User blog comment:Jam7/Jam's last-minute TDAS predictions/@comment-16923242-20130909202201/@comment-1037137-20130911013947

Hey, I understand your opinions perfectly. But it's your apparent eagerness to shut me and the rest of us down that really puts me off. Your tone suggests that you think we're totally in the wrong, that I'm totally in the wrong and that you are consciously unwilling to listen to the other side of the spectrum here. Well I got bad news, not everyone shares your opinion. And I won't ever sympathize with the love triangle, imagine yourself in a convoluted mess like that in real-life. You would not be so forgiving of it.

Look, the love triangle was not the primary focus before it turned up. The focus should be the competition driving the whole series and its characters who we want to root for, not some shoehorned romance that only came about due to some "network request" from Teletoon's chief executive. If it wasn't for that, TDWT would've probably had its focus where it should've been. And love triangles have a known trend of never bringing anything good to a series. Heck, one of the worst movie franchises of all time is entirely love triangle, and that's Twilight. Oh yeah, I should really be supportive of something that gave a new level to Dante's Levels of Hell. If you like it, fine, but no thank you, I will not join that bandwagon no matter what defense you want to make on its behalf, especially if the changes some of us would like to see is just gonna be swatted off as "sugar". There would be drama without that lousy love triangle. In fact, many fanfiction writers have done stories without it, and whether you believe it or not, there is a huge fraction of this fanbase that wish it never happened. Sure, there's a huge fraction that was passive or supportive of it, but they don't speak for the other half, you can't just write the side you disagree with off. I'm not particularly warm to your defense of it because you're asking me to sympathize with a scenario that promoted an act of unfaithfulness. Never ask me to sympathize with that, few ever would, in real life or in regards to fiction.

Well you're not, because it's your opinion, not a fact. Don't be so bold to treat it like fact when it's entirely subjective, and it's hard to have a conversation where you won't even hear out anybody with a different position to offer. It's your opinion that the love triangle was necessary, but it's not a fact. It's my opinion, and not just my opinion that that's not true.