u/Christianduty

A series that follows two couples. One a pair of men, the other a pair of women, in more-or-less equal parts.

I know it might be specific, but not just a series where the couples are a part of a bigger ensemble, with dozens of them, or a book where there's something bigger going on and it just flashes to the gay couple and lesbian couple randomly and a little; just two main couples. Or a series with a mm couple as the clear focus, and the ff couple are their sidekicks and wise-cracking friends giving advice.

Could be any genre. Science fiction, horror, mystery, smutty, whatever, just with the two couple idea.

I'd take singular books too, thanks!

I think most people can agree that there are problems with Lana and her character, and how she is handled. I'm not sure if people have made a post on how they would have written her, but just wanted to hear your opinions.

I have no problem with Kristin Kreuk or her acting, or Lana in general, but I don't like how so much of the show seems focused on her, while Lois plays such a lower part, and there's really only one season where she's the female lead. And I think the focus on Lana hurt the characters as well, particularly the female characters.

When you're counting Superman characters, do you count them, the New Gods, the Forever People, Orion, Scott, Barda, etc. as Superman characters? or Darkseid, Granny Goodness, Desaed as Superman Villains? When Kara appears on panel, there's a little voice that says "oh, the Superman-Family is being represented here," do you get the same feeling when Orion gets on panel?

Before I read Kirby's original Fourth World saga, I leaned to yes, they're Superman characters the same way the Legion, Thorn, and the Guardian are Superman characters, they're related to him, but they've branched off enough that not strictly Superman.

With the adaptations, Darkseid in the Animated Series, Smallville, prominently against Superman in Super Friends; the beginning of the saga being Jimmy Olsen, Superman being in the Forever People's first issue, most of the comics seeming to happen in Metropolis, I leaned towards yes.

However, I read Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen, and when I got to the Kirby issues, shifted to reading the Fourth World comics, and can't say I view it like that anymore.

The Jimmy issues are mostly unrelated, and this was obvious even at the time, the other three were the big trilogy. No crossing over throughout the original saga, no big moments between Superman and Darkseid, or him with anybody beyond Highfather.

Maybe post-crisis they were brought more together, or I'm missing some issues, but can't really say I think of it like that. It's more like when people say Zatanna is more of a Batman character, and I think, they're completely wrong about that.

Also, haven't read the Great Darkness Saga yet, maybe that'll make me change my mind lol.

Can anybody name older shows that feature serialization when it was unusual, when other shows were sticking to the status-quo and in general were episodic? I guess I'd limit it to pre-Dallas, and wouldn't include Peyton's Place either.

The Fugitive, maybe not so much the show itself, but at least featured a satisfying finale instead of ending in ambiguity like it could have.

I Love Lucy is minorly serialized compared to now, but Ricky's growing success is an obvious plotline, as is Little Ricky's birth. The trips to Europe, California, and Florida have set-ups, and endings, and continue for a while, plus switching apartments and moving to Connecticut instead of just planting them there without explanation.

As in the title, not counting soap-operas because they're serialized by nature.