Bah. I merged an extra 'bad relationships' into the original 'swoon' thread and mucked it all up. Here's the new thread. Get lovin'

I loved most of the Willow + Oz scenes in BTVS 2-4. My favorite would have to be in 'Innocence' with the Freeze Frame speech, so sweet and so true to life.

ETA: the scene:

Willow: (after a pause) Do you wanna make out with me?

Oz: What?

Willow: (looks away) Forget it. I'm sorry. (decides she wants to know)
Well, do you?

Oz: Sometimes when I'm sitting in class... You know, I'm not thinking
about class, 'cause that would never happen. I think about kissing you.
And it's like everything stops. It's like, it's like freeze frame.
Willow kissage.

He nods his head and smiles to himself. Willow smiles over at him. He
looks up at her.

Oz: Oh, I'm not gonna kiss you.

Willow: (confused) What? But freeze frame!

Oz: Well, to the casual observer, it would appear that you're trying to
make your friend Xander jealous or even the score or something. And
that's on the empty side. (looks off into space) See, in my fantasy when
I'm kissing *you*, you're kissing *me*. (looks back at her) It's okay. I
can wait. (sees the window open) We're up.

Goodness, yes, The Pez. There were so many great moment with Willow and Oz. The dialogue you transcribed is great. I'm also fond of the moment when she walks in front of his van on Halloween, as well as the dialogue where Willow tells Oz that she'll say yes if he asks her out, so he does, but then she says no. The Willow/Oz relationship is why it pissed me off so much from season 5 and onwards when Willow was constantly referred to as "gay" or "lesbian," because, hello, bisexual? I mean, if she's not bisexual, then it just completely invalidates everything with Xander and Oz, and I always found that idea to be unacceptable.

I squeak back and forth between Becca and Jesse (Life Goes On) and Buffy and Ange (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), so let's just call it a tie! I like doomed tragic romances because they make me all angsty and I like that. Yet while I really dug B/J back in the early 90s, no 'ship has made me as crazy fanatic as B/A. Maybe it's the chemisty between the actors, maybe the writing, I dunno but it worked for me in a way that no couple has since.

My all-time favorite romantic tv moment: Buffy telling Angel to close his eyes and that she loves him, and then sending him to hell. Runner-up goes to any and all Tai Chi scenes from BtVS season three, because I'm shallow like that, heh.

ETA: more depth, although I am not expressing it very well me thinks.

In my opinion, Buffy and Angel own this thread. So many wonderful moments to choose from. But my favorite would have to be from End of Days and Chosen. The utter joy and radiance on Buffy's face when she sees Angel is priceless. And that goofy smile of pride he had on his face watching her fight Caleb was lovely. It was such a genuine moment.

Wow...so many.

On Buffy...Angel showing up at the Prom.

Buffy: Every now and then people surprise you.
Giles: Every now and then. (he spins her around and there's Angel, in a Tux).

On Angel, when Fred and Wesley finally get together at the end of Smile Time. I love when Fred kisses him and is like, "Is that clear enough?"

The Angel/Cordelia kiss at the end of You're Welcome.

Willow and Oz having sex for the first time in Graduation Day, Part I.

Willow: What are you doing?
Oz: Panicking.

Ross and Rachel's first kiss in TOW Ross Finds Out.

Rachel finding out the way Ross has always felt about each other in TOW the Prom Video.

All of TOW the Proposal.

The whole, "Stand Still" scene in this year's Gilmore Girls finale.

Carol and Doug's reunion in Such Sweet Sorrow.

Daphne and Niles finally getting together on Frasier.

Ahhh, Buffy/Angel. My all time favorite couple. So many great moments... but if I had to choose one, it would be the Prom dance. From the moment she sees him, and they're both glowing, ahhh the sweetness and angst and all the sexual tension. They're just incomparable.

The X-Files
My all time favorite couple would have to be Mulder and Scully on the X-Files. They went through so much together. Although I was a bit pissed off that we never actually got to see them getting together. We just suddenly got Mulder and Scully kissing after William was born and then a bunch of cheesy love letters starting with "Dear Dana." Yeah like he ever called her Dana. But still I was extremely happy during the finale when they had the snogging scenes together.

One of the more amazing couples when I was a teen was Joyce Dasvenport and Frank Furillo on Hill Street Blues. No matter their clashes as DA and police captain, Joyce always was there for her "Pizza Man" and vice versa.

