I'm sittting here with a foggy head from yet another blasted cold plus the goofy cold meds and reading all the posts about anti-shippers and confirmation and canon. Next thing I know the day is done and I've drifted way far down memory lane. So I figure what the heck, I'll drag you all along with me.
How I Learned to Be a Shipper
(Spoilered for the sake of those who'd rather not tag along)
(Warning to those about to click the button... it's kind of a really long post)
Episode titles and the ship. Since “Solitudes” was my shipper wakeup call I'll do that.
Solitude:
1. the state of being solitary
2. a lonely or secluded place
I see this episode as the way of letting us know exactly what path Sam's and Jack's relationship would take. We weren't going to see very much and, what we do see will mostly be heartbreakingly one-sided.
So did it play out that way? Well, out of 214 episodes (or 174 if you don't count seasons 9 and 10, or even 212/172 if, like me, you don't count Moebius) we see Sam and Jack approach each other about it twice (Divide and Conquer, Affinity). A few other times they try but quickly chicken out (Point of View, Beneath the Surface) or get interrupted (Lost City and Threads). The rest of the time they struggle with their feelings in silence. That works out to 97% of the time there was either no ship or silent struggling. And no, I'm not forgetting the handful of episodes where they openly flirt with each other (i.e., the fishing invitations). Flirting, by definition, doesn't count.
How I Learned to Be a Shipper
(Spoilered for the sake of those who'd rather not tag along)
(Warning to those about to click the button... it's kind of a really long post)
Spoiler:
Episode titles and the ship. Since “Solitudes” was my shipper wakeup call I'll do that.
Solitude:
1. the state of being solitary
2. a lonely or secluded place
I see this episode as the way of letting us know exactly what path Sam's and Jack's relationship would take. We weren't going to see very much and, what we do see will mostly be heartbreakingly one-sided.
So did it play out that way? Well, out of 214 episodes (or 174 if you don't count seasons 9 and 10, or even 212/172 if, like me, you don't count Moebius) we see Sam and Jack approach each other about it twice (Divide and Conquer, Affinity). A few other times they try but quickly chicken out (Point of View, Beneath the Surface) or get interrupted (Lost City and Threads). The rest of the time they struggle with their feelings in silence. That works out to 97% of the time there was either no ship or silent struggling. And no, I'm not forgetting the handful of episodes where they openly flirt with each other (i.e., the fishing invitations). Flirting, by definition, doesn't count.
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