Yeah. Luke didn’t accept a gratitude fuck from Leia after the Battle of Yavin. Tell me another one.
Oh. Woops. I stopped watching after S6, so I clearly shouldn’t have offered this up as an example.
It was abundantly clear that it was going to happen, but it happened off-camera and after the credits started rolling.
It wasn’t a regular episode, but the Christmas special and it’s just the best hookup ever, IMHO (not even a kiss IIRC but WOW!)
“I’d be the penguin…”.
I don’t know, I thought they had their moments a few times…
But the OP says “didn’t.”
This is a great example, and I’m disappointed in myself for not thinking of it! Especially since the famous plot twist makes their “No, they won’t, not EVER” status more definite than other cases where the potential couple just decides it wouldn’t work or at least one marries someone else.
Especially since Scully and Mulder are in the second sentence of the OP as an example of a couple who “did”.
Sorry if I came across like I was simply disagreeing with you. I meant it more in the “I can see both sides of this” vein.
Joel eventually left for New York, and in the last few episodes, Maggie and Chris hooked up. I always thought it felt contrived and forced, like the writers wanted both of them in a happy relationship on which to end the series.
When I read the two books as a child, I never found Jo’s refusal of Laurie’s proposal all that surprising. It always seemed clear to me that they were not meant to be together as husband and wife - just very close, lifelong friends. I did, however, find Laurie’s relatively swift transferral of his affections to Amy a little odd. It smacked of a tying up of loose ends in the plot by Alcott.
Is there any reason you must assume that Ted and the mother wind up staying together? From your post, it seems you are assuming that based on the premise of the show. I didn’t see the first episode–does it flat out say the mother character and he are still in a relationship together?
(And I hope I didn’t just spoil the show’s twist ending…)
It’s the type of kids show where character development doesn’t happen. I don’t think the audience is expected to wonder if they’ll wind up together, and, per the OP, a one-sided relationships don’t count.
I’d always assumed they did, seeing as they often did in parallel realities. I haven’t seen anything to indicate that they definitely didn’t.
Oh, and if O’Neil is 54 or older, then, according to the half-your-age-plus-seven rule, it’s perfectly fine.
The way that was handled was really hated in the Voyager fan community (yes, one exists. The one thing that seemed to keep them apart was their duty. Almost every show where their rank is removed, they get quite intimate. So it only seemed natural, that, once the mission was over, they’d get together.
But Kate Mulgrew (Janeway) had other ideas. She hated the pairing. Rather than letting the show end without resolving it, she decided to get the writers to put Chakotay with Ms. Fanservice herself, Seven of Nine. She also had a couple pairings that had been forming from the beginning, and Chakotay was not on the list. Fans felt it was completely out of character for both of them. They didn’t even have any chemistry in their romantic scenes which took up way too much of the finale. Almost every fan-fiction breaks them up.
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I think you are mistaken here. Like in real life, breakups are often temporary. Just because they tried it and it didn’t work right then, doesn’t mean it wouldn’t work in the future. Many shows rely on this. They resolve the sexual tension by letting them get together, break them up, and then recreate the sexual tension.
Plus, there’s the fact that the sexual tension doesn’t have to last the whole series. And the OP never says that the question must remain unanswered until the end. That’s just an example.
Well, Futurama isn’t over. They’ve renewed it. And since they’ve already undone one sad ending to appease the fans, (the death of Fry’s dog) I don’t see why they couldn’t do it again. The fans really want Fry and Leela to wind up together.
And of course there’s Handy Manny and Kelly. Kelly is obviously crazy about him.
Right, I am equally interested in “Will they or won’t they” couples where the answer was a definite “no”. And I did specifically say in my OP that I’d count couples who after some period of romantic tension did date but later broke up for good.
It’s been a long, long time since I saw Remington Steele. Maybe they were kissing or something while the credits rolled. I don’t recall.
Did Maddie and David Addison hookup on Moonlighting? I only saw a few episodes during the first season. Never could stand Cybill Shepherd.
Did it in the final episode. Then the narrator (the voice of the adult Kevin) described how Winnie went to Europe to study and when she finally came back, Kevin met her at the airport, accompanied by his young son. The son’s voice calls to him (the only other voice to ever be heard in the narrative) to come play catch and adult Kevin does. The end.
Yep, and it’s widely believed that the breaking of the sexual tension led rapidly to the death of the show.
Fry and Leela DO get together in the fourth movie, Into the Wild Green Yonder. This is part of canon since the movies will bridge pre- and post-cancellation.
Never mind, didn’t see the 2nd page, as usual.
Riker and Troi did finally get together in the last film. And Picard and Crusher get together in one of the novels.
Lois and Clark got married and even had a baby (sort of).
They finally got together at the end of the last DVD (and Fry’s alternate timeline self had a romance with her in an earlier DVD). But the series has been renewed so I’m sure they’ll encounter new obstacles.
They sort of did, but then it wasn’t quite working out, and in the finale the secondary characters berated them for not having gotten their shit together yet.
My contribution: Ally McBeal - she was about to get together with her long standing true love but then he died. At the end of the series she basically ditched the idea of romance and decided her ‘true love’ was her daughter.
The Professor and Mary Anne