"You know, we're in the middle of a gun battle where we might be killed so how bout we do the do and you receive my purple heart?"
*Sigh* I wonder is it just Hollywood or just me but pointless romances and sex scenes pop up out of nowhere like a person in the YouTube comment section trying to get attention. You are watching or reading something, the theme and story is going a certain way and BAM!! Time to knock boots. What? Where did that come from. None of the characters showed any signs of that and the chemistry is so forced. *cough* [insert any IP here]*coughcough*.
Here's the thing, I don't mind a sex scene or romance here or there IF IT ACTUALLY FITS INTO THE STORY OR OF THE CHARACTERS NATURE, but just putting it out there for the sake of keeping the audience "interested" is low and lazy from a writing point of view. If you can't keep your target audience engaged, then write a better story. If it's a story about a characters coming of age, discovery of their sexual nature or even the portrayal of the ups and downs of love and sex as a main theme, then fine, that's pretty much normal and what is expected. Maybe it's just I notice it more now as I focus on what I watch and take in the very details of what I am watching or reading. I love a good story.
Now lets hand this over to you, shall we. What do you think about pointless, unneeded and unwarranted romances and sex scenes in movies, tv, games, comics/novels etc? And give us examples cause I know there are too many to choose that aren't even from RomComs.
*Sigh* I wonder is it just Hollywood or just me but pointless romances and sex scenes pop up out of nowhere like a person in the YouTube comment section trying to get attention. You are watching or reading something, the theme and story is going a certain way and BAM!! Time to knock boots. What? Where did that come from. None of the characters showed any signs of that and the chemistry is so forced. *cough* [insert any IP here]*coughcough*.
Here's the thing, I don't mind a sex scene or romance here or there IF IT ACTUALLY FITS INTO THE STORY OR OF THE CHARACTERS NATURE, but just putting it out there for the sake of keeping the audience "interested" is low and lazy from a writing point of view. If you can't keep your target audience engaged, then write a better story. If it's a story about a characters coming of age, discovery of their sexual nature or even the portrayal of the ups and downs of love and sex as a main theme, then fine, that's pretty much normal and what is expected. Maybe it's just I notice it more now as I focus on what I watch and take in the very details of what I am watching or reading. I love a good story.
Now lets hand this over to you, shall we. What do you think about pointless, unneeded and unwarranted romances and sex scenes in movies, tv, games, comics/novels etc? And give us examples cause I know there are too many to choose that aren't even from RomComs.