At Least It's Mark.
Feb. 23rd, 2010 03:07 pmThere really should be Mark Corrigan/Big Suze fanfiction. His pathetic crush on her is so lovely. Also rather lovely is Mark/Dobby; at one point he thinks with regard to her that 'I hardly have to modify my behaviour at all in her company', which I find far more touching than I should really find anything in Peep Show. Mark Corrigan, my heart breaks for you.
I was going to ponder whether Mark was one of those characters I would be able to happily pair up with anyone, but then the thought of Mark/Super Hans crossed my mind and I actually flinched. WORST PAIRING EVER.
(I love the character names in Peep Show. Toni and Tony, Big Suze, Dobby, Super Hans. Goodness knows how the writers come up with the names for the supporting characters, but they are brilliant.)
Mark/Jeremy, of course, remains the true and perfect love story. At first I thought I was simply imagining things between them, and then I came to recognise the core theme of Peep Show: the women (or, in the case of Mark's crush on Johnson, men) they pursue always leave, and once again Mark and Jeremy are left with each other. It's Jeremy and Mark who drive off into the sunset after Mark's wedding; it's Jeremy who offers to dance with Mark at his party, when everyone else is taken. They resent each other, and they fight, and Mark tries to get out, but in the end they'll always be together. Jeremy knows it, but Mark hasn't quite realised or accepted it yet.
To make a weird comparison, Mark is a bit like Sam Winchester in the first two seasons of Supernatural; he still thinks one day he'll be able to break away from hunting and have a normal life, not realising that he's already in far too deep ever to get out. Jeremy is Mark's hunting; they're permanently married to each other, whether he likes it or not.
And I love that. I love their doomed, inescapable, inevitable love. I love that Jeremy leeches off Mark and Mark tries to kick Jeremy out and Jeremy does endless stupid things that ruin Mark's life and both of them constantly screw each other over by prioritising sex over their friendship, but that friendship is there and occasionally, in its messed-up and destructive way, shines through. In the end, despite all that Jeremy owes him, Mark will let him stay in the flat and even pay to keep him from being arrested. When Jeremy ruins Mark's business prospects, it's because he can't bear having Mark leave him.
When Peep Show eventually ends, it should end with Mark finally acknowledging that, in spite of all his searching, Jeremy is the one for him. Shit.
I honestly can't imagine anything else making sense. (And I honestly don't think I have ever 'shipped anything as much as I do these two. It's ridiculous. Peep Show is a sitcom! Mark and Jeremy have an appallingly unhealthy relationship! But they are so wonderful. They'd be miserable together, but that's nothing compared to how miserable they would be apart.)
I was going to ponder whether Mark was one of those characters I would be able to happily pair up with anyone, but then the thought of Mark/Super Hans crossed my mind and I actually flinched. WORST PAIRING EVER.
(I love the character names in Peep Show. Toni and Tony, Big Suze, Dobby, Super Hans. Goodness knows how the writers come up with the names for the supporting characters, but they are brilliant.)
Mark/Jeremy, of course, remains the true and perfect love story. At first I thought I was simply imagining things between them, and then I came to recognise the core theme of Peep Show: the women (or, in the case of Mark's crush on Johnson, men) they pursue always leave, and once again Mark and Jeremy are left with each other. It's Jeremy and Mark who drive off into the sunset after Mark's wedding; it's Jeremy who offers to dance with Mark at his party, when everyone else is taken. They resent each other, and they fight, and Mark tries to get out, but in the end they'll always be together. Jeremy knows it, but Mark hasn't quite realised or accepted it yet.
To make a weird comparison, Mark is a bit like Sam Winchester in the first two seasons of Supernatural; he still thinks one day he'll be able to break away from hunting and have a normal life, not realising that he's already in far too deep ever to get out. Jeremy is Mark's hunting; they're permanently married to each other, whether he likes it or not.
And I love that. I love their doomed, inescapable, inevitable love. I love that Jeremy leeches off Mark and Mark tries to kick Jeremy out and Jeremy does endless stupid things that ruin Mark's life and both of them constantly screw each other over by prioritising sex over their friendship, but that friendship is there and occasionally, in its messed-up and destructive way, shines through. In the end, despite all that Jeremy owes him, Mark will let him stay in the flat and even pay to keep him from being arrested. When Jeremy ruins Mark's business prospects, it's because he can't bear having Mark leave him.
When Peep Show eventually ends, it should end with Mark finally acknowledging that, in spite of all his searching, Jeremy is the one for him. Shit.
I honestly can't imagine anything else making sense. (And I honestly don't think I have ever 'shipped anything as much as I do these two. It's ridiculous. Peep Show is a sitcom! Mark and Jeremy have an appallingly unhealthy relationship! But they are so wonderful. They'd be miserable together, but that's nothing compared to how miserable they would be apart.)
