DPP: Previous Ship

[anamarya]

We talked some time ago (a couple of week I think) about the ship that helped us (or not) to get over pilots.

What I'm proposing as subject for today is to talk about the couples that we shipped before the pilots and how did they prepared us (or not) for Kara and Lee. So, what was your ship before them? Is that couple similar to this one or not? 

Comments

[dramaturgca]

I was mostly a slasher before pilots. I would definitely say that I went for pairings that were a marriage of opposites though, Jack O'Neill/Daniel Jackson and Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski.

[angelicalangie]

There are some Awesome Jack/Daniel fics out there (I know because my sister is forever texting me excerpts as she reads them lol)

[angelicalangie]

Let's see

Stargate SG-1

Sam and Martouf
Sam and Malek

Staragate Atlantis
Rodney McKay and Elizabeth Weir

Star Trek Voyager
Captain Janeway and Chakotay
Chakotay and Seven of Nine
Tom Paris and B'Elanna Torres

Star Trek The Next Generation
Jean Luc Picard and Beverly Crusher

Star Trek Enterprise
Trip Tucker and T'Pol
Malcolm Reed and Hoshi Sato

Torchwood
Captain Jack and Ianto Jones

Dr Who
10 and Rose (how obvious huh)
11 and Amy (yes, I know that is wrong)

Buffy, The Vampire Slayer
Buffy and Angel
Buffy and Spike

Angel
Angel and Cordelia

I am certain there must be more ship I shipped hard with, but ... Memory fails

[scifishipper]

I shipped a lot of couples that got various kinds of endings, good, bad, none, but none of them prepared me for the heartbreak of pilots. Not even close. There was something about their epic romance that made me believe that they HAD to end up together. So much torment and heartbreak and pain that had, IMO, earned something like a happy ending. The utter shock of the poof disabled every possibility of a future. Pulled plug. Cut power. Dead.

So unbelievably and traumatically sad. I can't even.

[winegums]

There was something about their epic romance that made me believe that they HAD to end up together. So much torment and heartbreak and pain that had, IMO, earned something like a happy ending.

Exactly - I can see similarities between pilots and the closest thing I had to a ship before them, but the magnitude of the devastation pilots wrought on my heart.....there was NO way it could have prepared me for that.

[bluuefiire]

Sums it up for me perfectly too....I'm still not "over" it...I just have to step away sometimes (and often go read MintEnergy's extended/fixed ending)

[rachelindeed]

Maddie and David from Moonlighting are very dear to me, and remind me a little of Kara and Lee.

First Official Date and/or Breakup in a Laundromat scene - 'You know my garbage'And they prepared me for pilots in the sense that the destruction of their relationship was more traumatic and drawn-out than anything on BSG, to the extent that it's all anyone ever remembers about the show now, which is a shame

[damao2010]

Oh, Maddie and David... I used to be so fond of them... It's been so long since I've seen them that I hardly remember them anymore. How sad is that?

They used to make me laugh. I didn't miss an episode. I do remember that their end was even worse than Kara and Lee's, though. And that they became the very symbol of ships gone wrong. All due to utter writers' failure. It's what happens when they try to go out of their way to stop characters natural development. As much as the Quad of Doom and the poof disappoint and frustrate me, they were not enough of a betrayal of my beloved characters to make me so mad I couldn't stand them.

Anyway, now I want to go back and watch Moonlighting again. (The beginning, of course). :)

[rachelindeed]

It's definitely worth rewatching! I think those first three seasons hold up very well. And even after the writing starts going terribly wrong, the acting - especially Bruce Willis - is still kind of heartbreakingly good.

Ha, and of course it was another 'Sam' who showed up as a romantic rival! Gotta keep an eye on those Sams :)

[damao2010]

Although I've enjoyed and rooted for many different pairs over the years, there was only one ship that I really got into that compares to pilots. That was Mulder and Scully. I loved the way they were so different and yet so respectful and supportive of each other. I loved that they completed each other in ways they had never expected. I loved that they were friends, first and foremost.

I wouldn't say they prepared for pilots because their story was not quite so doomed. I hated that the writers also dragged their being apart far too long and that when they finally got them together it was not as satisfying as I hoped for. But then, the show itself had become too confusing and unsatisfying in general. However, we at least had years of friendship and banter and adorable UST and a sort of happy ending.