What couples have the best/worst fit in terms of romantic/sexual chemistry?

[Ilan Preskovsky]

I am perturbed by the lack of Jim and Pam in this thread...

[regg215]

Best TV
Chuck Bartowski and Sarah Walker- Chuck
Harmon Rabb and Sarah Mckenzie- Jag
Booth and Brennan- Bones
Hodgins and Angela Montenegro- Bones
Castle and Beckett- Castle
Lucy and Ricky- I love Lucy
Clark and Lana- Smallville- Happy he ended up with Lois, but he did have better chemistry with Lana
Mike and Rachel- Suits
Harvey and Donna- Suits
Geralt and Yennefer- Witcher

Worst TV
Oliver and Felicity- Zero Chemistry as a romantic couple,as good friends it was off the charts but as a couple it was awkard
Chloe and Oliver- Smallville- came out of nowhere and was always awkward
Ross and Rachel-Friends- Hated this relationship and never got into friends because I never bought their relationship- I know I am in the minority on this one
Luke Cage and Clair- Luke Cage/Defenders

Best Movies:
Batman and Catwoman- In both batman returns and Dark knight rises- They have gotten this couple right twice
Wonder woman and Steve Trevor- Wonder Woman
Peter and Mj- Spider-man far from home
James Bond and Vesper- Casino Royale
Han solo and Princess leia- Star Wars
Logan and Mariko- The Wolverine
Scott and Hope- Antman and the Wasp- Best MCU couple
Superman and Lois Lane- Reeves and Kidder Version

Worst
Superman and Lois Lane- Superman returns routh and Kate Bosworth
Thor and Jane Foster- Thor Movies
Hulk and Black Widow- Age of Ultron- Dumbest MCU decision
Neo and Trinity- The Matrix
Kylo and Rey- Disney Star Wars
Finn and Rose- Disney Star Wars

[Bunch of Coconuts]

Oh god. Neo and Trinity.

Mix two wooden actors and what do you get?

(I don’t have a specific answer, btw, but it ain’t good)

[LoganAlpha30X33]

Splinters...

[Starter Set]

Clark and Lois in the aptly named "Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman".

The two main actors are charming togheter.

[TriggerWarning]

Clark and Lana- Smallville- Happy he ended up with Lois, but he did have better chemistry with Lana

Worst TV
Chloe and Oliver- Smallville- came out of nowhere and was always awkward

Smallville was really problematic. Clark and Chloe had insane chemistry together which is why everyone began shipping them from the start. But the writers weren't willing to go against canon. I give credit to the Arrow writers for basically saying "canon be damned, we are going with the couple that has chemistry and putting Ollie and Felicity together."

Clark and Lana weren't great until you compared them to Clark and Lois when Lois finally arrived. That was such a zero chemistry relationship on screen as it just didn't work even for a second. It made Lana look great in hindsight and meanwhile Chloe was still hanging around and fans were shipping Clark / Chloe even harder now given how bad the Clark / Lois chemistry was. They basically had to force Ollie and Chloe together just to remove Chloe from the triangle.

I do laugh though at the poorly thought out writing the writers did when Lana briefly returned in season 7 or 8. She had powers now but they were tainted by Kryptonite. Clark fell back into her arms and they declared their undying love for one another and made it plainly obvious the only reason they weren't going to be together was because of the tainted powers. So Lana has to leave and oh hey Lois is still here but we just wrote into the plot that Clark is basically settling for Lois because he can't be with his one true love.

[Powerboy]

Smallville was really problematic. Clark and Chloe had insane chemistry together which is why everyone began shipping them from the start. But the writers weren't willing to go against canon. I give credit to the Arrow writers for basically saying "canon be damned, we are going with the couple that has chemistry and putting Ollie and Felicity together."

Clark and Lana weren't great until you compared them to Clark and Lois when Lois finally arrived. That was such a zero chemistry relationship on screen as it just didn't work even for a second. It made Lana look great in hindsight and meanwhile Chloe was still hanging around and fans were shipping Clark / Chloe even harder now given how bad the Clark / Lois chemistry was. They basically had to force Ollie and Chloe together just to remove Chloe from the triangle.

I do laugh though at the poorly thought out writing the writers did when Lana briefly returned in season 7 or 8. She had powers now but they were tainted by Kryptonite. Clark fell back into her arms and they declared their undying love for one another and made it plainly obvious the only reason they weren't going to be together was because of the tainted powers. So Lana has to leave and oh hey Lois is still here but we just wrote into the plot that Clark is basically settling for Lois because he can't be with his one true love.

I thought Clark- Lois worked well with that whole antagonistic joking relationship of "I can't admit I like you so I punch you in the shoulder".

But I thought Welling and Kreuk had better chemistry. I didn't watch the show when it originally aired but bought the DVDs. As I started on the first season, almost the first thing that caught my attention was that I really liked Clark's relationship with Lana and thought the one downside of a show like this is that, no matter how good a relationship is working and no matter how much a huge portion of the audience wants it, it's trapped by it's own mythology. Clark has to end up with Lois no matter how good the relationship with Lana seems to be. They have to throw in wrenches or do something to change her and the relationship so he ends up with Lois. I thought the episode where Clark took Lana to the Fortress early in the episode would have been a good ending to the series and was, for all practical purposes, the ending of the show's original concept.

Chloe was also that relationship that seemed natural but never happened.

Definitely agree that, in spite of all the flaws in the CW shows, I do give them credit for being willing to throw some of the mythology out the window and do a different relationship than in the comics to go with something that seems to be working better. Of course, that was easier to do with Arrow. Outside of comic readers, most people don't know it's Ollie and the Black Canary. Almost everyone knows it's Clark and Lois.

