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fandomsecrets2016-05-24 06:34 pm
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Re: Just when I think I have fandoms figured out... (HUX, pairings, etc.)
(Anonymous) 2016-05-25 01:18 am (UTC)(link)Yeah, I've seen that a lot as well. In the "Criminal Minds" fandom I'm a fan of Morgan/Reid, and that one is indeed pretty popular...but Hotch/Reid is incredibly common, too, which kinda surprised me, for the very reasons you note. He's more like a father figure to the team in a lot of ways, so it seems odd to me to see him paired up with ANY of the younger team members.
Based off what I have seen of "NCIS", DiNozzo/McGee makes a lot more sense to me, too. I don't mind age gaps in and of themselves, necessarily, depending on the situation, but if the older character comes off more parental in nature, or is in a boss/supervisor position, it's a lot harder for me to ship them with a younger character, or a character who works for them, as a result.
I don't entirely rule those kinds of pairings out, 'cause I tend to be of the belief that a talented writer can make any pairing work, even if only for the length of a particular story. But for the most part, those aren't going to be my particular preferred pairings.
To each their own, though, of course :).
Re: Just when I think I have fandoms figured out... (HUX, pairings, etc.)
(Anonymous) 2016-05-25 02:09 am (UTC)(link)I shipped Morgan/Reid, too (haven't seen the past couple seasons of the show, though, and I know Morgan left which is kind of making me not want to catch up) and was definitely surprised at the popularity of Hotch/Reid.
Other examples I can think of are Scrubs (I liked JD/Turk, which I expected to be insanely popular, but JD/Cox was the biggest pairing for whatever reason), and Brooklyn Nine-Nine (I haven't gotten into the fandom, mainly because I don't ship anything, but from what I've heard, Jake/Holt is apparently the most popular, and it definitely reminds me of the JD/Cox approval-seeking dynamic).
I'm not really against age gaps and it definitely depends on the individual characters. I guess, like you mention, it's really more power imbalances that I usually don't like (boss/employee, teacher/student, surrogate parent/mentor type relationships, etc.) and a lot of times when there's a big age difference between characters there's also one of those types of dynamics.
I don't entirely rule those kinds of pairings out, 'cause I tend to be of the belief that a talented writer can make any pairing work, even if only for the length of a particular story. But for the most part, those aren't going to be my particular preferred pairings.
Yep, same. I won't entirely rule them out, and it really depends on the particular characters and their dynamic (I really liked Peter/Neal from White Collar, for example) but in general, it's not really my type of pairing.
Re: Just when I think I have fandoms figured out... (HUX, pairings, etc.)