User blog comment:NI97Wiki/Regarding Romance, Friendship, Fanfics and other stuff.../@comment-20047155-20131002024833

What I don't like about romance in these type of shows (remember, Hasbro is still in charge, so the target audience is still going to to be young girls) is that the girl obsesses over the boy. I mean, it seems like in every family sitcom, the daughter is obsessed with some male celebrity or is crushing on a guy at school.

This is what I want to avoid in FiM. The girls have gotten this far without romantic entanglements, and introducing 1-6 colts for the them to crush over would just kill the mood of the show.

As for Cadence and SA, the writers skipped over the sappy teen romance, and went straight to the wedding. After that, I never thought much of their romance. We don't see them kissing, needlessly obsessing over each other, or staring at each other with sappy expressions. I thought of them as two rulers of an entire kingdom.