Also from Hill Street, was Phil and Grace, the gruff but caring sergant and his very lusty, over 30 lover. It was funny, sweet, and let me know that you can do what you want no matter your age.

More recently, ....hmm, need to get thoughts in order.

Sydney and Vaughn on Alias, pre Season 2 cliffhanger, was awesome. I haven't seen two people have as much chemistry onscreen as Vartan and Garner did. Season 3 (which I'm trying my best to repress from my memory) aside, S/V is definitely the best onscreen relationship.

Unfortunately, ever since they were unnaturally and unnecessarily forced apart for the sake of the whole disastrous contrivance that was Season 3, their relationship has been incredibly tedious. The chemistry will never go away, but it will forever (or for at least another season) be overshadowed by the angst of S3 and the legacy of the worst. character. ever. to grace a TV screen.

I'm just reminding everyone that on the TWoP forums we like to post reasoned choices/examples and not just simple lists.

This is the difference between the too simple "X" and the acceptable "X because...."

My hardened and cynical soul still softenes a bit at the early Paul and Jamie stuff from Mad About You. Sometimes just the look Paul gives Jamie is enough. I always liked the moment with the flashback to when Paul proposed, when they were ice skating and Jamie reminded Paul of a weird dream he'd had... and he suddenly knew she was the one, and it sounds terribly corny now but I really liked it at the time.

More recently, in the world of reality programming, it's Bob and Joyce that got to me on The Amazing Race. They were so sweet as they approached their impending Philimation. They are each other's "second chance" love, and I just love them. Bob, with his "have you been on a carriage ride before?" attempt at cheering Joyce up. And the wonderful things they had to say about each other. Oh! I love you, Bob and Joyce!

I remember one scene where Joyce was in the bathtub and Frank was either in with her, or next to the tub. Things were hot and steamy, and he was carefully and oh so slowly shaving her leg.

It made those people in the Veet commercial look like amateurs!

When Pacey told Joey remembers everything on DC.

That was very romantic. I'm not certain that Joey was worthy of Pacey, but he was the perfect teenage boyfriend. He looked like he could kiss, he acknowledged her feelings and his fears, and he remembered her finding her mother's bracelet.

I think most marriage proposal scenes on TV are generally pretty sappy. But I gotta say, on Sex and the City, the scene at the singles mixer where Harry finally proposes to Charlotte, not only got me reaching for a tissue, it also got gruff Mr. LaRue a little misty as well. It was just a really lovely, very personal moment for the two characters, and was nicely performed by Kristin Davis and Evan Handler.


I remember part of an ep where Paul figures that he and Jamie first met at a museum when they were young children. I just always remember that as being a very sweet little moment on the show.

Love the shout-out to DC pretzels, but *psst* You have to say why you like this moment, not just listing the moment itself...Here's my reason why:

I love the moment when Pacey tells Joey that he remembers everything because those three simple words showed that he really had fallen in love with her. It was so sweet because I've always thought that Pacey and Joey never really paid too much attention to each other's lives.

They are also one of TV's great romances because its always romantic (well, it depends on the actors) when the "enemies turned lovers" theme applies.

Edited because I am still the reigning Typo Queen

thanks Wisegal. That's probably why most post got deleted when I mentioned Joey kissing Pacey at the end of Clean and Sober. I love how Pacey looks at her with his eyes.

I absolutely adored season 3 of Dawson's Creek because of the P/J romance, and one of my absolute favorite moments was during the episode centered around opening the B&B. Grams had told a story about how, when you truly love someone, you're happy just to watch them sleep. And later in the episode, Joey is sound asleep on the couch, and the shot shows Pacey sitting by the fire, watching her. Without words, it expressed how much he loved her.

To me Buffy & Spike had the most chemistry out of all the Buffy/ pairings. I did see the B/A romance in early seasons, but what made me accept B/S was the porch scene in season 5, when Spike was standing with his shotgun really angry and then his anger just melted away when he saw Buffy crying. At that moment, you could tell that he loved her and that he was feeling what she was feeling. He didn't need to say anything. The sighs at the end, almost in synch, said it all much better.

Roswell, season 1, episode Four Square. Michael, Isabel: kissing. *swoon*
They were the hottest couple that never was. But I'l always have fanfic and the Four Square dream. Sigh.

Ah, romance. How beautiful, how sweet, how insulin requiring. Anyway...

