12-10-2014, 02:14 PM
The thing is, most happy and stable relationships aren't preceded by seven or eight years of hesitation and breakups. Are they???
IDG this idea that it's "more realistic" for two characters to spend the entire run of the series on this "will they, won't they" stuff. I don't believe this philosophy that it's somehow deeper, more true to life, more emotionally honest to portray two characters spending *years* vacillating and having conflicts before finally getting together. Better than what, exactly?
Is this really any more realistic than a fairy tale where the two characters fall in love instantly? How many people have heard their parents say "yes, we went back and forth for ten years, then we finally settled down and were perfectly happy from that point onward"?? Not mine.
It's so tedious. It also assumes that marriage is the goal of any "real" relationship. Characters can't just be casually dating, or even living together without being married.
We can have jokes about incest, pedophilia, STDs, and spitting in people's mouths, but we can't have characters who are together without a formal commitment, without marriage as the "finish line"?
I go
when I hear the cast and writers start rhapsodizing about how "deep", and rich, and meaningful, and realistic, and truthful, these tedious ships are. So pretentious.
They're stretching out the ships because they want their ten years' worth of $$$. Plain and simple.
IDG this idea that it's "more realistic" for two characters to spend the entire run of the series on this "will they, won't they" stuff. I don't believe this philosophy that it's somehow deeper, more true to life, more emotionally honest to portray two characters spending *years* vacillating and having conflicts before finally getting together. Better than what, exactly?
Is this really any more realistic than a fairy tale where the two characters fall in love instantly? How many people have heard their parents say "yes, we went back and forth for ten years, then we finally settled down and were perfectly happy from that point onward"?? Not mine.
It's so tedious. It also assumes that marriage is the goal of any "real" relationship. Characters can't just be casually dating, or even living together without being married.
We can have jokes about incest, pedophilia, STDs, and spitting in people's mouths, but we can't have characters who are together without a formal commitment, without marriage as the "finish line"?
I go
when I hear the cast and writers start rhapsodizing about how "deep", and rich, and meaningful, and realistic, and truthful, these tedious ships are. So pretentious. They're stretching out the ships because they want their ten years' worth of $$$. Plain and simple.