agentsterlingmaloryarcher:Obviously Lana is logically the best choice for Archer, she’s intelligen
agentsterlingmaloryarcher: Obviously Lana is logically the best choice for Archer, she’s intelligent, strong, beautiful, a total bad-ass, and his baby’s mother. But I’ll always believe Pam is perfect for Archer. I don’t really care what form, married, dating, field partners, or whatever. I can’t see one reason why they wouldn’t be awesome together….besides the fact Pam has fucked and beat the shit out of his mom. anyway I found this post by a Rando (get it) and thought it posed a good argument. Archer is by no means the well adjusted man of a girl’s dreams… Remember getting Woodhouse to raise her son until he was 6, then basically sending him off to prep-school until he was 18.. then getting him gayed out of the army. Damaging all of his solo prospects (bartender / burger chef) to the point at which she had Isis missions forcibly extract him from his solo-life. When he was imprisoned for weeks on end by Cyril, the dictator, she did NOTHING to get him freed. When his Fiancee was killed by Cyborg Barry, did she help him or empathize with him? No, she simply reinforced her prejudice against women with bangs. It’s a wonder Sterling is as empathetic as he is (which isn’t much) given the lifetime of raising by sociopathic and/or heroine-addicted adults who pretty much exclusively raised him. Archer’s relationships with other human beings are pretty much all under Mallory’s control. The one exception is his relationship with Pam, which Mallory is either too stupid or too gullible to realize is actually taking place. This is the one place where we can see Archer behaving as a mature human being. He explains his boundaries, and despite treating Pam like a sex object, doesn’t lead her on to believe that the relationship is other than it is. He helps Pam out in other episodes (the Smokey and the Bandit one / the Pam’s wedding one) where there is little, if any personal gain for going along with her hare-brained schemes. Point is, he has casual honest discussions with Pam, such as how the ISIS staff liked her less when she was doing cocaine, how she looked hot in her bridesmaid dress… I think the trigger here is honest. Sterling says that lying is 95% of what he does… yet with Pam he’s always been able to be honest, simply because he doesn’t care what she thinks. And She returns the favor… I mean, who’s the one person who didn’t give archer shit about Fourth of Ju-luau? Pam. Who’s the one person who ever claimed to be the “good buddy” of Archer? Pam. Who didn’t abandon Archer as a sexual contact despite him hooking up with his Cyborg Ex? Pam! The list goes on, but if I were forced to consolidate, I’d say Archer-Pam, Lana-Cyril, and Cheryl/Krieger. Any remaining parties can sort out the scrap as apportioned to them. via: Reddit -- source link