Pop culture and Shenny

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MeanwhileThe alien blonde!

How is it I don't remember this one? I'm sure I've seen all the original Star Trek episodes. The thing that used to surprise me even as a child was how Captain Kirk always got the girl. The Leonard character. I remember thinking "Eww, Am I meant to like the boring one?" as kids do.

Spock was always smarter, more interesting and more exotic. I think this is where my Shenny shipping predetermimation started. The true outsider NEVER gets the girl. It's always the other guy, there's always someone who is too different, not allowed to be the main guy.

Interesting that the modern reboots of cerebral outsider characters (Spock, Holmes, the Doctor) have all involved some form of interest in relationships. Het ones, generally, too, which has an extra level of amusing considering that K/S is kind of the echt fan slash. I think media is a lot more aware of, and inclined to accommodate, fan presence. 'Sherlock' particularly knows it's audience and has sly jokes with them.

I've moved this conversation because it's better suited to the shipping forum. And it's nice to be able to find things like this.

That is such a great point. All these characters we grew up with were single, and rarely if ever involved. If there were Penny like characters, she always ended up with the 'normal' bloke. Canons accuse Shennys of being typical or predictable but the weird alien guy never becomes the romantic lead. Writers have conspired against this for generations. Yet now some more enlightened shows seem to be wise to the appeal. Even though, for the most part their antiheros are predominately single.

But can you imagine Sherlock, Spook or Doctor fans, tolerating him being put with some awful awkward woman, who spends all her time trying to manipulate him to have sex with her? Its just a reluctant move on BB. A slap in the face to the antihero, with TPTB screaming "NO that's not how it is, all Pennys go to Leonards" they are from the dark ages!

It's like when fans and Leonard Nimoy wanted Spock to pair up with Uhura in the original series, and it was going to happen until William Shatnar stepped in and insisted that his character must get all the girls. Leonard getting the girl as described on Gripes 'Philosophical Shenny' page is very much the norm. I think I've been waiting for the weird guy to get the girl all my life.