It just helps set up the long, nasty fall after the brief bloom of 'want, need- take'.
Exactly. A lot of people look at abusive relationships, real or fictional, and assume they must have been obviously abusive all along, which of course has the fridge logic of how does anybody get involved with someone who abuses them right off the bat? Or if they know the relationship was sweet and affectionate at the start and think that somehow mitigates or excuses the abuse, which really bemuses me, because that's how abuse works. *sigh*
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Date: 2014-01-08 01:31 am (UTC)Exactly. A lot of people look at abusive relationships, real or fictional, and assume they must have been obviously abusive all along, which of course has the fridge logic of how does anybody get involved with someone who abuses them right off the bat? Or if they know the relationship was sweet and affectionate at the start and think that somehow mitigates or excuses the abuse, which really bemuses me, because that's how abuse works. *sigh*
I love making the idiomatic literal.