#onscreen chemistry

[sanaserena]

The actors of the One Piece live action did such a wonderful job bringing their characters to life in season 1. The cast also has such excellent chemistry - I'm such a fan of them, as someone who never follows casts or behind the scenes on most shows. OPLA is special.

So, I got curious. Which pairs of characters do y'all think have the most onscreen chemistry? It can be romantic, platonic, rivals, mentor-mentee. It's up to you how you interpret!

Personally, I love the growing platonic love between the crew in season 1. Nami and Luffy are great (Emily and Inaki do so well growing that onscreen bond), same with Nami and Zoro, Usopp with all, and eventually Sanji.

Sadly, I could only include 12 options here, so I've added the first 12 that entered my head (whether or not they had a lot of scenes together). Let me know if there's a pair that had more chemistry but didn't make my list! (I'm sure I'll have an ah-ha moment after I post this poll...😅)

[karihighman]

may I present meleric? because Chenford really is THAT SHIP. 😍🙌

[casmick-consequences]

Lucius lovingly hiding his face in Petes shoulder is something that can be so personal

[bisexualsfromouterspace]

GILLIAN ANDERSON as MEREDITH PLAYING BY HEART (1998) dir. Willard Carroll

[khaothanawat]

i swear, every week p’au appears on twitter to inform us that gemini and fourth were on that set improvising every single cute ass tinngun moment themselves… like sir, what do you MEAN that first kiss in the park was all gem and fourth’s doing?

the devil works hard but gemini and fourth on the my school president set truly worked harder 😭

[shima-draws]

Someone ACTUALLY just tried to tell me that it’s more “morally acceptable” to ship Luffy and Hancock than it is to ship Sanlu. Are you for REALLLLLL

[teenwolf-theoriginals]

i’ve played this part of the interview more times than i care to admit. i love everything about it. the groups chemistry. danielle and amita’s laughter at “kazzle dazzle” and “have you lost your minds?”. freddy’s little smile when he says “they don’t exist” when kit mentions videos of freddy dancing. and then there’s jack and calahan being soft cinnamon rolls in the back.

[captainpikeachu]

Seven and Shaw’s dynamic is endlessly fascinating to me

He won’t respect her name due to his Borg trauma but will not hesitate to die for her

She will call him out for being a disrespectful bigoted asshole but will not sacrifice his life

I’ve never seen two people this Angy™️ at each other but will still die for each other

It’s such a differently unique Captain and XO dynamic when compared to the other captains and first officers on the other shows

[politicallydreadful]

Jimmy is canonically getting called a shrimp and injuring himself trying to open jam jars and Thomas is like "oh my god this is my dream man".

[acuriousmindsblog]

[thebroccolination]

{ Gawin & Krist On and Off the Set of Be My Favorite }

[pynkhues]

Oh but can you IMAGINE what it woulda been like if Christina Hendricks and Manny Montana did just ONE. ONE delicious promo interview together, sitting side by side, talking about the show, their characters, their dynamics together, brio. Just... The off screen chemistry? The... Well I guess tension... I mean CAN YOU IMAGINE?

I know, I know, there were (probably) some behind the scenes issues and everything but.... I mean, the chemistry was undeniable throughout and I just wish we got to see how they interacted and their dynamics outside the show. The frenzy it would send the fandom into. FRENZY.

The fact that we only have two behind the scenes photos of them out of character and literally nothing else will forever be our cross to bear as a fandom, anon.

Like Christina Manny bts pics you will always be famous.

[mikuyuuss]

As much as I love to hate on Walt, there's also a part of me that can understand his frustrations of not being able to share his """"achievements""" with his family. Walt always felt like an underachiever. He is an overqualified highschool chemistry teacher. His students don't even respect him. He struggles trying to make ends meet just to provide for his family, and not to mention his regrets surrounding gray matter.. (which is kinda his fault, like Eliott offered to work with him again but he refused 🤷‍♀️) but the thing thing is, all of it served to make him feel humiliated and emasculated.

And then he got into the Meth Business and he is finally excelling at something that he is good at. He finally sees himself becoming the capable breadwinner of his family. Ofc he would be proud of it, I mean who wouldn't want to share your achievements with your loved ones and be recognized for it?

Except he can't, because his family would hate him if they knew he's a drug dealer. Rather than being the capable provider that he wished to be seen, Walt thinks that he is still very much the poor and helpless dad in the eyes of his family. I remember when Jr opened a website to help fund Walt's cancer treatment even though the latter is more than capable of paying for it. Then Jr gets featured on the tv for it and the whole time the focus was on him even if Walt was the one who secretly paid it. It was kinda funny ngl, but the point is Walt WANTS to be recognized but he couldn't and that frustrates him.(Except he is. Poor Flynn, he genuinely loved and looked up to his dad as A PERSON only Walt doesn’t see that.)

This is where Jesse Pinkman comes in. Jesse knew the side of Walt that his family doesn't, someone who he can share his criminal achievements and be recognized for it. They are partners after all, except Walt is the one in control.

I think its interesting how they put so much emphasis on Jesse being Walt's former highschool student. It already establishes the imbalance between them. Walt sees his job as a highschool teacher to be humiliating already and Jesse happens to be one of his inattentive students. So the fact that Jesse grew to admire and respect him is probably something that Walt views as an accomplishment. Jesse addressing Walt as "Mister White" is very telling. It's definitely the first step to fueling his ego, and it validates his want for power.

and I feel like as Walt became more and more estranged from his family. He starts projecting those frustrations to Jesse. His students don't take his classes seriously? well at least his former student Jesse does. His own son still thinks he is "helpless"? well at least Jesse doesn't. His wife hates him? At least he still got Jesse-

Walt wants to keep Jesse around him at all times to fuel his ego. He projects not just a teacher-student relationship with him, but also a pseudo son in him, and when its convenient for him, a pseudo mistress. (Like let's be real for a second, the Skyler and Jesse parallels are too obvious. One of the creators purposely mirrored some of their scenes, the actors even joke about it) Walt is just messed up like that.

and thus poor Jesse was dumped with fulfilling all of these different roles for Walt all at once (bc most of the important people in his life couldn't give that to him) It so happens that Jesse is a lonely and impressionable young man, who also seeks for validation, but in a mentor figure. This makes him susceptible to Walt's manipulations. All of these is what led to their relationship becoming as codependent and as toxic is we know in the show. By keeping Jesse around, Walt gets to have the sense of recognition that he always wanted.

[how-to-be-a-tree]

A time called you (2023) Ep.08 // Top Management (2018) Ep.09

[whoever-the-heck]

Just seeing these two in the same frame is giving me butterflies WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME

[kaladinkholins]

the irony of me thinking of mizu and akemi as two halves of a whole who complete each other, as the sun to the other's moon, as twin flames whose lives are intrinsically entwined; akemi is a part of mizu's soul and saving akemi in episode 8 is also symbolic of mizu saving herself—

me genuinely believing all that, all of which is inherently romantic. yet somehow i simply do not ship them at all and do not want them to end up together.