Mewberries151 wrote:ThePepsiPiper wrote:Romeo and Juliet was not true love, contrary to popular belief. They knew each other for all of 3 days!!!!
This goes into the debate Sissi and William have in "Marabounta". Whether or not, one believes in true love or "love at first site" cannot really contend if the two who are said to be "in love" do. I have no idea, what Jeremie and Aelita believe about those kinds of things...although I would wager that Aelita has a bit of hopeless romantic in her. ^^
In any case, true love can't even be defined with a time period. Yes, they knew each other for all of 3 days, but they'd have known each other for much longer had they both lived.The point is, Romeo and Juliet was about love being torn apart by a selfish and silly blood feud..."true love" was not the point Shakespeare was really trying to make because there was definitely no "love conquers all" in that play, in the general sense. So, to make the connection...Romeo and Juliet is a bad parallel for J/A (or any of the couples for that matter ^^ ), but my main disagreement is that I don't think one can put a time requirement on something like "true love".
Moving on to another debate, age difference seems kind of moot in a relationship to me, particularly in this one, since Aelita and Jeremie are more or less the same age. Life experiences have to do more with maturity, I think, not actual age (which only ever has to do with cell regeneration, in my opinion). In season 1, Aelita is more like a mature child than an adult. She knows alot about how things work (particularly within her own world), but her life experiences (having forgotten all of them) would bring her true maturity in season 1 and up until the near end of season 2 either equal, or possibly less than Jeremie's (at the very beginning).
Now that she's got all of her memories back along with her experiences in Lyoko and her new memories of Earth with Jeremie, her life experiences are still about equal to Jeremie's since he's been there with her through most of the fight, I'm assuming. I believe at best, she's as more mature than Jeremie, as Yumi is to Ulrich, in which case.
But before I really start to babble...I don't see alot of issue with a person being older than the one they love...so long as the love is absolutely mutual (and not illegal in any sort of way). Age is just a number that humans have taken to using to keep track of the passing of time. No other species really acknowledges it. If the love is there, and the ability to give and take, and care, why should age matter all that much?
Ok ok. Romeo and Juliet was a bad example. I agree with you that as long as it's legal age doesn't matter. (My mum graduated high school when my Dad was in 4th grade and they've been together for like 20 years!) I also agree that Aelita would have somewhere around Yumi's maturity level and that their is a romantic in Aelita. She seems to always ,make the first move in their relationship.
