Best and worse fictional couples?

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Best:

Friends Monica and Richard. I know it's controversial because he knew her as a child but I LOVE him. Stable, wise, funny and non dramatic. He was so much better for her than man baby Chandler.

Notting Hill Anna and Will. Such a lovely, happy ending.

Titanic Jack and Rose. He brought out her fun side and she fulfilled him... there was room on that floating door though! Should have tried harder.

Worst:

ER Doug and Carol. She takes an overdose because of him treating her like shit, they still keep up the on again off again bollocks. She ends up raising two kids alone then randomly turns up in Seattle and they live happily ever after? Nah. A more believable version would be turning up in Seattle to find him shagging someone else.

OFAH Rodney and Cassandra. She turned him into a snob who looked down on his own family, he was funnier when he was young and dippy. Also an ambitious bank manager with wealthy parents marrying someone who flogs knocked off tat from a suitcase? I doubt it.

Grease Danny and Sandy. The whole thing. Change your appearance and personality to suit someone else... then you'll get your man 👍🤔

Oh, yes!🙂

Linda and Fabrice, so romantic when he turns up at Cheyne Walk to tell her he loves her.

Yes.
‘The Sunday silence was broken by two swans swinging slowly upstream, and then by the chugging of a little barge, while she waited for that other sound, a sound more intimately connected with the urban love affair than any except the telephone bell, that of a stopping taxicab.’

@TottersBlankly - you got there before me for best - Lord Peter & Harriet Vane. I came across Dorothy L Sayers books as a 14-year old (via the pretty good 80's BBC series with Harriet Walter & Edward Petherbridge - so gutted they never got to make Busman's Honeymoon) and it really influenced my views on marriage & relationships.

@TheFallenMadonna - Carolyn and Herc is also a great call. Though I'm glad Martin found his Princess from Liechtenstein.

Also agree with @Purpleavocado@Purpleavocado@Purpleavocado Chrichton and Aeryn Sun.

All women with opinions who expect an equal relationship.

I bloody hated Angel.

Best: Jennifer Garner and Mark Ruffalo's swoon characters in 13 Going on 30

Best - David and Patrick, Schitts Creek

Best:
Mike & Susan from Desperate Housewives!

Worst:
Leonard & Penny and also Howard & Bernadette from TBBT

Best:

Faramir and eowyn.
Willow and the werewolf musician. Forgot his name. Was it Seth? (Buffy the vampire slayer)
Monica and Richard (in spite of the creepiness of him knowing her as a child, and the barfness of her later kissing his son)
Jamie and Brienne in game of thrones (though I thought it made perfect sense that he went back to cersei in the end)
Arondir and Bronwyn in rings of power (except for episode 7, where they grate on me).

Worst:

Edward and Bella from twilight. There's just so much wrong here. Especially with him. He looks angry and as if he hates her (or something, it's been a decade or so that I've read the books) whenever he sees her because he is so overwhelmed with emotion? Watches her while sleeping? Goes to Italy to get killed because their relationship doesn't work out? I almost want DD to read the book so I discuss every red flag in the history of humankind with her.

Rose and Jack from titanic. Who cares what happens throughout the movie. Why on earth didn't she share her raft with him? If she hadn't jumped out of the rescue boat in the first place he'd have had that whole raft to himself and might have survived.

Joyce lit up every scene she was in. My favourite was when she is caught burying a body and she said something like "don't worry. I'm just burying the body".

Best: Vera and Jack Duckworth; Samson and Delilah
Worst: Romeo and Juliet

Best: Sharon Watts and Dennis Rickman in Eastenders.

Can't believe no one has mentioned them yet.

Oh and WORST OF THE WORST: Cameron Diaz and Jude Law in The Holiday. I can't watch them without wanting to puke all over the telly.

Also, Jude Law and every woman he was paired with in Alfie.

Maybe I just hate Jude Law.

Best - Alex's Carrington and Dex.
Worst- Blake Carrington and Krystle

Good to find a fellow fan of Joyce. I especially loved the classic episode in which Tom and the one that wasn’t Troy or Jones got stuck in a wine cellar overnight so Joyce went to a party on her own and had a great time. Then, when not-Troy-or-Jones phoned her on their escape to tell her Tom was ok she just asked him to tell Tom to pick up yogurt on his way home. She was perfect.

Can't believe I forgot Katniss and Peta (best obviously!)
Katniss and Gale was the worst.
Also Pretty Little Liars-
Hannah and Caleb the best
Spencer and Caleb the worst, hated this pairing

Worst: the couple in Abigail’s Party.
Best: the couple in Catastrophe

@TottersBlankly - you got there before me for best - Lord Peter & Harriet Vane. I came across Dorothy L Sayers books as a 14-year old (via the pretty good 80's BBC series with Harriet Walter & Edward Petherbridge - so gutted they never got to make Busman's Honeymoon) and it really influenced my views on marriage & relationships.

Edward Petherbridge was perfect casting as LPW, but I thought they really flunked it when it came to Gaudy Night.

Worst couple
JP and Grace in Bad Sisters

Best couple
Ken and Deirdre Barlow
Jack and Annie Walker

So many already mentioned!

Best:
Harry and Charlotte from SATC
Ripley and Hicks (alas, twas not to be)
Elinor and Edward

Worst:
Maxim and the second Mrs De Winter. Actually, Maxim and the first Mrs De Winter.

THANK YOU!!

I am forever saying that Danny did try to change first!

Edward Petherbridge was perfect casting as LPW

Edward Petherbridge was excellent, but Miss Climpson was totally wrong.

Best - Cormoran Strike and Robin

Oh and Emily and Gabriel. Totally ship them

Surely you would if you could though. I mean you wouldn’t have to worry about anything - you’d both just know instinctively what the other was into.

I agree with Jaime and Brienne - they changed each other and like grew together.

I’d add Gendry & Arya. I smugly predicted to DH before the last series came out that they’d end up married and King & Queen of Westeros, fulfilling Robert’s statement in the very first episode that ‘I have a son, you have a daughter, we’ll join our houses.’ Obviously I was wrong but that’s not the point.

I always liked Seth & Summer. They both seemed bit spoiled and shallow, but underneath it they were decent sorts and they had loads of chemistry.

My least favourites -

anything from TBBT. No good relationships in that.

Sticking with marvel as above, Sharon and Steve. I know it was just one kiss, but then he went back in time and married Peggy! What the fuck did he say at his baby niece’s birth? Absolute joke.

Probably Buffy and Angel too, despite it being one my favourite shows of all time! I rewatched it recently and remember the episode in early Buffy, I think s2, where Cordelia goes to talk to Angel while he’s waiting for Buffy and he’s smiling/laughing. Which he never did when they were together. And Buffy seemed to have more actual passion with Spike. Buffy and Angel never actually seemed to enjoy each others company at all. He seemed better with Cordelia, and she with Spike or literally anyone but him. I always think if a couple don’t have any fun at all ever together it just doesn’t do it for me.

When she drags him onto the dance floor to do Thriller and he goes ‘why are you doing this to me?!’ 😂 😂

Mum Cathy and Michael
The good place Eleanor and Chidi
The middle Frankie and Mike
are my top 3 (Fleabag and Hot Priest nearly but not quite there)