I always feel like it's a betrayal of both the audience and the characters. We shouldn't ever be kicked out of a story like that. IT DEFEATS THE POINT OF THE STORY.
YES. Ugh, if your audience can see the strings you're pulling to contrive something or send a certain kind of message, you're doing it wrong.
I don't think that 20-21 is terribly young to get married. I mean, yes, it's on the young side, but not shockingly so.
I was trying to convey that it could have been a stereotype the writers wanted to rely on, rather than a judgment on my part, but I might not have done that well. I do personally find it young, but as you said, it's mostly a cultural thing, and if you think about 13-14 year-olds getting married and having kids like they did centuries ago, well, 21 is just ancient.
If it was presented as a mental health issue, I would totally get that.
Ooh, that would have been an interesting possibility. If they had even explored more the reasons for a possible (but non-explicit) mental health issue, like showing his parents interfering in the wedding planning in early S6 and showing the audience more of what he feared, I would have been more on-board with the storyline.
I'm not sure I trust Joss to handle a miscarriage plotline, but it would be interesting if done well.
Heh, yeah, when I was writing, I was thinking, but what are the odds that Joss could have handled a miscarriage sensitively...? Oh well. Might as well dream big. Different S6 and better, more sensitive writers...
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YES. Ugh, if your audience can see the strings you're pulling to contrive something or send a certain kind of message, you're doing it wrong.
I don't think that 20-21 is terribly young to get married. I mean, yes, it's on the young side, but not shockingly so.
I was trying to convey that it could have been a stereotype the writers wanted to rely on, rather than a judgment on my part, but I might not have done that well. I do personally find it young, but as you said, it's mostly a cultural thing, and if you think about 13-14 year-olds getting married and having kids like they did centuries ago, well, 21 is just ancient.
If it was presented as a mental health issue, I would totally get that.
Ooh, that would have been an interesting possibility. If they had even explored more the reasons for a possible (but non-explicit) mental health issue, like showing his parents interfering in the wedding planning in early S6 and showing the audience more of what he feared, I would have been more on-board with the storyline.
I'm not sure I trust Joss to handle a miscarriage plotline, but it would be interesting if done well.
Heh, yeah, when I was writing, I was thinking, but what are the odds that Joss could have handled a miscarriage sensitively...? Oh well. Might as well dream big. Different S6 and better, more sensitive writers...