finished lovleg season 1, and it's such a beautiful, comforting show! however, while I know she ends up with luna, my loser brain keeps shipping sara and gunnhild together. with many wlw pairings (crisana for example, even though I adore them and joana as a character) I end up shipping the mc more often with a best friend or some other character who is presented through a less obviously "romantic" lens (idk if I'm making sense) than the LI. Like with cris, I end up often shipping her with amira. and here too, I get the feeling they were setting up luna and gunnhild from end of s1-ish, but I just ended up liking the idea of sarah and gunnhild more. might change my thoughts after S2 but you're the only lovleg stan I know from the skam blogs, so I felt like rambling!
Hi 💞💞 I love your ask, and I think it’s so interesting because you’re not the first person to ship Sara/Gunnhild. Lovleg was cancelled after 2 seasons, but I think it’s pretty clear that the showrunner could’ve done 6 seasons, and by the end of s2, she at least hoped to get a s3. So I think the place where lovleg ended is a satisfying ending, but, unlike other shows (or maybe LIKE other shows that met an untimely end), I think with lovleg you don’t necessarily think everyone is going to be with their significant other forever... and it’s fine. Like, maybe if lovleg had gotten all 6 seasons, whoever was together at the end would’ve been “endgame” in the way we’re supposed to believe evak, vagnus or noorhelm are endgame. But, in the place they ended, you know these characters will still grow up and change and find other people.
I also think that ultimately lovleg was kind of... trying to get their viewers NOT to ship the characters, weirdly enough. There was a point in s1 where some noorhelm shippers I know were watching the show and got excited and like, “ohh, this is it. This is THE ship.” And then the show was like, “Nah.” Whereas I think most other shows would’ve gone with that storyline. And, in general, I feel like that’s something the show really tried to do, avoid the kind of writing that encourages shipping.
That said, lovleg is similar to Skam España in that I believe the real love story of the show is friendship (and specifically the Sara/Gunnhild friendship), rather than the romantic couples. That’s probably why you find yourself shipping Sara/Gunnhild and Amira/Cris!
And lastly, like... (This has nothing to do with your ask, more me bemoaning that shows like lovleg are still so unknown by fandom at large.) I get why people got attached to the Skam remakes. There’s just a deep satisfaction that comes from having a good idea where the story begins, continues and ends. But it’s lowkey frustrating when people say, “oh, I wish a Skam remake did this or that” when a NRK show already has done that specific thing, in the format people want or a similar one. Like, “oh, i wish a Skam remake handled an anxiety disorder or featured a sapphic main.” See: lovleg. “I wish there was a Skam remake for young adults.” See: blank. “I wish there was a Skam remake for boys or one where the majority of the cast were poc.” See: 17. “I’d like to see another take on a hijabi character.” See: Lik Meg. (In fact, I think the one thing the remakes have done that a NRK show hasn’t done yet, is trans and nb characters.) Just because we’re watching the same story in 8 different countries doesn’t mean that NRK stopped making shows. I guess, maybe, people don’t really think a show is in the Skam format unless it has Skam in the name, or is based on the show Julie Andem wrote?
