DigificWriter, I think the point was not list the *best* couples/relationships, not all you can think of.
Hee. However, the couples I listed aren't ALL of the couples that I could think of; they're just my favorites.
The Best Couples of the Sci-Fi/Fantasy World
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Hee. However, the couples I listed aren't ALL of the couples that I could think of; they're just my favorites.
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Right. Plenty of actors have chemistry, it's their job. It's the writing for romantic couples that usually is deficient. Crichton and Aeryn had a dramatic tension that stemmed from the characters inherent qualities rather than any contrived nonsense keeping them apart. They simply had been raised in such divergent societies that to maintain a relationship would be a feat of sheer willpower.
Any dramatic tension that emerges from who the characters are is going to be superior to contrivances of plot, but it requires planning and care, and it's so much easier to just throw ridiculous excuses into the characters' paths instead, rather than go to the effort to create entire social structures behind those characters that explain who they are and why they can't just have sex and then be happy together.
Damn, I miss Farscape all over again now.
Trip/T'Pol
Riker/Troi
Bashir/Jadzia
Worf/K'Ehleyr
Sarek/Amanda
Riker/Troi
Bashir/Jadzia
Worf/K'Ehleyr
Sarek/Amanda
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Han/Leia
Doctor/Master (any incarnations will do, though I particularly like Davison/Ainley and Tennant/Simm) (you can't tell me that they are not a couple, because they SO are)
O'Neill/Carter
Norrington/Elizabeth (though to be truthful, Norry deserved better than Liz anyway)
Tenel Ka/Jacen Solo
Snape/Lily
Al/Beth
DG/Glitch
McKay/Beckett (yeah, yeah, I know that one was a longshot, but a girl can dream)
I am rather partial to the idea of Neville Longbottom and Luna Lovegood pairing up sometime before Luna marries whatshisname.
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Doctor/Master (any incarnations will do, though I particularly like Davison/Ainley and Tennant/Simm) (you can't tell me that they are not a couple, because they SO are)
O'Neill/Carter
Norrington/Elizabeth (though to be truthful, Norry deserved better than Liz anyway)
Tenel Ka/Jacen Solo
Snape/Lily
Al/Beth
DG/Glitch
McKay/Beckett (yeah, yeah, I know that one was a longshot, but a girl can dream)
I am rather partial to the idea of Neville Longbottom and Luna Lovegood pairing up sometime before Luna marries whatshisname.
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Mulder and Scully probably had the best chemistry of any pairing, but it was inferior to Crichton and Aeryn because once Mulder and Scully get together, the dramatic tension is dead and the story is over. Crichton and Aeryn is a rare example of a pair of sci fi lovers for whom getting together is the start, not the end, of the tale.
Wait, just thought of an important one!
WALL*E and Eve.
I loved that, too. It was a cross between the plot-dependent type of relationship (everything being so up in the air and chaotic with the plot that it interfered with their domestic bliss) and a genuine character-based conflict (Juliet being paranoid that Sawyer would never love her more than he loved Kate - I fully buy the notion that Sawyer did love her and not Kate, but understood why she could never accept that.)
Merits special mention as, yes, the FIRST Star Trek romance that didn't make me laugh, bore me, or set my teeth on edge.
Wait, just thought of an important one!
WALL*E and Eve.
In Farscape's case, it helps that the actors had a lot of control over what was going on. They would regularly change scripts and plot points mid-shoot because the actors didn't feel that their characters were being portrayed correctly within the script.
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Right. Plenty of actors have chemistry, it's their job. It's the writing for romantic couples that usually is deficient. Crichton and Aeryn had a dramatic tension that stemmed from the characters inherent qualities rather than any contrived nonsense keeping them apart. They simply had been raised in such divergent societies that to maintain a relationship would be a feat of sheer willpower.
Any dramatic tension that emerges from who the characters are is going to be superior to contrivances of plot, but it requires planning and care, and it's so much easier to just throw ridiculous excuses into the characters' paths instead, rather than go to the effort to create entire social structures behind those characters that explain who they are and why they can't just have sex and then be happy together.
Damn, I miss Farscape all over again now.
John and Aeryn
Londo and Timov
John and Delenn
Bill and Laura
Trioculus and Leia
Zayne and Edessa
Quinlan and Khaleen
Shaun and Liz
Don and Sally
Silverbolt and Blackarachnia
WALL-E and EVE
Wolf and Virginia
Londo and Timov
John and Delenn
Bill and Laura
Trioculus and Leia
Zayne and Edessa
Quinlan and Khaleen
Shaun and Liz
Don and Sally
Silverbolt and Blackarachnia
WALL-E and EVE
Wolf and Virginia
Fo'sho.
And since Babylon 5 has been brought up, I wanna add Londo Mollari and G'Kar to the list. "How long do you figure they've been married?" as Bo said to Mac in "A View to a Gallery".
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Can't believe I forgot Wall E and Eve.
I also can't believe I forgot B5. My favorite couple from that series is actually Susan Ivanova and Marcus Cole, even though they never actually got to acknowledge their attraction towards each other.
Some other relationships that I didn't mention before, but happen to consider favorites are Michael Corvin and Selene (from Underworld), Gina Inviere and Helena Cain (from BSG), and Luke Skywalker and Mara Jade (from SW).
I also can't believe I forgot B5. My favorite couple from that series is actually Susan Ivanova and Marcus Cole, even though they never actually got to acknowledge their attraction towards each other.
Some other relationships that I didn't mention before, but happen to consider favorites are Michael Corvin and Selene (from Underworld), Gina Inviere and Helena Cain (from BSG), and Luke Skywalker and Mara Jade (from SW).
When she made out with the Doctor's mentally unstable clone right in front of him?
No really. They aren't a couple at all. They of course have an adversarial relationship which may describe many couples, but no physical/emotional/sexual relationship exists between the two which would encourage both of them to want to spend their time together until they die. That is a pretty basic, fundamental description of a couple.
I appreciate you like the pairing, and the mechanics of the way they work and interrelate, but that doesnt make em a couple. sorry.
Well, I really meant the other parting scene (when she was trapped in the parallel world and he could only speak to her for a few minutes). But even the subsequent one where he offloaded her onto 10B was still poignant - he was giving up his chance to be with Rose so that she could have a Doctor who needed her more and who would age at her rate. It was quite a sacrifice on his part. And I think she sort of knew she wasn't really getting 'her' Doctor.
That's pretty spot on for me. Each couple portrays a different type of romance, taking on a different approach towards the same ultimate goal. It's really more a matter of taste I guess, which one a person prefers. Crichton/Aeryn had that mad "can't live with or without the other" type of insanity, whereas Sheridan/Delenn had a more courtly approach.
For my money, nobody beats the chemistry that Browder and Black had on screen. Nobody. Heck, even in real life at conventions these days (Dragon Con 09, for example) they have a spark that keeps the audience entertained in the best ways.
Londo and Timov - Babylon 5
I forgot Philip and Turanga.
