010: Pacific Rim, or: how to have a perfectly amazing story about two people THAT'S NOT A LOVE STORY

[useyourlove]

Once upon a time, I used to track various tags on Tumblr related to the TV show Elementary. In those tags, I saw various fans being upset that everyone was celebrating the way the creators said "they won't" in regards to the "will they or won't they" (bang like rabbits) question that media and culture tries to project onto a show about a man and a

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[henrypond]

My favorite thing about Pacific Rim is the fantastic monsters and robots. My second favorite thing is that they showed different kinds of love that aren't romantic, which is rare. Respectful love, familial love, friendship--these things are powerful and important and need to be recognized more often in fiction. 'Cause romance...I dunno. Romance doesn't seem as important to me as respect and trust is. So I'm really glad how they treated relationships in this movie. I'm really, really glad that there was no romance.

[useyourlove]

SAME!!!!! AAH SAME!! And I feel sort of rude being like "I'M SO SICK OF PEOPLE SHIPPING THINGS" but like... idk, it's just that I really did love that there was no romance. And that there were all these places where they could've turned it into romance, and even the closest they came was Raleigh saying "I never had the greatest timing