[ SECRET POST #4366 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4366 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Dustin and Lucas had a season where they weren’t involved with it. As opposed to Max who feels like she was solely introduced for love interest related friction. Also it’s different because the male characters get arcs outside of who is gonna get the girl.

[(Anonymous)]

the male characters get arcs outside of who is gonna get the girl

You mean as opposed to... Eleven? Joyce?

[(Anonymous)]

eleven and Joyce both could have had arcs without love interests. Yet they still got shoe horned into the role. When you have four female main characters and all of them get stuck in relationships when they could be independent of it that’s not a good thing.

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NAYRT

It's tricky to talk about them being "shoe horned into" the role, when the male characters are engaged in romantic storylines to pretty much the same extent. Is there something different about the way the male and female characters are treated in those storylines? Or is this an expectations thing where we particularly want to see female characters who don't have romantic storylines?

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DA

Seconding everything you're saying here.

Is there something different about the way the male and female characters are treated in those storylines?

My opinion is, no, not especially.

Or is this an expectations thing where we particularly want to see female characters who don't have romantic storylines?

I'm completely fine with how the show's been going in this regard. I mean, I could have done without the lucas/sadie/dustin thing, and if it were entirely up to me steve/nancy/johnathan would be a threesome, but I wasn't particularly bothered by the relationship stuff in S2. However, I think you're right about a lot of viewers have a desire to see female characters in particular without romantic storylines, and being annoyed when that desire isn't met.

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