Shipping meme day 7
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jedi_of_urthDay 7: A pairing that disappointed you
Given my answer to day 6 about how I’m a pretty compulsive shipper, I’ve definitely been disappointed by several ships over the years. In a variety of ways, too.
--Harry/Hermione: given JKR’s recent comments, I guess she might agree with this one. I’m not even one of those people who had long assumed the hero would end up with his girl supporting character, I didn’t ship anything in this series until OOTP when it broadsided me that I was pretty sure Hermione was in love with Harry and he was on the verge of loving her back. Yes what had happened in the series up until that point was part of why it made so much sense that they would go that direction, but I didn’t ship it, or even see it, until it clicked into place. And then...the last couple books happened.
-Most any ship on BSG. Of course the show itself let me down so much that I’m not sure it’s right to point out that there were shipping problems in addition to everything else, but there really were. Adama/Roslin mostly let me down by making the characters that got together an annoying shadow of their earlier versions that had convinced me to ship them. Same could be said for Baltar/Six and Tigh/Ellen. Lee/Kara got weird, got no resolution, and had turned the characters (especially Kara) into something barely recognizable as the ship I’d tended to root for. Even Kara/Sam just became something that made no sense. I just never cared for Helo/Sharon so I kind of hate that they’re the only ones the show seemed to care about getting a “happy” ending.
-Doctor/Rose: oh this one’s going to bring up some old issues. I still hate JE and the resolution of the Doctor/Rose love story and the only consolation remains that Moffat shouldn’t be able to get his hands on it and make it worse (the rest of the DW verse though...). I think the end is a complete betrayal of the story we’d seen at least since Doomsday and largely before. The Doctor was supposed to *learn something* from having lost her once, that it was better to embrace life and love while it was there instead of running from it because it would hurt in the future. And after Rose fought her way across dimensions, against impossible odds, the Doctor gets to make that kind of choice for her when she clearly wanted him. And it’s not like there’s no value in that resolution as an idea, it could probably have worked but the writing of JE is the biggest disappointment of all.
-I almost think I should count Jeff/Annie, but it’s still going on so I can’t be sure how disappointed I’ll be in the end. There have been quite a few pieces along the way that have disappointed me. Because clearly it’s enough of a thing that writers get to pick at it but not prepared to actually go anywhere with it so picking at it tends to end badly so far. I’m still kind of hopeful, but we’ll see.
Day 1: Your first ship ever
Day 2: A ship you've just discovered
Day 3: Your OTP
Day 4: Favorite crack pairing
Day 5: A crossover pairing you think would work
Day 6: Series that you have many ships in
Day 7: A pairing that disappointed you
Day 8: A pairing only you seem to like
Day 9: Your least favorite couple
Day 10: Ship that became canon even though you didn’t expect it to
Day 11: Character you like with several others
Day 12: Character you don’t like seeing paired with anyone else
Day 13: Couple you ship that causes intense feelings in its fandom (read: flamewars and the like)
Day 14: Couple you liked even though you knew it would end up badly
Day 15: A ship canon really messed with
Day 16: Favorite villain pairing
Day 17: Ship you talk(ed) about with people in real life
Day 18: Most annoying character that tried to come between a ship
Day 19: Favorite Hero/Villain pairing
Day 20: Favorite couple played for laughs
Day 21: Favorite opposites attract couple
Day 22: Saddest unrequited love
Day 23: Couple you only shipped after a long time
Day 24: Couple you like, but is overshadowed by another couple in a fandom
Day 25: Most popular couple in your favorite fandom (do you ship it too?)
Day 26: Best historical couple
Day 27: Another couple you shipped a long time ago
Day 28: A couple you shipped not nearly as long as you thought you would
Day 29: Favorite ‘birds of a feather flock together’ couple
Day 30: Couple you will still ship a few years from now
Given my answer to day 6 about how I’m a pretty compulsive shipper, I’ve definitely been disappointed by several ships over the years. In a variety of ways, too.
--Harry/Hermione: given JKR’s recent comments, I guess she might agree with this one. I’m not even one of those people who had long assumed the hero would end up with his girl supporting character, I didn’t ship anything in this series until OOTP when it broadsided me that I was pretty sure Hermione was in love with Harry and he was on the verge of loving her back. Yes what had happened in the series up until that point was part of why it made so much sense that they would go that direction, but I didn’t ship it, or even see it, until it clicked into place. And then...the last couple books happened.
-Most any ship on BSG. Of course the show itself let me down so much that I’m not sure it’s right to point out that there were shipping problems in addition to everything else, but there really were. Adama/Roslin mostly let me down by making the characters that got together an annoying shadow of their earlier versions that had convinced me to ship them. Same could be said for Baltar/Six and Tigh/Ellen. Lee/Kara got weird, got no resolution, and had turned the characters (especially Kara) into something barely recognizable as the ship I’d tended to root for. Even Kara/Sam just became something that made no sense. I just never cared for Helo/Sharon so I kind of hate that they’re the only ones the show seemed to care about getting a “happy” ending.
-Doctor/Rose: oh this one’s going to bring up some old issues. I still hate JE and the resolution of the Doctor/Rose love story and the only consolation remains that Moffat shouldn’t be able to get his hands on it and make it worse (the rest of the DW verse though...). I think the end is a complete betrayal of the story we’d seen at least since Doomsday and largely before. The Doctor was supposed to *learn something* from having lost her once, that it was better to embrace life and love while it was there instead of running from it because it would hurt in the future. And after Rose fought her way across dimensions, against impossible odds, the Doctor gets to make that kind of choice for her when she clearly wanted him. And it’s not like there’s no value in that resolution as an idea, it could probably have worked but the writing of JE is the biggest disappointment of all.
-I almost think I should count Jeff/Annie, but it’s still going on so I can’t be sure how disappointed I’ll be in the end. There have been quite a few pieces along the way that have disappointed me. Because clearly it’s enough of a thing that writers get to pick at it but not prepared to actually go anywhere with it so picking at it tends to end badly so far. I’m still kind of hopeful, but we’ll see.
Day 1: Your first ship ever
Day 2: A ship you've just discovered
Day 3: Your OTP
Day 4: Favorite crack pairing
Day 5: A crossover pairing you think would work
Day 6: Series that you have many ships in
Day 7: A pairing that disappointed you
Day 8: A pairing only you seem to like
Day 9: Your least favorite couple
Day 10: Ship that became canon even though you didn’t expect it to
Day 11: Character you like with several others
Day 12: Character you don’t like seeing paired with anyone else
Day 13: Couple you ship that causes intense feelings in its fandom (read: flamewars and the like)
Day 14: Couple you liked even though you knew it would end up badly
Day 15: A ship canon really messed with
Day 16: Favorite villain pairing
Day 17: Ship you talk(ed) about with people in real life
Day 18: Most annoying character that tried to come between a ship
Day 19: Favorite Hero/Villain pairing
Day 20: Favorite couple played for laughs
Day 21: Favorite opposites attract couple
Day 22: Saddest unrequited love
Day 23: Couple you only shipped after a long time
Day 24: Couple you like, but is overshadowed by another couple in a fandom
Day 25: Most popular couple in your favorite fandom (do you ship it too?)
Day 26: Best historical couple
Day 27: Another couple you shipped a long time ago
Day 28: A couple you shipped not nearly as long as you thought you would
Day 29: Favorite ‘birds of a feather flock together’ couple
Day 30: Couple you will still ship a few years from now
