Disney Channel and romantic tropes

[meganbmoore]

My DVD player has died and I've been compensating by watching Disney Channel shows.  Do not ask.  I think I've mostly thinking about how they'd be so cool if I were 12.  All the supposedly charming or cool or cute guys need a ounch in the face.  The goody girls who I'm supposed to like are snooty and superior, all other girls are supposed to be annoying, materialistic comedic relief, but are more entertaining.  The smart boys are supposed annoying twats and the "cool" boys are annoying brats who could do with being grounded for years.  I think the only character I like is the hyper competitive and academic sister in some show that's a Brady Bunch knockoff that's named after her irritating stepbrother.  I despair over her taste in boys, though.  (The only show whose title I know is The Suite Life of Zach and Cody.  That one is entertaining, though I keep wondering why the adults haven't murdered all the kids.)

Make me stop watching them.

ANYWAY!

Over at Dear Author, they have a poll about favorite and least favorite romantic tropes.  Since this is a type of topic I never tire of (people's likes and dislikes) give me some of yours.

Comments

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

And then you change "older man" to "angsty immortal" and it just gets worse and more confusing. Also variations of "raising your wife."

I haven't read Heyer yet, no.

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

These Old Shades is a "raising your wife" book. The fabulously wealthy and fantastically corrupt eighteenth-century nobleman Justin, who is the kind of man whose friends call him Satanas, adopts a gamine street child named Leonie as part of a baroque plan to torment his enemy. In the process of raising her, he discovers he actually wants to be as good as Leonie imagines him to be.

The more I think about the plot, the less I understand why I adore it.

Where can the angsty immortal variation be found?

I do recommend reading Heyer; yes, her books do follow quite a number of tropes, but that's partially because she invents some of the tropes as she goes.

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

Also, as I tell people regularly, I don't read Heyer because she writes romance novels. I read her despite the fact that she writes romance novels.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Angsty Immortal: See: vampire craze. AKA "That thing what Megan wants to die already."