Love is a battlefield

Hello, my dearest Freaks, it's Friday!

You only have three more days to find a gift for your valentine.

Also, list time.

In honor of the festival of St. Valentine, I am proud to present a look at love on TV. Not the happy easy kind, mind you, but the complicated let's-argue-amongst-ourselves-for-years kind of love.

Ten Legendary Love Triangles

A brief note before we begin, as you know I always have to quantify my listing with a few caveats: this list contains true triangles, as opposed to a "one of the two we know are meant to be together gets a significant other for a while" plotlines. These are the triangles that even fans can't make up their minds about.

Dylan/Kelly/Brandon, Beverly Hills 90210

Most people choosing a triangle from this show would argue for the Kelly/Dylan/Brenda, but I think this is really the one that stuck. Another example of the classic nice guy/bad boy triangle (don't worry, we're not done with those yet!) this years-long plotline even drug into the series re-boot, with producers giving adult Kelly a child and not revealing who the father was until much later. (It's Dylan, if you care.) Guess she didn't choose herself in the end, huh?

Um, I think you need a bigger t-shirt...

Big/Carrie/Aidan, Sex and the City

Yep, Carrie ended up with Big. I still think she's an idiot, as enthralling as I find Chris Noth's eyebrows. No matter which side of this debate you fall on, this triangle brought out the lesser side of Carrie's character, which was interesting and incredibly ballsy of the writers.

Life was hard for Carrie Bradshaw.

Dawson/Joey/Pacey, Dawson's Creek

Joey was supposed to be the love of Dawson's life. The show set the two up as the will-they-won't-they couple of the entire series, and Pacey was only supposed to be a temporary plotline. Due to the great chemistry between Katie Holmes and Joshua Jackson and the general charm of the Pacey character, most of the fans changed their minds, and the series ended with a happily ever after that didn't include the lead character. Poor Dawson.

He's sad, too.

Jack/Kate/Sawyer, LOST

One of the most hotly debated triangles on our list, Jack and Sawyer spent years fighting over the indecisive Kate. Many "Skate" fans (ew, I can't believe I just typed that) jumped on the Juliet bandwagon after she and Sawyer spent three years in love in the 70's, so the writers gave Kate and Jack their happy ending. Well, before sending Jack to his death and Kate on a plane home with Sawyer. Yeah, they really didn't know what the hell they were doing.




But I do.



Bill/Sookie/Eric, True Blood

Ok, to be fair, I do not watch this show, but this seems like a big deal. I don't know what all the fuss is, just pick the hottest one.

This one. It's this one.

Michael/Marta/Gob, Arrested Development

Certainly the most hilarious triangle on our list, this awesome Arrested plot featured Michael trying to steal Gob's hot Spanish actress girlfriend Marta. Mi hermano....

Zack/Kelly/Slater, Saved by the Bell

Man, this is the second Kelly on this list. (Super slutty, Kellys.) This is the defining triangle of my generation, and we totally use it as a personality test. Are you a Zack girl or a Slater girl? Although pretty much all of the (attractive) characters on this show hooked up at some point, this triangle was the lynch pin of the early years.

This poster was the lynch pin of my early years.

Jem/Rio/Jerrica, Jem

So, here's the thing about this triangle: Rio is dating Jerrica, right? Only, he starts dating Jem too. Now, Rio does not know that Jem is actually Jerrica, transformed into a kick-ass rockstar by magical holographic earrings (wow, the 80's were weird) so is he technically cheating? Thank god my five-year-old brain was too distracted by all the awesome songs like this one to be confused by this at the time.

                                     From this video, I think Jem has dissociative identity disorder.


Ben/Felicity/Noel, Felicity

This whole show was basically about about this love triangle. Luckily Felicity got to rearrange time at the end to see what it would be like to end up with both of them. Yeah...this show got weird....

I can not stop laughing at this picture.

(Also, random aside, poor Scott Foley! He's ended up on the wrong side of triangles on Felicity, Dawson's Creek, Scrubs, Cougar Town, and in real life when Jennifer Garner left him for Michael Vartan. Let this guy get the girl!)


Angel/Buffy/Spike, Buffy the Vampire Slayer

If you ever want to see a fangirl throwdown, bring up this triangle. Seriously, if you looked at BtVS websites or message boards (Don't. Don't do that.) people have been fighting about this, venomously, for years. Once again, it's the classic (brooding) nice guy vs. (reformed) bad boy fight, taken to a whole new level with the addition of fangs. You know the ladies love them some vampires!

Oh my god. Do NOT Google this triangle.

So there you have it, Freaks. How ever many you are loving this Valentine's Day, have fun!