Sunday, October 24, 2010 . 10/24/2010 12:12:00 AM
There are many love story clichés in this world.
- Guy and girl meets in the street, coincidentally meets again, and voilà!
- Guy and girl have known each other since FOREVER, but they're just stupid to see THAT FACT, or one of them is that blind, or the girl thought the guy was gay.
- Guy and girl are rivals who hate each other in some way or another, but something happens, and there you go.
- Guy or girl is in love with a friend's brother/sister/cousin/other friend/girlfriend/boyfriend/classmate/and so on. And you know the drill.
- Guy or girl breaks up with his/her boyfriend/girlfriend and decides to make the latter jealous by- what else? - girl or guy in question. Chaos usually ensues.
- Guy and girl are each other's exes who are coincidentally put together. Occasional other girl or guy appears, but it always ends up with guy and girl making out with each other.
- Guy or girl is in love with girl or guy with an 'unattainable' profile. This will have two outcomes.
(1) Guy or girl gets girl or guy with 'unattainable' status
(2) Guy or girl realizes there's someone else for them and totally forgets about their previous impossible, and thus unattainable, crush
- Guy and girl are forced/ordered/assigned to work on something together. And then you know what happens.
- Guy or girl helped/saved girl or guy, sparks fly, and here we go again.
- Guy or girl is assigned/is the assignment of girl or guy, events occur, and it leads to one or both of them running to each other's arms.
- There's always the harem too. Guy or girl has too many girls or guys to choose from. Eventually, one emerges as the champion.
I'm sure there's still more clichés out there that didn't cross my mind, but these are the ones that happen frequently in my extensive collective views of different media of arts (novels, movies, dramas, manga, anime, song, etc.)
How about this in real life?
Guy or girl interacts with, and eventually dates, girl or guy to forget a previous girl or guy who rejected by/break-up with/is unattainable to the guy or girl.
The ending?
1) Not great.
2) Ditto.
3) Questionable.