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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Seems like your John Hughes gap is suspiciously Molly Ringwald shaped.
Totally a coincidence. You forget my predilection for redheads.
Me either...of course those are all things that make my intimates say "Not those old things again!"
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.
Friends-not-becoming-lovers happens so rarely on TV that I feel cheated when they take that type of relationship away.
What Jon said.
I love a good strong cross-gender friendship -- because they're not exciting, because men and women can never be friends (yet I loved When Harry Met Sally). I was imprinted, as a child, by things like Modesty/Willie, and glommed right onto Storm/Logan (let us not talk of
what may be happening these days in Ultimate or
elsewhere). Because it is not easy, and is rarer than sex, and failed relationships, and I'm all about the capital P in "Platonic."
