Most of the time what comes first for me is character. I have to hook on at least one character before I can bother to give a damn about the storyline.
I don't ship in all fandoms, and even in most of the ones I do, the shipping itself matters less than the characters.
It's only in some shows like Buffy, that shipping becomes more than just part of the show. And then it's mostly because my love of a character has been hit by how he or she treated another character.
By the end of s7, I just needed to believe that Buffy really loved Spike, just to keep on giving a damn about her, because of the way she'd treated him. It's stupid really, but I just wanted to believe that she'd grown as a person. And I guess that's why I can't bring myself to like any part of s8, because it didn't answer that question except in a way to destroy Buffy's character even more.
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Date: 2011-03-13 09:07 pm (UTC)Most of the time what comes first for me is character. I have to hook on at least one character before I can bother to give a damn about the storyline.
I don't ship in all fandoms, and even in most of the ones I do, the shipping itself matters less than the characters.
It's only in some shows like Buffy, that shipping becomes more than just part of the show. And then it's mostly because my love of a character has been hit by how he or she treated another character.
By the end of s7, I just needed to believe that Buffy really loved Spike, just to keep on giving a damn about her, because of the way she'd treated him. It's stupid really, but I just wanted to believe that she'd grown as a person. And I guess that's why I can't bring myself to like any part of s8, because it didn't answer that question except in a way to destroy Buffy's character even more.