Another OTP meme
Jun. 27th, 2005 10:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenak1. Pick your 5 favorite OTPs.
2. Find pictures and post them.
3. Give the name of the OTP and what fandom they're from.. List your favorite moment
between them.
5. Tag 5 people from your flist to do this meme.
I should mention here that I have a somewhat more lenient definition of OTP. Meaning that I usually like both halfes of the OTP in other relationships as well. And I don't think they should end in married bliss or the slash equivalent thereof, either. With that caveat, let's see...
1. Londo Mollari and G'Kar, from Babylon 5.
Favourite moment: it's tough to choose just one, but if I have to, I'll pick the one depicted in this screencap, which is from the Best Scene Ever (tm) of the show, to be found in the fifth season episode The Fall of Centauri Prime. Which is two former mortal enemies turned whatever-you-want-to-call-them saying goodbye when one of them is about to undergo a fate that makes a sacrificial death look like a picknick and the other has just said something you never, ever expected to hear from him. It rips my heart out on a regular basis.
2. Darla and Angel, from Angel
The Jossverse (meaning those enterprising shows Buffy the Vampire Slayer, its spin-off Angel and Firefly, is rife with textual and subtextual pairings, but usually it's the non-romantic relationships I like best - Buffy's with Dawn, say, or Angel's with Connor. (Or Angel's with Wesley, but we're entering subtext here. Ditto for Buffy and Faith.) However, there is one exception. I adored the obsessive, lethal relationship between Darla and her darling boy, Angel (with and without his soul) through the centuries. They were mythic.
Favourite moment: "God doesn't want you - but I still do." From the season 2 episode "Dear Boy". Also my favourite Darla line.
3. TIE, because I really can't make up my mind between those two:
Blake and Avon, from Blake's 7
Servalan and Avon, from Blake's 7
Favourite Moment for B/A: really tough to choose, but I'm going with Blake realising a certain room is empty, falling on his knees, and Avon kneeling down next to him and supporting him physically while hissing verbally, in season 2's "Pressure Point". It summs up their relationship.
Favourite moment for S/A: "But I don't think of you as an enemy, Avon. I think of you as a future friend." Servalan and Avon had terrific chemistry and two of the hottest kisses on tv, one of them after he threatened to kill her (again) and she smugly gave the above quoted reply.
4. Jadzia Dax and Quark, from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Favourite moment: actually an unsual one for the relationship, which is mostly lighthearted buddy/buddy-ness, until Quark realizes he has deeper feelings for Dax in season 6. But in a season 5 episode, he is temporarily in a really bad situation and tries to get out of same by joining forces with a psycho arms dealer. Weapons of mass destruction is where Dax draws the line and stops being amused and tolerant, becoming icy instead. The scene in question is Quark, who finally figured out a plan of how to get ouf of the arms dealing alive (he hopes), shows up in her quarters and gives her his tongo (a Ferengi game) wheel before executing the plan in question. She's not in a mood to be nice then, either, and you know, I think that's what helps Quark get through with this.
5. Arvin Sloane and Jack Bristow, Alias
See above disclaimer about non-exclusivity of OTP relationship. I'm a hundred percent behind the SpyParents (that's Jack and Irina for non-Alias watchers, I adore Sloane's relationship with his wife Emily, and Sloane's relationship with Sydney is fascinating and complex and my personal Bad Wrong. But if I have to pick only one of these for the OTP label? Arvin and Jack win.
Favourite Moment: these two gentlemen's idea of post-surgery pep talk, after Jack finished stitching Sloane together, from season 3's Breaking Point":
JB: "I can't think of a single reason why you saved my life, save for incurring a feeling of debt on my part.
AS: "As always, Jack, you're in danger of outsmarting yourself."
Five people tagged for picture-posting duty:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
honorh, buffyannotater, muffinmonster, artaxastra and bimo
2. Find pictures and post them.
3. Give the name of the OTP and what fandom they're from.. List your favorite moment
between them.
5. Tag 5 people from your flist to do this meme.
I should mention here that I have a somewhat more lenient definition of OTP. Meaning that I usually like both halfes of the OTP in other relationships as well. And I don't think they should end in married bliss or the slash equivalent thereof, either. With that caveat, let's see...
1. Londo Mollari and G'Kar, from Babylon 5.
Favourite moment: it's tough to choose just one, but if I have to, I'll pick the one depicted in this screencap, which is from the Best Scene Ever (tm) of the show, to be found in the fifth season episode The Fall of Centauri Prime. Which is two former mortal enemies turned whatever-you-want-to-call-them saying goodbye when one of them is about to undergo a fate that makes a sacrificial death look like a picknick and the other has just said something you never, ever expected to hear from him. It rips my heart out on a regular basis.
2. Darla and Angel, from Angel
The Jossverse (meaning those enterprising shows Buffy the Vampire Slayer, its spin-off Angel and Firefly, is rife with textual and subtextual pairings, but usually it's the non-romantic relationships I like best - Buffy's with Dawn, say, or Angel's with Connor. (Or Angel's with Wesley, but we're entering subtext here. Ditto for Buffy and Faith.) However, there is one exception. I adored the obsessive, lethal relationship between Darla and her darling boy, Angel (with and without his soul) through the centuries. They were mythic.
Favourite moment: "God doesn't want you - but I still do." From the season 2 episode "Dear Boy". Also my favourite Darla line.
3. TIE, because I really can't make up my mind between those two:
Blake and Avon, from Blake's 7
Servalan and Avon, from Blake's 7
Favourite Moment for B/A: really tough to choose, but I'm going with Blake realising a certain room is empty, falling on his knees, and Avon kneeling down next to him and supporting him physically while hissing verbally, in season 2's "Pressure Point". It summs up their relationship.
Favourite moment for S/A: "But I don't think of you as an enemy, Avon. I think of you as a future friend." Servalan and Avon had terrific chemistry and two of the hottest kisses on tv, one of them after he threatened to kill her (again) and she smugly gave the above quoted reply.
4. Jadzia Dax and Quark, from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Favourite moment: actually an unsual one for the relationship, which is mostly lighthearted buddy/buddy-ness, until Quark realizes he has deeper feelings for Dax in season 6. But in a season 5 episode, he is temporarily in a really bad situation and tries to get out of same by joining forces with a psycho arms dealer. Weapons of mass destruction is where Dax draws the line and stops being amused and tolerant, becoming icy instead. The scene in question is Quark, who finally figured out a plan of how to get ouf of the arms dealing alive (he hopes), shows up in her quarters and gives her his tongo (a Ferengi game) wheel before executing the plan in question. She's not in a mood to be nice then, either, and you know, I think that's what helps Quark get through with this.
5. Arvin Sloane and Jack Bristow, Alias
See above disclaimer about non-exclusivity of OTP relationship. I'm a hundred percent behind the SpyParents (that's Jack and Irina for non-Alias watchers, I adore Sloane's relationship with his wife Emily, and Sloane's relationship with Sydney is fascinating and complex and my personal Bad Wrong. But if I have to pick only one of these for the OTP label? Arvin and Jack win.
Favourite Moment: these two gentlemen's idea of post-surgery pep talk, after Jack finished stitching Sloane together, from season 3's Breaking Point":
JB: "I can't think of a single reason why you saved my life, save for incurring a feeling of debt on my part.
AS: "As always, Jack, you're in danger of outsmarting yourself."
Five people tagged for picture-posting duty:
honorh, buffyannotater, muffinmonster, artaxastra and bimo
