Going for a long-winded rant under the cut...
Been thinking a lot about Robron this past week and the fandom at large. I've come to realize that the reason I couldn't come back is that I know who the fandom thinks Robert is, and who the show thinks Robert is are two different things.
It's so hard to be a fan of Robon long-term because the show doesn't care for them like the fans do. Unfortunately, they will often spend so much time building them up as this epic love, specifically from Robert, only to have Robert take a wrecking ball to everything he promised for months. In many ways, these things cause irreparable harm to the coupling. You can't have Robert proclaim he won't cheat with her and then have him cheat with her 3 weeks into a prison stint that was caused by jealousy of her. You can't have Robert proclaim it was always you and how he had been sad for years in prison, but then have him have a prison husband he has feelings for in a romantic way. These things make it hard to believe Robert's all-consuming love for Aaron is real, while I think the writers do a good job of showing that with Aaron, he does have an all-consuming love for Robert.
As fans there are only so many times we can say ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ "he loves Aaron deeply" because it's just not there in the canon. It becomes more fanon than what the show is selling. Soap writing is a lost art imo, and you can see that in how they treat Robron specifically. They always do these big stories that lead to the outcome that, based on the story, would be 'no coming back from moments' for the couple. Then they don't do a good job of repairing that damage, which leads them to end up having to handwave a ton of stuff to get them back together. They basically papermache over the cracks.
Most great soap couples volley the drama, like oh Aaron would screw up and then it'd be Robert's turn and back and forth they go. This way, no one feels like too big a problem in the relationship, till they go big and finally break them up for good. Instead, the show rarely, if ever, has Aaron do anything wrong, and when he does, they find a way to make Robert do something worse and really justify Aaron's actions. The thing is, Aaron is not some sweet angel baby, but they do treat him that way with Robert, while making Robert an almost cartoonish villain at times when they want to cause drama.
I get why people are upset. I get why people are skeptical or feel annoyed by the Kev development. My dumbass was super gracious to her back in 2017, and I was wrong. They will always use characters like them to bring out Robert's worst qualities. These characters rarely make Robert better or add depth, but really make him look like a scumbag. This is the opposite of good soap writing with third-party interlopers. They should be upfront, either objectively bad/evil/villainous or not a threat in a way. They should never be the victims of the couple we are rooting for in the end, but the show loves to make these people the victims of Robert's schemes.
It's hard to invest in a soap couple who don't feel balanced. Also, it's hard to invest when the show doesn't care to sell them in a way that makes sense. I can only deny what the canon is so many times. The absurd whiplash the show does with Robert at times makes it so hard to reconcile the idea of Robron.
The absolute laziness of the writers to just hope that Danny and Ryan can pull this off is exhausting for people. There is a reason why people loved Maxine, cause you could tell she actually loved them. No one there now loves them the same way.
This fandom and this couple were incredibly fun back before her and March 17, 2017. That day caused damage in a way that can't be undone. If people feel some sort of way about Kev and this writing, it's because they've been here before and they know where this goes for us. The show doesn't love Robert the way fans do, and it's extremely annoying to be reminded of this at every turn.
Soaps and ships used to be an escape because of the romance, but Robron is hard because I think, at the heart of it, I just believe the show doesn't respect them like other couples. They are never consistently written with the same reverence as the greats. The keyword is consistently, because for all the great moments like SSW 2016, the bad moments are even worse, and as said before, take a wrecking ball to what made them great. Fans are just constantly disappointed or annoyed because there are tropes about Robert, in particular, that the show refuses to drop, which has slowly diminished the romance of Robron.
Robert's return could have been this great moment to change the record, ignore past mistakes or stories, and start fresh, but not even 6 months in, we are back to Robert being a 'problem' when his dumping Aaron from prison was truly enough drama to last them for a while. Instead, we have another Robert lying and scheming with a third-party story that fully starts to tarnish what makes Robron the couple that we fell in love with 10 years ago.
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