I just want to say that I read popular pairings because that's the pairings I find the most long fic in. It's the popular thing. I'm not a pairing-vigilante by any means. I'm a development person. The story must sufficiently develop a climate for me to believe the pairing works. I'm not going to yell Emperor Palpatine would never fall in love with Princess Leia!, but I'm not going to believe it unless the fic writer does some serious, heavy duty work on the story line. And well, I'd be pretty skeeved by it, because the emperor was seriously gross when she was an adult.