30 Day Love Meme--Days 20-25

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Day 20:  Can't stand the sexual tension between them anymore pairing.

This is kind of pathetic actually, but right now...no one.  Well, maybe a certain pairing in a certain fanfic of mine, but on any of the shows I am currently watching I don't really have anyone who is doing a slow burn.  I mean, sure I want Hanna and Lucas to get together on PLL, but I'm rooting for a first kiss at this point.  They are sweet, not sexually tense.

Day 21:  A pairing you like and no one else understands why.

Penny and Leonard from the Big Bang Theory.  I just like them together.  He's a sweet man and he's reliable and dependable and he really cares about her.  She's compassionate and fun and just what he needs to not take himself so seriously.  But I swear, everybody and their dog ships Sheldon/Penny.  Which I don't get at all, because the two characters don't even like each other and barely tolerate each other when they have to.

Day 22:  A pairing you hate and no one else understands why.

Again, I don't really have a pairing that I hate.  I have pairings that I dislike intensely like Marlena and John or Sami and EJ on Days of Our Lives, but hate?  No.

Day 23:  A crazy love triangle/quadrangle that worked out great.

Um...nope, can't think  of one.  Shawn/Belle/Phillip on Days of Our Lives was the one I probably enjoyed the most, even though I shipped Shawn/Belle like burning.  Phillip was damn hot (at least the one with Martha Madison, not Kirsten Storms).  But I wouldn't really say it worked out great.  How can it when people are hurt?  And all the actors get replaced along the way.

Day 24:  A crazy love triangle/quadrangle that worked out badly.

Um...all of them?  Liz/Max/Tess on Roswell was the one I probably hated the most.

Day 25:  A pairing that was/would be adorable but would never work out.

Well, before Journey's End and The End of Time I would have said Mickey and Martha from Doctor Who because they wouldn't have met so therefore could never work out.  But I always sort of thought they'd make a very attractive couple, and since they both played second fiddle to the Doctor and Rose, would have that in common.  Apparently they worked out well after all.  That probably doesn't answer the question exactly, but I don't care.

Comments

[amyo67.livejournal.com]

I am in total agreement on the Penny/Leonard thing. I really want them back together. I don't get Sheldon/Penny at all.

[yavie-namarie.livejournal.com]

When it comes to Sheldon/Penny, I think it's a bit of a Beauty & the Beast complex. The whole teaching someone how to be "human"... I've always just been interested in the character development that would have to take place for it to even work. Not to mention I like the idea of Sheldon letting loose a little... ;)

[maniacalshen.livejournal.com]

I never had an opinion as to whether Mickey/Martha would work out. If someone put them together convincingly enough in a fic, I'd go for it (they didn't do that very often, though; I got the feeling some authors just thought it convenient to put the two black characters together). So it was extra confusing to me as a viewer when they went from "I can't remember if these two characters have ever even spoken," to, "GUESS WHAT WE'RE MARRIED." What's the trope? Strangled by the red string?

That's RTD's failing, though, not the 'ship's.

[heather916.livejournal.com]

Clearly I am well behind on reading my friends page, but just had to drop a comment to let you kow that I am solidly in your camp when it comes to Big Bang Theory. I adore Sheldon for his quirkiness but do NOT understand the shipping thing with Penny. Not one bit. I am Penny/Leonard all the way and was so optimistic in the last new episode that they were going to make some progress back toward each other. Oh well.