You're a braver soul than I because just seeing what happened in the pilot I knew these were the kind of excuses people would make for this ship.
Yeah, I knew there would be shippers from the pilot but after the last few episodes I just wanted to see what they could possibly be thinking to justify the ship after all of the crappy things Marcus has done to her since the pilot and this is what I found. I try to avoid M/K shipper threads/the offical boards because posts from M/K shippers that refuse to acknowledge how fucked up the relationship between them is makes my head hurt.
Krista's working undercover and her sole motivation is to kill the man who murdered her brother!! Or that she'd leave at the drop of a hat if Blade told her she was done working undercover. If Krista can't kill Marcus it's not because she doesn't want to, it's because the blood inside her, ie Marcus' blood, keeps her from killing him. Which, you know, is a pretty devious way of keeping your friends close and your enemies closer.
Good point. Up until Marcus' drugging of her, Krista's interactions with him usually held barely controlled contempt and disgust. Plus, she voiced to Blade a couple of times that she wanted to be done with being at Chthon undercover which showed that she wasn't in love with Marcus because she would have left him in a hot minute.
Hey, here's a novel thought - why doesn't the Bad Boy change for *her*? Has Marcus shown an *inkling* of NOT wanting to be anything but a vampire?
So true. Marcus like Chase has embraced his vampireness and revels in it. Only unlike with Chase we've never been told or shown that once he was turned her had any trouble adjusting to what he had become. I imagine Marcus was actually glad to be turned because it gave him the ability and the time to get revenge.
They want Marcus to be the villain (in which its Chase who does anything actually villainous) *and* the leading man (he gets to make out with the leading lady *before* the hero does? WTF?). And, no, sorry, the show's called Blade for a reason. Saying they're lost soulmates and it's 'twu wuv' is nothing more than fanwanking to justify the ship. Which is why I stay far from the fandom. I've heard this same tune one damn time too many.
Bad PTB, bad! And it's true, it's like Charlotte was introduced to be more evil than Marcus so that in comparison he wouldn't seem so bad. And until killing Damek they've had him keep his hands clean of doing any dirty work himself. We haven't even seen him feed from anyone (another way to subtly try and make him seem better than the other vampires like dirty Chase who lies and hunts people).
*Shudders at the thought of having to sit through another Buffy/Spike-esque pairing*
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Date: 2006-09-03 05:41 am (UTC)Yeah, I knew there would be shippers from the pilot but after the last few episodes I just wanted to see what they could possibly be thinking to justify the ship after all of the crappy things Marcus has done to her since the pilot and this is what I found. I try to avoid M/K shipper threads/the offical boards because posts from M/K shippers that refuse to acknowledge how fucked up the relationship between them is makes my head hurt.
Krista's working undercover and her sole motivation is to kill the man who murdered her brother!! Or that she'd leave at the drop of a hat if Blade told her she was done working undercover. If Krista can't kill Marcus it's not because she doesn't want to, it's because the blood inside her, ie Marcus' blood, keeps her from killing him. Which, you know, is a pretty devious way of keeping your friends close and your enemies closer.
Good point. Up until Marcus' drugging of her, Krista's interactions with him usually held barely controlled contempt and disgust. Plus, she voiced to Blade a couple of times that she wanted to be done with being at Chthon undercover which showed that she wasn't in love with Marcus because she would have left him in a hot minute.
Hey, here's a novel thought - why doesn't the Bad Boy change for *her*? Has Marcus shown an *inkling* of NOT wanting to be anything but a vampire?
So true. Marcus like Chase has embraced his vampireness and revels in it. Only unlike with Chase we've never been told or shown that once he was turned her had any trouble adjusting to what he had become. I imagine Marcus was actually glad to be turned because it gave him the ability and the time to get revenge.
They want Marcus to be the villain (in which its Chase who does anything actually villainous) *and* the leading man (he gets to make out with the leading lady *before* the hero does? WTF?). And, no, sorry, the show's called Blade for a reason. Saying they're lost soulmates and it's 'twu wuv' is nothing more than fanwanking to justify the ship. Which is why I stay far from the fandom. I've heard this same tune one damn time too many.
Bad PTB, bad! And it's true, it's like Charlotte was introduced to be more evil than Marcus so that in comparison he wouldn't seem so bad. And until killing Damek they've had him keep his hands clean of doing any dirty work himself. We haven't even seen him feed from anyone (another way to subtly try and make him seem better than the other vampires like dirty Chase who lies and hunts people).
*Shudders at the thought of having to sit through another Buffy/Spike-esque pairing*