week I can watch, but...fifteen years. It’s hard for me to separate how good Jax was for Brenda without talking about how horrible Sonny was for Brenda, but she kind of said it all, right there. I’m just going to keep it in my head, that he ends up staying in Rome for the weekend, and then the month, and before they know it, they are a family with Alec. When Joss grows up into her teenage years, she wreaks havoc on her mother for what Carly put her father through.
Have another gif:
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Elizabeth Swann/Captain Jack Sparrow (The Pirates of the Caribbean)
ELIZABETH: “You’re despicable.”
JACK: "Sticks and stones, luv. I saved your life, you saved mine. We’re square."
They are such polar opposites- he was her horizon, she was his North. I love that first interaction with them, when he rescued her from drowning, he cuts her corset strings- symbolic, and also, he’s the only person it occurred to, like he knew what she needed right away (though, of course, it’s common sense). And here, they’re ‘squared’ by saving each other’s lives, but in that gif, she sends him to the locker, and he never squares that with her. (Not that I’m begging he should.) I was happy to do this meme last weekend, because I randomly had a PotC marathon Saturday night, with all three films (just pretending the fourth one didn’t happen), and there is just so much in that universe that I want to see. So much Jack backstory, and Barbossa, and Elizabeth in the 10 Years In Between.
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Robin Scorpio/Stone Cates (General Hospital)
“I love you, more than anyone has the right to love. And I love you from a place in my soul that I didn’t even know I had. I love you.”
See above, deathbed declarations. Is there anything more for anyone to say? He loves her more than anyone should ever be allowed to love- he thinks he doesn’t *deserve* to love her as much as he does. I say again, is there anything more?
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Jackie Burkhart/Stephen Hyde (that 70’s show)
HYDE: “I love you.”
JACKIE: “Well, I don’t love you.”
These two, they were like a fandom pipe dream for so long, and I really never thought it would go anywhere, but they pulled some real, honest moments of human angst in a sitcom about teenage potheads. She was the first thing he really ever fought for, and it kind of broke my heart that he just stopped fighting.
Well, here we go. That Quotes Meme which is now turned into a Gifs Meme. You know, I’m a nerd. I didn’t even read the whole structure of the rules before I went ahead and started posting quotes. I didn’t realize we were going to have to talk about the couples.
Don’t get me wrong, I totally love all the couples on this list. And in a way, I’m kind of relieved I didn’t pick my Top 13 Of All Time. For one thing, I can never do that. And also...a lot of couples I feel like I’ve just talked to death, and also a lot of my couples aren’t great to quote. Or they’re way too obvious to quote.
*Does this happen to anyone else? I try to put these big posts together in a Word Doc, because they usually take me a while, but the quotation marks in my word doc don’t work with LJ coding so I have to add them again when I cut and paste into a post. ANNOYANCES.
Anyway on with the show...
Angela Chase/Jordan Catalano (My So-Called Life)
“Sometimes, someone says something really small, and it just fits into this really empty place in your heart.”
She said this in a monologue (Angela Chase invented The Voiceover, for those of you who didn’t know) in their break-up scene. He was giving her advice about driving, which somehow transcended that moment into giving her advice about sex, and standing up for herself, and life. That show was me, more than anything, more than Friday Night Lights. That show, and Angela and Jordan, portrayed perfectly how absolutely inconsequential and also how End Of The World your teenage years are. Also, they kissed ridiculously pretty.
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Bill Compton/Sookie Stackhouse (True Blood)
“I always thought, as different as we are, somehow we could still be together. And now I don’t know.”
Why did I start shipping them? Plain and simple, because they were the hottest thing I’ve ever seen. Pretty much ever (yeah, I said ever). They love each other like lunatics. I’ve given up on trying to defend Bill/Sookie from a moral standpoint, nobody on this show can take the moral high road. But they do love each other, madly. Oh, and King Bill is a total badass.
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Becky Sproles/Luke Cafferty (Friday Night Lights)
"You are so pretty...I gotta tell you something. You like me. And I’m gonna take you out some time. I’m coming for you, Sproles."
If you cut out of FNL after season 3 (or season 1, or whenever you cut out), you did yourself a serious disservice by not getting to know the second generation kids. First of all, Becky and Luke are both amazing characters by themselves but by putting them together in season 5 (after one of the most powerful storylines in FNL history {and that’s saying something} being condensed into one episode of season 4), it was almost overload for the senses. Plus, wouldn’t you melt right into a puddle if a boy said that to you?
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Blair Waldorf/Dan Humphrey (Gossip Girl)
DAN: “For someone who’s just a friend, you’re really good at choreographing reasons for us to kiss.”
BLAIR: “That’s because I’m willing to suffer for love.”
DAN: “Whatever. Just don’t get too handsy.”
I’ll tell you, these two really snuck up on me. I was pretty diehard Blair/Chuck, and kind of didn’t even understand anything else. It kind of all rushed me this year, that [provided you wanted to see it] B/D is a story that has been building all along. Blair and Chuck are pretty epic [*shudder* I still kind of hate that word], but I do kind of feel like the landscape of GG has shifted. Buckle up. Season 5 will be a bumpy ride.
<<<333
Caroline Forbes/Matt Donovan The Vampire Diaries
“I can’t believe I hurt him. He’s the one person on this entire planet that I never wanted to hurt.”
Why don’t more people love them? It honestly makes me sad. Well, I guess, for me, this goes back to Vampire Caroline isn’t the ‘real’ Caroline. She stayed the person she was before she turned, with the same hopes and dreams (even if she knows that all of them can’t be realized). I don’t know. I just love these two kids who found each other and supported each other when it felt like the whole world had left them behind. I hope season 3 gives Matt some time to catch up (but I’m not holding out hope).
