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.
Exactly. It's the author's treatment of that kind of relationship that annoys the hell out of me. If is honest and shows all of the quirks and dysfunctionality of that kind of love affair, I really wouldn't have a problem with it. Or if the author had one of the characters start as a co-dependent person, and grow into a self reliant independent character, that's not a problem either. But when two characters head off into the sunset, holding hands, about to live out the happily ever after part of their story, they'd better not be co-dependant nitwits at that point, cause I'm not going to be rooting for them.
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.
Oh agreed, about the revenge thing. I could see him maybe chasing after Revan if Morgana didn't exist, but only if he got the chance to get to know her as a person, because you make a valid point about him having a distaste for Jedi.
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.
ahahaha - I love how you put it. You're right, both Atton and the Exile are "nut jobs." That's too damn funny.
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Exactly. It's the author's treatment of that kind of relationship that annoys the hell out of me. If is honest and shows all of the quirks and dysfunctionality of that kind of love affair, I really wouldn't have a problem with it. Or if the author had one of the characters start as a co-dependent person, and grow into a self reliant independent character, that's not a problem either. But when two characters head off into the sunset, holding hands, about to live out the happily ever after part of their story, they'd better not be co-dependant nitwits at that point, cause I'm not going to be rooting for them.
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.
Oh agreed, about the revenge thing. I could see him maybe chasing after Revan if Morgana didn't exist, but only if he got the chance to get to know her as a person, because you make a valid point about him having a distaste for Jedi.
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.
ahahaha - I love how you put it. You're right, both Atton and the Exile are "nut jobs." That's too damn funny.