[ SECRET POST #2185 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2185 ⌋

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

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Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 034 secrets from Secret Submission Post #312.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[velvet_mace]

I dislike romantic subplots if the romance is not in any way important to the main plot. If somehow the romance adds to the characters motivations to complete the main plot, or complicates the solution to the main plot in an interesting and non-cheap way, then I'm all for it. But if it's just there because the producers feel that no one would be interested in a story about robot battles without two random humans making out at some point, then I feel like banging my head.

An example of a romance not working was the Startrek reboot. You could literally cut every single the Uhura/Spock romantic scene and have no non-Uhura/Spock scene be impacted by the loss. A romance that did work was in Contagion, because it was there solely to show how the infection impacted normal human behavior, of which romance and the longing for love is one of them. It would change the whole tone of the movie to have it missing.

[(Anonymous)]

Arguably, LotR made it work, too. Aragorn's biggest motivation to stop fearing his heritage and take back his throne was to win the right to ask Elrond for Arwen's hand. It was something I thought the movies did a much better job of explaining than the books did, honestly.

[velvet_mace]

It worked best for me in his reasons for not pursuing a relationship with Eowin -- he was taken. Eowyn's crush on Aragorn is an important part of her personal story arc which leads her to say (much politer than I do) "fuck men" saddle up and ride to glory. Plus, it added an important element to the world building: the divide between men and elves, they look alike, they live more or less alike, and yet because one has immortality and the other doesn't, there is this enormous friction.