>>126367509love, like hate, is a powerful emotion.
yet we rarely consider it necessary to control love the way some people are obsessed with controlling hate, even though love is often even more destructive. More people have had their lives destroyed because of love than anything else out there. Entire nations have been wiped off the face of earth for love.
>I think they live vicariously through these characters or something - nobody should ever get this upset over this stuff.we live in dark and trying times, which are only getting darker and more trying. people are trapped in their homes, they've lost their jobs, careers, businesses, loved ones, relationships, and all hope.
Then along comes a show that doesn't treat them with hate, doesn't drown them in politics, and provides them with a comfy setting, relatable characters, and the chance at an old fashioned romantic plot line the likes we haven't seen since the 90's, and it spends the better part of two seasons subverting our expectations by...not "subverting our expectations." It looks and feels like a return to the things we knew when we were younger, when things were better, and we still had hope for our future.
And then boom, suddenly it appears to yank the rug out from under everyone, shove the same, tired, forced "lesbian love" trope on everyone that has been the bane of animated series for years now, rather than give us the romantic and cathartic romantic moment the audience has been eagerly anticipating.
Sure, it's healthy to get that invested in a show, but its what happens to people, especially when their own lives are shit. We read or watch things to experience a better world, to feel in fantasy what we cannot feel in real life, and when you toy with people's feelings, they're bound to get upset. Sometimes, very upset.
