03-01-2018, 05:23 AM
(02-28-2018, 07:14 AM)Hell Rell Wrote: Fair or unfair, the love interest will receive the most ire most of the time and the main character will constantly be questioned on why they're with them or interested in them at all. It happens in just about every show I watch. The Flash gets questioned on several forums about being with Iris and Green Arrow being with Felicity is in a whole other stratosphere.
Loving one character doesn't constitute liking their LI. People have different reasons for disliking Juliette and her relationship with Nick might even add to the reasons they don't like her. A character's love life is often the messiest part of their profile especially for a fantasy show. The LI usually is looked at as ruining the fun. Sometimes, the show will try to rectify this and make them more involved in the main storyline which further irritates viewers because that takes away time from the main character by placing more importance on their partner. Check out the Lana is a witch storyline from Smallville to see how awful this can be and how much fandom will hate it and I say that as someone who likes Lana.
Nick loving Juliette or Adalind would never protect them or him from being scrutinized. I think it happens for several reasons like the above but I find that it usually includes writers not being good at writing romance or what is perceived to be a lack of chemistry. The chemistry aspect can't be argued because it's a lot more subjective than the writing one because that can be analyzed.
Unfortunately I don't watch the Flash or Arrow, and I got really bored with Smallville after about the third season, so I'm not familiar with any of these relationships. In my opinion, from a science fiction/fantasy perspective, I think I prefer a main character who, because he is different and thus has an extremely dangerous life, shuns away from a significant other or any attempt at a normal life.
I agree Nick and Juliette had little chemistry as a romantic couple. Nick and Adalind had even less. The creative team shouldn't have heaped relationships on him. He's got his job, the side story intrigues, an occasional fling to make sure he's shown as desirable, and the scoobies. Adding a significant other to than just makes Nick seem piggish in my opinion.
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