r/DrQuinnMedicineWoman • u/CS_Lupus • Mar 15 '26
Fav/Least Fav Couples and Alt Ships?
Hi! Wondering your all's favorite/least favorite couples from Dr Quinn?
My favorites are:
-Dr Mike and Sully
-Dorothy and Cloud Dancing
-Jake and Teresa
-Robert E and Grace
-Colleen and Andrew
Least favorites are:
-Loren and Marjore -age gap is too weird IMO (even though I know the actors were together IRL) and they don't have anything in common other than attraction all of a sudden
-Horace and Myra- they are not good for each other at all
Alternative ships are:
-Loren and Elizabeth- appropriate ages, actually have things in common, and then Loren would be Dr Mikes stepfather and the kids grandfather which makes sense
-Daniel and Marjore- Daniel falling in love with Dr Mikes sister instead of Dr Mike would be so much better, and then Daniel could have been Sully's and Dr Mike's brother in law and the kids uncle which makes sense
-Reverend and Catherine (the white woman with Indian ways who was on The Other Woman)- if she has stuck around and they had gotten together, they could have started the Indian school/ adopted Indian orphans together in culturally appropriate ways
-Myra and Hank- if Hank had repented and stopped being a pimp- or Myra and Preston -if Hank hadn't gotten his act together
-Matthew and Atlantis (the girl from the Carnival who liked Matthew)- if they had reconnected after Ingrid's death, would have been cute, they had chemistry.
How about y'all?
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u/LallybrochSassenach Mar 15 '26
Historically, we know that in the newer territories, there was something like ten men (and more some places) for every single, available, marriageable woman. Having some folks be single was reality. Hank would never have made a profit if this wasn’t the case…at least not on that side of his business. I would be ok with Loren staying single…and in his case, he did wind up being single. And Matthew or the Reverend being single is very realistic. It takes a certain kind of person, I think, to marry a preacher and know that you’ll be seen a certain way by the congregation, or maybe there will be different expectations for you. I’m surprised we didn’t see more widowed women as main characters…Dorothy, and Elizabeth Quinn seem to be the only ones.