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rionaleonhart) wrote2012-05-13 08:38 am
rionaleonhart) wrote2012-05-13 08:38 am
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And I Don't Even Need Your Love.
Have some more thoughts on Community! I'm a few episodes into the second series.
Rather a brutal way to stamp on my OTP, episode 2.01 of Community! Although I suppose Jeff/Britta 'shippers had it worse.
Jeff and Britta's warfare distressed me because it was so awful for poor Annie, and indeed for Jeff and Britta themselves, but at the same time it was sort of incredible to watch. The two most stubborn people on the planet, completely destroying themselves and each other in a mad game of relationship chicken.
And now, having watched another couple of episodes of the second series, I'm getting the distinct impression that the theme of this series is 'let's stamp over, negate and forget about all the romance from the first series', which would be absolutely fine if Community didn't contain one of the rare pairings I am insanely emotionally invested in, rather than just 'shipping in a vague 'well, that could be quite fun' way.
(The full current list of insane emotional investment 'ships, incidentally: Mark Corrigan/Jeremy Usborne (oh dear), Patrick Jane/the entire team plus optional Hightower, Rogue/Logan, Nathan Drake/Elena Fisher, Jeff Winger/Annie Edison. Kurt Hummel/Blaine Anderson used to be on this list, but sadly I've mostly lost interest in it now. The first pairing in which I ever became insanely emotionally invested was probably the Ninth Doctor/Rose Tyler, back in 2005.)
On the whole, the pairings I 'ship either become canon or, more commonly, stay well away from canon. I'm not used to being given the tiniest taste of canon and then having it cruelly snatched away! Still, even if Annie did, as she says, only kiss Jeff 'because I wanted to see if I could do it, because I want to be cool and sexy like [Britta]' - and I don't really believe that she did, given how smitten she was with Jeff in 2.01 - that sort of works with my interpretation of the pairing, because I certainly think that Jeff is more in love with Annie than Annie is with Jeff.
But that kiss was still a mutual thing, Annie, and you know it.
In other news, I have finally seen the film version of The Hunger Games. I enjoyed it! A few notes:
- The Cornucopia makes so much more sense now! When I read that the mouth stood twenty feet high (or seven metres, actually, because the measurements were all inexplicably converted to metric for the UK release, but I think it was twenty feet in the original), what I envisioned was this. I could not work out how people were meant to get the stuff.
- WHY DO CATO AND PEETA LOOK EXACTLY THE SAME
- Pairings I came out of the cinema 'shipping: Katniss/Cinna (acceptable), Katniss/Haymitch (endlessly wrong). I'm not sure how this happened.
Rather a brutal way to stamp on my OTP, episode 2.01 of Community! Although I suppose Jeff/Britta 'shippers had it worse.
Jeff and Britta's warfare distressed me because it was so awful for poor Annie, and indeed for Jeff and Britta themselves, but at the same time it was sort of incredible to watch. The two most stubborn people on the planet, completely destroying themselves and each other in a mad game of relationship chicken.
And now, having watched another couple of episodes of the second series, I'm getting the distinct impression that the theme of this series is 'let's stamp over, negate and forget about all the romance from the first series', which would be absolutely fine if Community didn't contain one of the rare pairings I am insanely emotionally invested in, rather than just 'shipping in a vague 'well, that could be quite fun' way.
(The full current list of insane emotional investment 'ships, incidentally: Mark Corrigan/Jeremy Usborne (oh dear), Patrick Jane/the entire team plus optional Hightower, Rogue/Logan, Nathan Drake/Elena Fisher, Jeff Winger/Annie Edison. Kurt Hummel/Blaine Anderson used to be on this list, but sadly I've mostly lost interest in it now. The first pairing in which I ever became insanely emotionally invested was probably the Ninth Doctor/Rose Tyler, back in 2005.)
On the whole, the pairings I 'ship either become canon or, more commonly, stay well away from canon. I'm not used to being given the tiniest taste of canon and then having it cruelly snatched away! Still, even if Annie did, as she says, only kiss Jeff 'because I wanted to see if I could do it, because I want to be cool and sexy like [Britta]' - and I don't really believe that she did, given how smitten she was with Jeff in 2.01 - that sort of works with my interpretation of the pairing, because I certainly think that Jeff is more in love with Annie than Annie is with Jeff.
But that kiss was still a mutual thing, Annie, and you know it.
In other news, I have finally seen the film version of The Hunger Games. I enjoyed it! A few notes:
- The Cornucopia makes so much more sense now! When I read that the mouth stood twenty feet high (or seven metres, actually, because the measurements were all inexplicably converted to metric for the UK release, but I think it was twenty feet in the original), what I envisioned was this. I could not work out how people were meant to get the stuff.
- WHY DO CATO AND PEETA LOOK EXACTLY THE SAME
- Pairings I came out of the cinema 'shipping: Katniss/Cinna (acceptable), Katniss/Haymitch (endlessly wrong). I'm not sure how this happened.
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