User blog comment:Corbierr/Two things that bugs me about fictional romances/@comment-25576856-20150127031539/@comment-25576856-20150127053846

That's true, but the only reason anyone gave bland ol' Nina the time of day was the mystery. Come on, would Alfie really rather hang out with her than with his awesome best friend prankster Jerome, who is much more fun than Nina? And would Patricia rather hang out with her than with Joy (before the whole fight thing and having no friendship in season 3)? And the same goes for Fabian. Sure, he was nice to her at first, but that's his personality. It's fine for it to start out as a crush, but it stayed as nothing more than a crush and a little fllirtation all the way until she left. It didn't develop, only went through pointless Jabina drama.

Agreed, but with all the stuff going on in the season 2 finale, they didn't have time for a pointless little Mickra moment. After Mick left for Australia, he didn't matter anymore. Not to Mara, and not to anyone else.

See, this is something that could have been great for Joytricia! Joy could have given her Eddie advice and told her not to do things that aren't herself for a boy. (Maybe she could have given her a little slap because of Patricia's "slap me if I ever get like this over a boy" line. But she wouldn't dare ;) It would have been funny though.) Joy would have told her not to wear the dress and not to focus all on Eddie. She could have taken her mind off him with friendship stuff. But no, she was too busy obsessing over Jerome. I'm sure Eddie would hate it if she turned all girly and he'd have helped her go back to normal. Still, it bothers me how he was her central storyline.