As all of us House fans read yesterday over on Michael Ausiello‘s blog, executive producer Katie Jacobs is acknowledging that a Thirteen-Chase union could be a possibility in the future. Of course, they’re not confirming anything yet, but I can’t help but angrily eat some office chocolate and mourn this possibility while using Adobe to craft a Thirteen dartboard. Because, in my delusional world, Chase is mine. As I’ve mentioned before, I’m lucky enough to have a boyfriend who bears a resemblance to Jesse Spencer (yes, I’m bragging, sorry), which makes me brim with jealousy whenever I see Chase romancing any of his coworkers. I’m even pretty sure that back when Cameron was hooking up with Chase, I actually screamed at my television, “Cameron, back off my man!” before realizing I was talking about fictional people who exist inside a television set that does not respond to my angry comments.
Of course, since the person I’m currently dating looks like Chase, my jealousy does seem a teensy, leeettle big logical, right? But what if I told you I have felt the same jealousy towards people I’ve never met who do not look remotely like anyone I’ve dated? I’m crazy, right? I totally am. Because, as a child, I couldn’t bear to watch the Home Improvement episodes featuring Randy’s girlfriend Michelle, because did she ever defend JTT’s looks in the great sixth grade debate of who’s hotter: JTT or Taylor Hanson? I was the one college girl who didn’t tune into Newlyweds because it would make me feel the sting of knowing my 13-year-old crush, Nick Lachey, had already found true love with someone else who thought 98 Degrees and Rising was a totally catchy album with awesome spoken word verses. (For the time being, at least.) And then there were those kinky, difficult-to-watch cage scenes involving Lost‘s Sawyer, who just didn’t deserve that Kate, because he belonged to this Kate. At least, in my Davidoff Cool Water-scented dreams. (I will, however, let his relationship with Juliet slide. I’ve hit the seventh stage of acceptance when it comes to that hook-up.)
What about you, PopWatchers? Have you ever found yourself too jealous to enjoy an on-screen relationship? (Come on, Office fans. You know that you wanted to throw up in that this-is-so-not-fair kind of way after watching the Jim-Pam kiss on Casino Night.) Please tell me I am not alone here. For my psychological well-being.
P.S. I left out the part about me hoping at the end of Lord of the Rings that Elijah Wood would end up single because I had a crush on him AS A HOBBIT. WHAT’S WRONG WITH ME?
The Doctor and Rose Tyler – the Tenth Doctor belonged to me, not her!
I have always been jealous of Jim and Pam, only because I am so much like Jim and I still haven’t found my Pam hahaha
Oh, Colin, if you are truly so much like Jim, your Pam is so out there, man! Don’t settle!
I am jealous of them too. I am still looking for my Jim
Me too! Well, then again I feel like every love-lorn, kinda-jokey guy sympathizes with Jim, but I had (have) such a Jenna Fischer crush that in between “Awwwwww!”s were “Uuuuughhh!”s for me.
HAHA Great Post! I felt the same way upon reading of the inevitable Ron and Hermione hook-up. Crushes on Fictional characters are weird but they do happen I will admit it too!
No. This is is weird, this thing you have here. I’ve been annoyed with on screen couplings because I thought my beloved could do better, but never because I was jealous. Case in point: Sawyer could do way better than Kate, but Juliet earned him. And Chase and 13 is just irritating, because she’s irritating.
Agreed! Those are exactly my thoughts.
I couldn’t agree more!
Personally If I really crush on a character generally I just want them to get a good love interest. But I doubt you are alone in being jealous of onscreen love interests.
Umm… I think it might be time for some therapy.
Noone should take Katie Jacobs seriously. Never, ever.
Haha, no, but I have been obsessed with on-screen couples so much that I get jealous for them – does that count? Please, like I was ever going to accept Piz and Veronica when I knew her Logan was out there. Stupid boring Piz. Don’t even get me started on Buffy’s love life. Come to think of it, that’s even more sad, isn’t it?
When Buffy finally hooked up with Spike, I raged! He was mine, and she was always the one turning him down and putting him down! Me, not once!
I can’t believe Veronica ended and Veronica/Logan weren’t together! Still a little pissed about that. Why did Logan go hang out with Parker when Veronica is OBVIOUSLY twenty times more awesome?
I’m with you! How could Buffy ever be with anyone except Angel? I mean… Spike, I understand a bit, but Riley? Ugh. And on the VM front, I was a Piz fan, but Logan himself called himself and Veronica “epic.” Can’t argue with that.
And also, I feel this way about Booth & Brennan. That’s why I want them to get together– if I can’t have him, at least she can!!
Bev Niner – Valarie dated a budding movie star from Indiana (later to be known as “Smith” to SATC fans). She was OBVIOUSLY using him and he made her that nice mirror and wanted to go on hikes with her and she just wanted to date a movie star. It made me so mad! Why couldn’t he see it! I celebrated when he moved back to Indiana so that he could go back to his life of woodworking. To date, no man has ever made me a mirror. Damn you, Valarie! “If I Were a Carpenter” played on the CD player for months after that one.
