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What are you watching (Sentai edition)
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02-22-2022, 06:10 PM
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AkibaSilver
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cosmicrescend0
I've reached ep 20 for Ressha Sentai ToQger!
....Can someone help me, please? I've been grinning so wide and laughing so loud at this show, my face is starting to hurt!? We'd be here forever if i broke every episode down, so here are some general highlights!
I remember all the debat around Tokyuger when it started, how childish it looked, etc, and you know what? By the end of the show, I was in love. Godspeed, you rainbow train kids. Godspeed.
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Kamen Rider Lucha
Disagreements with the bulk of your assessments aside (obviously, art is subjective, and I just don't think our brains work the same way
), I have a genuine question that I cannot for the life of me understand.
Why are you not a fan of romance in stories?
I hear this said a lot, and it completely baffles me, because I personally feel that stories without romantic relationships don't reflect reality. Romance of some sort almost always occurs in any situation where groups of people are forced to live and/or work with and around each other for extended periods of time, so excluding these fundamental relationships from fiction makes stories without them feel hollow and unrealistic (to me). I don't mind when a story doesn't involve romance (even though I feel like it's usually a missed opportunity in stories without it), but it seems like a deal breaker for a lot of people that dislike seeing romance depicted.
So I can answer this one!
Romance is a tricky topic, and there are a lot of pitfalls in it. Sometimes it feels like it's only included because, well, there has to be a romance, otherwise people won't like it. This can include characters falling for each other for little reason, or in too fast a time, or just because execs believe 'Well, the man and woman have to end up together' - and I'm using that phrasing purely because Queer stories are often written more with the romance in mind, and thus it makes more sense for those to be romance heavy. From another angle, though, look at fanfiction, which has garnered a reputation (lessened in recent years, mind) of just being gay shipping and nothing else, even for characters who don't have that dynamic on screen/page/film. Add to that a common plot in any long-running thing of a "Will they or won't they" romance, which can often progress and regress at the whims of scheduling and renewal, and not for emotional reasons, and people can be burnt out on badly written romances.
But that's just bad romances, right? Well, sometimes it can feel like that's the only choice of relationship on offer. Friendships exist, yes, but they're subservient to the romance. And it erases a large chunk of the prospective relationships available in a person's life in favour of one that's raised above all others in media. Romance is an important factor in people's lives, true, but media often presents it as the only thing that matters. You can save the world, sure, but did you get the girl? Kamen Rider isn't immune to this - think about the Build V-Cins, where suddenly all the main cast outside of Sento are teased with potential women partners. None of this is to say romance is inherently bad, but it often comes across as incredibly prominent in everything, to the point where a series about romance, one with debatable realness (I've not seen beyond the first 10 eps of Kiva, I have no personal stake) can be offputting.
And, just as one final comment, not everyone does feel romance. People are chronically single, unlucky in love, going through a tough time, or just don't feel that kind of attraction. That's up to them personally as to why they might not like the more romantic side of things.
EDIT - I see you've mentioned genre fiction in yours, so that means I can express a thought I wasn't sure about! Genre fiction can come as an escape from many of the trappings of what I wrote above - "Will they or won't they" is a very soap opera genre, and there's a lot more emphasis in some genre stories on the world around the characters rather than the characters themselves. Thus, some people don't like romance stories in those genres because they see 'romance' as a genre in and of itself, like a romcom, and thus it makes the genre fic less unique for being there. I don't entirely agree with that, exploring romance in fantasy and sci-fi settings obviously has its place, but some people would rather avoid the cliches of "fighting for love" entirely and watch for the more fantastical elements.
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