To add to the Doctor Who mix, Master(Simm)/Lucy. Totally disagree on the Doctor being poly; that's just a fandom dream. He's got WAY too many emotional issues to be poly.
~ "Where love and magic meet" ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of Blood of the Dark Moon: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/botdm.html Take a bite out of Blood and Mint Chocolates: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/bamc.html Dare to take The Oath in this fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Martin Baxter <[email protected]>wrote: > Keith... they left out Delenn and John Sheridan... > > Martin (knows when to fight the good fight and when to unleash the WMD) > > > > > > ---------[ Received Mail Content ]---------- > > Subject : [scifinoir2] Nine Hot Human/Alien Couples - including Octavia > Butler Couple > > Date : Sat, 7 Mar 2009 09:30:07 -0800 > > From : "Tracey de Morsella" <[email protected]> > > To : <[email protected]> > > > Nine > > Hot Human/Alien Couples (And One That's Gross) > > > By Annalee Newitz , 4:05 > PM > on Thu Mar 5 2009, 18,789 views > > http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/io9/2009/03/liquidsky6.jpgI don't > know > about you, but I got into scifi as a young teen because I was looking for > sex. You know, hot human-on-alien action. And I've got some of that for you > today. (NSFW) > > Of course there are about a zillion human/alien pairings in scifi, going > all > the way back to John Carter's dalliance with that red hot princess from > Mars. But some couples stand out (like Hulk and Caiera in the recent Planet > Hulk series) and some are forgettable (like Karen Allen and the glowy Jeff > Bridges alien in Starman, which is sadly not based on the comic book of the > same name). While of course we prefer our human/alien pairings to involve > lots of sex, some of the hottest human/alien couples are purely romantic. > Their liaisons lead to marriage or children, which doesn't necessarily make > them less scrumptious than couples whose trysts are basically excuses for a > lot of tentacles and crazy lubrication scenes. > > So without further ado, here are nine of the hottest human/alien couples we > could think of, and one couple whose horribleness will remind you why some > intergalactic smoochfests should never be blessed by starship captains. > > Margaret and the invisible aliens who kill her lovers in Liquid Sky > > Let's start in the most obvious place, shall we? Liquid Sky is a completely > insane movie from the 1980s, about a bunch of punk/new wave models who are > addicted to coke, totally genderfucked, wear neon-streaked clothes, and > have > a lot of gaybiwhatevs sex. Margaret is one such model, pictured fetchingly > above, whose main goal in life is to destroy her rival male model (played > by > the same actress who plays Margeret) and to have a ton of meaningless sex > with her freaky girlfriend and a bunch of other cute clubsters. You're > whirled in and out of the new wave dreamscape until suddenly a floating pie > pan enters the picture, and starts zapping Margaret's lovers to death at > the > moment they orgasm. At first, Margaret thinks her pussy has the power to > kill, and she manages to pick off several of her lovers before targeting > her > frenemies. But at last she realizes that some aliens are behind the whole > thing, and she decides that these aliens are the only creatures who truly > care about her. I won't spoil the ending for you, but suffice to say that > an > insane-looking punk wedding dress is involved. > > http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/io9/2009/03/manwhofelltoass.jpg > > Thomas Newton and Mary-Lou from The > Man Who > Fell to Earth > In Nicholas Roeg's movie version of the (very different) Walter Tevis > novel, > David Bowie plays Thomas Newton, a sexy, geeky, genderfucky 1970s alien > (yes, the 70s and 80s were a time of androgynous aliens, and hence an > awesome time for love). Trying to save his home planet from a terrible > drought, Thomas comes to Earth, a planet he's heard is entirely covered in > water. Unfortunately his ship crashes, and he's stuck on our watery ball > until he can raise enough money from various alien inventions to build > another ship and return home. As he gets unbelievably rich from things like > a tiny silver ball that plays music, Thomas slides into human decadence. A > young woman named Mary-Lou introduces him to sex and booze, and pretty soon > he's revealing his alien side to her with ass-biting and (later) showing > her > his true (lube-covered) alien form. There is even a lubey alien/human sex > scene the likes of which you'll never see anywhere else. Plus, hot young > Bowie in full alien mode! On the hotness scale, this couple is in the > danger > zone. > > http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/io9/2009/03/dickandmary.jpgDick and > Mary from Third Rock from the Sun > Human/alien love went all domestic in the 1990s with sitcom Third Rock from > the Sun, where a group of aliens are sent to Earth to study the natives > while posing (poorly) as some kind of nuclear family. Dick (John Lithgow), > the captain of the team, becomes the family father-figure, taking a job as > a > physics professor and wooing his office-mate Mary, played with goofy charm > by Saturday Night Live alum Jane Curtin. In fact, "goofy charm" is what > made > this sitcom so terrific, and made the middle-aged romance between Dick and > Mary so fun to watch. > > Lilith and Nikanj in Lilith's > Brood > Trilogy > Octavia Butler has written some of the smartest and sexiest science fiction > novels you'll ever read. Possibly the most unsettlingly romantic of her > works is the Lilith's Brood Trilogy, about a human woman named Lilith who > "marries" into a family of alien Oankali who have kidnapped what remains of > the human race after we've annihilated ourselves with nukes. Though she > genuinely comes to love her new alien family, Lilith's relationship with > them is complicated because she realizes she has little choice but to breed > with them - she is essentially their captive, and moreover their mating > ritual involves intense chemical bonding that she can't resist. The Oankali > have three genders, and the ooloi gender is a creature who can insert > chemicals into its husband and wife via