In honour of the holiday of love: Valentine’s Day today, I thought I’d write a special entry about the fictional couples that I live vicariously through. Be they star-crossed lovers, on and off romantic partners or started off disliking each other only to fall madly in love, these six couples from TV, novel and film have kept me watching or turning the page, wishing I was their lady, and dreaming of the day I would find my own vampire with a soul or poor boy from the wrong side of the tracks with a heart of gold.
Buffy Summers and Angel (Buffy the Vampire Slayer): Forget
Twilight’s Bella and Edward, Buffy and Angel were the original vampire and human romance. I didn’t think there could be anything more poignantly romantic (or as Giles said poetic) as a vampire falling in love with his mortal enemy, the Vampire Slayer, and turning his back on his very nature. Their star-crossed love was doomed from the start and their path filled with obstacles. On the night of Buffy’s 17th birthday, Angel lost his soul from one moment of true happiness and Buffy was forced to send her now evil boyfriend to Hell. After his miraculous return, they knew it was too dangerous for them to stay together and Angel left Sunnydale for L.A and his own spin-off.
Jim Halpert and Pam Beasley (The Office): The most adorable and dorky (adorkable) couple on TV right now (Take that Derek and Meredith!). The romance between these two was the reason I watched
The Office. Cutie paper salesman Jim Halpert fell in love with his best friend and co-worker Pam, something I can totally relate to. Everything about their slow-burn courtship from friendship to something more — the shy peeks through office blinds, the inside jokes, that hot first kiss — seemed so real that it was hard not to blush right along with the characters. When Jim faked proposed I nearly passed out from cheering and grinning like an idiot, imagine when he proposes for real?
Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy (Pride and Prejudice): They were named the greatest couple in English litrature for good reason. They are the perfect example of two individuals who couldn’t stand each other at first and prolonged exposure made them see just how perfectly they fit together. She's unimpressed by his wealth and he's not intimidated by her smarts. They spend most of the book bickering, trading insults and witty rebuttals, and avoiding each other until Mr. Darcy's explosive confession of love. There's a shimmering lust and tension in the air with them at all times, especially when they're dancing at the ball in the beginning. It makes you want to fan yourself. What I wouldn't give to be called Mrs. Darcy. Sigh!
Paul Montague and Henrietta Carbury (The Way We Live Now): Paul is a young, financially-challenged engineer hoping to build the first railway connection from California to Mexico who falls madly in love with Henrietta, a girl of good standing with very little money. It’s love at first sight for both of them when they meet at her cousin's estate. When they share a dance at Melmotte’s ball, the electricity between them is sweet and innocent yet you can totally sense it. Her family wants her to marry her cousin because of his wealth. Paul has none until he sees a profit from his railway and her family refuse for them to marry and leave her destitute so I couldn’t help smiling when the two love birds finally wed in the end, because happiness trumps money.
Rose DeWitt Bukater and Jack Dawson (Titanic): Who hadn’t wanted to be Rose back in 1997? Rose and Jack’s way to short romance aboard the doomed ship was the dream of every young girl who went to watch the movie in theatres. A poor boy raised on the tougher, rougher side of life meets and falls in love with a rich, British socialite who’s already engaged to an arrogant prick. The most iconic image of the entire movie besides the "I'm the King of the World" whoop of victory is the two of them at the front of the ship sharing the most passionate, longing-filled kiss. Only death could seperate them in the end and my sad, sad heart smiled wide when Rose used his last name as hers when she was rescued, proving that their love transcended death and disaster.
Noah Calhoun and Allie Hamilton (The Notebook): The most romantic movie of 2004 that made grown women fall in love Ryan Gosling. And him and Rachel McAdams became a real-life couple! He's from the wrong side of the tracks, she's from the right side, but they make a go of it, only to be separated when her parents take her away. Time passes; he hardens to the ways of the world after the war when she doesn't write back. But fate intervenes and she comes to her senses on the eve of her wedding. It's all the things we hoped our relationship would be but know would never happen. The ending and the realization that the old amenisiac woman being told the story is Allie made me bawl like a baby. That is enduring, eternal love folks.
