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selenakSiblings! I love siblings. Alas, I've also fallen out of love with several combinations that would, had their shows ended earlier before love for show and characters alike was lost, have made the cut here. *looks sadly at Justin & Iris Crowe and the Petrellis* Also missing out are the Morgans, Deb & Dexter, whom I do adore but who lost because there are other siblings I love just a tad more.
1.) Quark & Rom from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Several of my favourite scenes involving either character are about their relationship with each other, whether it's Rom asking Quark to tell the story for the nth unprofitable time at the end of House of Quark, their arguments and reconciliation in Bar Union or Rom telling Quark in the s5 finale he'll stay on the about to be occupied station, Quark calling him an idiot again and kissing him. Awwww.
2.) Buffy & Dawn from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I loved Dawn from the moment she showed up in Real Me. (An episode which if you play it for an audience is a surefire way to find out who was an older and who was a younger sibling, btw. I was an older sister.) Both the early sibling bickering and the shift when Buffy finds out the truth, plus the additional shift after Joyce's death when she has to double as a parent figure as well, were very captivating to watch for me, and much as Angel & Connor are probably the relationship I'm most invested in over in AtS, Buffy & Dawn is my favourite relationship in the later seasons of BTVS. It's no coincidence that the only post-show story I ever felt compelled to write, City Girls, features the Summers sisters.
3.) Sydney and Nadia in Alias. It's no coincidence my favourite Alias s4 episode is Detente which manages to combine two of my favourite aspects of the show, Sydney and Nadia and an examination of the Sydney & Sloane relationship. In defiance of clichés, Syd and Nadia were never rivals; Sydney was the one relation who loved Nadia unconditionally and who never let her down, and yet the relationship never came over as over the top sweet. (When Nadia figures out in The Index that Sydney used her to check out Sloane's house, she does this marvelous passive-aggressive thing of a birthday speech which manages to make Syd feel guilty as hell without giving her away at all, which, btw, is a Sloane, not a Derevko or Bristow thing to do and is one of times where you can see Nadia is Arvin's daughter.) One of the many injustices of s5 is that they didn't get more time together. *still bears a grudge*
4.) Llewelyn ap Gruffyd and Davydd up Gruffyd, as written by Sharon Penman. (In Falls the Shadow and The Reckoning.)Undoubtedly the most intense relationship in either novel, complete with affection, rivalry, (spectacular) betrayals, and reconciliations, their scenes together to me are the highlights of the novels in question, and Davydd's final scene in The Reckoning pretty much breaks me. (I also like Edith Pargeter's interpretation of the same sibling relationship in her Brothers of Gwynned cycle, but Penman's version is my favourite.)
5.) Luke, Savanna and Tom Wingo in Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy. One of the many, many reasons why I felt let down by the film version is that it concentrated on the framing narration of the novel instead of the two thirds of it which actually made me fall in love with the book to begin with. Pat Conroy did the dysfunctional family thing many, many times, but this version is my favourite, not least because while the relationship between the Wingos and their parents is spectacularly screwed up, the ones between the three siblings (twins and an older brother) are their lifelines to sanity and what keeps them going. They love each other fiercely which doesn't stop the occasional competition and bickering, and they can both both incredibly funny and heartbreaking together, either all three or any two combination. I just love them.
1.) Quark & Rom from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Several of my favourite scenes involving either character are about their relationship with each other, whether it's Rom asking Quark to tell the story for the nth unprofitable time at the end of House of Quark, their arguments and reconciliation in Bar Union or Rom telling Quark in the s5 finale he'll stay on the about to be occupied station, Quark calling him an idiot again and kissing him. Awwww.
2.) Buffy & Dawn from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I loved Dawn from the moment she showed up in Real Me. (An episode which if you play it for an audience is a surefire way to find out who was an older and who was a younger sibling, btw. I was an older sister.) Both the early sibling bickering and the shift when Buffy finds out the truth, plus the additional shift after Joyce's death when she has to double as a parent figure as well, were very captivating to watch for me, and much as Angel & Connor are probably the relationship I'm most invested in over in AtS, Buffy & Dawn is my favourite relationship in the later seasons of BTVS. It's no coincidence that the only post-show story I ever felt compelled to write, City Girls, features the Summers sisters.
3.) Sydney and Nadia in Alias. It's no coincidence my favourite Alias s4 episode is Detente which manages to combine two of my favourite aspects of the show, Sydney and Nadia and an examination of the Sydney & Sloane relationship. In defiance of clichés, Syd and Nadia were never rivals; Sydney was the one relation who loved Nadia unconditionally and who never let her down, and yet the relationship never came over as over the top sweet. (When Nadia figures out in The Index that Sydney used her to check out Sloane's house, she does this marvelous passive-aggressive thing of a birthday speech which manages to make Syd feel guilty as hell without giving her away at all, which, btw, is a Sloane, not a Derevko or Bristow thing to do and is one of times where you can see Nadia is Arvin's daughter.) One of the many injustices of s5 is that they didn't get more time together. *still bears a grudge*
4.) Llewelyn ap Gruffyd and Davydd up Gruffyd, as written by Sharon Penman. (In Falls the Shadow and The Reckoning.)Undoubtedly the most intense relationship in either novel, complete with affection, rivalry, (spectacular) betrayals, and reconciliations, their scenes together to me are the highlights of the novels in question, and Davydd's final scene in The Reckoning pretty much breaks me. (I also like Edith Pargeter's interpretation of the same sibling relationship in her Brothers of Gwynned cycle, but Penman's version is my favourite.)
5.) Luke, Savanna and Tom Wingo in Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy. One of the many, many reasons why I felt let down by the film version is that it concentrated on the framing narration of the novel instead of the two thirds of it which actually made me fall in love with the book to begin with. Pat Conroy did the dysfunctional family thing many, many times, but this version is my favourite, not least because while the relationship between the Wingos and their parents is spectacularly screwed up, the ones between the three siblings (twins and an older brother) are their lifelines to sanity and what keeps them going. They love each other fiercely which doesn't stop the occasional competition and bickering, and they can both both incredibly funny and heartbreaking together, either all three or any two combination. I just love them.
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Date: 2010-04-10 07:40 am (UTC)It so is!
*is a younger sibling*
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Date: 2010-04-10 09:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-04-10 09:31 am (UTC)(Seriously, the minute my sister moved out, we were friends)
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Date: 2010-04-10 09:47 am (UTC)