Father Ralph/Meggie in Thornbirds. I was just a kid when I first watched it, and I saw it again two years ago. There's the age differnce, and him being a priest, yada, yada. God help me (no pun intended), if they're still not one of my favourite couples in television ever.

Buffy/Angel. Not as much as they used to be. You're Welcome (not that I'm a A/C shipper, or anything, prefered these two with a brother/sister relationship), The Girl in Question and Buffy's behaviour in S7 sort of quenched my love for this couple quite a bit - though not completely. But, rewatching earlier seasons, I cannot help but adore the natural chemistry these two had, not to mention that they had some of the best romantic monets in TV history. They are in my opinion one of the best and most riveting examples of "doomed, tragic and starcrossed lovers" there is. The S1 kiss in which Buffy's cross burns Angel right next to his still makes me go all "Awww." Also, having gotten to know Angel's character more on his own show (and disregarding S7!Buffy), I find that those two would be pretty damn compatable. If it wasn't for the curse and him being dead, and all.

Sandy/Kirsten on The O.C.. You know you hit jackpot with a couple when they are the parents, and they still manage to be the funniest, sweetest and hottest couple on a show full of funny and hot people. See, a couple that has a healthy, supportive and nice relationship can be entertaining. Who knew?

Willow/Oz. Aside from sharing what must be the absoulte cutest moment ever in Innocence (i.e. the "Freeze Frame" speech) the actors just had this quirky, adorable and innocent way to interact with eachother, that made every W/O moment an "Awww" moment.

Also, one of the most romantic, yet not overbaringly cliché moments that succeeded to show how much one person loved another without being to sugary, actually took place on the dreaded Dawson's Creek. It's the one Gracie_77 mentioned: Pacey watching Joey sleep. (And Grams having said earlier in the episode that you know you truly love somebody, if you can sit all night, just watching them sleep.) I don't know. I liked it anyways.

I have yet to see my personal fave: Giles/Jenny. They had a wonderful, adult relationship that included snark and sparks as well as sweetness. Plus, anyone giving Giles the chance to prove he's a hunk of burning something-or-other is always good in my book!

Another that I loved dearly was Sisko/Kassidy Yates on DS9. Again, they were two strong people who shared a strong bond, but weren't afraid to stand up to each other when the situation demanded it.

And who wouldn't shed a tear for Red Dwarf's Kryten/Camille? Okay, they're tears of laughter, but really, you had to root for those two crazy kids to work it out. 'We'll always have Parrots'! Snerk!

Oh, and a tip of the hat to Homer and Marge Simpson. Yes, he's a lazy, ugly, sexist, infantile jerk, and she's a passive/agressive doormat, but the love is there and very real. They give us renewed hope that there really is someone for EVERYONE, because if these two hopeless losers can find true love, anyone can.

Well since everyone seems to be so into Willow and Oz I have to throw in for Willow and Tara. There were moments when the two looked at each other and just, well, seemed so in love. It really was a wonderful job of acting on both Ms. Benson and Ms. Hannigan's part. Not to mention the first time they use Magic together in "hush" when willow tries to move the candy machine and Tara cocks her head and realizes what Willow is doing and she takes her hand and they lock eyes and at the moment of realization each turn towards the machine and it flies over to the door! Then there's my personal favoirite willow/tara line:

Tara: I am you know
Willow: What?
Tara: Yours.

And later:
Tara: You need to be with the person you love
Willow: I am.

And after the whole Glory brain suckage:
Willow to the doctor: She's my everything
Willow to Buffy: "She's my girl"
And after she recovers:

Tara: Willow. I got so lost
Willow: I found you. I'll always find you.

I loved them as a couple so much.

Gomez & Morticia Addams are my idea of the 'perfect marriage'. They had many common interests (fencing, model trains), they found each other irrestistable ("Tish! You spoke French!") and they did lots of stuff as a family. It was nice.

Yea! common interests. I'm sick and tired of "opposites attract" romances. The real-life marriages and relationships that I know that work is the ones where they have a lot of interests they share, a few they don't but that get them out of the house and talking to other people, and a great deal of respect. Most of those relationships also have great sex.

It's sad that the best example that I can think of on TV is yours, Sleestack. It's sad because the example is nearly 40 years old and because they're seen as freaks.

