ramblings, mostly on shipping and related type things

[meganbmoore]

Long-ish and maybe a bit ranty.

1. The Love Triangle:  Love triangles?  Generally, they suck.  Why?  Because almost always, one character is just clearly WRONG for the one with two options.  As a result, the only real suspense is when the party with options will make the right choice.  A a result, the 3rd wheel almost always comes off looking bad.

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[forgottenpolish]

Casablanca <3

[kinkytinky]

Ilsa loved Rick more than she did Laszlo. Laszlo was the responsible choice.

[meganbmoore]

more passionately, maybe, but i don't think more in general. but yes, he was the responsible choice.

[southerndave]

"Authority issues and antisocial tendencies"

* resembles that remark *

goes back to being a grouchy guy

[meganbmoore]

yes, but do you regularly kill people with sharp pointy things?

[southerndave]

That can be arranged. (How do you like your middle-management bozos: chopped or thinly sliced?)

And I forgot to mention that the first thing I thought of when I read the title of this post was "I know, freight and postage costs are just phenomenal these days..."

[chomiji]

>> freight and postage costs are just phenomenal these days... <<

LOL! Thanks for the first out-loud laugh of the day! (I'm a sucker for dumb puns ...)

[fivil]

But usually? We get an obvious OTP, and then a third wheel put in either from the start, or later on to make things "interesting." Bah.
Yeah, I hate love triangles. I hate that they're so prevalent in a lot of Asian things though I can put up with them occasionally. Like in Hana Kimi, I wouldn't bump off Xiu Yi/Nakatsu because he's a third wheel because he's harmless to the OTP and he's just fun to watch.

In some things it just pisses me off when they have a ton of scenes between the wrong OTP in a love triangle and some people start shipping that.. I mean, I don't really care but when it's so obvious that the real OTP is the OTP that's gonna survive, it seems so pointless (unless something happens like that the original OTP goes stale and the wrong OTP becomes oddly preferrable).

[meganbmoore]

love the icon.

But yeah, in hana kimi and iswak, they're harmless...we dont mind but the possibility of it happening is never a threat. its just when they decide there needs to be a real contender that it gets annoying, for that to work, it has to be really, really good. the only doramas i've seen really pull it off are damo and emperor of the sea.

[fivil]

My biggest love triangle irk at the moment is the kdrama Hello! Miss where it's so obvious the OTP guy is Dong-gyu, who is adorable and hot but clueless in the field of romance so he occasionally says the wrong thing but can also be really sweet etc. But then naturally there's his playboy cousin Chan-min who's really quite gross to me, as he claims to be in luv with the lead girl (and probably is) but he's just so sleazy and when he gets the chance, he dresses her up in the shortest skirt imaginable (long story short, to me it's a sign he wants to mold her into somebody she's not).. I stopped watching so it's possible he became a sweet person at some point but if that did happen, I'll be disappointed as it doesn't feel like he deserves the girl.

[meganbmoore]

yeah, if they make you wonder, you need to wonder because they're both such good choices, not because instinct says one and plot contrivance the other.

[alexandral]

I also think Ilsa didn't really love Laslo. or she did, but with the totally different type of love, the way one can worship an awesome war hero or something. I don't think she chosen the safer option, just the one that was right in her moral sense. I love this part about moral sense very much!

[meganbmoore]

not being the exact same kind of love doesnt make one love more or less. And, honestly, neither Rick nor Laszlo would have let her leave if they thought she didn't love him, because her happiness was a priority to both of them...if either thought she would unquestionably be better off or happier with Rick than with Laszlo, they wouldn't have let her get on the plane, no matter what her moral sense was telling her. after all, in the end, it wasn't her that made the choice, but rick.