Absolutely no offence taken! ^_^ Honestly, I think shipping wars are a waste of time and energy; sure, Character A could be with Character B, but they could just as easily be with Character C and I think people can be loathe to admit that. I love Johnlock in the Sherlock fandom, for all the poor writing and awful characterisation of the relationship in Series 3 and 4, but Sherlock/Molly is just as plausible, as is Lestrade/Molly, or Lestrade/Mycroft (which I read for fun, mostly). The wonderful thing with Doctor Who is that there are so many characters, ergo many ships - especially when we bring Jack Harkness into the picture! ;) Hooray for variety, say I!
I totally agree with you on Ten/Rose; it's like, dude, please stop now. They were just so heavily pushed and it's like; what about those of us who don't ship them? What about those of us who are here for the adventure and the humour and don't particularly enjoy having this revoltingly-chirpy couple shoved down our throats? I was actually really into Ten/Martha for a while there; I preferred her and Donna over Rose by a mile.
And yeah, I also get what you're saying about Twelve/Clara; the truth is, it surprised me. I just fell in love with Twelve and I guess my way of looking at it was that the Doctor's already hundreds of years old when we meet him and he's already been around the block once or twice with a companion or two. In particular, the whole Ten/Rose thing; he was 900+ at the time and she was, what, 19? And it just seemed acceptable because he had a young face, you know? But I actually genuinely like those two together; I worked in a place where all my colleagues really hated Clara and I actually thought Twelve brought out the best in her - I liked them as a pair. You know that feeling of 'shippiness' when you watch a new episode of something? I got it from them. And it doesn't even have to be purely romantic; there was a bond there, a deep one. I actually liked them better together than apart!
Again, please don't worry about offending me; I love to meet people of different views! That's what fandom is all about. ^_^
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I totally agree with you on Ten/Rose; it's like, dude, please stop now. They were just so heavily pushed and it's like; what about those of us who don't ship them? What about those of us who are here for the adventure and the humour and don't particularly enjoy having this revoltingly-chirpy couple shoved down our throats? I was actually really into Ten/Martha for a while there; I preferred her and Donna over Rose by a mile.
And yeah, I also get what you're saying about Twelve/Clara; the truth is, it surprised me. I just fell in love with Twelve and I guess my way of looking at it was that the Doctor's already hundreds of years old when we meet him and he's already been around the block once or twice with a companion or two. In particular, the whole Ten/Rose thing; he was 900+ at the time and she was, what, 19? And it just seemed acceptable because he had a young face, you know? But I actually genuinely like those two together; I worked in a place where all my colleagues really hated Clara and I actually thought Twelve brought out the best in her - I liked them as a pair. You know that feeling of 'shippiness' when you watch a new episode of something? I got it from them. And it doesn't even have to be purely romantic; there was a bond there, a deep one. I actually liked them better together than apart!
Again, please don't worry about offending me; I love to meet people of different views! That's what fandom is all about. ^_^