Yippy! I'm not the only one! And, although like LMS, Buffy S7 and Angel S5 was tough on my B/A lovin heart they're still my all-time favorite couple. The actors just seemed to light up on screen when they were together-- I mean the only signs of the real, original recipe Buffy in the final season of Buffy was when Angel showed up and they were together. And SMG is the only woman I really thought DB had good romantic chemistry with-- it seemed a bit forced with most of the other women he was paired with. I'm still sorta sad they didn't end up together--I kept thinking Joss was screwing with me and that SMG would really show up in the finale.

Here are two of my favorite B/A moments that haven't been mentioned yet:
1.) At the end of When She Was Bad, when Buffy destroys the remnants of the Master and begins sobbing, and Angel walks up slowly and holds her quietly. Such a sweet little moment.
2.) At the end of What's My Line, Pt. 2, when Angel is on the floor of the church and Buffy kneels down and just says "Hi", the look they give each other is just perfect, relief and love mixed together.

And of course the dream sex from Amends. Yowza.

A Buffy/Angel moment that never seems to get mentioned for reasons I can't pretend to understand. Buffy's visit to Angel's apartment just after the credits in Surprise. Buffy's "I'm sorry. We were talking?" and later "The part at the end of the night when we say goodbye...it's getting harder." really get to me. Not quite to the extent that The Prom does, but still...

Another B/A moment that melts me is in Buffy's season 5 Forever. She is standing by her mother's grave an Angel comes silently from behind, and even without looking, she knows it's him, and he takes her hand. Awwwww!
SMG and DB have such an intense chemistry, and even being on separate shows, and after all these years, it didn't fade. When he showed up on Buffy's season finale, her face just glowed and lit up. So different from wooden Buffy when she's with Spike.

Buffy/Angel: no fictional romantic pairing has ever touched me the way this one did. I came into the game late (season 6) but my first Buffy ever was SAR (season 2) in FX. After watching just that one episode I had to know what the "mating dance" with Xander was all about and what was going on with this gang. Although the B/A romance was not the only thing that drew me to the show it was a very big component of the attraction. The way this romance developed was perfect, the chemistry between SMG and DB is (IMO) unmatched on modern entertainment. Also, unlike later pairing B/A were not shoved down my throat on the contrary I often felt that prior to the Angelus arc there wasn't enough B/A. I was allowed to see some little snippets of their romance but it wasn't allowed to take over the show. I found that during the time Buffy and Angel were together they were at their most heroic, selfless and strongest, not to mention happiest. As an unapologetic Buffy-lover I like it when she's happy. Finally, to date nothing I've seen on tv has been as erotic as the biting scene in GD2. Some of my favorite B/A romantic moments: Buffy's cross burns Angel in Angel. Buffy/Angel skating rink kiss in WML, ring exchange scene in Surprise, the "I love you" scene in Becoming2, pretty much all of IWRY but especially the "it's not enough time" scene, when Angel walks up to Buffy after Joyce's funeral and Buffy just slips her hand into his in Forever, the look in Buffy's face when she saw Angel in EOD.

Willow/Oz: I just loved how they interacted. After rooting for X/W and being so upset that Xander would chose Cordelia I was totally taken by surprise by W/O. I can't explain very clearly why I loved this pairing but they just seemed so well matched, like they completed each other: Favorite moment: when Oz told Willow he was worried about asking her out and she told him if it helped any, she was going to say yes. They often had this weird interactions that seemed completely normal for them.

Any moment between Vincent and Catherine on Beauty and the Beast. They were star-crossed lovers who would eventually be torn apart, but while they were still together, they were one of the most romantic couples ever.

It has been a while since I've seen any of the episodes, but I remember one that was romantic and bittersweet at the same time. Vincent was able to spend an entire evening out with Catherine on Halloween and no one noticed anything strange about him, they assumed he was wearing a costume.

The next morning they were sitting on a park bench in the early daylight, and some passerby makes a wisecrack about how Halloween is over. Vincent and Catherine look so sad at the realization that their night of freedom is over.

Fabrisse, I can think of a 90s show with a couple who shared interests and even work, were playful and fun, and heartstoppingly romantic. They started dating in the second season, got together in the third, were married in the fourth (third episode of the fourth season) and stayed together until the end of the show. They would have stayed together for a fifth season, but some studio wrangling from Jamie Tarses and Michael Eisner landed that contract in the can. Most importantly, ratings evidence proves that the marriage didn't kill the show. So many executives have insisted that would happen on so many shows with avid shipper fans, which I suppose is why most of the couples listed above didn't stay together. Anyway, here are a few samples from their dialogue:

Him: Hi.
Her: Hi. Oh, God, this is exactly why we shouldn't go out.
Him: All I said was hi.
Her: Yes, I know, and a dozen thoughts went through my mind: You know, how's my makeup? Do I smell good? Do I have coffee breath? See, and all that was just with you saying hi. What's gonna happen when you start saying words with more than one syllable?
Him: What did they put in your coffee this morning?

