fictional couples meme-thingy

[rose_griffes]

Comment with a fandom, or two, or five; books, movies, tv shows. I'll tell you my favorite character, my favorite couple and what I like about the pairing, and... whatever else I'm supposed to say about them. Alas, I am too late/lazy to look up anyone's recent-ish version of this meme. You can tell me what else I should say, if you wish.

It's for SCIENCE, by the way. (Heh.) I thought I had figured out the key to my own (fictional) pairing preferences, but now I'm not so sure. Possibly I was too sick to be making sense when I figured out this supposed key.
Although the common cold really shouldn't cause that much loss of sense. *snickers* Possibly my favorite pairings have NO common ground?

Comments

[rose-griffes.livejournal.com]

Oh noes! Have we known each other too long?
*giggles a lot*

Okay! For Buffy the Vampire Slayer I shipped... Buffy and an unspecified generic kinda normal human guy at some point in the future! Heh. It's hard to pick from when the show was still on air, because I tend to like the canon love interests. Or not, because sometimes that's the point. (Buffy/Spike was indeed appealingly messed-up and not a relationship I could imagine working long-term. Nope, not even after he had a soul.)

What do I like about Buffy and this as-yet-unnamed normal guy of the future? I guess it's my hope that someday she'll get to do some of the normal-life things that she kept missing. I did, in fact, like Riley, and thought there were some good aspects to their relationship that she would appreciate more later, when she's cookies instead of cookie dough. Probably after another really bad relationship or two with whacked-out immortal dudes like, uh, the Immortal.

Favorite character on the show: Buffy, most of the time, but it's sort of like Starbuck and BSG--I really liked the ensemble.

So did you already know that? ;0)

[daybreak777.livejournal.com]

Considering that I forgot you even watched Buffy, nope, I didn't know. :-) This made the meme much more fun. I can learn new things about Rose!

If I had known you watched Buffy . . . I can't imagine you shipping her with Angel, Riley or Spike.

I really disliked Riley. He seemed so weak to me. I don't want my heroines to have normal lives! That's for you and me. I want them to be epic!!!

My favorite character on Buffy was Faith. She totally rocked. I didn't always like the things she did but I really did like that she made life into what she wanted of it. I liked Buffy a great deal. But Faith was riveting to watch.

[rose-griffes.livejournal.com]

I can't imagine you shipping her with Angel, Riley or Spike.
*laughs* Yeah, I did like each of those pairings for various reasons, but I was never about any of those men being Buffy's One True Love. Okay, maybe Angel, but only as a Really Bad Idea One True Love. The one you never forget but you move on anyway.

I really disliked Riley. He seemed so weak to me. I don't want my heroines to have normal lives! That's for you and me. I want them to be epic!!!
Hm. My feelings for Riley fluctuated a LOT. But there was always something about him that appealed to me. Probably it's that "I like the underdog" tendency, and Riley was definitely an underdog in his relationship with Buffy. (obsessive24 made a Riley vid (http://obsessive24.livejournal.com/397221.html) that I watched all the way through, which probably means it's good? Heh.)

As for Faith... I thought she was fascinating to watch on Buffy, but it was only on Angel that I found I could root for her. Atonement arc, hurrah! And Faith/Angel (in a friendshippy way) is a favorite ship of mine.