There is a character in Carnivale called Sculder, and every time I hear the name, I do a full-body shudder and light a candle in gratitude that the hideous pairing portmanteux phenomenon didn't get a chance to taint the show.

Until reading this, it had never occurred to me how hilarious the grandaddy of all slash pairings would have been under those terms.

but when I try to get at it without opening the Azureus client, I can't find the damn file

Happens to me all the damned time. I finally got it to change the default directory to the place where I usually stick stuff, but it still sometimes manages to lose them on me. Very confusing.

I never saw Scully and Mulder as quite the same kind of trainwreck as Jack/Sam, because they had (to me) better interpersonal chemistry, the bond wasn't diffused in a four-person team, there weren't nearly as many infrastructural barriers (i.e., military chain of command, direct supervisor, etc), and the writing between them was actually pretty good a lot of the time (if not always). However I was very disgruntled with means by which they resolved the ship in XF.

Until reading this, it had never occurred to me how hilarious the grandaddy of all slash pairings would have been under those terms.

I can only assume your referring to K(irk/Sp)ock? Although Spirk or Spork are pretty funny as well.

However I was very disgruntled with means by which they resolved the ship in XF.

It did kind of crack me up that even the Big!Finale!Kiss! was very carefully done in truly awful lighting. No soup for you!

Well, and the whole, "Oh, and you inseminated me but we're not having teh sex, bcz yur gross OMG!"

The hell?

Until reading this, it had never occurred to me how hilarious the grandaddy of all slash pairings would have been under those terms.

Fay generated a whole series of icons based on that, IIRC.

Oh, yeah. "He got me pregnant via unmentioned, offscreen IVF!" I just... I remember having absolutely no idea what to do with that. I mean, it's gotta win some kind of ludicrousness award.

I mean, it's gotta win some kind of ludicrousness award.

Well, you know. Chris Carter. Man. t shakes head in despair

"Oh, and you inseminated me but we're not having teh sex, bcz yur gross OMG!"

Oh yeah. The travesty Chris "Head so far up his ass, what he's feeling in his throat is his nose" Carter t /Guarnere has done to the Scully characterization in his attempt to "please" (or to say nyah nyah at) both the shippers and noromos still leaves me seeing red.

I never saw Scully and Mulder as quite the same kind of trainwreck as Jack/Sam

Really, Sam/Jack should come across as fucked-up and anguished, if not more, than Scully/Mulder, but it kind of doesn't because SG as a show is not so much with the gratuitous angst. They are all so goddamned *sunny* most of the time, bless their hearts. Theoretically, S/J should be terribly train-wrecky, but we don't get to see it on screen because Jack's all, "Ahh, love that daren't speak its name... oooh, jello!", and Sam's all "Huh?" *oblivious*

God bless jello.