3. Characters need to have a life outside of the romance.
This bugs me more in fiction than it does in real life (okay maybe they're equal). Having an obsessive co-dependant relationship (which happens a lot) is sick and will not work out, period. You have to have other goals and jaunts in life. So if this is displayed in a story there should be some mention of how bad it is and it shouldn't work out - because I'm not opposed to it completely since it happens in real life, but it's ridiculous how they act like it's okay.
6. Misunderstandings that can be solved by two adults sitting down for five minutes and talking like adults, should be solved that way.
Three's Company, 'nuff said.
8. So is OMG! ONE TRU WUV!!!!111!!!!.
This probably bothers me the most, because I get jumped on whenever I try to explain this to people. Revan and Carth were put together by a situation, because of the situation they work together and came together, but that doesn't make it better or worse than anything else. Carth would not spend four years trying to get revenge if he didn't love his wife fully. And if Revan had've come about any earlier or even AS A JEDI he would not have gone after her. (I seriously doubt Carth would hit on Jedi, he seems to have a distaste for them and before he knows she's Revan he doesn't really consider her a real Jedi and then ahahah too late Onasi).
But really there are lots of other people that could match your personality and click with you enough to develop into love. One true love, especially in Star Wars with a galaxy that big, is really tragic - meaning you have a very low probabilty of finding them.
Morgana and Carth were married. That's all there is to it, they had a child and the only thing Dustil ever complains about is Carth never being around (angst little boy angst), but putting Morgana as the bad guy and how Revan is so much better for Carth. PUH-lease.
So they're saying a widower who marries again didn't really love his first wife?
10. If a hero is not a nice man, then stop writing fluffy romances about him.
I keep trying to explain this to people as well, but I get smacked down. It takes a lot of character development for either of those two nut jobs to be stable enough to develop a romance - not to mention Force bonds that are nastier and more controlling than Revan and Bastila's. I mean, jeez.
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Date: 2005-05-08 09:25 pm (UTC)3. Characters need to have a life outside of the romance.
This bugs me more in fiction than it does in real life (okay maybe they're equal). Having an obsessive co-dependant relationship (which happens a lot) is sick and will not work out, period. You have to have other goals and jaunts in life. So if this is displayed in a story there should be some mention of how bad it is and it shouldn't work out - because I'm not opposed to it completely since it happens in real life, but it's ridiculous how they act like it's okay.
6. Misunderstandings that can be solved by two adults sitting down for five minutes and talking like adults, should be solved that way.
Three's Company, 'nuff said.
8. So is OMG! ONE TRU WUV!!!!111!!!!.
This probably bothers me the most, because I get jumped on whenever I try to explain this to people. Revan and Carth were put together by a situation, because of the situation they work together and came together, but that doesn't make it better or worse than anything else. Carth would not spend four years trying to get revenge if he didn't love his wife fully. And if Revan had've come about any earlier or even AS A JEDI he would not have gone after her. (I seriously doubt Carth would hit on Jedi, he seems to have a distaste for them and before he knows she's Revan he doesn't really consider her a real Jedi and then ahahah too late Onasi).
But really there are lots of other people that could match your personality and click with you enough to develop into love. One true love, especially in Star Wars with a galaxy that big, is really tragic - meaning you have a very low probabilty of finding them.
Morgana and Carth were married. That's all there is to it, they had a child and the only thing Dustil ever complains about is Carth never being around (angst little boy angst), but putting Morgana as the bad guy and how Revan is so much better for Carth. PUH-lease.
So they're saying a widower who marries again didn't really love his first wife?
10. If a hero is not a nice man, then stop writing fluffy romances about him.
I keep trying to explain this to people as well, but I get smacked down. It takes a lot of character development for either of those two nut jobs to be stable enough to develop a romance - not to mention Force bonds that are nastier and more controlling than Revan and Bastila's. I mean, jeez.