Buffy Summers and Angel (Buffy the Vampire Slayer): Forget Twilight’s Bella and Edward, Buffy and Angel were the original vampire and human romance. I didn’t think there could be anything more poignantly romantic (or as Giles said poetic) as a vampire falling in love with his mortal enemy, the Vampire Slayer, and turning his back on his very nature. Their star-crossed love was doomed from the start and their path filled with obstacles. On the night of Buffy’s 17th birthday, Angel lost his soul from one moment of true happiness and Buffy was forced to send her now evil boyfriend to Hell. After his miraculous return, they knew it was too dangerous for them to stay together and Angel left Sunnydale for L.A and his own spin-off.
Jim Halpert and Pam Beasley (The Office): The most adorable and dorky (adorkable) couple on TV right now (Take that Derek and Meredith!). The romance between these two was the reason I watched The Office. Cutie paper salesman Jim Halpert fell in love with his best friend and co-worker Pam, something I can totally relate to. Everything about their slow-burn courtship from friendship to something more — the shy peeks through office blinds, the inside jokes, that hot first kiss — seemed so real that it was hard not to blush right along with the characters. When Jim faked proposed I nearly passed out from cheering and grinning like an idiot, imagine when he proposes for real?
Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy (Pride and Prejudice): They were named the greatest couple in English litrature for good reason. They are the perfect example of two individuals who couldn’t stand each other at first and prolonged exposure made them see just how perfectly they fit together. She's unimpressed by his wealth and he's not intimidated by her smarts. They spend most of the book bickering, trading insults and witty rebuttals, and avoiding each other until Mr. Darcy's explosive confession of love. There's a shimmering lust and tension in the air with them at all times, especially when they're dancing at the ball in the beginning. It makes you want to fan yourself. What I wouldn't give to be called Mrs. Darcy. Sigh!
Paul Montague and Henrietta Carbury (The Way We Live Now): Paul is a young, financially-challenged engineer hoping to build the first railway connection from California to Mexico who falls madly in love with Henrietta, a girl of good standing with very little money. It’s love at first sight for both of them when they meet at her cousin's estate. When they share a dance at Melmotte’s ball, the electricity between them is sweet and innocent yet you can totally sense it. Her family wants her to marry her cousin because of his wealth. Paul has none until he sees a profit from his railway and her family refuse for them to marry and leave her destitute so I couldn’t help smiling when the two love birds finally wed in the end, because happiness trumps money.
Rose DeWitt Bukater and Jack Dawson (Titanic): Who hadn’t wanted to be Rose back in 1997? Rose and Jack’s way to short romance aboard the doomed ship was the dream of every young girl who went to watch the movie in theatres. A poor boy raised on the tougher, rougher side of life meets and falls in love with a rich, British socialite who’s already engaged to an arrogant prick. The most iconic image of the entire movie besides the "I'm the King of the World" whoop of victory is the two of them at the front of the ship sharing the most passionate, longing-filled kiss. Only death could seperate them in the end and my sad, sad heart smiled wide when Rose used his last name as hers when she was rescued, proving that their love transcended death and disaster.
Noah Calhoun and Allie Hamilton (The Notebook): The most romantic movie of 2004 that made grown women fall in love Ryan Gosling. And him and Rachel McAdams became a real-life couple! He's from the wrong side of the tracks, she's from the right side, but they make a go of it, only to be separated when her parents take her away. Time passes; he hardens to the ways of the world after the war when she doesn't write back. But fate intervenes and she comes to her senses on the eve of her wedding. It's all the things we hoped our relationship would be but know would never happen. The ending and the realization that the old amenisiac woman being told the story is Allie made me bawl like a baby. That is enduring, eternal love folks. 
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