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selenak1) Male pregnancy. Naturally, it was Farscape that did it. (Other shows, too, I'm told, but I'm talking about my own fandoms here.) In The Peacekeeper Wars, Rygel did the honors for John and Aeryn for a while. No matter how much I say, not entirely joking, that Rygel/John are my Farscape OTP, I never expected Rygel to get pregnant with John's child. Oh, Farscape. Your crazy was like no one else's. ♥
2) Buffy and Spike having sex in BTVS. Qualification: I never thought I'd see this until the near end of s5, when I started to suspect the show might actually go there. Until then, I thought it would remain UST, mostly because of the "second vampire/Slayer affair" problem and of course the soulless vampire problem. This, btw, does not mean I was for or against the 'ship, I just thought it would not happen. Incidentally, the act itself was another thing that was so completely fannish that I never thought I'd see it played out on screen this way - sex that literally brought the house down.
3) Alias: Sydney Bristow sincerely, without feigning or without being pressured by someone else, and without an "impending death" factor, tells Arvin Sloane "I believe you were trying to do the right thing". (And the narrative supports this interpreation of events.) A, season 4 finale with your moment of grace, how much better an ending you would have been for the show. *mourns* Anyway, the actual ending in s5 is something that I always knew was a possibility, though I hoped for something else; whereas that s4 moment was something I hadn't thought possible, simply because Sydney offering that kind of trust to Sloane again signalled a measure of forgiveness which, short of dying for the cause, I could not imagine he'd ever get from her. The s4 storyline and the events of the s4 finale did make it plausible without negating Sloane's earlier crimes.
4) Angel: vampire pregnancy. As both most versions of the myth and s2 of BTVS told us this was not possible. (Otoh, I had predicted that Darla was the one member of the Fanged Four I could actually see efficiently committing suicide - as opposed to certain male members of the line who both just indulged in the dramatics - and that if she died again, she would this way, not by being staked by Angel or some one else. I just had never imagined the cause of her deciding to stake herself.) As Joss and Tim actually going there resulted in my other favourite AtS character, I am very happy they did, but I still remember that moment from the s3 premiere and my what the hell? exclamation.
5) Harry Potter: OMG She Killed Hedwig! Seriously. I predicted some of the deaths in DH; others, like Lupin & Tonks, were surprising, but I can't claim they fall in the "I thought I'd never see this in HP canon" category. Offing Harry's beloved owl in the opening chapter, otoh, was definitely something I never thought JKR would do - or killing Hedwig at all. Hardcore, man. I still have no idea how they're going that bill the film version as something for the children, more because of the later torture and slaughter, of course, but still. Hedwig. Never thought it would happen.
Discarded possibilities: . Doctor Who - "are you asking me out on a date?" and the Doctor basically proposing to the Master an episode later. Discarded because on DW, sooner or later, you'll see everything - it comes with the whole 40 years of canon and multiple authors and no end in sight thing - , and so I can't say I really thought I'd never see it. Heroes - Nathan's way of (not) coping with the presumed death of his brother including all those photos of Peter. In addition to the whole living in his apartment, wearing his coat and growing The Beard Of Gloom. Discarded because on Heroes, there is no limit of the Petrelli sibling dysfunctional. I might have been a bit surprised that Nathan actually had a Peter shrine after joking with others about the possibility a week earlier, but I can't say I sincerely thought we'd never see it. If the previouslies to the volume 3 opener include a certain deleted scene, I shall only be faintly surprised.
2) Buffy and Spike having sex in BTVS. Qualification: I never thought I'd see this until the near end of s5, when I started to suspect the show might actually go there. Until then, I thought it would remain UST, mostly because of the "second vampire/Slayer affair" problem and of course the soulless vampire problem. This, btw, does not mean I was for or against the 'ship, I just thought it would not happen. Incidentally, the act itself was another thing that was so completely fannish that I never thought I'd see it played out on screen this way - sex that literally brought the house down.
3) Alias: Sydney Bristow sincerely, without feigning or without being pressured by someone else, and without an "impending death" factor, tells Arvin Sloane "I believe you were trying to do the right thing". (And the narrative supports this interpreation of events.) A, season 4 finale with your moment of grace, how much better an ending you would have been for the show. *mourns* Anyway, the actual ending in s5 is something that I always knew was a possibility, though I hoped for something else; whereas that s4 moment was something I hadn't thought possible, simply because Sydney offering that kind of trust to Sloane again signalled a measure of forgiveness which, short of dying for the cause, I could not imagine he'd ever get from her. The s4 storyline and the events of the s4 finale did make it plausible without negating Sloane's earlier crimes.
4) Angel: vampire pregnancy. As both most versions of the myth and s2 of BTVS told us this was not possible. (Otoh, I had predicted that Darla was the one member of the Fanged Four I could actually see efficiently committing suicide - as opposed to certain male members of the line who both just indulged in the dramatics - and that if she died again, she would this way, not by being staked by Angel or some one else. I just had never imagined the cause of her deciding to stake herself.) As Joss and Tim actually going there resulted in my other favourite AtS character, I am very happy they did, but I still remember that moment from the s3 premiere and my what the hell? exclamation.
5) Harry Potter: OMG She Killed Hedwig! Seriously. I predicted some of the deaths in DH; others, like Lupin & Tonks, were surprising, but I can't claim they fall in the "I thought I'd never see this in HP canon" category. Offing Harry's beloved owl in the opening chapter, otoh, was definitely something I never thought JKR would do - or killing Hedwig at all. Hardcore, man. I still have no idea how they're going that bill the film version as something for the children, more because of the later torture and slaughter, of course, but still. Hedwig. Never thought it would happen.
Discarded possibilities: . Doctor Who - "are you asking me out on a date?" and the Doctor basically proposing to the Master an episode later. Discarded because on DW, sooner or later, you'll see everything - it comes with the whole 40 years of canon and multiple authors and no end in sight thing - , and so I can't say I really thought I'd never see it. Heroes - Nathan's way of (not) coping with the presumed death of his brother including all those photos of Peter. In addition to the whole living in his apartment, wearing his coat and growing The Beard Of Gloom. Discarded because on Heroes, there is no limit of the Petrelli sibling dysfunctional. I might have been a bit surprised that Nathan actually had a Peter shrine after joking with others about the possibility a week earlier, but I can't say I sincerely thought we'd never see it. If the previouslies to the volume 3 opener include a certain deleted scene, I shall only be faintly surprised.
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Date: 2008-04-10 10:47 pm (UTC)