There’s no stage left. No lights. No music.

If you are writing an academic or analytical paper, consider these specific angles:

Today’s audience has little patience for the “love-at-first-sight” trope without the follow-through. We want to see the morning after. We want to see the couple in couple’s therapy. We want to see how love survives (or fails to survive) a miscarriage, a job loss, or the slow drift of two people growing in different directions.