‘Jane The Virgin’ Season 1: EP Teases Rafael-Jane-Michael Love Triangle Will ‘Spin And Twirl And Re-Complicate Itself’
When "Jane The Virgin" season 1 started, Jane (Gina Rodriguez) was in a seemingly perfect relationship with his boyfriend of two years, Michael (Brett Dier).
However, when she was artificially inseminated by Rafael's (Justin Baldoni) sperm, everything changed.
The driven and goal-oriented Jane eventually fell for the former playboy and father of her baby and broke Michael's heart in the process. Some viewers may have been rooted for the reformed bad boy to get the girl but others were also quite apprehensive about the story's pacing - or at least the love triangle aspect of it.
According to the show's executive producer, Jennie Urman, she deliberately made Jane and Rafael get together right away because "I felt that she had to as a character."
Talking to Buddy TV, Urman added that she wanted to portray Jane as "a very authentic person."
"So when she found herself having [feelings] for Raphael that were coming up, the combination of that and Michael lying and the fact that she had her whole [life] planned and all of a sudden everything was blown up like she's almost having her teenage rebellion," she shared.
"I didn't want to keep telling those stories where she's having feelings for [Raphael] but with [Michael]. It didn't feel very Jane-like to me," she further explained.
"It feels like she's someone who's going to recognize that and it's going to torture her. It wasn't an easy decision, but there's something between them."
Talking about Jane, Rafael and Michael's chemistry in "Jane The Virgin" season 1, Urman shared that it's something that they are "playing with."
She continued, "Of course then, it's a soap, so it's going to spin and twirl and re-complicate itself and I'm endlessly interested in the love triangle."
As for the other story arcs to look forward to in "Jane The Virgin" season 1, Urman teased Sin Rostro's grand reveal sometime in episode 12, Jane giving birth, the "internal telenovela" drama, and Petra's downfall and subsequent rise.
