Friday, 12 April 2013

Can we really achieve this?



Last week’s blog was about me reviewing on the final three pieces of DLC for Mass Effect 3 and what you might not know is that after I completed the Citadel DLC I felt sad. It wasn’t because I knew it was the end of the series and the last time I will see this characters but it was because throughout this whole month and up until that last sense I had noticed something that my life and others where lacking. Before you turn away and say that this is going to be another topic on Mass Effect it isn’t but I am going to use this scene to paint you a picture of what I am trying to get at and then talk about what it all means.

The scene in question takes place right at the of the Citadel DLC, After you have completed all the mission and thrown the party, you are then asked to return to the Normandy where when you active this cut scene you are give a scene where you, the crew and your love interest have one last look at your ship and a talk. If your love interest is with you, you are shown a moment of pure love that those two characters have for one another.

To make the point even more I will also us this quote from a song “If it’s not like the movies, That’s how it should be,”

For those that are unaware this is a Katy Perry song that talks about how love should be like the movies and if you have seen a any romantic films you will have seen what Katy Perry is singing about, in which they have such great love for one another and then at the end of the movie go on to have that “happy ever after” scene.

Now a lot of people will say that this is a fantasy that the media wants us to believe is true but in real life it isn’t and I would like to agree with you but there is a time in everyone relationship in which they do get to experience this.

All relationships start off with the two of you chasing after one another so that you can get to go on a date with said person and by the time you arrive at the second or third date, feeling start to boil and the relationship starts to get going. From this point on you both start showing your raw emotions and passion for one another and you are doing everything you can to keep that spark alive and this to me is the part that the movies are talking about.

Now you may disagree with me which is your right to but I know that I have experienced this within my own my relationships and I have also seen those in their own relationship experience it too but somewhere along the line it just stops and you both become comfortable with one another and in the process the romance just dies and then the following situation could happen.

Have you ever been with your other half when he or she asks you the following question “Do you love me?” and your answer is always yes but here is the kicker, are you saying yes to this question because it is true or are you saying yes so that the two of you don’t end up in and argument but you do love them but you know something is missing from your relationship.

If it is the latter part then you have just arrived at what every relationship gets to at some point, where the “happy ever after” is gone and that is because you both have become too comfortable with one another.

When you arrive at this point in the relationship it is very hard to get out of it and I know that there are books and articles all over the place that will tell you that the two of you need to make time for your relationship and everything else but the true is that, there are only so many romantic dinners you can go out on or cook for your other half when you have to come to the conclusion that nothing is working.

The think that I am trying to get at here is that it took god only knows how many shows, movies and games for me to see that we all have experienced this kind of love at least once in our lives and that if you want to have that long last relationship with the “happy ever after“, like the movies you are trying to show us then you both are going to need to keep working on your relationship.

Until Next Time

Katy Perry – Not Like the Movies

Mass Effect 3 scene in question, see from 5:40

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