100 Things: Simon/Alisha (Misfits)
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SIMON/ALISHA (MISFITS)
(I didn't have time to make my own graphic, their scenes were always shot so beautifully)
Simon and Alisha. It was either them or Kelly/Seth (I thought they were cute; I guess it helps that Matthew McNulty is especially cute otherwise I would have been majorly faceplam-ing over his decisions in episode 6 and 7). In the end I chose to focus on Simon and Alisha because it's just so...well, let's read on, shall we? ^_~
I usually have a pretty good sense of potential ships or characters who will eventually hook up in the series (unless your show is Private Practice, I seem to have lost that somewhere when everyone started hooking up with each other O_o Same goes for Grey's Anatomy). But Simon and Alisha to be honest came out of nowhere for me, like Sami Khedira suddenly stepping into the penalty box and nailing a goal for the team. I guess it's because Simon was so awkward and seemingly strange to everyone else in series 1 while Alisha was so exuberant that you'd think they would never work out. The course of series 2 changed this perception with the arrival of the SuperHoodie storyline and the gang becoming more integrated together. The reveal that SuperHoodie was future!Simon and that they fall in love (guh, using The Foals' "Spanish Sahara" during the first time they made love was perfection) made things interesting but at at the same time presents problems to their relationship already: why did future!Simon come back in the first place? Which Simon Alisha really fell in love with? etc., etc. (oh, the issues of timey whimey...)
Of course there were issues in series 3 concerning the fact that Alisha did not have a storyline of her own to work with outside of their relationship but we did get to see her and Simon function in a normal relationship. The fact that their powers were swapped meant that they could touch each other now and they live together in the loft. You could tell that they genuinely cared about each other and the relationship that they had as they faced a number of obstacles to their relationship.
Then the series finale came around (insert a "This is why we can't have nice things" macro here) ;_; Their story pretty much goes full circle here with Simon witnessing Alisha die in parallel to Alisha watching future!Simon die in series 2. Simon decides to go back in time and everything resets and starts again. Rudy summed it up perfectly that basically they will just always be in that cycle where Simon goes back, he and Alisha falls in love, he dies, she and present!Simon fall in love, she dies and the process continues. Their existence and their tragic love (I agree with Kelly on that, it is tragic) remains fixed within a particular continuum in time. I remember thinking there was something off concerning the details of the time travel and the way that it played out but for me it doesn't take away the emotional impact of their story.
*le sigh*
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SIMON/ALISHA (MISFITS)
(I didn't have time to make my own graphic, their scenes were always shot so beautifully)
Simon and Alisha. It was either them or Kelly/Seth (I thought they were cute; I guess it helps that Matthew McNulty is especially cute otherwise I would have been majorly faceplam-ing over his decisions in episode 6 and 7). In the end I chose to focus on Simon and Alisha because it's just so...well, let's read on, shall we? ^_~
I usually have a pretty good sense of potential ships or characters who will eventually hook up in the series (unless your show is Private Practice, I seem to have lost that somewhere when everyone started hooking up with each other O_o Same goes for Grey's Anatomy). But Simon and Alisha to be honest came out of nowhere for me, like Sami Khedira suddenly stepping into the penalty box and nailing a goal for the team. I guess it's because Simon was so awkward and seemingly strange to everyone else in series 1 while Alisha was so exuberant that you'd think they would never work out. The course of series 2 changed this perception with the arrival of the SuperHoodie storyline and the gang becoming more integrated together. The reveal that SuperHoodie was future!Simon and that they fall in love (guh, using The Foals' "Spanish Sahara" during the first time they made love was perfection) made things interesting but at at the same time presents problems to their relationship already: why did future!Simon come back in the first place? Which Simon Alisha really fell in love with? etc., etc. (oh, the issues of timey whimey...)
Of course there were issues in series 3 concerning the fact that Alisha did not have a storyline of her own to work with outside of their relationship but we did get to see her and Simon function in a normal relationship. The fact that their powers were swapped meant that they could touch each other now and they live together in the loft. You could tell that they genuinely cared about each other and the relationship that they had as they faced a number of obstacles to their relationship.
Then the series finale came around (insert a "This is why we can't have nice things" macro here) ;_; Their story pretty much goes full circle here with Simon witnessing Alisha die in parallel to Alisha watching future!Simon die in series 2. Simon decides to go back in time and everything resets and starts again. Rudy summed it up perfectly that basically they will just always be in that cycle where Simon goes back, he and Alisha falls in love, he dies, she and present!Simon fall in love, she dies and the process continues. Their existence and their tragic love (I agree with Kelly on that, it is tragic) remains fixed within a particular continuum in time. I remember thinking there was something off concerning the details of the time travel and the way that it played out but for me it doesn't take away the emotional impact of their story.
*le sigh*
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