[quote]Ser Bard wrote...
admires her new sig look at that my two favourite non-romancables together. [/quote]
You know there is still hope for both getting romancable

[/quote] It's hard to find ME fic that doesn't tear down the ME1 LIs in some way. You're reading a okay fic and suddenly Kaidan was a stalker on SR1 or he's painted as a complete douche because of Horizon. [/quote]
That is true - unfortunately, romance in ME1 is quite hard to avoid and if Shepard does really not show any sign of interest Kaidan and Ashley should normally not except otherwise from Shepard, but they do and this is why it feels forced and this feeling seems to be added by some fans to their fics.
And concerning Horizon I believe the people who did not play ME1 have really a disadvantage because they don't get to know the main characters in ME1 and all the things Cerberus did. So the behaviour of Kaidan and Ashley on Horizon is very difficult to understand.
But I think Horizon adds some interesting possibilities to the role-playing of your Shepard, because a Shepard that romanced someone in ME1 could realise in ME2 that he/she has stronger feelings for Joker....
I hope that if we get a Jokermance in ME3 that this is possible even if Shepard had a LI in ME1 or ME2, it would give some more possibilities for role-playing.