I am (and hopefully will always be) a sucker for a good romantic story. Even though I haven’t been on a real date since the Clinton administration, it’s always nice to enjoy them in my fictions. Having shown the Widget one of my favorite movies, ‘Say Anything…’, this weekend, I’ve been considering the bombastic nature of romance in our stories. Many times, big romantic gestures that would be ill-advised (or illegal) in the real world end up being the perfect basis for lifelong love in fiction, bringing together imaginary couples and leading us to today’s manic pixie dream query…
The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) still thinks that a relationship forged in blowing up a Death Star was pretty much doomed, Kylo Ren or neversuch, asking: What grand romantic gesture stands out as the most wonderful in all pop culture?