Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’s love triangle is
interesting to me because, with either Rebecca/Josh or Rebecca/Greg, both
participants are at present definitely wrong
for each other, but in my opinion, either could be very right given some growth
on the part of the characters in question.
We’re looking at Rebecca with Josh today, but I’ll also cover her and
Greg before the show starts up again this Friday (some spoilers.)
Starting
with the major elephant in the room: at
the moment, Rebecca and Josh should not be together because she’s obsessed with
and has been stalking him and that’s not healthy for either one of them. Instead of a person, Josh has become a symbol
to Rebecca, a perfect specimen of perfect love that will “fix” her life. She can’t see him objectively, because
really, she’s not seeing him at all.
She’s only seeing the role she’s assigned for him in her head. Meanwhile, Josh doesn’t know who Rebecca
really is, either, because she spends so much of the first season hiding her
“crazy” from him and trying to be the sort of person she thinks he would
want. Josh is working under the
assumption that Rebecca grew out of her “dramatic and weird” tendencies after
summer camp and has no idea of the heavy stuff Rebecca struggles with.
As
such, any relationship between them hinges on both learning to see the other as
they actually are. Rebecca has to stop
idealizing Josh and start to get comfortable letting him see the real her, and
once Josh sees that, he has to recognize that a relationship doesn’t have to be
“easy” to be worth it. After an initial,
major flame-out on a relationship
attempt (because their issues and this disconnect between fantasy/appearance
and reality will seriously mess things up, and that’s assuming everything
doesn’t immediately crash and burn the instant
season 2 starts,) I think it’d be cool to see them learning to be a couple
as they really are instead of as each perceives the other to be. Online, I see Rebecca/Greg shippers
predicting that, when Rebecca learns to see Josh not through her infatuation-tinted lenses, she’ll realize that he’s
wrong for her and that’s when she’s wind up with Greg. Personally, though, I’m rooting for
Rebecca/Josh in part because I think there’s a neat story to be told in forging
a stronger, deeper relationship after
the imagined perfection has been swept away.
(Granted, this would be way
down the line – again, issues.)
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