30 Day Meme - Sailor Moon // 30 Day Meme - Shipping (Day 05)

[samatethecookie]

DAY 05 - FAVORITE SIDEKICK



How could I not pick Luna?


# Day 1 - Favourite character
# Day 2 - Favourite Inner Senshi
# Day 3 - Favourite Outer Senshi
# Day 4 - Favourite transformation
# Day 5 - Favourite sidekick
# Day 6 - Favourite couple
# Day 7 - Favourite scene
# Day 8 - Favourite attack
# Day 9 - Favourite minor character
# Day 10 - Saddest moment
# Day 11 - Something you wish had never happened
# Day 12 - Best hair
# Day 13 - Bravest Senshi
# Day 14 - Favourite villain
# Day 15 - Favourite arc/season
# Day 16 - Something that happened in the manga that you wish was put into the anime
# Day 17 - Favourite quote
# Day 18 - Favourite battle
# Day 19 - Favourite movie
# Day 20 - Favourite episode
# Day 21 - Happiest moment
# Day 22 - Most useless character
# Day 23 - Favourite outfit
# Day 24 - Least favourite battle
# Day 25 - Least favourite Inner Senshi
# Day 26 - Least favourite Outer Senshi
# Day 27 - Overall preference - manga or anime?
# Day 28 - Funniest moment
# Day 29 - Favourite Usagi/Mamoru moment
# Day 30 - Overall favourite moment


DAY 05 - THE PAIRING WITH THE LEAST CHEMISTRY



Kim Possible/Ron Stoppable.

I recognized that the writers have been building up towards them hooking up for an entire season, and this is probably my bias talking since I preferred Kim/Shego, but Kim/Ron just had...no romantic chemistry. Even when they finally got together, it felt completely forced. In the last season, you'd even forget that the two of them were a couple until certain scenes made you go: "Oh yeah, that's right, they're dating." I don't know if the writers didn't know how to transition their chemistry as best friends to their chemistry as a couple, but from the moment they got together to the moment the show ended, I never believed they loved each other. Or rather, I never believed that Kim loved Ron as a boyfriend.

All the moments before then hinting that Kim/Ron was going to happen? Didn't help whatsoever. Ron's realization that Kim possibly had feelings for him had to be achieved through manipulative means within the narrative. Kim had to have some experimental mood altering device attached to her and throwing her emotions out of whack (which also happened to Shego because 'lol female hormones') and cling to Ron--against her better judgment. That just bothers me on another level that I'm not even going to begin addressing in this meme.

More importantly, and I didn't realize this until ivy_chan pointed it out to me, Kim and Ron are extremely different in terms of characterization and development. Kim was a self-centered, egotistical, superficial girl in the first season, but as the series progressed, she became kinder and a little easier to relate to an audience. Ron stayed the same: the goofy, off-beat comedia relief who occasionally had his own personal arcs. The idea of them together when she's athe rounder character just doesn't bode well. I'm not saying Ron HAD to change completely, but it never felt like anything about him changed.

I don't know. I like the "bffs from childhood become lovers" trope when it's done right. This isn't a good example of it.


# Day 01 - What is your current favorite ship?
# Day 02 - What was your very first ship?
# Day 03 - A pairing that needs to happen now?
# Day 04 - The pairing with the most chemistry?
# Day 05 - The pairing with the least chemistry?
# Day 06 - The best kiss?
# Day 07 - The most heartbreaking scene?
# Day 08 - The pairing with the most baggage?
# Day 09 - The most believable relationship?
# Day 10 - Why aren’t these two married in real life?
# Day 11 - What is your dream pairing?
# Day 12 - Who had the best wedding?
# Day 13 - What is your favorite television pairing?
# Day 14 - What is your favorite book pairing?
# Day 15 - What is your favorite real life pairing?
# Day 16 - What is the absolute worst pairing?
# Day 17 - A pairing you thought would never work out, but did?
# Day 18 - What is the cutest pairing?
# Day 19 - A pairing you’ve rooted for since the beginning?
# Day 20 - The ‘can’t stand the sexual tension anymore’ pairing?
# Day 21 - A pairing you like and no one else understands why?
# Day 22 - A pairing you hate and no one else understands why?
# Day 23 - A crazy love triangle/quadrilateral that worked out great?
# Day 24 - A crazy love triangle/quadrilateral that worked out badly?
# Day 25 - A pairing that was/would-be adorable, but could never work out?
# Day 26 - A pairing that you hated and ended up loving?
# Day 27 - A pairing that you loved and ended up hating?
# Day 28 - A pairing that you will never understand?
# Day 29 - What ship had the best proposal?
# Day 30 - Your favorite ship forever and ever and ever!

Comments

[kitsuneasika.livejournal.com]

How could I not pick Luna?

Simple, but oh-so true. ♥

[samatethecookie.livejournal.com]

I would've gone into detail about why I love her, but really, that just fits everything I feel about her. Luna's awesome!

[asylumiss.livejournal.com]

I've always like Luna and I actually liked her English accent in the dub, though it probably made her nagging sound intolerable to some people heh.

[samatethecookie.livejournal.com]

So did I; I think it fit her very much. I don't really like the other accents where she sounds squeakier than Usagi.

Then again, I didn't really have a problem with the dub voices. The butchered dialogue, sure, but I always thought the voice themselves were fine. (Especially Usagi/Serena's first voice, until they went and changed it. Her second voice dubber was just terrible.)

[asylumiss.livejournal.com]

I tried watching the third season dub to see what her voice was like, about ten seconds in and I'm done. MY FUCKIN EARS JFC

[samatethecookie.livejournal.com]

Oh it was HORRIBLE. She had her moments, but...the first one was definitely better. She had heart in it. The second one was just obnoxious.

[analeisa.livejournal.com]

Agreed on Kim/Ron. I feel kind of bad for not liking it (that kind of ship is right up my alley) but they really do not have romantic chemistry. The way that they acted as friends was the same way that they acted as a couple. Plus, they didn't hint towards Kim/Ron until season three. It seemed like those two getting together was just a cliche' wrap up for So The Drama. Meh.

[samatethecookie.livejournal.com]

I feel a little bad, too, because they're great friends. It's just a shame that you could never believe in their relationship. I really do think the writers just had no idea how to transition them from friends to boyfriend/girlfriend, since they planned for season three to be the last one. Even then, the ending did seem to be a cliche wrap up as you've said. :\

To be honest, most of the canon ships in Kim Possible never seem...genuine. Drakken/Shego is considerably worst, because they randomly put them together in the final episode without the build-up, from what I've heard, but they do have something that can be read as romance chemistry. (Slap-slap-kiss, mainly.)

[shidoikarji26.livejournal.com]

LUNA