Him: People seem to try to kill you a lot.
Her: Yeah. I was so popular in high school.

Him: I don't know how I feel about you. There is no one way. I feel so many things, and all at once: happy, kinda scared too, excited, calm, lost, found. I feel safe in a way that I've never known but in danger too. This thing between us, whatever it is, it's stronger than me. Being with you is stronger than me alone.

(on buying their first home, a townhouse they'd admired while on a case together)
Her: You didn't!
Him: All you have to do is say the word, and it's ours.
Her: Well, you know I love it, but is it you?
Him: No. [beat] It's us.

I bet somebody can guess who they are.

Danny and Sydney in the Alias pilot. We only had about 30 minutes before he was killed, but the writing and acting was very convincing, we had a limited time to see Danny and Sydney together, and what we saw was completley convincing. Snd had Danny not been someone worth missing, the pilot wouldn't have worked, since Danny's only real plot purpose was to die. All in all, I think Alias has the best pilot ever made.

Bach-us, you got me pondering. First I thought L.A. Law, but I don't think that quite fits the timeline. But since I'm thinking of them, I always loved the Stuart and Annie relationship, they were just so in love. And I loved the way he just knew from the start she was the one and acted on it. He was such a cute teddy-bear.

Was it the couple on JAG? I don't know their names because I don't really watch the show, but hubby does. There's a cute couple of assistants, the husband used to be on Little House on the Praire but I don't know their names. I have caught a few very romantic/loving conversations between them. Actually, if the show was about them I would probably watch it.

Well I hope someone thinks of the answer, because nothing bugs me like an unanswered question.

[I]ETA: yeah, I guess it's neither of those guesses because I don't think the second bit of dialogue fits.

Sweetness, angst and all the sexual tension - most definitely incomparable not just in the Whedonverse but on network television in general. I think that summarizes Buffy/Angel perfectly.



Add me to the B/A fanclub too, Catharsis. So many wonderful, poignant moments, almost too many to mention.

And as much as I liked Willow/Tara, I loved Willow/Oz. I loved the 'monkey pants' dialog... "You have the prettiest eyes." Aww.

I know that one, Bach-us. It took me a minute, but I rewatched the eps with some of that dialogue many times back in the day (the first 3 in particular).

It's Lois and Clark on the show of the same name. They were a great couple despite all the crappy plots (frog-eating clones? Orson Welles?) that got thrown at them.


I have to quibble. Oz actually says "You have the sweetest smile." And then I melt. I grew to love the Willow/Tara pairing, but Willow/Oz had me from the first time he asked "Who is that girl?"

Ross and Rachel: What? I dug them. They pulled me in real good. I even remember the episode. The gang is sitting around watching a video of Rachel and Monica getting ready for their high school Prom, and in the video it's revealed that when Ross found out that Rachel's date hadn't shown up, he decided to be the replacement. Anywho, he comes down the stairs all decked in his finest, only to see that Rachel's date had shown up and then watched them leave for the prom. Now Rachel never knew about that and when the video is over, she gets up, walks straight up to Ross and just kisses him. Lays it on real good. Think I saw tongue too

*swoon*

Buffy and Angel: Ah, the forbidden tragic Romeo and Juliet type love. God I love it. Fave moment has to be the end scene in "Becoming" where Angel's soul is returned to him, he rises to his feet, looks at Buffy then hugs her. The acting SMG does then is just freaking amazing. I seriously felt her pain. Ironic that it's such a sad scene. But for the happier times, my fave moment has to be their little make out session in the graveyard in "Bad Eggs" or dance they have in the "Prom".

Sydney and Vaughn: My love for the two has decreased of recent, but I haven't jumped off this train yet. Fave scene has to be the one where the CIA or rather SD6 office is in ruins and then we see the two walking towards each other, only to embrace and smoooch. Anyone remember the song that played for the scene? I think it was Sherryl Crows "I will believe" but not sure. That song was so perfect for that moment.

Willow and Oz: Just so damn cute, it was impossible for me not to fall in love with their cuteness. Fave scene would probably be their make up session in an empty classroom. It was just the sweetest thing EVER. This was of course after Willow cheated on him with Xander.

