I actually like het. I've written a lot of Shinji/Asuka, which is the main het pairing of Evangelion, and Sally Po & Wufei of Gundam Wing which has very few fans because usually it's Wufei/Treize. Given the right spin, I also enjoy f/f. I actually see a bit of subtext between a couple of the women on swingtown.
I think it's partly because most of the time the canon het pairing gets to let it all hang on onscreen so there's not much to embellish. (I love Mulder & Scully, Delenn & Sheridan, Sun & Jin but have no compulsion to write them because I'm happy with what I'm getting. I'm also happy with the Winchester brothers for the same reason. ) Also in a lot of stories, the romance isn't treated as THE epic relationship but someone he comes home to after doing his thing so it's a bit boring. The exceptions I list above usually have the woman and man working as partners on the same job/side or at least the woman is very much part of the action, not a DiD.
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6/18/08 03:34 am (UTC)I think it's partly because most of the time the canon het pairing gets to let it all hang on onscreen so there's not much to embellish. (I love Mulder & Scully, Delenn & Sheridan, Sun & Jin but have no compulsion to write them because I'm happy with what I'm getting. I'm also happy with the Winchester brothers for the same reason. ) Also in a lot of stories, the romance isn't treated as THE epic relationship but someone he comes home to after doing his thing so it's a bit boring. The exceptions I list above usually have the woman and man working as partners on the same job/side or at least the woman is very much part of the action, not a DiD.