rosesnvines:
redhatmeg:

awesomebutunpractical:

Some romantic subplots do not need conflict,...

rosesnvines:


redhatmeg:



awesomebutunpractical:



Some romantic subplots do not need conflict, per-say.


What do I mean?


I mean if you have a bigger story with a ton of stuff going on, a romance could be a place of rest to the character. A nice, stable relationship. That is only threatened when the big bad lobs a grenade at them and they need to fight over who jumps on it.



Someone finally put into words why romance drama is often such a distraction.



And why I hate it so much.




This is why I had such a problem with the introduction of Mary Morstan to the BBC Sherlock fandom in the first place. When the announcement came out that they were planning this for series 3, sometime in the spring of 2012, I heard so many Johnlock shippers argue that it was to introduce some romantic tension, aka a love triangle, to amp up the drama of what people (people other than me, that is) assumed would end up as a canon romance. Not only did I never once think that Moftiss would have the balls to do anything other than queerbait, I also just never once thought it was in any way necessary. The story and the relationship already had PLENTY of tension that needed solving. One character faked (aka was blackmailed into faking) his suicide in front of the other, then let him (perforce, that is) believe he was dead for over two years! Conflicts don’t come much thicker than that!! There were already years of misunderstandings and miscommunications between them - John believing Sherlock to not care about anything but the puzzle at hand, neither of them clear on whether or not John was asking him out that first dinner, John labouring under the delusion that Sherlock was heartbroken over Irene Adler. None of which have been resolved to this day, may I add, since all the writers ever did was layer more and more and more unresolved crap onto these two characters without ever letting them resolve ANY of it. The very last thing they ever needed was: a) a love triangle, b) one who - surprise! - was an assassin-for-hire who would shoot one of them in the heart and spew a virtual diarrhea of lies at the other, c) introduce the incredibly unnecessary complication of a baby onto the show (because that worked and was so well written around when they pulled the same stunt on DW!), and d) one whose incredibly fake-seeming death just further complicated matters between them forever afterwards. This is the literal definition of “unnecessary”. Just let Sherlock and John resolve their problems. By themselves!! They never “needed” a third party, either to drive them together (as many Johnlockers insisted, pre-series 3, that she would) or - much more likely, as it turned out - drive them apart.

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