Just that both (as near as I can tell) are focused on having an OTP.
I don't need to like the canon pairing so much as I have difficulty if I dislike it. But a lot of that is because i'm big on relationships in general, and don't do well when there are important relationships that rub me wrong. It's just that the ones that do rub me wrong tend to be romantic ones. (For non-romantic example, possibly more than anything else, the sheer disrespect the men in SGA showed to Elizabeth-who was supposedly their friend in addition to their boss-is what pissed me off. I'm also really big on respect in general, and when pairings annoy me, it's usually because of a respect issue. See: Special A. I probably could have handled it if he had indicated that he respected her, but instead, his disrespect was part of his True Love. And even though I actually dislike the pairing in general-there are others in the show I do like, though-I can handle Heero/Relena because there is eventually respect there, weird as it is. In Heroes, I pretty much hate every romantic pairing in the show except D.L./Nikki. I don't particularly like that pairing a lot, either, but I don't mind it because D.L. is the only guy who treats his S.O. with respect-well, Nathan kinda does, but he also cheated on her with a random stranger 5 minutes after talking about how great she was-and accepts that she may have had to do things while he was gone, and he doesn't judge her for that. The respect thing is also why I can never completely figure out how I feel about Mal/Inara.)
I do know some people who ship because it's canon. In general, though, they seem to stick to more romance-centric canons (shoujo romance, kdramas, etc.) so I suppose it does make sense there. But I do see people who are pretty clearly just shipping because it's the canon pairing, even if they admit it. People who don't ever ship can pairings seem to be more open about it, for whatever reason.
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I don't need to like the canon pairing so much as I have difficulty if I dislike it. But a lot of that is because i'm big on relationships in general, and don't do well when there are important relationships that rub me wrong. It's just that the ones that do rub me wrong tend to be romantic ones. (For non-romantic example, possibly more than anything else, the sheer disrespect the men in SGA showed to Elizabeth-who was supposedly their friend in addition to their boss-is what pissed me off. I'm also really big on respect in general, and when pairings annoy me, it's usually because of a respect issue. See: Special A. I probably could have handled it if he had indicated that he respected her, but instead, his disrespect was part of his True Love. And even though I actually dislike the pairing in general-there are others in the show I do like, though-I can handle Heero/Relena because there is eventually respect there, weird as it is. In Heroes, I pretty much hate every romantic pairing in the show except D.L./Nikki. I don't particularly like that pairing a lot, either, but I don't mind it because D.L. is the only guy who treats his S.O. with respect-well, Nathan kinda does, but he also cheated on her with a random stranger 5 minutes after talking about how great she was-and accepts that she may have had to do things while he was gone, and he doesn't judge her for that. The respect thing is also why I can never completely figure out how I feel about Mal/Inara.)
I do know some people who ship because it's canon. In general, though, they seem to stick to more romance-centric canons (shoujo romance, kdramas, etc.) so I suppose it does make sense there. But I do see people who are pretty clearly just shipping because it's the canon pairing, even if they admit it. People who don't ever ship can pairings seem to be more open about it, for whatever reason.