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Alita: Battle Angel
Jayde Moon:
Honestly, I'm not mad at the 'unbelievable pace' at which the two characters created a 'deep' romantic connection.
Because it's a pair of teenagers, for all intents and purposes. Neither are emotionally equipped to deal responsibly with those sorts of emotions and so in the course of days, they are 'irrevocably in love'.
Just like every teenager is within a week of their new B/GF.
AJCarrington:
Looking forward to checking this one out...hopefully in the theater ::)
Stainless Steel Devil Rat:
--- Quote from: Ghost Rigger on ---This movie is going to give people an inaccurate idea of what their streetsams can do right out of chargen, isn't it?
--- End quote ---
Well... so long as they temper their expectations it should still work.
Remember Alita didn't have an URM Berzerker cyborg body right out of chargen... she had to settle for a non minmaxed one to begin with :)
Ajax:
--- Quote ---Because it's a pair of teenagers, for all intents and purposes. Neither are emotionally equipped to deal responsibly with those sorts of emotions and so in the course of days, they are 'irrevocably in love'.
--- End quote ---
Friar Laurence: (to Romeo, who has just explained his love for Juliet whom he met the previous night and now plans to marry)
Holy Saint Francis, what a change is here!
Is Rosaline, whom thou didst love so dear,
So soon forsaken? Young men's love then lies
Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.
–Romeo & Juliet, Act II, scene iii.
Teenagers falling in love at the drop of a hat is kind of a staple of fiction. Of course, Shakespeare had enough sense to know that the old trope would probably end up pretty damn badly, which is one of the reasons the full title of his most famous example of the trope is The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet.
But people aren’t buying tickets to Battle Angel for either a realistic romance or a unrealistic-but-fun romantic film style romance. We want to watch cyborgs beat the chrome out of each other.
Hobbes:
--- Quote from: Ajax on ---
Teenagers falling in love at the drop of a hat is kind of a staple of fiction.
--- End quote ---
Teenagers falling in love at the drop of a hat is reality. And out of love over a single Facebook post, or similarly trivial. True story. Parent a few of your own. Know the joy.
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