[ SECRET POST #5147 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5147 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

But your example, IMO, is not describing a story involving a romance, so it is not disagreeing with anything at all.

[(Anonymous)]

No, I mean that's an ending I like that I think even romantic stories could try to emulate more often. I'd start with all the superhero movies. Just de-emphasize getting people together as being a necessary part of a story.

[(Anonymous)]

These are two separate arguments though.
1) A story involving romance should have a resolution to that romance, in one way or another. Indeed, stories of any kind generally need to have some kind of resolution because that's how, you know, story-telling works. You seem to disagree with that, and that's your right but many people do want (and "feel better" when) stories follow expected structures and beats.
2) Movies, especially action and superhero movies, often have unnecessary romances shoe-horned in when they probably would be better without them. That, I 100% agree with.

[(Anonymous)]

Being married to one particular way of How Things Work is how we get stale, cliched storytelling, a common complaint of romance. We can have romantic energy enhancing our adventures without people kissing at the end. Get the characters in an emotionally satisfying place, and let the outcome of their ‘ship’ be just another adventure they haven’t reached the end of yet.

[(Anonymous)]

There is a difference between recognizing HOW to tell a story in a way that fits audience expectations and desires, and "being married to one particular way". Your issue seems to be the kiss, not the actual resolution itself. There are indeed ways (and examples) of romances that don't end with the apparently horrible and dreaded physical affection between two characters who have fallen in love.

My point? You're still arguing for the same thing. Getting characters to an "emotionally satisfying place" IS a resolution to the ship/romance storyline...