frightening chemistry on tv.

Some couples have it. Some utterly fail, even when the writers are trying desperately. Some aren't supposed to have it and the writers and producers desperately try to ignore it. And we're not talking the people who make a minorly slashy comment once a season, we're talking characters who you keep giving the 'Please, stop *doing* that. My brain hurts.' plea as you fumble for the fire extinguisher.

So, come on nominate for categories, people.

Those who have it (and were meant to have it) :

John and Aeryn (Farscape)
Lilah and Wesley (Angel)
Nine and Rose (Doctor Who)
Shane and Carmen (L Word)
Starbuck and Apollo (Lee and Kara) (BSG)
Servalan and Avon (Blake's Seven)
Mal and Inara (Firefly)
Veronica and Logan (Veronica Mars)
Stuart and anyone (QAF)
Jack and Original!Jack (Torchwood)
Duncan and Amanda (Highlander)
Simon and River (Firefly)

Those who have it (and weren't meant to) :
Sadly, all characters written by the BBC post about ... 1995, possibly earlier, are disqualified from this category because the writers and actors have fully admitted that they do it on purpose. And then giggle. Loudly. And yes, you may include characters who had jokey asides made about it in later seasons.

Kirk and Spock (Star Trek)
Clark and Lex (Smallville)
Dean and Sam (Supernatural)
Jack and Daniel (SG-1)
Bodie and Doyle (Professionals)
Chloe and Lana (Smallville)
Abby and Connor (Primeval)
Nick and Stephen (Primeval)

Those who fail miserably no matter how hard the writers try :

Clark and Lana (Smallville - actually, any male and Lana)
Veronica and Piz (Veronica Mars)
Gwen and Jack (Torchwood)
Abby and Stephen (Primeval)

Feel free to laugh at me

merlinbbc. Not a control freak who spent today going 'right, fuck this, there are NEW RULES for processing and marking up documents! and this time we will be naming names!' to the team. Ending every email with the sig 'has a pain in her left diodes'. and then kicked mum out of the kitchen.

...er, honest?

Oh, shut up. It has Tony Head and Richard Wilson in it and some presumably pretty people who I've never heard of. if it's anything like Robin Hood, expect camp-as-knickers dark ages tosh. With explosions and sudden deaths you really didn't expect a kid's show to do.

I'd Do Anything - of the people we saw, we're expecting Blackpool Nancy to either get kicked out pre-live auditions, or early on. Nancy Nancy, Cleopatra Nancy and the two Shirley Bassey Nancys seem to be strong contenders, Opera Nancy as the wild card. Especially since what Andrew said he wanted as a brief at the beginning of the last two shows went right out of the window. 'Climbs her tree, scrapes her knee? -> Connie Fisher, aka the closest thing you can get to Julie Andrews without cloning (we still suspect she stole her vocal chords). 'Justin Timberlake with added Michael Jackson?' -> Lee Mead, the least boyband-esque of 'em all, considering his utter standouts were Paint it Black and anything that was Liza/Elvis/Sinatra. I'd love to see Amy Winehouse as Nancy, true, but who knows. And apparently if you watch one bit closely of the clip from next week's Nancy school, you can spot Katie Rowley-Jones, aka Nessarose in Wicked. Hrrrm. The live shows will tell. Now, let's sit back and watch 12 weeks of tv audience manipulation so that we vote for Andrew and Cameron's favourites. possibly the only problem is that we won't have anyone visibly dribbling this year in the judging panel.

Also : to all those who begged : Did you not *watch* the other two years? Begging turns the panel off in two seconds - you can actually see the shutters come down instantly on Barrowman's face.