Fannish unsolved mysteries (Sarah Connor Chronicles edition)

[crypto]

I love, love John/Cameron vids -- they're my catnip, or Kryptonite, or something. They don't even have to be particularly good vids --  I'll still get hooked within the first few clips.

And yet! I don't ship them, at all. And, okay, I'm generally a total failure as a shipper*. But if anything, I anti-ship John/Cameron; I very much DO NOT WANT a human boy/robot girl love story from SCC, either in canon or in fic**.

So why, why I ask you, am I so drawn to these shippy vids?

(Also where is my SYTYCD torrent? I'm convinced that "The Scene" hates dancing. Or Mary Murphy.)

* I am at best pro-"I like how these two characters interact with each other, I want to see more, but it doesn't matter if they end up together or linger in UST or decide they'll just be friends or have a messy breakup as long as they keep having interesting scenes together." For example, one of my un-ships lately is Victor & Niki on The Young and the Restless: they've been married & divorced multiple times dating back nearly three decades from what I gather, now divorced and engaged to other people; they share children and grandchildren; and they have a very messy, complicated relationship as exes filled with tenderness, anger, regret, resentment, attraction, and mistrust. Their scenes together are fantastic.

** I am however perfectly okay with "Cameron exploits John's sexuality to manipulate him, or just figure out how it works" as long as it doesn't actually result in anything romantically or sexually.

Comments

[laurashapiro]

That's the kind of shipper I am, too, so if you figure it out, couldja let me know?

[crypto]

I'm glad I'm not alone!

[livrelibre]

I am generally all about the ship but not in SCC. But this, yes!

I am however perfectly okay with "Cameron exploits John's sexuality to manipulate him, or just figure out how it works" as long as it doesn't actually result in anything romantically or sexually.

And that scene on the bed in the finale, yes!

[crypto]

I loved that scene in the finale!

I'm pretty "live and let live" about shipping, but in SCC I was all about non-shipping the weird family/psychosexual dynamics between Sarah-Derek-John-Cameron. And that totally falls apart for me if any two of those four were to pursue a romantic relationship within the quadrangle. So I was fine with John/Riley, Derek/Jesse, etc. on the show but intra-quadrangle pairings in fic make me hit the back button immediately.

Somehow it's completely different with vids, though (*thinks fondly of sweetestdrain's Sarah/Cameron vid "Gloria"*).