Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25614818-20150410170303/@comment-6088446-20150412121033

Gilgameshkun wrote:

Jadepalacetrainee wrote: I would love for Renet to come into this series. However, Mikey in this series is a little too childish to fall for girls in my opinion. If he does like her, it would be interesting to see what he does to get her attention. Jadepalacetrainee wrote:

BlazeinBoots wrote: Jadepalacetrainee wrote: BlazeinBoots wrote: Well we've seen Mikey's affection for IceCreamKitty, so he's capable of love, even if it is weird... But still it would be funny to see how Mikey would react to Renet, will it be love at first sight? And then how he will gain her attention, like you said JadePalacetrainee. I would laugh if it was love at first sight with Renet like Donnie's reaction when he first saw April. And then to gain her attention, maybe he would enlist Donnie's help. That'd be a bit awkward for Donnie, and Donnie'll just be weirded out because of Mikey asking Donnie for romance tips when his didn't work wih April.

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I literally can't wait to see Mikey' s reaction to Renet! Donnie's romance tips worked with April. Have you not seen her kiss him like 5 times throughout the series. Apritello forever! Ladies, gentlemen, I think we're all overlooking the proverbial elephant in the room. Though this elephant is more of a crocodile, and his name is Leatherhead. I've been watching the series with friends, and we generally agree that Mikey is already in a romantic relationship&mdash;with Leatherhead. It's still a relatively G-rated bromance, but it is romance nevertheless, with strong emotions, loving gazes (complete with cartoon heart eyes), regular physical closeness, romantic spooning together (I still can't believe they snuck that in the show XD), etc. It's just like the young romances many an LGBT teenager had at that age. (We don't know LH's actual age even before his time skip, but he seemed emotionally young and inexperienced in his first appearance, which almost makes his real age irrelevant. He could have been 15, or he could have been 100. We may never know.)

That said, at least one of my friends thinks Mikey can have romantic feelings for girls too. But in this post-Korrasami children's cartoon universe, the show would do better to at least address Mikey and LH's relationship (possibly even giving it some kind of closure or dignified friendship downgrade) before giving Mikey a new lady love. If they don't at least acknowledge it in some sort of context (Mikey has already experienced and reciprocated feelings of romantic love before), the show will risk insulting its viewers by expecting their ignorance. And even younger kids (actually, especially younger kids) are increasingly savvy of the many Korrasamis in the world, even if many of their parents don't always realize it. (Even I knew all about it at that age, and I'm in my 30s now.) I mean, I like the entire Mikey and LH chemistry and don't really want to see them be "just" friends, but if the show must play things that way, it shouldn't pretend we weren't paying attention.

As for romance tips...Mikey doesn't need any&mdash;he never really did. He is already very intuitive in matters of the heart (the "corazon", "real squishy feelings", etc.), and his charm is plain and honest. My friends and I agree that he's actually been more successful with romance than Donnie or Leo have ever been, and they could actually learn things from him. Donnie is probably in the worst position to be giving tips anyway, since his problem since the beginning of the show is that he overthinks absolutely everything when all he really needed to do was drop his try-hard pretenses and just be humbly honest with April, who seemed to like the genuine vulnerable Donnie a lot more than the Donnie who pretends he's the most desirable man in the universe. Mikey is already unpretentious and sincere when he feels genuine love and affection for someone, such that he doesn't even seem to be trying&mdash;he just feels, acts and follows through, without any complicated planning, and he has enough natural charm to pull it off.

I'm not sure what to expect when Renet is introduced, in part because we haven't been introduced to this show's version of Renet and we know nothing about his personality. I couldn't have said it better myself!