More Fannish 50 ramble
So, I haven't done one of these for a while, so may do a few more over the next few days to catch up a bit. Blame Lands of Magic.
So, a lot of you may have a One True Pairing (OTP), but how many of you have a NoTP, a pairing you wouldn't ship in a million years?
The pairing I can't bring myself to ship is Alice/Ocean from Batwoman:
It wasn't a pairing I had particularly strong views about at first, until the storyline where Alice is aware that Kate is alive and hypnotised to believe she is Circe Sionis. Alice is trying to obtain from Enigma the password that will unlock Kate's own memories, and Ocean snaps Enigma's neck before she's had the chance to give the password to Alice. He comes out with some absolute shite about how HE doesn't want Kate around Alice, about how HE sees her as toxic and brings up times when Kate had chosen other people over her.
But that is not Ocean's decision to make. If Alice had come to the conclusion by herself that SHE wanted Kate out of her life, that SHE was happy for Kate to go on living as Circe, fair enough, I could have accepted that as she was making her own decision. Instead, Ocean makes the decision for her and takes away Alice's right to make that choice for herself.
What he's not taking into account there is that there were so many years when Alice was held captive by Cartwright, when she was deprived of being able to make any choices for herself. And now she's free, this dick thinks it's acceptable to take away her choice again. It never quite sat right with me after that episode that she would still want to be with him after that.
So, a lot of you may have a One True Pairing (OTP), but how many of you have a NoTP, a pairing you wouldn't ship in a million years?
The pairing I can't bring myself to ship is Alice/Ocean from Batwoman:
It wasn't a pairing I had particularly strong views about at first, until the storyline where Alice is aware that Kate is alive and hypnotised to believe she is Circe Sionis. Alice is trying to obtain from Enigma the password that will unlock Kate's own memories, and Ocean snaps Enigma's neck before she's had the chance to give the password to Alice. He comes out with some absolute shite about how HE doesn't want Kate around Alice, about how HE sees her as toxic and brings up times when Kate had chosen other people over her.
But that is not Ocean's decision to make. If Alice had come to the conclusion by herself that SHE wanted Kate out of her life, that SHE was happy for Kate to go on living as Circe, fair enough, I could have accepted that as she was making her own decision. Instead, Ocean makes the decision for her and takes away Alice's right to make that choice for herself.
What he's not taking into account there is that there were so many years when Alice was held captive by Cartwright, when she was deprived of being able to make any choices for herself. And now she's free, this dick thinks it's acceptable to take away her choice again. It never quite sat right with me after that episode that she would still want to be with him after that.