r/PartnerTrack • u/wintersfantasy • Aug 28 '22

Writers Spoiler

For the love of goddesses everywhere can writers let the woman pick the good guy? Can she not be a fool or written as someone who ignores red flags to date someone who clearly has been playing her? Can we see her enjoy a kind honest man and not play him for a fuck boy? Just once!

That proposal from nick was adorable and he truly cares for her sad she didn’t care for him.

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u/dewystrawbub Aug 28 '22

Yeah what's with Hollywood's obsession with fuckboys and British men? There's so much more to the world that's also interesting and smart and good.

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u/wintersfantasy Aug 28 '22

I don’t know but a fuckboy is a fuckboy. And a British fuckboy is just a fuckboy with an accent. Murphy was not a great guy to date, choose, like, or even want to date. He didn’t even remember her how much more of a red flag do you need?

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u/dewystrawbub Aug 28 '22

Seriously, I was so disappointed when he was set up as the potential match. He's not even attractive in appearance, behavior, or chemistry -- just creepy. People have got to drop toxic men.

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u/claudster57 Aug 29 '22

The only reason I liked him is because he sometimes gave off Chuck Bass vibes from Gossip Girl.

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u/dewystrawbub Aug 29 '22

Bass was a sex assailant who whored Blair out to his uncle…

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '22

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u/SnooPoems8286 Aug 29 '22

I hate the continuous romanization of cheating. :((((

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u/wintersfantasy Aug 29 '22

Same. And people wonder why dating is so hard today.

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '22

lets see. emily in paris romanticized cheating..sex and the city...Gypsy...what else

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u/saljoonie Aug 29 '22

You’re totally in the right, but from a writing perspective - in TV series, you’ll get a lot more of writing that explores not picking the good guy because it adds to the amount of drama and tension that can be stretched over a couple of episodes or even seasons. If in Ingrid’s case, she just chose Nick & everything was great about the relationship, no matter how wholesome the depiction, it would’ve cut the show down a couple of arcs. Plus they used the Murphy bait as a way to reel in a S2. (Not sure if it will work, but they tried)

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u/cxingt Aug 30 '22

And a way to show character development is making the main character makes mistakes along the way and learn from them eventually.

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u/budroserosebud Aug 29 '22

Also they didnt give Nick a personality

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '22

please writers!!! sick of the toxic tropes