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Rhett Butler/Scarlett O’Hara Hamilton Kennedy Butler (Gone With The Wind)
“My darling, you’re such a child. You think that by saying *I’m sorry*, all the past can be corrected. Here, take my handkerchief. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.”
I love when he comments about the handkerchief. It kind of reminds you that he has been there , through all sorts of major crises of her life (though she’s had to do a whole lot of standing on her own feet as well, I’m not discounting that). I just loved his weariness in that line. (But I love their twirling in that gif even more.)
<<<333
Peter Pan/Wendy Darling (Peter Pan)
WENDY: “I daresay you’ve felt it yourself. For something...or someone?”
PETER: “Never. Even the sound of it offends me. Why do you have to spoil everything? We have fun don’t we? I taught you to fly! What more could there be?”
WENDY: “There is so much more.”
PETER: “What? What else is there?”
WENDY: “I don’t know.”
If you’ve never seen the 2003 film version, starring Jason Isaacs as Captain Hook/George Darling, do yourself a favor, sit your ass down, and *watch it*. This was the first version I’d seen that really played out the Peter/Wendy love story as [I believe] James Barrie intended it. (Not to mention the Captain Hook fantasy/daddy issues, but that’s a whole other tangent.) This is a story about a girl who was seduced away from her bed by her girlish dream, only to find that she wanted to go home to her parents, and stave off the ‘fantasy’ of ‘reality’ a little while longer. I have too much to say about the psychology and fairy tale and *horror* and *wonder* of Peter Pan. I’ll just stop now.
<<<333
Cherry Valance/Dallas Winston (The Outsiders)
“I hope I never see Dallas Winston again. If I do, I’d...probably fall in love with him.”
The only scene they have together in the movie (or the book). And yet somehow, they kind of took over my imagination in my middle school years. I probably wrote some horrible fanfic (I used to write horrible fanfic, and just change the names- I can’t remember what I used as their aliases). I would love Real Fic of them, horribly hard to find. (Do you know any?) I love when Dally echoes these sentiments later to Johnny and Ponyboy, ”Man, that little broad sure does hate me...So...You think she might like me?”
<<<333
Elizabeth Webber/Ric Lansing (General Hospital)
“Just listen to me, okay? I know I wrecked everything. I’m not asking for forgiveness, I know I don’t deserve it. I just wanted you to know that you made an immense difference in my life. You made it sparkle. And given enough time, you probably would have erased the darkness all together.”
They were my first GH couple, my first *new* couple when I started watching the show again in 2002. Everything about them made so much sense, it was such a wonderfully classic soapy set-up. Bad man falling for a good woman (and you have to admit, Elizabeth was a totally different character in those days- I always say that Ric fell in love with the most beautiful version of Elizabeth). I remember her snowflake wish, cutting to him mournfully playing his guitar in Alcazar’s prison. And then running into each other around town before she just knocked on his door at Kelley’s. And that scene- he thought he was dying. I mean, as deathbed declarations go, it’s not too shabby. (Also, re: the sparkling...this was 2003, so pre-Twilight and any negative connotations sparkling might conjure up.)
<<<333
Brenda Barrett/Jasper ‘Jax’ Jacks (General Hospital)
“No one has ever loved me the way he loves me. One time Sonny said to me that we were like drug addicts and that we were just addicted to each other. And I think he was right. ‘Cause I always thought that sick feeling inside of me was what love felt like. And Jax is just showing me that is not true. You know, with Jax I don’t have to trick him, or beg him, or want to die for him to love me. He just does.”
They ARE my OTP. You’ve heard me mention them a time or two, right? I don’t know how much of this next week I can watch, but...fifteen years. It’s hard for me to separate how good Jax was for Brenda without talking about how horrible Sonny was for Brenda, but she kind of said it all, right there. I’m just going to keep it in my head, that he ends up staying in Rome for the weekend, and then the month, and before they know it, they are a family with Alec. When Joss grows up into her teenage years, she wreaks havoc on her mother for what Carly put her father through.
Have another gif:
<<<333
Elizabeth Swann/Captain Jack Sparrow (The Pirates of the Caribbean)
ELIZABETH: “You’re despicable.”
JACK: "Sticks and stones, luv. I saved your life, you saved mine. We’re square."
They are such polar opposites- he was her horizon, she was his North. I love that first interaction with them, when he rescued her from drowning, he cuts her corset strings- symbolic, and also, he’s the only person it occurred to, like he knew what she needed right away (though, of course, it’s common sense). And here, they’re ‘squared’ by saving each other’s lives, but in that gif, she sends him to the locker, and he never squares that with her. (Not that I’m begging he should.) I was happy to do this meme last weekend, because I randomly had a PotC marathon Saturday night, with all three films (just pretending the fourth one didn’t happen), and there is just so much in that universe that I want to see. So much Jack backstory, and Barbossa, and Elizabeth in the 10 Years In Between.
<<<333
Robin Scorpio/Stone Cates (General Hospital)
“I love you, more than anyone has the right to love. And I love you from a place in my soul that I didn’t even know I had. I love you.”
See above, deathbed declarations. Is there anything more for anyone to say? He loves her more than anyone should ever be allowed to love- he thinks he doesn’t *deserve* to love her as much as he does. I say again, is there anything more?
<<<333
Jackie Burkhart/Stephen Hyde (that 70’s show)
HYDE: “I love you.”
JACKIE: “Well, I don’t love you.”
These two, they were like a fandom pipe dream for so long, and I really never thought it would go anywhere, but they pulled some real, honest moments of human angst in a sitcom about teenage potheads. She was the first thing he really ever fought for, and it kind of broke my heart that he just stopped fighting.