User blog comment:ThatGuy456/A Guy's Thoughts: Slight Shortcoming/@comment-26215750-20181121092319/@comment-26215750-20181121220116

Damnit, Discord, you dun' tricked me.

Yeah, I kind of forgot to state that my whole defence regarding the romantic relationships really was more of a thought experiment that served to provide some other perspective to the writers' obvious, as you said, negligence with them. Despite not excusing them, I still think the explanation can be a bit plausible if given the right mindset to incorporate it in (that being total denial of the simple fact that the writers didn't want TAWoG to become TAWoG&P.)

I mean, the way you word it, Rob really reminds me of Pacifica from "Gravity Falls." Although Rob may not be the misguided antagonist that Pacifica was shown to be in the other show, she still got a spotlight (like Rob) and was shown another side of her seemingly one-dimensional character (again, like Rob.) Where TAWoG seems to be heading with Rob's closing arc, though, feels awfully familiar to the same way "Gravity Falls" handled Pacifica - with the character filling a background role of "just being there" and receiving attention for a minutiae (when compared to the length of the episode) amount of time. Then again, there's also the difference of Pacifica being a minor antagonist compared to the importance and position given to Rob in TAWoG, so that may not happen (even though you can never be too sure.)

Guy, you are your own worst critic, man. Just admit that what you write is super-duper great in terms of quality and let us all rejoice in two whole years of you consecutively doing it. Cheers!