Wrong!shipping Meme - Day 1
Oct. 3rd, 2012 11:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
next_to_normalFinally - FINALLY - decided to start posting, in the hopes that it will motivate me to complete the rest of the days (I have the first seven, as well as a few random later days, picspammed). The full list of days, if you want to play along, is here.
Day 1: The ship you don't want to be endgame.
Carrie Mathison/Nicholas Brody (Homeland)
(I made icons from these caps, as well. They're here if you want them.)
I generally don't think in terms of "endgame" for ships - partly because I don't ever want my shows to end, but also because I don't think the last relationship a character has is necessarily the best or most important or whatever. The relationships that are together when a show ends aren't somehow more legitimate than any other ones that came before, and I've never needed that kind of endorsement in order to get on board with a ship. I'm not terribly invested in knowing that my ship lives happily ever afterunless they are Ponds lol still not over it, otherwise I probably would not love dysfunctional ships the way that I do. I mean, if they somehow manage to make it work, good on them, but you can pretty much tell it's going to be a trainwreck from the start, and they probably shouldn't end up together, for the sake of anyone's health or sanity, and that's why you love it (well, if you're me).
But Carrie/Brody takes doomed shipping to a whole new level, I think. I mean, she's a CIA agent and she thinks he's a terrorist, for goodness sake. The reason she gets close to him in the first place is because she's convinced he's part of a plot to attack the United States. That was never gonna end well.
They'd have qualified as dysfunctional even without that - he's suffering from PTSD, she's bipolar, they're both incredibly damaged people, and what attracts them to each other is that sense of having found a kindred spirit when no one else could possibly understand what they've been through. But throw in Carrie's investigation and each of them is literally the worst possible person for the other to get involved with, and Carrie even knows that, and they do it anyway. And it's the resulting sixteen layers of tension and subterfuge and betrayal that make it so fascinating. A Carrie/Brody endgame would lose so much of what I love about them, because they couldn't possibly keep the secrets they do and have any kind of real relationship.
We're only one episode into the second season, but I'm sure when the show bring them back together, it will be just as electric and intense as last season. And I will love every second of it, lol. But endgame? No thanks.
Carrie Mathison/Nicholas Brody (Homeland)
(I made icons from these caps, as well. They're here if you want them.)
I generally don't think in terms of "endgame" for ships - partly because I don't ever want my shows to end, but also because I don't think the last relationship a character has is necessarily the best or most important or whatever. The relationships that are together when a show ends aren't somehow more legitimate than any other ones that came before, and I've never needed that kind of endorsement in order to get on board with a ship. I'm not terribly invested in knowing that my ship lives happily ever after
But Carrie/Brody takes doomed shipping to a whole new level, I think. I mean, she's a CIA agent and she thinks he's a terrorist, for goodness sake. The reason she gets close to him in the first place is because she's convinced he's part of a plot to attack the United States. That was never gonna end well.
They'd have qualified as dysfunctional even without that - he's suffering from PTSD, she's bipolar, they're both incredibly damaged people, and what attracts them to each other is that sense of having found a kindred spirit when no one else could possibly understand what they've been through. But throw in Carrie's investigation and each of them is literally the worst possible person for the other to get involved with, and Carrie even knows that, and they do it anyway. And it's the resulting sixteen layers of tension and subterfuge and betrayal that make it so fascinating. A Carrie/Brody endgame would lose so much of what I love about them, because they couldn't possibly keep the secrets they do and have any kind of real relationship.
We're only one episode into the second season, but I'm sure when the show bring them back together, it will be just as electric and intense as last season. And I will love every second of it, lol. But endgame? No thanks.
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Date: Oct. 5th, 2012 01:15 am (UTC)Indeed.
WORD to everything. What even is this ship. MADNESS IS WHAT.
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Date: Oct. 11th, 2012 02:58 pm (UTC)