Writer's Block: Duos
...And it's Kara Thrace and Lee Adama of Battlestar Galactica FTW! Falling behind at the last second we have John Crichton and Aeryn Sun of Farscape for a close second place! Here are Seeley Booth and Temperance Brennan of Bones to snag third! Veronica Mars and Logan Echols, Jim Halpert and Pam Beesley, Sydney Bristow and Michael Vaughn, Scully
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So I guess it is much easier to ship more canonical couples
Exactly! I think it's easier to ship two people who are "destined" for eachother from the start or who seem obvious for eachother. Lee and Kara were the opposite and anything but, They were perfectly WRONG for each other from "What was he to me, nothing?" And yet they were two halves of one whole so they couldn't stay away from eachother despite that. And all that messy pain and need? THAT is what I call romantic. The masses can keep their perfect fairy tale romances. I like my happy endings to be earned. (Which their's TOTALLY was and why the Daybreak/Poof was such a gigantic betrayal.)
they can self-destructive and cruel with each other, they hurt other people because of their feelings
From what I can tell from the internetz over the years, you've hit the nail on the head here. This is the reason a lot of people couldn't stand them. To me, just like you, I simply found it an honest portayal of how love and life is never easy and rarely simple.
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