@myril wrote:
I like a good argument, and in a good argument it can get tough at times. As long as it isn’t going personally and offensive I am fine with it.
You have so many interesting things to say that I’m glad you feel that way. The boards get a little less richer when we all just sit around agreeing with each other.
That said, I do agree with a lot of what you’re saying! I feel (and think it is a common perception) that romantic love gets diluted rather than increased if you spread it across more people. If the first person is dead though, then there’s no sense of that competition.
Yet it’s a funny contrast to how we feel about parental love (which in this show, apparently can also have the magic of “true” love)* As a parent, I know that my love for my first child was not lessened even as my love for my second child began. Or in the reverse–Henry in this show has now a lot of family to love, can he love them all as truly as each other? Or does he only have a special bond with one?
I’m not sure where the show runners will go, but it is interesting to see them play a little with our notions of what love is, magically true or not, just as much as what is bad or good. I’m sure this episode is going to be packed with many interesting moments to discuss.
(Edit–* In traditional fairy tales, I don’t think its the convention that parental love can be “magically true” in that way, it’s usually romantic love….certainly for Disney’s versions of these things, unless you count “Brave”. And that is Pixar-fied Disney…..)
“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?” -- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass