[ SECRET POST #368 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #368 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

- First comment is: Name That Fandom!!

Secrets Left to Post: 08 pages, 150 secrets from Secret Submission Post #053.
Secrets Not Posted: [1] [2] broken links, 0 not!secrets, [1] not!fandom, [1] personal attack.
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Comments

Re: 44

[mekkio.livejournal.com]

Characters who are IC who are having sex are not going to be any less complex than they were beforehand, when they were friends/enemies/wtfever. In fact, adding another level to that can make it more complex, if done well, or just shift it to a different level of complexity.

I have to strongly disagree about this because again, for Buffy, it became all about the sex with her and Spike. The complexity that was there before was shoved out of the window.

Same thing when Tara died and Willow went with Kennedy. The writers didn't have a clue what to do with that relationship either. So, it because a mainly sexual based one. The characters had nothing in common. Why were they together?

Or in Angel. Cordelia had a great platonic relationship with Angel. The writers decided to make the two of them romantically involved and ended up killing Cordelia's character in the process. Literally. They killed her character off because afterwards the writers stated there was no where else to take the character. Seriously, whiskey tango foxtrot is that?

Now I don't think two people who are lovers are somehow less...worthy. I just think it's a cop-out. I mean, it's an easily turned to writing device when people are trying explain why such and such likes such and such. Gay, straight, bi, doesn't matter. And my main problem isn't the use of it, it's the VAST amount of use of it. If this was a seldomly use plot device, you would get no debate from me. It's the fact that 9 times out of 10, it's what writers go to.

And, yes, I mean all of fandom and fiction. Look at it out there. TV, movies, books, it's used too, too much. It has practically become an adlib game of just fill the following blank spaces. "__name__ is with __name__ because he/she/it is in love with him/her/it."

It's the story of every other indie movie out there.

And I am bored with it. Enough already.