I should note that I am, as I type this, huddled under my desk behind a barricade of overturned office chairs in preparation for the hordes of ravenous fangirls that will break in any second and rip me limb from limb, but I don't get the fascination with Solas.
I didn't find it heartbreaking, so much as supremely disappointing. We've seen satisfying heartbreak. Hell, in the dwarven female origin story you can have one last final goodbye kiss with your lover before he is exiled to the surface and you are turned out into the deeproads to die. That was satisfying heartbreak, and the whole thing played out over what, half an hour including all the combat and exploring and talking to people not him? I get the quantity versus quality argument, but I don't see it here. There's no sense that this is even a tough decision for him. They build it up like it will be -- "But the thought of losing you... [I love you, my heart]" and then he just slaps it off with he won't distract you from your duty anymore? Really? This isn't an option in the scene, but laughing out loud was my reaction to that supposedly heart breaking break up.
Some sense that he doesn't want to, but must, some tipping moment where it almost goes your way, that might have been better, but I couldn't even take the ending as written seriously. I think his entire romance would be panned as badly as Jacob in Mass Effect if not for the reveal. I feel like if he was just some elf -- even some elf with a damn good reason to not romance you, there wouldn't be nearly the amount of twitterpation about it. Him being a morally ambiguous elven god is what turned a meh romance sub plot into something suddenly worth watching because soooooo much feels.
Except I apparently missed all the parts that actually evoked feels. Feels cannot be imparted via the reveal, the feels have to be there to begin with, otherwise it's just romance written in refrigerator logic.
With that said, I will now very quietly sit down so you can yell at me all proper like.
Submitted December 12, 2014 at 03:05AM by Dramatological http://ift.tt/1wEw93i dragonage
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