The Stupid Helmet

It’s the same as how people participate in fandom. Participate and let others participate, as long as that participation doesn’t include purposely or maliciously hurting other real people. If a person’s main interest is critiquing a show they love, often that’s due to the love. They see the potential in a series and wish it hadn’t been squandered on what they view as bad writing.

Another fan might focus on expanding upon whenever the series canon ends for them. In T7S’s case, for some it’s when Hyde says, “No, I’ve decided [to marry Jackie].” For others it’s the end of season 7. For others still, it’s the end of season 8.

If one doesn’t enjoy the kind of (unharmful) content another fan produces, don’t read it / look at it, engage with it, etc. Scroll away.

I enjoy many kinds of T7S content. The kind I don’t, I ignore. On the T7S message board at Fan Forum, a group of fans wanted a thread dedicated to shipping Hyde/Samantha. My co-mod at the time and I set up that thread despite our personal preferences and opinion about that relationship. We did, as moderators, have to check on the thread to make sure posters followed both the message board's rules and Fan Forum's, so we couldn't ignore it. But that was a responsibility our role required.

Yes, if Hyde's characterization develops organically rather than being manipulated to serve plot, because Hyde would trust Jackie.

I love Lab Partners for Buddy x Eric (It helps to differentiate from my other Beric ship), Dyde for Donna x Hyde, and Kelfez for Kelso x Fez (sorry, I just can't call them Sex and Candy).

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Some ideas: Lovers and Fighters, Hot Rollers, Girl Talk

Blog followers, feel free to suggest others. They need to be related to Jackie and Laurie specifically to work. I used "Van Stock" (2x06) and "Cat Fight Club" (2x25) for the three above.

Note 1: Most of the original T7S fandom ship names were created long before I joined the fandom. Once I became a moderator of the T7S message board at Fan Forum, where the names were created, we changed a few (for a variety of reasons). Sex and Candy for Fez/Kelso is a holdover we never changed. It's inspired by the song of the same name by Marcy Playground (a song that got a lot of radio play in the late '90s when T7S began airing).

Note 2: I hate blends for ship names, partly because they sound silly to me, partly because they take no imagination, and partly because people used to create ship names with thought and effort and by consensus. The below isn't directed at the Anon but the use of blends as ship names

Let's take Dyde for Donna and Hyde as a prime example. It sounds like died. Which is exactly what Hyde's hope for a romantic relationship with Donna did: died. People from the T7S fandom pre-2010 and a little afterward would've found it hilarious because they hated the Donna/Hyde ship.

Beric makes me think of a bear.

Jelso makes me think of jealous or JELL-O.

Deric is the name Derek.

Jyde -- wtf is a Jyde? 😄

Burkhyde takes absolutely no imagination. Might as well just write Jackie x Hyde.

And so on.

But Zenmasters, Goons, Lab Partners all tie directly into the characters' relationship. They're instantly recognizable for fans of the show who've watched the show passionately enough take part in the fandom. Blends are lazy and don't always clearly indicate who the two characters in a ship are. Beric, for instance, could be Brooke/Eric. Generic. Non-informative.

Hyde would not be that verbally expressive, in my estimation. He has enough trouble expressing his emotions when in private with Jackie (or anyone trusts). Hopefully, he'll have grien more comfortable with it by the wedding. But Hyde is hardwired not to be verbally effusive.

I think he would have developed a silent, gesture-symbolic way of communicating his feelings to Jackie. He'd use a specific gesture as his vows, and she'd be the only one to understand.

Whenever I read in T7S fanfic Hyde speaking to Jackie like a generic romance novel character, I cringe. 😵‍💫 Hyde has, what I've called for over a decade, emotional constipation. Pushing out the words that express his feelings is very difficult. If he begins soliloquizing to Jackie about his love for her, unless he's under a magic spell of some kind, it's not Hyde.

A significant amount of emotional pressure is one reason he'd get out the words. At his and Jackie's wedding, he'd refuse to read vows he wouldn't write down anyway. He'd freeze up if he had to speak on the spot.

The best he could do is, "Jackie, you know how I feel. We wouldn't be getting hitched if I didn't plan on followin' through on what that means."

As usual, the answer depends on where Jackie and Hyde are in their relationship. From your ask, sounds like they're well-established and fully committed to each other.

Hyde's "jealousy" about Kelso is actually an insecurity specific to Kelso because of Jackie's relationship to Kelso and how she uses Hyde during S2-S3 to deal with her grief over Kelso.

Random dudes, I don't think Hyde would care too much about by the time he and Jackie have chosen to live their lives together. The exception is if they're having communication issues, meaning a problem exists in their relationship they haven't worked through yet. Otherwise, Hyde might tease Jackie about her new man-friend.

Donna grew up.with platonic mane friends, Hyde included, so I doubt Hyde would feel threatened by that. If one of those friends was attracted to Jackie and wanted more, Jackie herself would put an end to that. Unless the guy were aggressive and didn't understand, "No," is a complete sentence, Jackie would off-handedly tell Hyde about the non-situation.

Hyde (proud): That's my chick.

Jackie (straddling his lap, facing him): Exactly. (She cups his cheeks.) And you're my man, the only one I want.

They make out.

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If Jackie needed help with an aggressive male "friend" who won't stop pursuing her, at work she'd go to HR. If HR were useless, she'd use her lawyer. At college in the early 1980s, from what I've gathered from various sources, she'd have little to no resources on campus (I'd have to do real research to be accurate about this subject). Hyde beating up the guy could get him tossed in jail and her tossed from the school. So this situation is quite the conundrum.

Her dad would be out of prison by then (his sentence would only be nine months; this fact I did research, specific to his stated crimes, Wisconsin, and 1978. I actually found an almost one-to-one case that occured in Wisconsin that very year, and the man was sentenced nine months, which is the standard maximum).

Jack Burkhart would be Jackie's best bet in getting this guy off her back. Jack would deal with the college administration.

Over the years, other people and I have received somewhat heated asks that demonstrate a lack of knowledge about what John Gardner, literary author and teacher, called the fictive dream and how it applies to all stories -- including That '70s Show.

For people who'd like to learn why certain of Hyde and other T7S characters' actions are (considered) OOC (by others), read this meta. You'll also learn about what's called character drift, a problem that afflicts many TV shows.

No main character on T7S is exempt from the writers forcing them to act against their long-established natures to serve plot and punchline. When plot and punchline is put first, character consistency suffers.

Hyde sleeping with the nurse in S5 tends to divide T7S fans about whether or not it's in-character. Read this meta for why I believe it's not in-character and why the showrunners and writers seemed to have known it was out of character, too. Reading the text (i.e. dialogue and actions of the characters) closely often reveals the truth. 🧐