Fanlore:Featured Article Archives/2024: Week 23
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The consummation scene (often referred to as "roses and lava") between Vincent Wells and Catherine Chandler in the Beauty and the Beast (TV) episode "Though Lovers Be Lost" was a long-awaited event. It was also, for many fans, a great and silly disappointment.
Fans found the surreal collage of flowers and music as a metaphor for sexual intercourse to be ridiculous, cryptic, hurried, unsatisfying, and offensive for several reasons.
The first reason was because it was presented as a collage of cheesy images of flowing lava and opening flowers accompanied by music, "The First Time I Loved Forever."
The second because the scene was one in which Vincent was apparently unconscious. Because of this, Catherine Chandler's sexual contact with him was non-consensual.
The third reason was that not only does Vincent not remember the scene, he doesn't remember Catherine Chandler for a time afterwards, something that fans found heartbreaking.