Most boring ships on both BTVS/Angel

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What do you think were the most boring ships on both "Buffy" and "ANGEL" series?

Buffy:
Willow/Oz
Willow/Kennedy
Cordy/Xander

Angel:
Fred/Gunn
Angel/Cordy (sorry I just couldn't stand when they tried to put these two together in a romancing relationship)
 
Anya/Xander
Willow/Tara
Wesley/Fred

There literally isn't enough less in the world for me to care about these ships. I've less than zero investment in them.
 
Willow/Kennedy
Angel/Cordy
Fred/Wesley

These three had nothing of interest for me and it wouldn't have hurt my viewing of the shows had they been scrapped.
 
Anya/Xander: Couldn't stand it. They made zero sense and had two themes throughout their entire run. Xander is embarrassed by Anya and Anya is angry at everyone.

Willow/Tara*: I added an asterisk because I liked them towards the tail end of S6. However, up until that point, they did nothing for me. I was a big Oz guy and Tara was a character I had trouble getting into.

Angel/Nina: It wasn't that it was totally bad, but I just couldn't care about it. They introduce a new love interest for Angel in the last season of the show, only have her in about four or five episodes tops, then have Cordy come back midway through season. At the end of the season, Angel goes back to Sunnydale for Buffy. If they were trying to get fans to invest in Nina, they failed pretty badly.
 
white avenger
white avenger
In defense of Nina, I think that if there had been a televised Season 7, both her character and her relationship with Angel would have been filled out more.
Willow/Kennedy - Obviously this was less than intriguing. To begin with many of us were still attempting to get over Tara's death and the sinking of our ship. Also, aside from one episode, this couple had almost nothing to do. They had sex that night, Willow turned into Warren and Kennedy 'brought her back to life' or whatever but aside from that there was some making out and some arm touching and some of Kennedy hanging with the Scoobies when she wasn't wanted (by me.)

Buffy/Angel - Naturally this earns me some hate. I am most certainly not dissing the ship entirely because I enjoy it in parts. But if we look at it overall it is a little dull. This ship thrived in season two, especially during the Angelus portion. But come season three this ship becomes nothing but irritating sexual tension that I cannot personally bright myself to care about. It becomes tedious and tired frankly. Him leaving was good because as a character he got so much more tolerable without this boring ship tethering him down.

Angel/Cordy - This is most certainly on my list. This storyline was not needed and ruined aspects of both of the characters. It made things a little dull, I don't know how to put it. I mean, they made sense...If you look back to Buffy season three you see when Buffy was late to her date in 'Halloween' and Cordy sees Angel and they start talking that Angel is obviously amused by Cordelia. She actually makes him smile and laugh in a way that I truthfully never saw Buffy do, at least in those early days. However when the writers attempted to make them a couple I realized I couldn't stand it, though I'm unsure why. Therefore I was bored as it appears many others were. 🙂
 
bespangeled
bespangeled
Oh, thank you. Angel/Buffy season three brough a whole new layer of tedium.
Buffy/Spike

This relationship produces no character development whatsoever. Zero. Nothing. They meet. They copulate. That's it, they barely even talk to each other. What's the point? Buffy's one night stand with Parker is much more fruitful.

Willow/Kennedy? I think that Willow put a love spell on Kennedy, but that's just me. I mean, she even calls her Ken-doll. It's mildly amusing.
 
NeonNightLight
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Angel/Buffy - I grew sick of the both of them mid into season 3. I was glad he left and went to LA. All the sobbing back and forth even after knowing about the curse and what happened almost a year prior was annoying

Scott/Buffy - The most awkward and unnecessary pairing. I don't understand why this even happened. Every scene with the both of them I even felt embarrassed.

Gunn/Fred - How and why they got together seemed to come out of knowhere. It was a relationship that felt forced and unrealistic.

Xander/Anya - Xander didn't deserve to be with her. Someone who literally loved him and would've done anything for him. He did nothing but get angry, mistreat , and get embarrassed at her comments. He took advantage of her.

Oz/Willow - My problem stems from the character Oz himself. I get he was supposed to be this mellow, suave dude, but he had absolute 0 personality. He didn't bring anything dynamic to the show other than being a werewolf. Everytime I see scenes with the both of them I get bored.

Riley/Buffy - Liked the pairing at first, but eventually blundered into crap. I either wanted him to die or leave completely. Which he did in season 5, I was happy.

