I agree completely on the Fanged Four. And Doctor/Master. And Jack/Ianto, and John/Scorpius, and Wes/Lilah, and Hiro/Charlie. ...I don't really need to do this meme, do I? ;p
Lastly, I find the justification for this I've seen - "Martha deserves a time lord, the Master is hot, clearly they should be together" - absolutely idiotic.
o.o Wah? That makes Martha seem incredibly daft and shallow, of which she is neither. It would have to be very dark and twisted for it to be at all plausible. (And I...still wouldn't read it, probably.)
Yana/Martha could be sweet, though. (And really, all Yana means is that the Master could have been a good person.)
That he's not genetically disposed towards evil, absolutely. And I think that's why they had Yana hear the drums - to make it clear that they weren't the cause of the Master's cruelty or killing urge, either. Free will and all that. He could have been different, but he chose not to be. This makes him certainly an interesting character, but not a misunderstood woobie.
Yes, exactly. (And if they were, I would have been severely unimpressed, to say the least.) We even saw him grow more destructive, more unstable through the years - he isn't pure evil, he isn't secretly good, he's just a very damaged, dangerous person.
Honestly, people who try to write pure fluff with him baffle me.
(I...need more Angel icons. Curse you, lack of icon space.)
Wait, people seriously ship Master/Martha and not just in a "dude, that would be so fucked up" kind of way? *shudders*
Duncan/Amanda was awesome. He definitely needed someone like her to get him to lighten up and have some fun, and she needed him to get her to take life seriously sometimes. I still love Duncan/Methos best, but I don't want to forget how awesome Amanda was, too. One of these days I'm going to have to go back and re-watch some of the non-Methos episodes of Highlander, which I haven't seen in about ten years... :)
My ode to Duncan/Amanda is here, and it's absolutely compatible with loving Duncan/Methos as well. The Amanda episodes are as rewatchable as the Methos eps, you know.*g*
I love your ode to Duncan/Amanda. That Eiffel Tower scene is one of my all-time favorite TV moments. I think the quality of writing on that show varied a lot, but the main actors (Paul, Gracen, Byrnes, Wingfield) had such amazing chemistry that they were endlessly watchable together. And I loved that Duncan/Amanda wasn't any kind of OTP twu wuv thing, that it was on and off and fun, but that they were friends and really did love each other underneath.
I admit, sometimes I forget that there are other Highlander episodes beyond the ones with Methos. ;) My biggest problem with that show was that I found the lead to be tedious and uptight and boring. I pretty much only liked him in the more comedic episodes, or when he was interacting with someone who would bring out sides of him beyond "morally upright and preachy." Which is why Duncan/Methos and Duncan/Amanda appeal to me
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I once wrote an extremely AU wedding night for Scorpius and John. It was incredibly difficult to do, to the point where I had to walk away from the computer and clear my brain of the mental images. *shudders*
looks like many others before me have gone down the 'people actually think that?" about martha/master... i can't believe everyone who ships it thinks that. it must be more of a - he finds that she defeated him vaguely interesting, imagines it would really annoy the doctor if he slept with her, and also finds her physically attractive and she... is drugged. or something. even that is not a good basis for a ship.
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Lastly, I find the justification for this I've seen - "Martha deserves a time lord, the Master is hot, clearly they should be together" - absolutely idiotic.
o.o Wah? That makes Martha seem incredibly daft and shallow, of which she is neither. It would have to be very dark and twisted for it to be at all plausible. (And I...still wouldn't read it, probably.)
Yana/Martha could be sweet, though. (And really, all Yana means is that the Master could have been a good person.)
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Honestly, people who try to write pure fluff with him baffle me.
(I...need more Angel icons. Curse you, lack of icon space.)
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Duncan/Amanda was awesome. He definitely needed someone like her to get him to lighten up and have some fun, and she needed him to get her to take life seriously sometimes. I still love Duncan/Methos best, but I don't want to forget how awesome Amanda was, too. One of these days I'm going to have to go back and re-watch some of the non-Methos episodes of Highlander, which I haven't seen in about ten years... :)
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BTW, your icon is adorable.*g*
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I love your ode to Duncan/Amanda. That Eiffel Tower scene is one of my all-time favorite TV moments. I think the quality of writing on that show varied a lot, but the main actors (Paul, Gracen, Byrnes, Wingfield) had such amazing chemistry that they were endlessly watchable together. And I loved that Duncan/Amanda wasn't any kind of OTP twu wuv thing, that it was on and off and fun, but that they were friends and really did love each other underneath.
I admit, sometimes I forget that there are other Highlander episodes beyond the ones with Methos. ;) My biggest problem with that show was that I found the lead to be tedious and uptight and boring. I pretty much only liked him in the more comedic episodes, or when he was interacting with someone who would bring out sides of him beyond "morally upright and preachy." Which is why Duncan/Methos and Duncan/Amanda appeal to me ( ... )
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