Your sentiments make perfect sense to me. The truth is, I can't really disagree with the idea of an enemy, backstabbing ship. If that was how other people were presenting this ship, I might be on board.
But when I see people saying that this scene washed the sour taste of the Kallen/Lulu scene out (I don't ship that either, but I thought it was a wonderful scene for both of them), I just get a little frustrated. The sparkly shoops and adorably fluffy art of Rolo/Lulu is really turning me off of it. I'm really afraid that this is going to lend to the same sort of female-character-bashing that SuzaLulu did last season, and I'm also concerned that it just really doesn't look to me like a majority of the shippers even see the darker note of Rolo and Lelouch's interactions, from their comments on this community.
It's not something that I feel like I can just ignore, necessarily, when people tell me that they're not sure what I'm watching when I say that I just don't see it. When I express that I don't see it, I feel like I get jumped on. I don't mean that I think it's unshippable (I'd be a hypocrite, given some of the of the things I ship in other fandoms), but I simply don't see any hard canon implications of it. I don't think two characters standing next to each other is anything other than fanservice, and I'm not really sure that fanservice is the same as proof that two characters should be in a relationship, not when this show is an overflowing fount of fanservice. If fanservice meant a ship was destined, then half the cast must be sleeping with each other behind the scenes. To be honest, on a fanservice level, I don't think the Rolo/Lulu scene even qualified next to the one it followed, and yet I really don't hear a lot of gushing about that.
And as for Rolo's line, I took it as a reminder of Lelouch's promise, and the line that Lelouch is walking with his lies. Rolo spent most of the episode noticing Lelouch's obsession with Nunnally; if Lulu isn't careful, the only thing he has binding Rolo is going to turn on him, and he isn't going to know until it's too late. But when I see people saying for certain that it was nothing but a declaration of love, that's what turns me off of this whole thing. There's a certainty that the shippers have that this is somehow OTP and OMGCANON, and it's the same feeling I had when I saw people last season claiming that SuzaLulu was for sure going to become canon, and that they'd laugh at all those idiots who shipped a het pairing then.
I recognized at least one of the trolls from the Gundam00 wank, where they were completely hilarious. I don't mean that they're not funny, just that, well, they're not here to agree with the shoop. Why ever else they might have been posting, trolling was one of the reasons, or they'd have posted normal things with their normal accounts.
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But when I see people saying that this scene washed the sour taste of the Kallen/Lulu scene out (I don't ship that either, but I thought it was a wonderful scene for both of them), I just get a little frustrated. The sparkly shoops and adorably fluffy art of Rolo/Lulu is really turning me off of it. I'm really afraid that this is going to lend to the same sort of female-character-bashing that SuzaLulu did last season, and I'm also concerned that it just really doesn't look to me like a majority of the shippers even see the darker note of Rolo and Lelouch's interactions, from their comments on this community.
It's not something that I feel like I can just ignore, necessarily, when people tell me that they're not sure what I'm watching when I say that I just don't see it. When I express that I don't see it, I feel like I get jumped on. I don't mean that I think it's unshippable (I'd be a hypocrite, given some of the of the things I ship in other fandoms), but I simply don't see any hard canon implications of it. I don't think two characters standing next to each other is anything other than fanservice, and I'm not really sure that fanservice is the same as proof that two characters should be in a relationship, not when this show is an overflowing fount of fanservice. If fanservice meant a ship was destined, then half the cast must be sleeping with each other behind the scenes. To be honest, on a fanservice level, I don't think the Rolo/Lulu scene even qualified next to the one it followed, and yet I really don't hear a lot of gushing about that.
And as for Rolo's line, I took it as a reminder of Lelouch's promise, and the line that Lelouch is walking with his lies. Rolo spent most of the episode noticing Lelouch's obsession with Nunnally; if Lulu isn't careful, the only thing he has binding Rolo is going to turn on him, and he isn't going to know until it's too late. But when I see people saying for certain that it was nothing but a declaration of love, that's what turns me off of this whole thing. There's a certainty that the shippers have that this is somehow OTP and OMGCANON, and it's the same feeling I had when I saw people last season claiming that SuzaLulu was for sure going to become canon, and that they'd laugh at all those idiots who shipped a het pairing then.
I recognized at least one of the trolls from the Gundam00 wank, where they were completely hilarious. I don't mean that they're not funny, just that, well, they're not here to agree with the shoop. Why ever else they might have been posting, trolling was one of the reasons, or they'd have posted normal things with their normal accounts.