Angel/Cordy both would have worked for me in theory; my problem with A/C in praciice was just that they killed Cordy's character to get there.
Even if they'd managed to avoid that, it never made a lick of sense in theory to me because of the curse.
Inara: Who's winning? Simon: I can't tell. They don't seem to be playing by any civilized rules that I know.
'Bushwhacked'
Buffy 4: Grr. Arrgh.
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Frankenbuddha - Oct 12, 2004 10:27:06 am PDT #9204 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Polter-Cow - Oct 12, 2004 10:27:37 am PDT #9205 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I like the friends-becoming-lovers plot, as long as it's clear that it's about both characters growing to love each other, and not, as Plei says, poontang as the reward for being a good guy.
Thanks for saying something, Lyra, cause I was wondering whether people didn't believe friends-becoming-lovers actually happened in a positive way.
Topic!Cindy - Oct 12, 2004 10:29:51 am PDT #9206 of 10001
What is even happening?
Angel/Cordy both would have worked for me in theory; my problem with A/C in praciice was just that they killed Cordy's character to get there.
Even if they'd managed to avoid that, it never made a lick of sense in theory to me because of the curse.
I felt like Lyra about A/C, with the proviso that I would have demanded satisfaction, re not only the curse itself, but that Cordy could accept that she didn't set off the desouling clause, where Buffy had. *That* was my big thing.
I think maybe, if Buffy had been happy with someone, or if Angel had been aware of B/S at the time, such that he *couldn't* love and respect Buffy any more, I might have been part way there. The A/C execution was a misfire, though.
Jon B. - Oct 12, 2004 10:38:59 am PDT #9207 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I was wondering whether people didn't believe friends-becoming-lovers actually happened in a positive way.
My problem with it is that friends-becoming-lovers happens all the time on TV! Positive or not has nothing to do with it. Friends-not-becoming-lovers happens so rarely on TV that I feel cheated when they take that type of relationship away.
Stephanie - Oct 12, 2004 10:41:22 am PDT #9208 of 10001
Trust my rage
Plei and ita were so much more eloquent than my "eww". I'll just adopt their words as representing mine and stand in that corner.
Polter-Cow - Oct 12, 2004 10:41:27 am PDT #9209 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
My problem with it is that friends-becoming-lovers happens all the time on TV! Positive or not has nothing to do with it. Friends-not-becoming-lovers happens so rarely on TV that I feel cheated when they take that type of relationship away.
Point. In TV, everyone has to pair up to appease the shippers.
Wolfram - Oct 12, 2004 10:46:21 am PDT #9210 of 10001
Visilurking
As I admitted in Movies, I'm also missing Pretty in Pink, Sixteen Candles, and The Breakfast Club.
I've never heard anyone use this sentence before. Seems like your John Hughes gap is suspiciously Molly Ringwald shaped.
Polter-Cow - Oct 12, 2004 10:47:05 am PDT #9211 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Seems like your John Hughes gap is suspiciously Molly Ringwald shaped.
Totally a coincidence. You forget my predilection for redheads.
erikaj - Oct 12, 2004 10:48:18 am PDT #9212 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Me either...of course those are all things that make my intimates say "Not those old things again!"
Lyra Jane - Oct 12, 2004 10:49:22 am PDT #9213 of 10001
Up with the sun
See, I don't have any problem with friends pairing up and breaking up on TV as long as it makes sense within the plot and with the characters. I just figure it's TV, and heartache and lust both play well. I don't have any great jones to see male-female friendships on TV, I guess, is what I'm saying, but I see where it would be annoying if you did.