This Sounds Terribly Familiar...

[shipperx]

While talking w/ shapinglight about the 'bad boy never gets the girl' trope (which despite fanboy and Mutant Enemy cries of how it's such a horrible cliche that happens so often, in my experience with tv fandoms and with TV Shows, very, very rarely is the 'redeemed bad boy' actually allowed to win the girl 'for realz'.  Even if they do, it ends up with "but he's never good enough for her..."  in perpetuity.  Or you can end up with cases such as LOST's Sawyer where he's sent to someone else who I liked more anyway so I was okay with that. )

Anyway, the recent issue of the BtVS comics with Spuffy in the 'friend zone' brought up the discussion and at some point I mentioned that by now  I find myself rooting for the pairing of Captain Hook/Emma Swan* on Once Upon a Time,  not so much for them per se, but because I'm rather tired of the fact that the anti-hero in perpetual unrequited love never seems to win the girl's romantic love.  Since shapinglight isn't a Once watcher, I googled YouTube for reference material, and look what turned up...

Listen to that voice over.

That voice over isn't from Once.  That voice over is familiar!  It's very familiar.  In fact...It's SPIKE!

That is Spike's Spuffy monologue for goodness sakes!

Since it's unattributed in the vid, I suppose they think that the shared accent and similar voices makes it seem sort of Capt. Hook-ish.  But not only have I watched too much Buffy but I've listened to too many Dresden Files audio books not to recognize that voice.

That's Spike talking.

* In the "Once" universe, Emma Swan is the daughter of Snow White and Prince Charming.  And Peter Pan is straight-up narcissistic evil.

Comments

[petzipellepingo.livejournal.com]

Yup, that's Spike all right.

[eilowyn.livejournal.com]

you can end up with cases such as LOST's Sawyer where he's sent to someone else who I liked more anyway so I was okay with that.

Sawyer and Juliet completed me. It made the square just WORK, though Skate fans were probably pissed off.

And I don't actively watch OUAT - I have problems with Emma being a too stereotypical Strong Female Character - but if I were going to ship anything on the show, it would be Captain Swan, to nobody's surprise I'm sure.

Oh, and you can add the Sookie Stackhouse books to the "redeemed bad guy loses girl to nice guy" list. It was like the point of the entire series was subverted in a single book, just to please Bander Sam/Sookie fans. We'll see how True Blood ends, but I'm not expecting anything pleasing. Sookie will end up with Bill, and I'll vomit in my mouth a bit.

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

2.5 seconds in, or less, YUP - SPIKE.

[hobbituk.livejournal.com]

I recognised it as soon as he started speaking... now I am going to have to track down the OUAT episodes with Captain Hook in it to see what he sounds like!

ETA - Oh, he sounds just my type for an onscreen woobie... Bad boy oozing sex appeal. *sobs* I now have to finish watching season 2 of OUAT don't I?

[ww1614.livejournal.com]

Hook=Spike. And when Jane writes him, he's 100% Spike-ish. I have major flashbacks to BtVS with this show because like BtVS, I hate the blonde heroine and love the bad boy woobie and I want him to get what he wants, which is the stupid blonde heroine. I despise JMo. Ugh.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Although, to be fair, I'm not sure you can call Neal/Baelfire the good boy...there's a lot of bad boy in that character, and the actor is known for playing cute villains or bad boys.

I mean come on...Baelfire abandoned Emma, and set her up to take the fall for him. She ended up serving prison time. Prior to that, he taught her how to steal.

Also, not entirely sure, you can call Angel...a good guy either.