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

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

I struggle with the actress because I didn't care for her on House and I LOATHED her character on "How I Met Your Mother". I can't think of anything that Emma has done to truly piss me off, but she wasn't my favorite actress to be cast in the role.

And, yeah, it's the unrequited thing that sort of gets me in the end. After a while, requite already!