Meta meme: 30 Days of Shipping

[luxken27]

I love the way my mind works out sometimes. I had a real barnstormer of an idea for Stacy in Bloom, one that came almost as soon as I was fully coherent this morning, and I spent all morning outlining it in feverish detail.

The problem?

The events my muse is so taken with won't happen for at least five chapters *facepalm*

Luckily, it was in a happy place, though, because I also got a significant amount of pre-writing done on the chapter I am presently working on (a rough outline, bits of dialogue, the flow from one scene to the next). Hopefully things will continue clicking away upstairs as the week progresses :)

Day 25 - A pairing that was/would-be adorable, but could never work out?


Jessica Fletcher/Dr Seth Hazlitt, Murder, She Wrote ~ Okay, so technically this isn't a ship I carried a torch for when the show was running, nor when I got really into it a few years ago, but it certainly fits the "adorable" bill. Jessica Fletcher is, of course, the main character in this long-running series, a retired school teacher who writes mysteries for a living now, and always seems to find a murder or two to solve around her quiet Maine village of Cabot Cove. (She also goes on whirlwind world tours in support of her work [or in protest of it, whatever the case may be :P] so Cabot Cove doesn't have a crime problem just because the show lasted for 14 years, LOL.)

As far as main characters go, Jessica is pretty awesome. She never wants the role of detective, but is kinda shoved into it by the circumstances of the episode. She makes lots of good friends and writes lots of intriguing novels, so what's not to love? :) Her family is a trip, too, especially her erstwhile nephew Grady, who sent her first manuscript off without telling her and had it published.

Dr Seth Hazlitt is the hamlet's doctor, and a fine old curmudgeonly sort. He and Jess are best friends, but it's kinda obvious he feels far more for her than that ~ but he also respects that she had One True Love in her life, her dearly departed husband Frank, and keeps his distance. Their interactions are absolutely wonderful, though, and sometimes they act like an old married couple, so yeah. It'd never work, but its present incarnation does just fine, LOL.


Previous....
Day 01 - What is your current favorite ship? Sam Thomas/Stacey McGill, Baby-sitters Club
Day 02 - What was your very first ship? Ryan/Stacy, Kids Inc
Day 03 - A pairing that needs to happen now? Seeley Booth/Temperance Brennan, Bones
Day 04 - The pairing with the most chemistry? Matt Hunter/Maxie Jones, General Hospital
Day 05 - The pairing with the least chemistry? Sesshoumaru/Kagome, Inuyasha
Day 06 - The best kiss? Tommy Quincy/Jude Harrison, Instant Star
Day 07 - The most heartbreaking scene? Shawn Brady/Belle Black, Days of Our Lives
Day 08 - The pairing with the most baggage? Miroku/Sango, Inuyasha
Day 09 - The most believable relationship? Jonathan Creek/Maddie Magellan, Jonathan Creek
Day 10 - Why aren't these two married in real life? Jason Cook/Kirsten Storms
Day 11 - What is your dream pairing? Charlie Thomas/Janine Kishi, Baby-sitters Club
Day 12 - Who had the best wedding? Byron Sully/Michaela Quinn, Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman
Day 13 - What is your favorite television pairing? Ryan/Stacy, Kids Inc
Day 14 - What is your favorite book pairing? William Dunford/Henrietta Barret, Minx
Day 15 - What is your favorite real life pairing? Queen Victoria & Albert, the Prince Consort
Day 16 - What is the absolute worst pairing? Sesshoumaru/Inuyasha, Inuyasha
Day 17 - A pairing you thought would never work out, but did? Archie "Snake" Simpson/Christine "Spike" Nelson, Degrassi Junior High/High/TNG
Day 18 - What is the cutest pairing? Early Classic Shelle, Days of Our Lives
Day 19 - A pairing you've rooted for since the beginning? Trent Lane/Daria Morgendorffer, Daria
Day 20 - The "can't stand the sexual tension anymore" pairing? Kyouya/Haruhi, Ouran High School Host Club
Day 21 - A pairing you like and no one else understands why? Sesshoumaru/Kagome, Inuyasha
Day 22 - A pairing you hate and no one else understands why? BSC slash
Day 23 - A crazy love triangle/quadrilateral that worked out great? Lexie/Archie/Katrina, Monarch of the Glen
Day 24 - A crazy love triangle/quadrilateral that worked out badly? Tommy/Jude/Jamie, Instant Star

Upcoming...
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

[replicantangel.livejournal.com]

Awwww! I practically grew up on this show. <3 My parents and I always joked about Cabot Cove - "Highest murder rate in the nation! Worse than Camden, New Jersey!"

I always adored these two characters. Older people that actually did stuff aside from go to church and cook? It was rather shocking, lol.

[luxken27]

:D I loved this show! It was awesome, and the mysteries were pretty good, too. And Cabot Cove kinda makes me want to try living that far north, LOL.

[luxken27]

I live in the South, LOL. And I hate it. Bring on the cold weather! (It's been 90 this week.)

[replicantangel.livejournal.com]

Cabot Cove kinda makes me want to try living that far north, LOL.

:P While often prettier up there, the snow can be really suffocating after the first storm. I miss the *summers* up there, because I actually didn't need A/C. Winters though? Blah. They just get so gray and depressing.

[luxken27]

*shrug* I am very much a winter person. I adored my European winter - it actually didn't get cold enough for me! :P I guess it's one of those 'I didn't grow up with this so I love it' deals, because I, for one, abhor the southern summers. I'd rather be cold than hot, LOL!

[replicantangel.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I get that. Although I hate the summers here too, lol. I'm just going to have to find a place where it's 75 degrees, all year around, to retire to. :P

[landofthekwt.livejournal.com]

They had to move the show to NYC because they were running out of people to murder.When Amos Tupper was the sheriff, you had a triangle here. They did a good job of transporting Agatha Christie's Miss Marple to the USA. Angela Lansbury did a wonderful job on the character

[luxken27]

Yeah, the show wasn't as good when they moved it mostly to NYC :-/ I wasn't a big Amos Tupper fan, either; he was a bit too irritatingly stupid for me, LOL. I liked Mort Metzger more.

Angela Landsbury is truly amazing!

[luxken27]

LOL, you can still watch all these shows! =) This one's out on DVD as well, and its the perfect thing to marathon one weekend :D