Interesting thought… There have been on-screen (and on-page) couples that I’ve been against, but never out of personal jealousy. I’m against a 13-Chase romantic relationship because I dislike 13 very much and don’t think it would work well. I’d see them having more of a “buddies” relationship. And please don’t hate, but I was intensely against a Harry-Ginny relationship in Harry Potter (in my mind, he will always belong with Luna – Ginny was just too “convenient”).
I was also very anti-Jess and anti-Logan on Gilmore Girls. To me, Rory belonged with Dean (again, please no hate).
I felt the same way about Harry Potter, it just that I thought the actress was no good for Daniel. That guy is hot, perhaps hotter than what I imagined Harry would look like when reading the books.
See, I felt the same way about Jess for Rory. It was great when they had him come back for an episode to point out what an entitled snob Logan was.
SO against the Harry/Ginny hook-up that I have not even watched the last movie that came out and have no interest whatsovever in the next one.
Harry and Luna Forever!!!
I’m a Harry/Hermione fan largely because I identify a lot with Hermione and couldn’t for the life of me understand what she saw in Ron. Also, for the movies, Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson have chemistry for days.
YES! I love the Harry Potter series, but can’t help but think that Harry/Ginny and Ron/Hermione were written together for the sake of convenience. Poor Ron would have been left out, otherwise.
And yes, the books never made it clear as to what Hermione saw in Ron, and I, too, identify with her and couldn’t see it either.
Bah! The movies are useless anyways, and obviously Ron was funny and an all-around good guy (minus the standard bad decisions kids can make) and he accepted and liked her for who she was. And he was a good way for her to ground herself in the real world, outside of the library. I totally got them and loved them as a couple.
I will never understand the Harry/Luna stuff – I’ve mostly succeeding in blocking those awful movies from my mind, but there was nothing like chemistry between them in the books. I’d understand if you said Neville and Luna (even though I’m also happy that according to JK, they don’t end up together)…but HARRY and Luna?? She is much too out there for his more regular-guy personality. Sorry guys, I will fight to the grave for Harry/Ginny and Ron/Hermione!!!
I knew from Sorcerer’s Stone that Ron and Hermione were going to end up together. You always hear about childhood sweethearts hating each other at first, and the boy is always doing stupid things and making the girl cry…and then one day when they’re a little older they realize they’re meant ot be together. I always liked the pairing of Harry/Ginny also because Harry got to really be a member of the Weasley family, and Ginny ended up with the boy she’d loved since she was 10. I still wish, though, that Sirius Black had lived and found happiness in the arms of a good woman (or maybe Lupin).
I have serious feelings about the Harry Potter romances too. But I think for me it’s just I’m ferociously protective of certain characters. Hermione for example. It took me a little while to get used to her finally getting with Ron because he had made her cry in earlier books and was a block head in Book 4, so I was like argh. But I love Ron/Hermione much more than Harry/Ginny. I just didn’t think that relationship was developed well enough, and even now having just reread the series in the last month in a half, I feel Harry could have ended up with Luna or Hermione because those feelings seem more developed. However, one of my favorite parts of book 7: during the final battle when the DA is rushing out of the room of requirement, Dean Thomas grabs Luna’s hand and is all like “Come on Luna, let’s go”, awwww I totally sigh!! Go Luna!!
Charles Brandon aka Henry Cavill on The Tudors—can’t stand his current wife. Although I did like his 1st wife, Henry’s sister.
I know! She totally doesn’t understand how her lifestyle would have changed had Brandon disobeyed King Henry. Like seriously, Brandon could have been sent to the Tower and maybe even worse considering how King Henry was. And he is so in love with her, it’s so sad.
Actually, Kate, I’m the opposite – always hoping my on-screen crushes will hook up with the women they’re supposed to hook up with! Case in point: Booth with Brennan on Bones.
Yeah, I’m the same way Martha. Like, I really wanted Jim and Pam to get together because they were so perfect together, and I was getting angry during Season 3 when they were with other people!
I’m the same. I’d much rather find their perfect match.
When Sookie was dreaming about being naked in bed with Eric on last seasons True Blood, I screamed at my T.v…what I said was something to the effect of ‘keep your gap-toothed-permanently-surprised-looking-a$$- away from my man b!tch!!!!
I kinda caught myself off guard because I actually am a huge fan of Anna Paquin
ASkars has been scientifically proven to have that effect on even the most rational being.
Ha! Love it
ROTFLMAO! I STILL have that episode on my DVR. The teasing in bed between Sookie and delicious Eric was great. And yes, that very moment I wished I was Sookie and was a tad jealous (but I did have a nice dream that night). I have a thing for the bad boy blonde vampire. Spike was also delicious. Funny, sarcastic and did not give a darn. Angel equaled moopy & boring.
I was just about to type that exact same thing, TheObserver.
Not gonna lie. I got PO’d every time I saw Izzie with Karev on Grey’s. Imagine the joy I felt that episode when he told her to leave. My neighbor thought I won the lottery. Justin Chamber is MINE.
Mine was Mulder (David Duchovny) on X-Files. I think I might have cried when Mulder and Scully hooked up. The nerve! She doesn’t understand him the way I do . . .
Mulder was mine as well! I never understood how Scully was able to remain impervious to his hotness and charm for so many seasons.