I'm glad I made sense. :) This is pinging on some thoughts I've been having regarding serial stories and fandom and expectations and whether some of those expectations are maybe too much... or not...
In romances there's usually so much care put into making the audience root for the couple, and in other stories there really isn't.
Yes! And within fandom we get fanfic which is so often romance-based (at least the ones I read *g*), and you get really good writers creating a 'ship that will never happen in the actual story, and everyone knows it intellectually. But the bar gets raised for the original story-teller in a way they certainly never expected, and possibly aren't even aware of (though that's changing). And of course, if it's a 'ship that has a possibility of happening, the tangle gets even worse.
Complicating it further, if the original story isn't a romance, so any romance told is more of a background flavor, it may be impossible for the story-teller to match the development of a good romance. Either it's not their thing, or it just doesn't fit the genre. And sometimes I think fandom needs to remember that. (Though, that doesn't mean we shouldn't examine and critique the stories. Badly told is badly told, after all.)
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In romances there's usually so much care put into making the audience root for the couple, and in other stories there really isn't.
Yes! And within fandom we get fanfic which is so often romance-based (at least the ones I read *g*), and you get really good writers creating a 'ship that will never happen in the actual story, and everyone knows it intellectually. But the bar gets raised for the original story-teller in a way they certainly never expected, and possibly aren't even aware of (though that's changing). And of course, if it's a 'ship that has a possibility of happening, the tangle gets even worse.
Complicating it further, if the original story isn't a romance, so any romance told is more of a background flavor, it may be impossible for the story-teller to match the development of a good romance. Either it's not their thing, or it just doesn't fit the genre. And sometimes I think fandom needs to remember that. (Though, that doesn't mean we shouldn't examine and critique the stories. Badly told is badly told, after all.)