This Possible Wonder Girl/Robin thing:

In a reply to my last post, Amy Reads brings up the Cassie/Tim thing in Teen Titans which reminded me that I want to blog about that.

See, I hate teenaged romance in comics. I hate teenaged romance pretty much uniformly everywhere. I know it happens in real life, but I'm a cynic, and firmly believe that 99% of those relationships never work past high school (Which is yet another strike against the Dick/Babs relationship for me, I suppose. They have this element, sort of.)

I also hate love triangles. I don't mind when the couple has people outside the relationship that they find attractive, because that happens, but if that person is being portrayed as a true and viable romantic alternative, there are problems with the relationship's core. I think the real problems a relationship faces are internal, not external. It's why I like Scott/Jean actually. Logan was never a viable threat, while the Emma thing is more about Scott himself, the confusion/turmoil left over from Apocalypse and his relationship-sabotaging nature. It's not a man torn between two loves, it's a man who's really fucked up and I appreciate that.

For a similar reason, despite my hate of triangles and teenaged romance, I'm really digging the Cassie/Tim thing going on right now. Probably because it's not being portrayed as anything but fucked up. That kiss was two grieving kids lashing out and grabbing onto a memory the only way they know how. It wasn't about each other, it was about Kon (and honestly, it kind of made me wonder about Tim's actual sexual orientation, as the levels of sublimation in that scene were pretty high).

There's no way this can end well. At all. Except maybe if they're smart enough to ignore the chemistry. But it's comics. Sensibility is NEVER an option in comics. This isn't ending here.

I like screwed up things when they're portrayed as screwed up, and this whole potential relationship is screwed up. But it's definitely interestng.