Rants against things I don't get: The Phantom of the Opera

[sevenswells]

So recently there's been a few (a lot) of crossover fanarts Sherlock/The Phantom of the Opera. I have to say, I am horrified.

Why do people like the Phantom's character? Why do people think it's a "beautiful love story"? I don't get it. The same people might shun Twilight because the main female character gets repeatedly abused by the main male

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[lotusduck]

with you ALL THE WAY I loved the Phantom when I was about 7 and I still know all the songs, (although I guess you might not mean the Weber version?) somewhere around, I don't know, age 9, I watched it again and just went 'wait...what?'
I blame a false notion of selflessness.
A lot of people get confused about selflessness.
Giving to someone who can't give anything back is selfless.
Giving to someone who won't give anything back is idiotic.
I had a friend in an abusive relationship who kept going back to him, to help him, she said it was selfish to abandon him just because she was hurt, but really, it's selfish to abandon EVERYONE ELSE. When you devastate your well being and every other semi-decent relationship you're in, in order to love someone who shits all over your love on a regular basis, YOU are being not just irrational, but selfish. I don't know how it is that people ask me for advice on this stuff but people really do think you can love someone's ENTIRE PERSONALITY away, and that's the same as sticking with a decent person when they're going through a hardship that strains their ability to be kind all the time? What the hell.

But some other commenters here are probably right, the intellectual part of it could make it interesting: a romance that is completely and totally fucked up, but they're in it because they make art together, and that's what's important.
Wait, that might be more fucked up. I hate the notion that you basically have to be a bad person to be a great artist, but at the same time, for those of us who are sorta bad people, it gives us something to aspire toward, although it's interesting that Phantom and Christine are not doing it for future audiences, but just for the sake of the music as a whole. Kind of one of those 'shit's fucked up, small amount of beauty, then everything is finished and ruined forever' format stories.