Durzo Blint was completely awesome.
@Namedforthemoon, congrats!
@Upsettingshorts: Correct me if I'm wrong, but piping in just to say how little you think of what someone else said seems off-topic and non-productive to the point of seeming like you're just looking for a fight. This isn't the place for it.
For the record, I agree that it seems presumptious and arrogant to brush kisses off as "meaningless cultural exchange rather than affection" when the context does not indicate that it must be the case. "Attitude problem" would be flames and insults, not expressing how another person's phrasing honestly sounds to you.
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I have read Twilight, and also written at some length about this particular trope comparison.
Obviously, there are direct similarities between it and ****ty romance novels. That's sort of the whole point of deconstructions; the Anders romance plays the trope of the obsessive, scarily devoted Romance Novel Protagonist and takes it to its logical conclusions. Anders has many of the mannerisms of these kinds of characters, but instead of being lauded as a paragon of romanticism and virtue, they are his downfall. It's a very self-aware, almost biting dissection of the character archetype.
Very well-argued. Indeed, the self-awareness problem truly is often the defining characteristic of such fiction, especially insofar as it explains its polarising nature (at least "polarising" in the sense of still being able to attract rabid fans). Some people are disturbed by the dissonance, others share the author's views and buy into it. The Inheirtance Cycle has this same problem with its insistence on being a Heroic Fantasy Epic to be Taken Seriously.
I really don't get the impression that "free with their affections" had to imply anything resembling free love or promiscuity. To me, "free with their affections" is just that - free with their affections. Hoooking up, whether romantically or platonically, with people you actually like, and not worrying about what others think of it. The Tevinter Magisters, always struggling for power and politics, doubtlessly do it very differently, and slaves and servants would likely be very wary about exposing their affections (and thus vulnerabilities) to others, and marriages would likely be dictated by convenience or mutual profit and even then could be broken up on a master's whim. I can't imagine the matter of affections developing in a society with such slavery in any other way, so it makes sense to me that the Fog Warriors' honesty, openness and indulgence would be something Fenris would admire.
Regarding Isabela, I love her complexity and her relationships with the others. She seems pro-mage but easily manages to be on good terms with Fenris, among other curiosities. That said, it's an improvement of my initial impression of her - I was a bit put off by her presentation. I feel the developers have strongly overdone the promotion of her "busty pirate wench" image, what with all the pre-release material and her lengthy appearances in the trailers. Her entry scene of beating thugs up felt like a repetitive and cliched attempt to show a Capable Female Character Here, particularly after her similar entrance in Origins. At some point I felt like screaming "It's okay! She's hot and sexay and can handle sharp objects and shaper words! I get it already!", which, of course, is rather a disservice to the character.
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lol I dont know them!
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not my idea of romance ._.;;;
It was also when I decided I'd have to settle for watching youtube videos of the Anders romance. As for the lack of a bedroom scene for Fen, it might just be me, but I don't mind him not having one, really. I like it better when it's subtle like that, it leaves more room for my writer's block-undermined imagination.
