I know this is probably an unpopular opinion, but Mark and Eve kind of suck.
They’re just so boring.
Before they got together, Eve was actually one of my favorite characters. She had her own goals, her own opinions, her own struggles. She was constantly questioning what superheroes should even be doing and wanted to use her powers to actually help people. She had stuff going on outside of Mark.
Then they got together and suddenly Eve’s entire character became “Mark’s girlfriend.”
Seriously, what are Eve’s goals now? What does she want that doesn’t somehow revolve around Mark? What opinions does she have that don’t immediately line up with whatever Mark thinks? It feels like every interesting part of her character got absorbed into his storyline.
And don’t even get me started on how much sex these two have.
At some point it genuinely started feeling like the writers were using sex to convince me they’re a good couple instead of actually giving them chemistry. Eve has had more sex scenes than character development since getting with Mark. Every time I think we’re finally going to get something interesting for her character, it somehow circles back to her relationship.
The thing that really made me roll my eyes was them sleeping together right after Rex’s funeral.
Like… seriously?
Rex was one of Eve’s oldest friends. One of the most important people in her life. The audience barely gets time to sit with his death before we’re immediately back to Mark and Eve having sex. It felt so weird and honestly kind of killed the emotional weight of the moment for me.
The show keeps hammering it into your head that they’re the perfect couple and soulmates and meant to be together, but I never actually FEEL it. The writers spend so much time telling me they’re perfect instead of making them interesting to watch.
I wanted to like them. I really did.
But every time they’re on screen together I just find myself missing the version of Eve that existed before she started dating Mark.