Wesley and Lilah: Ok, not so much romantic or swoon worthy, but very hot. Fave scene would be when Lilah dressed up as Fred. Now that was funny.

Rory/Dean, Gilmore Girls. The scene in Rory's Dance where Dean rejects Louise's blatant come-on by hugging Rory still has me in Dean's corner, never mind the crap (especially in last season's finale) that's gone down since. Jess on his best day will never show the kind of class Dean did then.

As far as Luke/Lorelai is concerned, I won't try to pick a favorite moment, because there are too many to choose from. I will ask, however, how could this thread have gotten this long with no mention of them yet?

mad_typist asked for this thread, so I decided to bump it and add another couple.

While Clark/Lana suck major ass on Smallville, I must say I loved Lois and Clark in, well, Lois and Clark. It didn't hurt that Teri Hatchett and Dean Cain are, oh so pretty, and had awsome chemistry. Despite the stupid plots.

Bless you, LMS. Speaking of all things Superman, I've gotta throw Clark/Lex in here as one of my favorite couples.

Also, since I was bashing C/7 in the other thread, I should throw my favorite ST couple in here: Paris/Torres. The only couple in TV to make me squeal like a mindless fan girl. What I loved most about the couple is that they let them grow slowly, starting with a friendship, so that when they finally made the romance maintext, it made perfect sense. I also loved the gradual way their romance unfurled - I felt like we didn't miss any key moments.

Contrast that to Willow/Tara, who I also loved, but felt cheated by in terms of being able to see their key moments as a couple (first kiss, first sex, etc etc). However, at least I got one sort of key moment in Tabula Rasa, since that would've been a "first kiss" of sorts since both characters had amnesia.

I'm also a Ross/Rachel fan, especially in the early stages when it was still sweet and fresh. And the first kiss in the rain is one of my favorite romantic moments ever.

Angela/Jordan on MSCL were great as well, because who didn't identify with Angela on some level? Who didn't secretly dream about landing the cool guy in school? And just when you thought Jordan had no depth, he'd go and do something surprising that made you sort of love him (or at least understand him). Ironically, Angela wasn't even there for the most romantic moment, which for me was in the finale when Jordan finally confesses how he feels about Angela - but to her mother.

That'd be Bud and Harriet. Now, see, sometimes I think their stuff is very romantic but most of the time I see Harriet as a shrew.

This should probably go under scariest romantic moments, but because it's so hilarious as well as painful - Nick singing Styx's "Lady" (with the poetry) to Lindsay in Freaks & Geeks. Horrifying, but so gutsy of the character, and the actor. And the ending - Lindsay: "So... do you want to make out?"/Nick: "No, I just want to hold you!" - breaks my heart.

Nick and Lindsay. So obviously doomed, but I so wish they weren't.

Sports Night- Dana and Casey, for one brief, shining moment in Special Powers before it all went to hell. After Casey begs off the kissage, he makes it halfway out of the office, and then turns around and lays a seriously hot kiss on Dana. Of course, Aaron Sorkin ruined it immediately, but that one scene is both romantic and incredibly hot. And Peter Krause had good hair in that episode.

I agree with Syd and Vaughn's kiss with SD6 raining down around them. Not to mention abandoning the dinner they're making and just getting right to the (videotaped, oops) bedroom fun. Even though S3 ruined it somewhat, JJ Abrams seems to have hit upon the perfect amount of time to keep characters apart in order to maximize their tension and the audience's tension without losing the audience's interest (see Josh and Donna).

And okay, maybe they were supposed to be playing it platonically, but Points from Band of Brothers was pretty darn romantic for Major Winters and Captain Nixon. When they're looking at the boot camp picture while sitting together on the dock? Nix, totally hopeful but trying to play it off as blase while offering Winters a job back in the States? Winters's "I have something for you," and gifting Nix with an entire Nazi wine cellar? Nix's rueful admission that he's going with Winters to the Pacific ("I can't let him go by himself, he doesn't know where it is") if the war goes on that long? Sigh. Totally romantic, even if you somehow don't see the boy love. Even as a platonic friendship it would be completely romantic, if that makes sense.

Word to both the romantic and the scary. Poor Nick! This was the guy he could have been...if he'd ever put down a joint long enough to be him for more than ten minutes at a time. He could be the sweetest person, sometimes. That was the real tragedy here - that it was only sometimes. As much as I wanted him to find love and straighten himself out, I kept sending mind rays to Lindsay saying: "You can't fix him, dear, he's too broken. Save yourself."

