"In Gleason's original piece, there's a paragraph on how we know the hero is on the Side of Good, because he's the hero and we're reading a romance. And because he is on the Side of Good, morally shady actions performed in the name of Good are therefore less morally shady"
This...is my problem with ever so many things, really. So much fiction approaches itself with the "the protagonist is always right/morally right even if he does it a wrong way" mentality that I want to hurl things, esp. when so often...there's no way it's right, unless you 100% buy into the message. (But then, so many people do...)
I have to think about the post, though. As I realized yesterday, when I think of "alpha male as a romantic interest" in things I like...it's usually something that ISN'T a romance, but that has a romantic plotline, and a lot of the alpha isn't in the "agressive romantic pursuer" context, but in the warrior/protector(against a threat right in front of your face)/leader context.
Except for a couple paranormal romance series(that I actually read for the crack, cheese and nythology, not the romance) most of the romantic things I encounter with what you listed above, I end up hurling.
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Wed, Apr. 2nd, 2008 09:52 pm (UTC)This...is my problem with ever so many things, really. So much fiction approaches itself with the "the protagonist is always right/morally right even if he does it a wrong way" mentality that I want to hurl things, esp. when so often...there's no way it's right, unless you 100% buy into the message. (But then, so many people do...)
I have to think about the post, though. As I realized yesterday, when I think of "alpha male as a romantic interest" in things I like...it's usually something that ISN'T a romance, but that has a romantic plotline, and a lot of the alpha isn't in the "agressive romantic pursuer" context, but in the warrior/protector(against a threat right in front of your face)/leader context.
Except for a couple paranormal romance series(that I actually read for the crack, cheese and nythology, not the romance) most of the romantic things I encounter with what you listed above, I end up hurling.