Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25095167-20140624040024/@comment-7117024-20141226173730

Actually, it's funny that you mention it's Rigby's fault for not preventing the kiss, because both times now, each new situation in Mordecai's life has been jumpstarted by Mordecai getting caught up in a moment and kissing someone (with CJ in "New Years Kiss" and Margaret in "Merry Christmas Mordecai"). It's Mordecai's fault for letting his feelings override his reasonable thoughts, and Rigby was just trying to help Mordecai, not making it his fault at all if he tried to fix things after they already occured.

Again, I feel like people are way too quick to jump onto "he cheats once, she'll be gone the next episode". And maybe that'll happen, I don't know. But when JG said this season was going to be intense, I doubt he would get rid of a dramatic plotline so quickly be getting rid of one out of three characters required for it to work. It's up to CJ on whether to forgive Mordecai or move on, but I doubt Mordecai would give up redeeming himself without a fight. If CJ immediately left, it'd be back to depressed Mordecai, and we already went through Mordecai dealing with a breakup and moving on in season 5. He needs a new situation to help him develop, especially as the same thing happening twice in the show gets really boring really fast.

Whether Mordecai ends up winning CJ back, ends up with Margaret because CJ breaks up with him, or ends up alone, I want the result to be well-justified and reasonable. If I feel like one or more of the three characters involved in this situation get mistreated or derailed, I'll be really disappointed, even if my preferred result of Mordecai and CJ staying together happens. This is why I really, really hope the writers know what they're doing and I can still appreciate how they pull this dilemma off whether or not it has the conclusion I wanted.