Shipping Meme Day Seven
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potentiality_26A pairing that disappointed you:
From Ugly Betty, Betty/every guy she ever dated. So, Walter- her boyfriend in the first season- was annoying and always on his way out, so he doesn't really count, but with all the others the show would spent all this time building up this great guy, and then suddenly decide it didn't like him anymore, and turn him into a jerk.
Henry's exit, at least, was drawn from things already set up in the narrative, but by the time Gio got a total personality transplant, things got weird. I never liked Jesse, but the way they depicted him when they wanted to get rid of him didn't make any sense either, and by the time Matt came along I'd decided to stop getting emotionally invested in Betty's relationships, and I was right, too, because things with Matt fell apart in a big way too, and as with all the others it was completely out of left field.
No one on Ugly Betty every really got to have a real, long term relationship, but those of all the other major characters were handled with a lot more delicacy than those of the main character, which is a big flaw for a show to have. I loved a lot of things about the show, but Betty's romantic relationships were never among them.
I wasn't really a Betty/Daniel shipper, but if that had been obviously endgame then it would have at least seemed that all the relationship sabotage was to an end- but... no dice.
Day 1: Your first ship ever
Day 2: A ship you've just discovered
Day 3: Your OTP
Day 4: Favorite crack pairing
Day 5: A crossover pairing you think would work
Day 6: Series that you have many ships in
Day 7: A pairing that disappointed you
Day 8: A pairing only you seem to like
Day 9: Your least favorite couple
Day 10: Ship that became canon even though you didn’t expect it to
Day 11: Character you like with several others
Day 12: Character you don’t like seeing paired with anyone else
Day 13: Couple you ship that causes intense feelings in its fandom (read: flamewars and the like)
Day 14: Couple you liked even though you knew it would end up badly
Day 15: A ship canon really messed with
Day 16: Favorite villain pairing
Day 17: Ship you talk(ed) about with people in real life
Day 18: Most annoying character that tried to come between a ship
Day 19: Favorite Hero/Villain pairing
Day 20: Favorite couple played for laughs
Day 21: Favorite opposites attract couple
Day 22: Saddest unrequited love
Day 23: Couple you only shipped after a long time
Day 24: Couple you like, but is overshadowed by another couple in a fandom
Day 25: Most popular couple in your favorite fandom (do you ship it too?)
Day 26: Best historical couple
Day 27: Another couple you shipped a long time ago
Day 28: A couple you shipped not nearly as long as you thought you would
Day 29: Favorite ‘birds of a feather flock together’ couple
Day 30: Couple you will still ship a few years from now
From Ugly Betty, Betty/every guy she ever dated. So, Walter- her boyfriend in the first season- was annoying and always on his way out, so he doesn't really count, but with all the others the show would spent all this time building up this great guy, and then suddenly decide it didn't like him anymore, and turn him into a jerk.
Henry's exit, at least, was drawn from things already set up in the narrative, but by the time Gio got a total personality transplant, things got weird. I never liked Jesse, but the way they depicted him when they wanted to get rid of him didn't make any sense either, and by the time Matt came along I'd decided to stop getting emotionally invested in Betty's relationships, and I was right, too, because things with Matt fell apart in a big way too, and as with all the others it was completely out of left field.
No one on Ugly Betty every really got to have a real, long term relationship, but those of all the other major characters were handled with a lot more delicacy than those of the main character, which is a big flaw for a show to have. I loved a lot of things about the show, but Betty's romantic relationships were never among them.
I wasn't really a Betty/Daniel shipper, but if that had been obviously endgame then it would have at least seemed that all the relationship sabotage was to an end- but... no dice.
Day 2: A ship you've just discovered
Day 3: Your OTP
Day 4: Favorite crack pairing
Day 8: A pairing only you seem to like
Day 9: Your least favorite couple
Day 10: Ship that became canon even though you didn’t expect it to
Day 11: Character you like with several others
Day 12: Character you don’t like seeing paired with anyone else
Day 13: Couple you ship that causes intense feelings in its fandom (read: flamewars and the like)
Day 14: Couple you liked even though you knew it would end up badly
Day 15: A ship canon really messed with
Day 16: Favorite villain pairing
Day 17: Ship you talk(ed) about with people in real life
Day 18: Most annoying character that tried to come between a ship
Day 19: Favorite Hero/Villain pairing
Day 20: Favorite couple played for laughs
Day 21: Favorite opposites attract couple
Day 22: Saddest unrequited love
Day 23: Couple you only shipped after a long time
Day 24: Couple you like, but is overshadowed by another couple in a fandom
Day 25: Most popular couple in your favorite fandom (do you ship it too?)
Day 26: Best historical couple
Day 27: Another couple you shipped a long time ago
Day 28: A couple you shipped not nearly as long as you thought you would
Day 29: Favorite ‘birds of a feather flock together’ couple
Day 30: Couple you will still ship a few years from now
