>Romantic love is a pretty powerful thing, but a lot of people fixate
>on it as some sort of magical fix-it, where all you need is both love
>and willpower and you can accomplish damn near anything.

Forgive me, but I would like to now remind everybody of the major good guys that we've come to know in this universe. The 'love and willpower' thing? It has been shown lots of time that it actually CAN do some pretty amazing things. Case in point: when Corwin meets Anthy? Just sayin'. :)