User blog comment:Corbierr/Two things that bugs me about fictional romances/@comment-25576856-20150127031539

Analysis rant? You know what that means: long comment time!

Ah, romance. Either I love it or it makes me want to hurl in a bucket. It's usually the latter, but when a good one comes around, I ship it HARD. (If Light reads this, tell him that I say hello and that I am Darkness. Mwahahahaha. Ok bye.) Cliches are usually what make me want to hurl in the first place. And super sweet mushy gooey romantic stuff. But I'm getting off topic.

Ugh, Legend? *face-palms* I read the first book, and...ugh. It was...not good, to say the very, very least. The only reason June and Day saved each other equally was because they were basically the exact same character, just different genders. But this is a rant for another time. (Not to mention their romance was insta-love.)

The protector: usually when there's a danger situation, ex: fantasy, one of them tends to protect the other. It's often the male, but that's changed, which is a good thing but also a bad thing because it forces one of them to be submissive. I find that ridiculous. Why can't they be equals? Ugh, Fabina. I do not like Fabina. They broke up because they were "best friends?" Isn't that a good thing to build a relationship on? Peddie--sure, the breakups were ridiculous, but they didn't really break up; they got into some stupid fights, which were resolved. I wish the writers had given them a break. Jara was all one-sided--it was Mara giving Jerome support, but when Mara needed support from Jerome in the Mara-vs-Vera case, he ran off to play ping pong with Alfie. Jeroy is too quick (but plausible, I guess), and I thought Mickra was cute, but not a substantial relationship. They didn't really connect in a deeper, emotional way--it was all cutesy flirtations and charm, nothing more. That's why Mara got over him so quickly and she was able to let him go. In season 3, Eddie was for sure the dominant one in the relationship, and that REALLY bothered me. Fiery, badass Patricia being the quieter, submissive one? He completely dominated their relationship. In season 2, they were equals. But not only did season 3 mess up my Eddie, it also messed up my OTP. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

I agree with pretty much everything in your blog. I guess this comment wasn't as long as I expected. Sorry about that!