#s8 discourse

you’ve got shiro for 8 seasons wanting to go to space, to have adventures in space. his ex dumps him for wanting adventure in space more than him. his most important relationship is with keith (whether you see it as platonic or romantic, there is no denying this). then his epilogue does a 180 and has him retiring from the battle (which one? the war is over? what does this mean?) and settling with a husband we’ve never seen him talk to, and we also never see him talk to keith either ever again.

you’ve got ariel loving everything about humans, to the point where she betrays her father’s wishes in order to become human. we see her build up a relationship with eric over the course of the movie. now imagine that if after they defeat ursula, ariel returns to the sea and marries a random background merman who we’ve never seen her speak to, the epilogue leaves it vague if she even ever did anything with human stuff anymore (previously her biggest passion and drive), and she is never seen interacting with eric in the last third of the movie. 

you’d be at least mildly confused by these writing decisions. 

they’re fictional characters, they don’t have feelings, S can’t have or not have unrequited feelings for K cuz he has not feelings. these are all decisions made by staff and exces. people saying S “should” have been with K instead of [man] mean it from a writing and emotional stand point. last minute romances are always terrible and we have nothing to be invested in besides “it’s rep”. ofc people are going to say it should have been the relationship that actual got screen time and they’ve been invested in for 2,5 years