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⌈ Secret Post #2861 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

At least half same here.

I love romance as a concept. All my fav songs are love songs. I read so many romance novels. I'm a romantic at heart.

But movies/TV (that aren't romantic in nature) LEAVE THE ROMANCE OUT.

What I mean by that is movies/tv where the romance isn't a major part. Like romantic comedy/romance movies (I eat them up like a spoon) or more dramatic ensemble shows like Parenthood, Nashville, teen dramas.. etc. Romcom/shoujo anime, sports anime like Baby Steps where romance is a big thing don't count.

I mean like action/superhero movies, procedural cop shows, lawyer shows, plotty/action shounen anime, sports anime, etc. I know that there's occurrences where the romance is well-written with a good build up, but most of them seem just so "mandatory" and predictable. Just because a man and a woman work together or are in close proximity, romance needs to form apparently. And a male and a female can't be best friends without some form of romantic entanglement from at least one of them. (Thinking anime)

Oh, a man and a woman team up in the pilot of a procedural show. You know where that's headed.
A sports team with a female manager - one of the players needs to develop a crush on her, you know? It's mandatory.
A superhero/(or shounen anime protag) needs to have a girlfriend or a crush, so he can protect her and she can be kidnapped by the bad guys!

So it's not really the romance itself, but the way they do it. The execution, the pairings they choose. (Oh these two characters work together and they're man and woman - we need to hook them up! (NICS and other procedurals)) Just because.

[(Anonymous)]

Not OP but yeah, this. I'm sooo tired of [primary male character] and [primary female character] inevitably getting together in tv shows. I'm so tired of will they or won't they romance. I'm so tired of how utterly predictable TV romance always, always is, to that point that I've literally dropped shows over it.

I really wish we could get something surprising! Or just leave romance out of most shows all together.

[(Anonymous)]

This.

When the romantic elements are that predictable, badly-executed and forced into the storyline (that could have played out exactly the same way without it) just for the sake of it, I'd much prefer it was left out too.

[(Anonymous)]

Yep.

The problem is that such romances are often so interchangeable. You could transplant them from one setting to another or from one couple to another and it would make no difference.

The worst part is that I feel like the female characters get shafted because they all get written into the same, boring, generic love interest slot instead of interesting members of the team.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

In one of my fandoms there's a female character who has a ton of potential, but who's been written exactly that way. If she'd been written with her own agenda that wasn't reliant on one of the existing male characters then she could have been amazing. As it stands she's just window-dressing and the story wouldn't be any different without her.

I'd have loved to see the character getting her own storyline and her own importance in the plot, but tacked on as 'romantic interest' just turns me off completely.

[(Anonymous)]

it's strange to me that you're averse to the stereotypical trope-y way romance is handled in tv/movies but love it in books. if a book and a tv show did the same plot the same way, why does the tv show bother you more than the book? what exactly is causing this negative reaction? it's not the trope, it's the medium, but you're not actually exploring that aspect of it.

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

If a book and a tv show did the same plot the same way it would bother me the same, 100%.

The thing is though I don't read the same genres that I watch on tv. Sci fi/sports/fantasy/action/casefic/ etc bore me in books, but I love them visualized.

For books I seek out romance and the romance is usually a big part of the story so I feel differently about it, even if I hate the execution on a case by case basis.

I don't read mainly action/other-wise plotty books too often (for the reason I stated above), but I imagine I'd feel the same if I did.