User blog comment:Corbierr/Relationship Analysis- Jeroy/@comment-25576856-20141228023115

When I first saw that this blog was posted, the first thing I thought was, Yay, Izzy's doing another analysis series! Ah, you're doing a Fabina bash next! Oh, how I love to see that couple bashed... (Sorry, mom.)

Anyways, onto my comment: I cannot help but ship them, despite them being a solely season 3 couple (and I'm biased against season 3) and the arguments you wrote about. You're right: something about them is just so shippable. I never shipped Jara, which is probably part of the reason I ship these two. Jara is not as shippable as Jeroy, probably because it was sort of one-sided: Mara was giving Jerome help, but she got nothing in return from Jerome. However, Jeroy sort of click: they're both the sneaky outcasts of the house who have had interactions with Sibuna. But the real reason the writers did Jeroy is for romance drama. And here's the problem with the show in a nutshell: the writers don't let the characters grow on their own; they force them into doing things solely for plotlines. It would have been much too easy to just pair up Joy with the now-single Fabian; there's a lack of drama there. Eddie has the Patricia/KT drama, Alfie has the Amber/Willow thing, and I already mentioned Fabian, leaving Jerome's Jara as the only candidate for Joy's love life drama. I would have much preferred seeing the two have a rivalry. I really wish Patricia and Joy could have teamed up against Jerome (and Alfie) as rivals; that would have been ideal. But since that could never happen due to Patricia's s3 Eddie obsession, the writers broke up Joytricia, instead giving us jealous Patty, crying Joy, and cheating Jerome. I still can't put my finger on why Jeroy is so shippable.

Sorry for the long reply. You know I tend to get rant-y. A summary: I hate season 3.