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Chyunman wrote:

Least Favorite: The Love God. You shouldn't use a potion to undo the effect of a love potion because it's bad to meddle with love in that way. Wouldn't that undo meddling with love rather than causing meddling with love? It's also the least interesting episode. Close second here is Little Gift Shop of Horror, which was really boring and pretty weird. Why would Stan put me in a glass box when all of his other exhibits are fake? He may be a jerk and a criminal, but he's never THAT jerkish. Besides, he's never used magic potions before and it doesn't seem like a Stan thing to do. I always felt like the whole playing God concept of the episode very disturbing. Even the fact that Robbie and Tambry are sort of forced to love each other by the potion feels a little wrong. But it's something that shouldn't be undone.

My reasoning for why the black potion wasn't used is because if Mabel uses something to mess with fate again, she'll probably make things worse. Before, the two didn't necessarily "hate" each other but they were both uninterested to with each other. Mabel caused huge damage by using the love potion, but in the end the teenagers get over their first world problems and the group is reunited and happy again. It's a bit too late to change the effects of the love potion, but it allowed the teen group to come back together again. Imagine what the anti love potion would have done for the group... With undoing meddling with love, I mean in Robbie's perspective and not in the group's perspective. For the group it would have caused more problems, but it just feels wrong that Robbie is now only happy because of the love potion. The part that hit me the most was that Robbie being so happy was what made Mabel change her mind. Of course Robbie is happy, you (Mabel) pretty much drugged him into being happy. So for Robbie's sake, I think it should have been undone. He may think he's happy, but it's just unnatural and wrong. In essence, the playing God thing is exactly what I disliked as well.