[LoganAlpha30X33]

I thought that on Smallville Clark could have ended up with any of like six women, Lois, Lana, Chloe, Alicia, and I forget her name but she was the shape shifting Native American lady. Clark had great chemistry with all imho and he could have ended up with any of them, and there was a line between Lana and Clark about Lois and Clark said something like that when he first met Lois he couldn't stand her, but now that she was going to be leaving it just felt weird/wrong...and Lana replying with something about relationships and how isn't that how the best ones start...in other words they were going from how they couldn't stand each other at first to then they couldn't stand to be apart in the end...to bad when they did the alternate universe thing they couldn't have jumped to different Earths where Clark ended up with each of them, just for fun...

[regg215]

Smallville was truly interesting because I think Clark and Lana lasted far longer than it should have if they wanted the endgame to be Lois. Even though I really liked their relationship, Going back and watching the show they spend so much time building Clark and Lana that it feels like a waste when it was never gonna be the intended ending. Had they kinda given up on the relationship in season 4 or 5 I think people would really been happier about Clark and Lois but because up through 8 seasons they still made it feel like Clark and Lana was the endgame relationship for the show. The way Lana left really hurt the Clark/Lois relationship because Clark was only with Lois because he physically cant even be around Lana. Had they just had the characters grow apart, the Clark/Lois feels correct but when you spend 8 of 10 seasons on Clark/Lana it feels cheap when its all the sudden Clark/Lois. I don't blame them for going with that as the end because Superman has to end up with Lois but if you only watched the show Lois feels like the 2nd choice of Clark.

I did think the foundation of Clark and Lois being the couple who can't admit they like each other made sense especially for someone with Lois Lane's personality. Lois was never gonna be the person who just flat out falls for the right guy she was always gonna be someone who needed validation that the person is who she thinks they are and not someone who is too good to be true.

[Powerboy]

Smallville was truly interesting because I think Clark and Lana lasted far longer than it should have if they wanted the endgame to be Lois. Even though I really liked their relationship, Going back and watching the show they spend so much time building Clark and Lana that it feels like a waste when it was never gonna be the intended ending. Had they kinda given up on the relationship in season 4 or 5 I think people would really been happier about Clark and Lois but because up through 8 seasons they still made it feel like Clark and Lana was the endgame relationship for the show. The way Lana left really hurt the Clark/Lois relationship because Clark was only with Lois because he physically cant even be around Lana. Had they just had the characters grow apart, the Clark/Lois feels correct but when you spend 8 of 10 seasons on Clark/Lana it feels cheap when its all the sudden Clark/Lois. I don't blame them for going with that as the end because Superman has to end up with Lois but if you only watched the show Lois feels like the 2nd choice of Clark.

I did think the foundation of Clark and Lois being the couple who can't admit they like each other made sense especially for someone with Lois Lane's personality. Lois was never gonna be the person who just flat out falls for the right guy she was always gonna be someone who needed validation that the person is who she thinks they are and not someone who is too good to be true.

Also, there was the factor that the main audience for Smallville was teenaged girls, many of whom did not know the Superman mythology. In fact, in one of the special features on the DVDs, a writer/ producer talks about emails they would get asking why it says "Superman created by..." in the credits because the town of Smallville, Clark Kent, Lana Lang and on and on were names that meant nothing to them except in the show itself. They had no idea this is the guy that grows up to be Superman. While a bunch of us old men did all the whining about a show not targeted at us, the main audience thought Clark would end up with Lana because that was the direction set up in the first episode as the main premise of the show.

To them, the later seasons were a train that had jumped completely off its tracks and made no sense. Some may have assumed it was something they had to do because Kristin Kreuk decided to leave the show or something. Although I despise the term, they justifiably felt ending Clark/ Lana was when the show "jumped the shark".

They said one guy wrote in and said that this is Smallville, not Lois and Clark, the new adventures of Superman so don't be trapped by the same old stale mythology, that this whole show is about the Clark/ Lana relationship.

[babyblob]

Best
Sheldon and Amy - Big Bang. Amy started as a Sheldon clone but they gave her a personality and a fun person who drew Sheldon out of his shell.

Not a couple at least not in the two seasons I saw. But Cisco had a great vibe (see what i did there?) with Captain Cold's sister

Worst
Oliver and Felicity. Oliver - I cant be open with you because of umm like trauma and stuff.
Felicity - I can believe you are hiding things from me again because I have not been paying attention the last 5 years.

[From The Shadows]

Sticking to TV for now

Best:

Sam/Diane
Mulder/Scully
David/Maddy
Coach/Christine
Monica/Chandler
Rachel/Ross
Eric/Donna
David/Darlene (before it went south)

Worst:

Rachel/Joey

[LoganAlpha30X33]

If memory serves the actors and such didn't want to do Rachel and Joey but the writers and such convinced them to do it...

[Dr. Ellingham]

Sam & Diane are the gold standard.

More recent? I quite like Doc Martin and Luisa Glasson. (obviously) Doc Martin is just about the best romantic comedy/dramedy since Shelly Long left Cheers.

Sometimes actors have vibrant chemistry that doesn't exactly inform the show, but you can tell there's something personal there. I remember watching Dark Angel (yeah, a young Jessica Alba...) and it was clear to me that her and the main guy had *incredible* chemistry. Didn't make the show any better, but when it came out they were dating, it all made sense.

Worst? The one people around me decry most is Jennifer Aniston. So her, and...whomever she's unfortunately paired with.