two specialized tentacles (yes! > tentacles!). Lilith and a human man wind up in a relationship with an ooloi > named Nikanj. Nikanj's tentacles release chemicals that cause intense > pleasure and feelings of bonding. To create children, the ooloi mixes > genetic material from itself, the male and female, and creates a child that > combines all their traits. > > http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/io9/2009/03/earthgirls.jpgValerieand > Mac from Earth Girls are Easy > A less complicated coupling occurs in 1980s comedy Earth Girls Are Easy, > where the mega-cute Valerie (Geena Davis) falls for a furry blue alien > named > Mac who turns out to look like a smokin' hot Jeff Goldblum after he's > depilated. Joining them in this silly romp, filled with song and dance > scenes, are Jim Carey, Julie Brown and Damon Wayans. Valerie's doctor > boyfriend has been cheating on her, but she's such a nice girl that she > still takes her time getting busy with Mac out of respect for ex-doughboy. > But when they finally do start making out, you'll be glad she dumped her > doc > for an alien. > > http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/io9/2009/03/hulkandcaiera.jpgHulkand > Caiera from Planet Hulk > It's hard for Hulk to find a woman who can handle his green side, but when > he smash-landed on alien world Sakaar he met his match. 2006 series Planet > Hulk, which led into crossover extravaganza World War Hulk, is one of the > best Hulk plot arcs in recent memory. Hulk finds himself on a world so > savage that his monstery side makes him a hero. He finds true friends among > the giant insects and monsters of Sakaar, who are fighting to liberate > themselves from the brutal Red King. Caiera is one of the Red King's slaves > who fights in his army. Though at first she and Hulk fight - and what a > fight it is! - eventually she switches to the side of Hulk and his > liberators. They defeat the Red King together, get married, and become king > and queen of Sakaar. Of course, Hulk can't stay happy, though . . . the > spaceship he came in explodes, killing the whole planet, and he goes back > to > Earth ready to SMASH the Illuminati who made the ship. And thus World War > Hulk began, out of Hulk's amazing romance with a kickass lady from another > world. > > Max and Liz from Roswell > Late-1990s TV series Roswell was the perfect combination of romantic teen > angst and alien weirdness. Imagine Escape to Witch Mountain, but with high > school kids instead of elementary school ones. Max and his three siblings > are human-alien hybrids, clones of great leaders from their home world who > survived the Roswell crash back in the 1950s. Now they're trying to figure > out their powers, and get back home to save their people. But how can they > do it when there's, like, homework? And cute girls and stuff? Not only did > Katherine Heigl get her start in this show, but it clearly inspired > Twilight > with its Max-loves-Liz subplot. Liz is a human girl, and therefore (sorta) > forbidden to Max, but he falls for her anyway - first he revives her from > the dead after she's shot, then they go on the run together, and eventually > he turns a rock into a diamond and proposes to her. Plus, they are cute as > little buttons. > > Just check out the fanvid schmoopiness that Roswell inspired! > > Willis and Jeriba from Enemy Mine > A human named Willis (Dennis Quaid) crash lands on a harsh, remote world > along with an alien named Jeriba (Louis Gosset, Jr.). Unfortunately their > peoples are at war with each other, and they don't speak each other's > languages. But they are stuck on the forbidding rock for years, exposed to > terrifying creatures and even more terrifying weather, so they strike up a > friendship that grows into something much deeper. They are clearly in love, > though in a chaste way - Jeriba's people have no gender, and create babies > via some kind of budding process. Eventually Jeriba has a baby, but dies in > the process, leaving Willis to raise "their" baby on his own. Though cheesy > in some ways, this movie is still intensely moving, as well as a pretty > gutsy exploration of what human/alien love might really be like. > > http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/io9/2009/03/enemymine.jpg > > http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/io9/2009/03/doctorwhoomgomg.jpgDoctor > Who and [Insert Your Favorite Companions Here] from Doctor Who > The beauty thing about Doctor Who is that the Doctor has so many different > companions that you can pretty much project any kind of sexual orientation > onto him that you want. I prefer to think of the Doctor as bisexual and > polyamorous, which is why this picture of him with companions Martha and > Captain Jack makes my pervvy little heart go pitter-pat. But if you prefer > things all monogamous and hetero, you can focus on the Doctor and Rose. Or > you can remove humans from the equation and think about the Doctor with the > Master when he was played by John Simm (OMG). Though the Doctor never > technically gets romantically involved with any of his companions, he does > get emotionally entangled with almost all of them. For a Timelord who never > really has any sex (that we see), the Doctor has got to be the sexiest > alien > in any space-time continuum. > > Special Turn-Off Section: Ickiest Human/Alien Couple > > http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/io9/2009/03/makesmehurl.jpgIckiest > Couple: Troi and Riker from Star Trek: TNG > Feeling like you need a cold shower after all that action? Well allow me to > give you the closest thing there is to a freezing shower to the libido: The > coupling of Betazoid Deanna Troi and human William Riker in Star Trek: The > Next Generation. Seriously, is there anything more horrendous and > woody-weakening than this couple? What happened to Troi and Worf, a couple > worth fighting for? Or Riker and the Trill? Seriously, I had to scrub my > eyes with sandpaper after Troi and Riker had their naked wedding in that > Star Trek movie whose memory I am trying to wipe out. What the hell, > people? > Some weddings should never happen. > > > http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/io9/2009/03/picard_at_riker_troi_weddi > ng.jpg > > > > > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQdwk8Yntds
