Unpopular opinion time (super alpha no pony edition)

TheHappySpaceman
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Sweet F.A.
Honestly, these romance tropes are starting to feel super played out:  
-Love triangles  
-The “will they, won’t they?” dynamic stretched out for the entire runtime of a series  
-Characters waiting to hook up until the very end (see above)  
-Characters getting together and then breaking up only to get back together later  
-Red herring romance characters  
-Basically everything from the 2000s Spider-Man movies regarding romance (I love those movies but that got tedious)
 
And it’s not impossible to write stable, healthy relationships in a way that’s still interesting. Look at Hiccup and Astrid, or Nick and Nora Charles. The problem is that most writers are just too lazy or plain not skilled enough to do it.
TheHappySpaceman
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Sweet F.A.
The fact of the matter is, very rarely are these love triangles ever truly love triangles. Each one is a love acute angle. Only Korra was a true love triangle.
Thanotos Omega
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@TheHappySpaceman  
It’s a meme, because they had to be so subtle to avoid fears of actual government censors at the time, allot of people still that Makorra was going to be conon, and a message “we popping the biggest bottle when makorra happens tomorrow” was made before the finale aired, resaulting in a huge amount of jokes about the bottles being unpopped,
Hollowfox, Always The Worst Person
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@Thanotos Omega  
I guess that wasn’t the right question but ok.
 
Besides, I don’t know how can romance be developed in a show not only without falling into the tropes, but also not feeling forced and unnatural like, for example Kirito and Asuna, Naruto and Hinata, Felicity and Oliver, etc.
Thanotos Omega
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@Meanlucario  
Yang and Blake have had 7 years of build up and entire character arcs both devoted to each other and themselves that have intertwined, Makorra was just meant to be a fast and easy ship for a one of miniseries, that quickly fell apart on deeper examination and was allowed to die naturally while also showing healthy acceptance from all parties,
Meanlucario
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@Thanotos Omega  
Pretty sure the Makorra ship also started in season 1, and build-up doesn’t mean good. You can have them build up a ship for over 7 seasons and still have it not work (from one or both characters being terrible to them working better as friends than lovers).
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