But that moment was one of the sweetest ever.

PhantomChic, you guessed it!

Lois and Clark's romance made the cheese that sometimes was served with it easy to overlook. Eventually it seemed as if that was the point— the writers seemed bent on writing a romance that was so good, it overwhelmed the crap that the studio monkeys were slinging.

I never thought all that star-crossed, suicide pact, hate-to-love-you, usual stuff of Hollywood "romance" was all that romantic. Breakup scenes weren't my thrill. I was a little amazed to read the above posts about Buffy killing Angel (for all intents and purposes, that's what it was, right?) as a romantic moment. I was glad all that early-Moonlighting-type unresolved sexual tension and romangst worked for someone. It just never worked for me.

Eta a link to the DVD campaign, the only way to see Lois & Clark since TBS took it off the schedule, and edited to fix tenses.

I couldn't agree more. That 'ship was the one saving grace on the show. Not only could you plainly see how much they cared about each other, you could see why. Love them.

For me, this thread wouldn't be complete without mentioning Oz's Beecher/Keller. They had plenty of swoon-worthy moments: their first wrestling scene, their laundry room kiss, Keller saving Beecher's life, their New Year's Eve kiss, the "You've Got Mail" kiss & at the end of the Cuts Like A Knife episode, when Keller confessed to a crime he didn't commit to save Beecher & Beecher's family.

Especially beautiful was the monologue at the end of that episode: "The worst stab wound is the one to the heart. Sure, most people survive it, but the heart is never quite the same. There's always a scar. It's there to remind you that, even for a little while, someone made your heart beat faster. And that's a scar you can live with, proudly, all the days of your life."

I always liked the one where they are slow dancing at the Bronze and when he pulls away from her the imprint of her cross (that he gave her) is burned into his chest.


I agree. I think the charm of their relationship is that while Xander took her for granted Oz seemed to just cherish every little thing about her.

Kane and Kirsty from Home and Away are probably the only couple who I've shipped while they're actually, y'know, a couple. All my other ships (or at least the part of the ship got me the most excited) were when the 'couple' are workmates who secretly love eachother but try to deny it (i.e Rachel and Frank in Water Rats, and Jack and Sam in SG1), or best friends where one secretly loves the other (i.e. Willow and Xander in BTVS), or enemies who fall in love (i.e. Joey and Pacey in DC), type thing. And the whole URST thing (hell, it was the cause of the rise and then the fall of Moonlighting!) is well-established, which is why even when a couple get together they need to engineer some break-up. Kane and Kirsty are probably the only couple where I ship them as intensely now that they're married and as established a couple as they can get (in that the idea of one of their eyes wandering or infidelity would so never happen, and they already love eachother as completely as they ever will). They defy everything about 'marriage' (or at least a devoted marriage) meaning death onscreen is the only next step, because they exude hotness and sweetness just in their everyday relationship life.

Word to all the B&A and O&W love...They were amazing.

I loved Charlie and Kirsten from PO5...I know they got annoying at times to some viewers, but I always loved them. MF and PD had great chemistry. I was heartbroken when their first wedding didn't happen and so glad when they finally got it together.

Lilly and Rick from O&A- I adored them. They really made me believe in the magic of falling in love for the second time, not to mention that O&A was an amazing show, with an amazing cast and amazing writters.

Pacey and Andie- I know many people here loved P&J, but I hated Joey and her whinny ways (UGH!). I loved these two together. I know Andie was too much sometimes, but it really showcased what a great romantic lead JJ could be and was and they were very sweet. You guys can't tell me you didn't melt when they first shared their I love you's, him climbing up her window and presenting her a rose when she tried to push him away to spare him from the pain of seeing her breakdown, her scene in the bathroom where Pacey begs her to come out (AMAZING acting by them both), their goodbye and even their breakup. Those were all things that GOT me.

And from soaps...

Sonny and Brenda- WOW! Talk about chemistry that could melt you TV. LOVED them. I can't stand to watch GH now and see Scummy be declared as the wuv's of each others lives...just.no! Brenda was Sonny's world and he was hers. Period, end of story.

Jake and Vicky- I was so happy when they finally got together. Eventhough they were both part of other very popular couples, their story of best friends FINALLY realizing they belonged together was the best. JB and TE really sold me.