Meme of Shipping

[misssara11]

'cause everyone else is doing it and I haven't done in meme in AGES

Comment with any ship (romantic or platonic or maybe even non-existent!) from a fandom that you know I have some knowledge about, and I will rant about aforementioned ship. This may be incoherent gushing or exclamations of disgust, depending on your ship of choice.

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[jedi_of_urth]

Shared sips time:

Doctor/Rose
Guy/Marian
Alex/Gene
Jeff/Annie

For now...

[jedi_of_urth]

Also I hadn't realized until this post that you were watching Game of Thrones. YAY, more people to be fans of the show. I take it you haven't read the books though?

[misssara11]

I have not read the books, but I've read the summaries of the books. Mostly to help me figure out what's going on.

Right now, favorite two characters: Dany and Tyrion, with the former taking the lead.

[jedi_of_urth]

Dany and Tyrion are pretty cool characters. I have a falling out with Dany somewhere along the line in the books and I'll be curious how that goes in the series. I've pretty much always been an Arya fangirl myself.

[misssara11]

See, I don't like Arya at all. I get that that's unpopular. I just don't have time to read the book, so I'm sure that makes a difference (as it has in my True Blood watching).

[misssara11]

I going to to give each one of these their own comment

[jedi_of_urth]

I don't get how the "they met a a vulnerable time in his life" argument is supposed to negate what he felt for her. She's a part of who he is, becomes, and will be.

As many problems as I have with Ten II, it's really the writing of JE in general, not the idea of it. They do get to be together but I could have done without it being so...consequential.

Anyway, love them and always will.

[misssara11]

Guy/Marian...

I feel like the show's people didn't expect their chemistry or popularity and felt they had to follow history and the only way to do that was to do a complete character assisination on Guy after a season of building him up. To this day, I haven't seen the last two episodes of S2 and beyond.

Marian made Guy a better man and not because he knew it could possibly get him in her pants. He found out it had those qualities in him all along. It was just a matter of circumstance. I truly believe Guy could have just as easily been like Robin had the Sheriff not got a hold of him.

And Marian's passionate side came out around Guy. And she liked it more than she wanted to admit.

[jedi_of_urth]

I'm pretty certain TPTB we're expecting what they happened upon with these two yeah. And finding themselves with a conundrum they chose the path of...bizarreness. Yeah, and character assassination that then in s3 had to be reset (to be fair I like s3 because in the end it doesn't turn back the Guy arc the way s2 did).

In the beginning it was mostly about getting in her pants but by the end, while he hoped for that, that wasn't the main force of it. He wanted to be that man that she brought out in him.

Did you ever read my massive epic history of Guy fic? So far it's pretty much about how much Vasey screwed him up, because he totally did.

[misssara11]

Did you ever read my massive epic history of Guy fic? So far it's pretty much about how much Vasey screwed him up, because he totally did.

No, I haven't. I've missed quite a lot of fic in the past year.

I'll always believe in Guy/Marian!!! They were just too pretty to not love.

[misssara11]

Oh Guv and Bolly...

I totally understand why they went the way they did and even accept it. However, I'm saddened that they only ever shared a kiss.

I kept hoping that at the end, Alex would be coming back into the squad room to "assist" Gene and would later tell him she was his reward for all that he'd done.

This is really the only ship that ended sadly that I wasn't heartbroken over. But that's what we have fic for.

[jedi_of_urth]

Yeah, I get why the show ended with then the way it did, but...well I've read some pretty awesome fic about Alex deciding, 'you know I don't think I feel like staying in this pub just yet.'

Or one day Gene will get to go and join the team, and Alex.

[misssara11]

Yeah, they just have to see each other again. She meant too much for him.

I did wonder, when Gene goes to the Railway Arms, will he be the age he appears or the age he actually died?

[misssara11]

Jeff/Annie: The New Obession

[jedi_of_urth]

I think you do have a different perspective than a lot of us. And I definitely think the ship is still there in s2, just...now TPTB clearly know it's there but still aren't sure what to do with it.

Part of that works with the characters, Jeff's hesitance to do anything about the feelings there between them, his commitment phobia, and all that. So some of it feels character tentative and some of it feels writer tentative.

I honestly never even considered the age difference until I got into fandom (if I'd waited til this year the show would have brought it up), I just don't notice these things. And even when I do, I don't care.

If I ever am willing to spend the money and get a paid account with more icons I totally want some Community ones.

[misssara11]

now TPTB clearly know it's there but still aren't sure what to do with it.

I think that could be a good thing. This means they wouldn't want to mess it up. That would alienate a good portion of their viewing audience and with a show with the ratings it currently has, that would nto be a good thing. Dan Harmon has said he was about the group dynamic over the potential pairing. And I think this was another case of chemistry being unexpected. Listening to the commentary from the S1 DVDs, he just couldn't ignore it and it hasn't gone away.

If I ever am willing to spend the money and get a paid account with more icons I totally want some Community ones.

I have a paid account and room the icons. It's just a matter of finding them. I don't know what I want for the J/A one but I know my Magnitude one must be a animated "Pop, Pop" gif because, he's a one man party. And I just love Pavel though I couldn't tell you why. I just do. I get really excited when he shows up.