I like love triangles when they're actually love triangles and not the obvious main couple with a third wheel thrown in for drama. In these cases you know the main couple will get together, it's just a matter of when. The third person is just there for flavoring, orbiting around the two and used to pull one of them away time and time again to create false tension. It's always so obvious that the orbiter is never going to win, and he's tossed out the minute he's served his purpose. Also, they're often not even fully fleshed characters to begin with. Just hot and conveniently there to cause friction.
