Originally Posted by
Tawmis
Heather and Mac were the best couple in Alpha Flight. This is just ONE of the many things where I feel - yes, killing Mac was a "OMG!" moment - but it broke the book. Alpha Flight, at that point, should have just been a 12 issue limited series. Because it left the team without a leader for way too long - I feel like the book honestly floundered. And the fact that Heather and Mac were not a thing - and all these other pieces just seemed to fall apart for me. I would not have minded Heather and Puck together - as you said - they at least felt like they had some believable chemistry. I never liked Heather and Madison - because he went from looking like a pretty ugly guy - to being drawn as a more attractive guy so that it would work out visually. And to me - despite the "forced" chemistry - I don't feel like the two of them ever clicked.
As for Marinna and Dan - in recent years, I have wondered if John Byrne didn't have an odd fetish. For example, back in the day when I was reading Uncanny X-Men and was infinitely younger - it never bothered me about Kitty and Colossus (way back then). But in hindsight, she was probably about 13 and Colossus was probably at least 18 or a little older. That relationship suddenly becomes a little odd. And if Byrne had developed a relationship between Dan and Marinna - that too, might have been odd. I would have actually liked to see that struggle of a budding relationship - have Marinna meet Sub-Mariner, and then have that evolve because the common things between Marinna and Sub-Mariner. (I, however, would not have wanted her to turn into a beast and eventually be killed...)
Another relationship I was expecting to see in Alpha Flight was Snowbird and me... I mean... wait... did I just make it weird? ;)