Beth Fremont and Lincoln O’Neil from Attachments by Rainbow Rowell
For those of you who have not gotten
around to reaching Attachments. First off, why not? Rainbow Rowell is a
talented, witty, and honest writer. Go get you one Attachments, or any of her books, because they should be on your
TBR list. Attachments is a love story
in which boy meets girl, well sort of. Lincoln works in the System Securities
department at The Courier. As he is reading their emails, which in his defense
is his job, he begins to fall in love with Beth. Without giving too much away
Beth does notice Lincoln but when she first does there is another person in the
picture. I like that it’s a love story, but Rainbow Rowell does an excellent
job building Beth and Lincoln characters that you don’t just fall in love with
them together but as individual people.
Scott Pilgrim and Ramona Flowers from
the comic series and the movie.
Fours words … Scott and Romona, eh?
Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark
from The Hunger Games trilogy.
I read The Hunger Games trilogy before the movie came out. I do have to
say the movies do hold up, and brings the story out of the page. (In my humble
opinion.) I won’t go into the summary to much because I can imagine by now
everyone has read the books or seen the movies. Which I can imagine is not easy
to make the reader of the books happy, which trying to find a balance of making
a movie that can stand alone for people who have not read the books. Katniss
and Peeta are another great example of how we fall in love with two people both
individually and together. I enjoy that Suzanne Collins makes Katniss her own
person. Although she is going through being a teenager phase, Suzanne Collins
does not let Katniss’s love life define her. And without sounding bias, I am in
love with Peeta. Not like that, I know he is fictional, but I can’t help it I
actually like the nice guy. (I did marry one after all. Nice guy … not
fictional character.)
Amanda Price and Darcy from Lost in Austen.
I know for some people Jane Austen
might be one of those either you like her or you don’t. If you don’t that’s
okay. What I like about Lost in Austen,
it’s for everyone. Okay that sounds kind of vague. Lost in Austen reminds me of
when I was a kid there were chose your own adventure stories. It’s been so long
I am not sure what if that is what they are called anymore. Anywho, you read
the story and at the end of the chapter it says to go into the room, turn to
page 22 or if you want to continue walking keep reading. (Man I wish I could
remember a name of a book like that, that I read.) Lost in Austen is also funny because it reminds me of me or anyone
else I know who gets so absorbed by the story that you can’t help but laugh or
cry with your favorite characters. Amanda Price works at a bank and to escape
the everyday life she reads Pride and
Prejudice over and over and over. She reads this book so much, somehow her
and Elizabeth Bennet end up in each other’s lives. Hopefully this doesn’t spoil
it too much. The story ends with Amanda and Darcy falling in love and it
rewrites Pride and Prejudice in a
manner of speaking.
Olivia Dunham and Peter Bishop from Fringe
Dunham is played by Anna Torv and
Bishop by Joshua Jackson. He’s her lobster. Oh and if the internet can hear my
small voice … yes I would love for Anna Torv to play Ms. Marvel. Let’s make it
happen internet. I can so picture it. And I am biased about Joshua Jackson
because I always preferred Pacey to Dawson. There I said okay? Anyway. Olivia
and Peter are meant to be. I don’t mean in a cheesy way. Just they have the
kind of love where when you know, you know kind of love. One thing I love about
the Fringe series is that Peter respects Olivia as a woman and her career. He
does not try and flirt with her because he knows it will not work, and when
they do end up together it will be real. If you have watched the series you
know that it’s not a boy meets girl, boy falls in love with girl and timing is
not right. It’s more like a boy meets girl, boy falls in love with girl and
timeline is not right because of another Fringe event. Darn you Folivia and
your vagenda! (If you want to know what a vagenda is, watch Fringe you won’t be sorry.)
Angela Chase and Jordan Catalano from
My So-Called Life
Ah, if ever there were a picture of
teenage angst in regards to teenage love, Angela’s picture would be in the
dictionary. But who can blame her? Have you ever seen Catalano lean? Angela and
Catalano are not the only reason I like My
So-Called Life I enjoy the series because it was ahead of its time. It was
fictional but discussed real issues such as teenage drinking and sex, and
discussed a number of issues in a honest, relatable way.
Raleigh Becket and Mako Mori from Pacific Rim
Okay this one is not a love story in
the traditional sense. Which is why I wanted to end the blog this way. I can
best describe way I like their story by quoting Guillermo del Toro, which is
still my favorite quote of all time. “I
wanted to show that men and women can be friends without having a relationship.
Theirs is a story about partnership, equality and a strong bond between partners.
It’s important for little girls to know not every story has to be a love story
and for boys to know that soldiers aren’t the only ones to triumph in war.”
