Love triangles are not always poorly done. They can be done in a way that doesn't make you want to punch your TV.
Haha true. They just...haven't been. There was a point when the Caroline/Matt/Tyler triangle was well done, even, and the love triangles on Buffy (except the ones involving Bangel, those got SO ANNOYING) didn't annoy me. But, then, there weren't so goddamn many of them. And then there's the bisexual love differential equation of Card Captor Sakura, which makes me overjoyed but is rarely particularly angsty.
But what's been happening for several episodes is that the writers of this show are basically talking to the audience through the characters. Which I think is what you're getting at. It's so annoying. Especially for a show that has done so many things right. Why is this one central element so ridiculously bad? I don't get it!
UGH YES. That's a big part of what I'm finding annoying. But just as much as that--or, partially, as a consequence of that--it's your other comment that's really getting to me:
I also had to side-eye the guys when immediately after Elena telling them she doesn't want to lose them they make a pact to leave town if she chooses the other brother. WHAT? Were you even listening to her, you dimwits? REALLY?
EXACTLY. No one's asking what she wants for her life and whether she could get that with one, both, or neither; no one's asking about what's important to her, or what her needs would be, etc. And on that rare occasion when *she* finally asks those questions, she's promptly ignored. ARGH. The triangle is only being examined through the lens of how it affects the two male characters, and not how it affects Elena.
...Also, just...even when they're not being passive aggressive about it Damon and Stefan are being seriously passive aggressive. It's par for the course for Damon, but I'd've expected better from Stefan.
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Date: 2012-05-06 07:20 pm (UTC)Haha true. They just...haven't been. There was a point when the Caroline/Matt/Tyler triangle was well done, even, and the love triangles on Buffy (except the ones involving Bangel, those got SO ANNOYING) didn't annoy me. But, then, there weren't so goddamn many of them. And then there's the bisexual love differential equation of Card Captor Sakura, which makes me overjoyed but is rarely particularly angsty.
But what's been happening for several episodes is that the writers of this show are basically talking to the audience through the characters. Which I think is what you're getting at. It's so annoying. Especially for a show that has done so many things right. Why is this one central element so ridiculously bad? I don't get it!
UGH YES. That's a big part of what I'm finding annoying. But just as much as that--or, partially, as a consequence of that--it's your other comment that's really getting to me:
I also had to side-eye the guys when immediately after Elena telling them she doesn't want to lose them they make a pact to leave town if she chooses the other brother. WHAT? Were you even listening to her, you dimwits? REALLY?
EXACTLY. No one's asking what she wants for her life and whether she could get that with one, both, or neither; no one's asking about what's important to her, or what her needs would be, etc. And on that rare occasion when *she* finally asks those questions, she's promptly ignored. ARGH. The triangle is only being examined through the lens of how it affects the two male characters, and not how it affects Elena.
...Also, just...even when they're not being passive aggressive about it Damon and Stefan are being seriously passive aggressive. It's par for the course for Damon, but I'd've expected better from Stefan.