Angel/Nina - Where the hell did this come from? Haven't watched season 5 yet but I know Angel had a new flame at very random. She was in about 2 episodes or so? This reminds of of the Buffy Scott pairing, awkward and unnecessary.

Wesley/Fred - I was sick of Wesley way back into season 4 with his growing obsession with Fred. More so they finally got together and I couldn't help but get sick of them both. Especially with the cheesy dialect when someone was dying. "Wesley. My Love" really, well why is it she never ever payed attention to him before? It was very unconvincing and felt to manufactured.

CONNOR/CORDELIA (JASMINE) - Just utterly disgusting!
 
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Connor/Jasmine thing was bad too
AnthonyCordova
AnthonyCordova
utterly bored by Oz too
Willow/Kennedy; I'm going to imagine that Kennedy was simply a rebound as she's the polar opposite of Tara. I can't imagine Willow actually wanting to be with someone so rude and harsh. I think it was a poor attempt on the writers behalf to give her a new relationship to prove she could find love after Tara. Fail.

Angel/Nina; I get that he found her attractive - which is the undercurrent in their first few interactions, but there was no substance there and it was all rushed. It was obvious to everyone (and I think even her) that she was never going to measure up to any of his past 'great' loves. So what was the point.

Angel/Cordy; I understand why they did this - Cordelia had grown so much as a person since first coming to AtV...but remembering how she used to be etc, I can't ever truly grasp why they would be together. Silly plot device really.

I also didn't like the brief fling of Anya and Spike. If they wanted everyone to find out about the Spuffy relationship...should have had the cameras see Buffy and Spike together. Either getting fleshy or simply arguing about their 'relationship'. I just never liked the repercussions of the Anya/Spike thing.
 
Angel/Nina - Where the hell did this come from? Haven't watched season 5 yet but I know Angel had a new flame at very random. She was in about 2 episodes or so? This reminds of of the Buffy Scott pairing, awkward and unnecessary.

Nina wasn't "bad" or anything. The real problem with her whole thing with Angel was that it was structured horribly. It was like the writers wanted a new love interest for Angel and then went in a different direction altogether. I mean, and I can't stress this enough, if you want to get a new character over as a love interest, do not bring back old love interests. Riley had that problem in S4 of Buffy. S5 of Angel starts with Angel coming off an amazing final episode with Buffy, and mid-way through they bring Cordy back for one of the best, most emotional episodes ever. Maybe they were banking on a sixth season to develop Nina more, I don't know, but writing it that way just killed any momentum she might have had.

And this is just more a general question. I don't get all the hate for Angel/Cordy. To each their own and all that, but I thought the relationship between them, both as friends and romantically, was some of the best stuff of the series. It's one ship' I don't get the hate for at all. I always think of Angel/Buffy and Cordy/Doyle first, but I loved Angel and Cordy together.
 
TotallySpiked
TotallySpiked
Yay! Cordy and Doyle. I loved them.
Spike/Buffy in Buffy , and yes, I know it is quite unusual to not only dislike this pairing to tears, but also to consider it incredibly boring. Yet, lets face it - the entire romance is an endless and increasingly repetitious play of the Stalker With A Crush spiced with Extreme Doormat tropes on Spike's side, vs Masochism Tango occasionally descending into All Take and No Give on Buffy's. After the emptienth will they/won't they ? followed by brief maybe baby, followed by rejection or pity admission/angry depression sex, or pity admission than rejection one has to be left wondering what else is there to explore. And yet it keeps turning up like a bad penny, to go through yet another cycle of the same.
 
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iShower4free
Buffy belongs with Angel, end of story :P
EVIL UU
EVIL UU
That's the problem with undead relationships, they just won't die.
NeonNightLight
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bespangeled
bespangeled
I like Spike?Buffy - don't love them - but this is hilarious!!
Gunn and Fred-this relationship went nowhere.
Nina/Angel
Buffy/Scott-such an unnecessary and pointless couple. Lasted all of two episodes.
Willow/Kennedy
Riley/Buffy
Cordy/Xander
 
Gunn and Fred didn't make any sense to me when I heard about it before I got to that point in the show... and then I started watching it, and... I still don't like it.

Other than that, there aren't any others that really jump out at me as all that boring.
 
TotallySpiked
TotallySpiked
I think the whole Fred/Gunn thing was created purely to keep her and Wes apart for longer. Yuck.
The only two couples I found boring were Fred/Wesley and Buffy/Scott. These relationships didn't have enough to them to make me enjoy or dislike them.
 
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