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[doyle]

There's been discussion on bookworm_jen's journal about canon and unconventional relationships. She proposed 4 rankings of relationships:

1) Canon: We saw an actual relationship on screen or there was a clear reference to a past relationship.

2) Near-Canon: We saw flirting or a one time fling on screen, or there was the implication of a past relationship. I would put relationships that are only refered to in commentary or interviews into this category.

3) Non-Canon: There was no relationship on screen, but there was a significant amount of sub-text or build-up and the writers could easily have worked it into the series without distorting the characters too badly.

4) Unconventional: There was no relationship, and it's highly unlikely that the writers could or would have worked it into the series without drastically changing who the characters are.

I'm interested in how subjective these are, or how much we agree on what counts as canon or almost-canon, so I present a poll. I randomly picked 15 m/f, m/m and f/f pairings, some of which happened on the show, some of which didn't. To play, pick which of the categories above you think each one falls into.


[Poll #480215]


[Poll #480216]


[Poll #480217]

Comments

[romanyg.livejournal.com]

How much did it pain me to give my own OTP a 2? My eyeballs are bleeding from the scratchmarks. It pained me just as much as it did to give Spillow a 2. Because, even though he was hocking out the big ol' loogie of disgust while he was saying it, David Fury did say that ME had initially planned to get Spike and Willow together in S4. So yeah, the subtext, she be there. And I had to give S/A a 2 because of the "one time" comment. *tears hair out* And I had to think long and hard before giving the B/X the 2. But I had to acknowledge the JW comment that he had planned for them to end up together in the end.

And then I struggled with Giles/Anya...2 or 3. Sure the kiss in Tabula Rasa, but hey, memory spell. And then I adore some of the Giles/Wes fic out there, but with the way Giles treated Wesley on screen? Not so much with the tension. And I had to give Anya/Willow a 4 because of their personal dislike of one another that didn't translate into sexual tension for me either.

But this is an interesting exercise in fandom and interpretation of text. I can't wait to see what the final results will be.