I'm more on board with "heroine has to pick between two guys representing different thematic stuff" than "guy wants the perfect cool woman who is inexplicably with another guy who ignores her".
Yeah, I agree on both counts. I'm not big on love triangles anyway, and I prefer when there's at least more complexity to it. Not to mention that it ended up taking over when a lot more could have been explored.
My ONLY thought is that he was perhaps trying to subvert the trope, since generally those end in the "right" guy being picked.
. (Does he have the experience of being the second leg in a love triangle?)
Maybe he does? He has said a lot of this is based on real experiences, and I'd like to know what aspects as nothing in the show seems to mirror his professional life, at least. However, I thin he was either trying to turn around a cliche, or wanted to explore a love triangle because it's a common formula. Given the art form of the season, though, I'm beginning to lean towards the former. Unfortunately I do think other potential plotlines and character exploration was downgraded for it.
I think it really depends how you define "know". The majority of Austen's work is about awkward social situations and people being idiots or jerks, which anyone observant can know about, and the romance is largely buried until the end.
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Date: 2017-05-21 08:48 pm (UTC)Yeah, I agree on both counts. I'm not big on love triangles anyway, and I prefer when there's at least more complexity to it. Not to mention that it ended up taking over when a lot more could have been explored.
My ONLY thought is that he was perhaps trying to subvert the trope, since generally those end in the "right" guy being picked.
. (Does he have the experience of being the second leg in a love triangle?)
Maybe he does? He has said a lot of this is based on real experiences, and I'd like to know what aspects as nothing in the show seems to mirror his professional life, at least. However, I thin he was either trying to turn around a cliche, or wanted to explore a love triangle because it's a common formula. Given the art form of the season, though, I'm beginning to lean towards the former. Unfortunately I do think other potential plotlines and character exploration was downgraded for it.
I think it really depends how you define "know". The majority of Austen's work is about awkward social situations and people being idiots or jerks, which anyone observant can know about, and the romance is largely buried until the end.
Very good point.