Talk:Secret Garden/@comment-27038594-20160111130719/@comment-26416285-20160116022934

There is no shipping in this episode.

To elaborate in a more tl;dr way, shipping is just the most obvious way to have two characters interact with each other. Another way is just to have them be friends, who may develop some type of bond that is somehow unique compared to how the other characters relate to each other.

Starfire and Cyborg both share kind of a sense of nostalgia for "simpler times" so to speak: Starfire with her Tamaranian anecdotes and Cyborg with his 80's pop culture refernces. As a result, they both share the desire at times to escape from the modern world, which perhaps many of us do at times.

If the episode had been about junk food or video games, Cyborg might have joined BB in some magical sancuary of laziness--indeed, that has probably happened several times already. But the theme was managing stress, and Robin, Raven and BB all have naturally aggressive ways of doing that. So Cyborg and Starfire was just the pairing that made the most sense, as was the case in Hose Water.