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I get this! 😀
All the freakin’ time.
Like, the whole premise of This Means War (would have been pretty terrible even so) is so flawed:
– Person A wants to sex Person C
– Person B wants to sex Person C
– Person C wants to sex them both
Could they not have just talked and accepted that to be the case, instead of using ridiculous and dangerous methods to try and sabotage each other?
SO MANY love triangles are so unnecessarily complicated, right? ARRRRG! But then I asked on Twitter, and got a big pile of monogamous people saying they get frustrated about it too, and just went “huh, so it’s not a poly thing?”
That’s awesome to know!
It’s really frustrating to see so goddamn many triangles (and even monogamous relationships) totally blunder, burn and fail in TV and film because they never friggin TALK to each other.
As much as I love Dr. Who I f*king HATED the BS psudo-romance Clara and Danny got in this season. So much harping on “I’ll never love anyone else. Even after you die. Like ever. You are “The one”. The ONLY”.
When (as I think you yourself have stated) the Doctor has a pretty interesting number of wives and girlfriends out there he hasn’t really broken up with.
Literally the only time I’ve seen anyone try to use poly instead of “Choosing the ONE true loooove” is in Bob’s Burgers. Which sadly didn’t work out for them, immediately, but was still good to see used as an option.
>When (as I think you yourself have stated) the Doctor has a pretty interesting number of wives and girlfriends out there he hasn’t really broken up with.
Oh my goodness, this! Can all of his exes end up in a room with him at once, and for them all to just be really chill about it maybe, and Clara can be like, “well, this true love business hasn’t really turned up for you, has it?” And he can be like, “Clara, when you live as long as we do, [deep statement about love].”
Just, how awesome would a nonmonogamous Doctor be. I already love Lost Girl having a nonmonogamous protag! I mean, yeah, she tries to be monogamous, she really does. And I do still wonder if she’ll try again. But she’s kinda not built for it because she is a succubus.
Okay you’ve got me on a TV show ramble. I’ll stop now. 😉
Oooh, not heard of Lost Girl!
Sounds up my alley.
And hells yeah!
It would be really interesting to explore the concepts of love and marriage when one of the participants is immortal.
Got the DVD of Only Lovers Left Alive to see what someone thinks of both being immortal – can’t wait to watch.
And watching companions interact is ace!
Remember when Sara Jane met Rose! 😀
(And K9 met Mickey)
One of the things that was really interesting about Torchwood was when Jack had to pretend to be his own grandfather, or distance himself from his lover/s, in order to maintain the illusion that he was “normal”.
And then there’s his relationship with the kid from Children of Earth!
YES – this is the stuff Sci-Fi was made for!
You’re perfectly fine to ramble 😛
Why shouldn’t we expect to see “difficult” topics we live with mirrored through a lens of fantasy to make some interesting explorations or points.
I have yet to see Only Lovers Left Alive, but I’ve seen it fly by my eyes on my Tumblr dashboard and it looks very interesting. 🙂 That’s on the list of Movies Tumblr Says I Should See, along with Snowpiercer – apparently Tilda Swinton (she’s so glorious) playing someone who has male pronouns, but wears skirts/dresses? That’s all I know. Oh, and Captain America is in it?
Yessss, fantasy/sci-fi, with a little post-apocalypse thrown in, that’s what I love.
PS: Do not get me started on how awesome Lost Girl is. Urban bisexual Xena, female gaze. SUCH LOVE. SUCH PRETTY EVERYONE.
O_O
All of these things I must see!!!!!
I was just about to mention the episode where Sarah Jane meets Rose. They’re so much like metamours.
Also, during a lot of the awkward between Amy, Rory and the Doctor, I could totally identify with Amy’s situation (although she often seemed oblivious to it) of having two significant people in your life who both love you but aren’t entirely comfortable with each other.
>I was just about to mention the episode where Sarah Jane meets Rose. They’re so much like metamours.
Yes, this! That whole episode I was like, “this is so poly.”
That episode is always why I see The Doctor as a parallel monogogamist (as Cassian put it a few years back) when it comes to humans from 18th-early 21st century Britain. He’s totally “actually tells his current paramours about his other current paramours” poly when it comes to those from non-monogamous cultures.
(I kind of consider it cheating when he’s married to someone in his past and future, and married to someone else in the present, without actually being “on a break” or discussing it with them. Of course, being married to as many as forty people who would often not recognize each other AS people would be a bit difficult to cover, given how quickly The Doctor’s gotten into some relationships. He should at least let his paramours know onscreen that he has and/or will have other mates, in the non-Donna Noble sense.)