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meganbmooreSo, among my recent DVD purchases was a set of Carole Lombard movies, which I am watching as I impatiently wait for my Princess Tutu DVDs to get here(GIVE THEM TO ME MAILMAN! GIVEGIVEGIVE!) and watching them, I have realized 2 things:
1) A LOT of classics have love triangles in the as a plot point.
2) Off the top of my head, there aren't any classics where that annoys me.
Which I guess just means that it's not the existance of the triangle itself that bothers me, but the use of the triangle as a shortcut to angst and conflict for the main purpose of adding to them that I have problems with, and that's almost all you get these days(as opposed to movies like Casablanca or Philadelphia Story, where you lose most of the story if you remove the triangle, and it's the central part that you lose, not extra stuff.)
1) A LOT of classics have love triangles in the as a plot point.
2) Off the top of my head, there aren't any classics where that annoys me.
Which I guess just means that it's not the existance of the triangle itself that bothers me, but the use of the triangle as a shortcut to angst and conflict for the main purpose of adding to them that I have problems with, and that's almost all you get these days(as opposed to movies like Casablanca or Philadelphia Story, where you lose most of the story if you remove the triangle, and it's the central part that you lose, not extra stuff.)