#wait. no. sorry. three examples. josh/rebecca/greg. but Idk that doesn't feel like A Triangle because josh was very obviously | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

musical-chick-13 · 3 months ago

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I am not going to say that Love Triangles are always bad or that they can't be thematically or narratively important/resonant, or that No One Should Write Them Ever.

I AM going to say, though, that I am extremely tired of them.

#there are two (2) triangles that I actually for-real will stick up for and I think strengthen the story #but SO many of them are just. handled Badly™#(and usually engineered to be COMPLETELY at the expense of one of the characters)#and this probably isn't fair of me but the second I hear that something has A Love Triangle in it #I immediately lose any pressing interest to read or watch it #I feel like more writers/showrunners/etc. need to just. do the work. so many of them do not Do The Work #(the two examples are hg trilogy and Favorite Musical btw. so it can work. the overwhelming majority of the time it just doesn't)#wait. no. sorry. three examples. josh/rebecca/greg. but Idk that doesn't feel like A Triangle because josh was very obviously #just an Attempt At Normalcy and Reclaiming That One Time She Was Happy rather than like. Undecided Feelings™.#but still. very important to the story however you label it. important to all 3 character's arcs. the show wouldn't be as effective w/o it.#I'm so sorry crazy-ex I can't BELIEVE I forgot you but in my defense I had a Breakdown™ earlier tonight that wrecked my brain function

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