User blog comment:Dplcrnj/Reasons for HOA Beginning to Fail/@comment-5528071-20130222051206/@comment-4816103-20130224040411

LOL, don't worry, I'm a teenage girl too. And I also do love the romance part of the show. I just personally don't believe that the romance should take control like it did last time. I know it's really important and I'm not saying we don't need it, because we do, we just don't need it to be overpowering. I think it's balanced now, because there IS romance, but it's being weaved in more subtly and it works. At least in my mind.

I mean, last season the romance did sort of overwhelm the show. Patricia, who was season 1's one woman mystery solving army was suddenly rarily seen doing anything but Peddie stuff, Nina spent more time worrying about Jabian than the mystery, etc. I feel like the only character who wasn't bogged down by the romance was Jerome. Not that there is anything bad with this, season 2 was still great, I just prefer it this way, with a nice balance of romance and mystery for basically everyone. (I say everyone because we know Jerome, Mara and Willow will get involved somehow.)