Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-11837550-20130709195840/@comment-24020550-20131006222315

Guys, their are a few things standing in April and Donnie's way.

Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying I'm shipping either way, personally I think it would be nice for April and Donnie to be together mostly because I think it would be a good way for Donnie to learn and grow as a character.

But there are some things standing in the way.

1)  April and Donnie are KINDA young.  You can say 'Oh but kids at 15 date!' yeah they do, but do they really UNDERSTAND what love is?  I'm 25 and I still don't understand it. (granted I don't get society in general but that's just me)  So as cute and adorable as the idea is, it's going to stay on a level of teenage 'love', which has it's own wild ups and downs.

2)  April is ALITTLE preoccupied for romance don't you think?  I mean with all the things happening in her life, I know I wouldn't even have time to think about boys (omg, what am I saying? Me? Not think about men? HAH!).  But really, I do think April is not in the mood for romance at the moment, and Donnie's convuluted schemes aren't helping her to pick up the right signals.

3)  And this is a big one DONNIE IS STILL LEARNING HOW TO INTERACT WITH THE OPPOSITE SEX!  C'mon guys, he's got a flow-chart on her, he's trying to figure her out as a computer program!  Donnie doesn't quite understand the 'relationship dance' because a) he's a teen and b) he's been in a sewer for 15 years with NO females.  Donnie IS learning, but until he gets much more mature and better at understanding April is a person he likes rather than a pretty obessession he wants to figure out, he's going to come off awkward and geeky (and kinda stalkery since the whole metalhead thing).  But again, he is learning, he's just at child-level right now, as opposed to say someone who has been around both sexes all of his life.

So while I love the idea of Donnie and April, I'm pretty sure they need some more time to mature and things to get less insane for April before anything really can get possible. Besides, for the most part, because of Donnie's lack of really understanding how to interact with a girl he's interested in, the writers have comedy gold. Because Donnie is the type to scheme various situations with funny outcomes, because he's too shy to really come out with his feelings, cause he doesn't know how to properly express them.

So take a chill pill guys, I'm sure the 'shipping'-nods are gonna happen all over the place come this second season, just give it time to mature and grow.