Now with all due respect, I completely disagree.
No one has been able to explain WHY this is believable.
Yes, there is pain. This isn't a normal resolution.
Yes, there may even be trauma. This isn't a normal transfiguration.
Combine them and you still don't end up with this scenario because it's one word - SUPERFICIAL.
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The more pain, the more trauma you add on top of it, the more it becomes hog-wash, really.
Not just in my opinion, because I have experienced severe pain in my life. I went through emotional agony where I almost died, and I thought I might even take my life. The support of my family has made me able to overcome that.
I was never in danger of taking my own life, but anyhow, as a result I went to a psychologist, several therapists. And yes, I still suffer from occasional trauma. What you two are describing here is not trauma.
In fact, people suffering from trauma have a hyperactive imagination and tend to relive the same events over and over again. Using trauma as an excuse for these two is almost insulting.
What I'm trying to say here is that I, perhaps in a less desirable fashion, understand pain on a much more directly applicative basis.
The only way Lois and Clark would behave in such a manner is if the only trauma caused to them was being hit over the head repeatedly with a baseball bat, after the said event.
That's pretty much the only scenario I can imagine where they would unfold in this fashion. I don't believe I'm being short sighted here, but I can thoroughly absorb their character without changing it. Because I don't apply myself. Period.
Lois and Clark is largely therapeutic for me. (I'm no longer the writer I used to be - I'm still recovering.)
Superficial is the word here.
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Have you two ladies even researched what the effects of trauma are, beyond cases where the individual is clinically defined as unstable?
Again, this isn't a discussion on the fiction itself but on an issue that arises from the fiction. A mis-comprehension of human emotions.
I also know a lot more about psychology than your average person, so really, this kind of thing just doesn't fly, to me.
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But I've probably said enough already. I don't want to sound mean, because I'm not. It's just a side issue that we end up treating problems so superficially only to convey our version of events. It just doesn't work that way.
We end up with emotional voids for these characters. Really, I gotta ask, where is the love. Because it's a contrast between fictional love and real love, that these (fictional) characters do (really) convey. I do believe this is just taking advantage of that and will in the long term just dry up the well of fiction-dom.
Then again, this is yet another TOGOM remake. What do I know.
