Ameraka wrote:I'd rather have a relationship that develops naturally, organically--more like Wooton and Penny's relationship. Penny wasn't so obviously brought on to be a love interest; she was allowed to develop her own character before having a romantic relationship with Wooton.
Ehh...if I remember right, in GRC part 7, Connie started shipping Penny and Wooton, so they were clearly trying to push that angle from the get-go. Still, they actually gave Penny a storyline independent of her relationship with Wooton, which is better than what they did when Katrina was introduced.
Ameraka wrote:Connie+Jeff--it's just too obvious that they're bringing someone on to be a love interest (like with Mitch) And now he's conveniently Christian!
It would be a lot better if Jeff was actually developed as a character. I'd personally appreciate it if we actually heard an episode about his conversion to Christianity; it would shed more light on his character rather than "Connie's first love who wasn't a Christian and now he is so they can ride off into the sunset". I'm not really sure that they're setting up that angle, though; he's only ever appeared in the OAC in a missions context, so as of now, I don't think they're trying to set up a grand romance with Connie. If they developed his character more, though, I'd be all for it. (Plus, he looks pretty cute in the artwork for "The Cure, Part 2".
)
Ameraka wrote:Lots of people have gotten married who are 10 even 15 years apart and have very happy loving marriages!
As I've discussed before, that's not really a satisfying enough justification to me, because Connie and Jason are different people from all the people who do have wide age gaps in their marriages. It's never a 1:1 comparison. It's the same reason why "Well, I'm bookish and smart like Hermione, and I'd never choose that yucky ol' Ron" falls flat—the person is not Hermione, so they can't really say what she should or shouldn't have done. Most people whose marriages have wide age gaps aren't twenty-something college students getting married to retired late-thirty/early-forty-something intelligence agents. =/
If Connie and Jason were to get together, the show would have to justify why Connie and Jason are suddenly equals, because they've never come across that way to me. I don't care if Jason's one year or fifteen years older than Connie; they're at totally different life stages and totally different mental states. The show is going to have to justify Connie being suddenly equipped to deal with Jason's host of trauma and post-traumatic stress issues (although to do that, it would have to acknowledge that he has those things, and if he doesn't...that's a pretty poor representation of what it looks like to have been where Jason's been and seen what Jason's seen). It's going to have to justify why Jason is suddenly chasing after a girl he met when she was a minor when he's always been interested in women who are actually in his age bracket. It's going to have to justify why their relationship wouldn't have the instabilities that it most likely would, given their highly similar personalities.
In other words, the show is going to have to do enough metaphorical squashing and stretching to make a seasoned animator blush in order to make this relationship work, should they ever pursue it. And to be honest, I don't think it can be done while also staying true to the characters.
Plus, I think we all know the true OTP on this show is Connie/Whit.