I agree with you about the immediate gratification of love at first sight, it would be a wonderful world indeed if all that was needed for love was a slo-mo encounter with a beautiful stranger. I think it also helps hide the reality that you can never really know if someone is “the one,” and no matter how fantastic it was when you saw your partner for the first time, it doesn’t guarantee a fairy tale relationship. I think the hollywood media and the corporate media reinforce this idea to the nth degree and perpetuate it throughout society to keep people buying into the ideology that love is special but easy, and more importantly buying material goods that they deem are not only part of but crucial to having or giving love.