I remember hating Snow when I first saw him in FFXIII and loving him for his comedy value by the end of the game. He provides a neccessary element to the first game, but in XIII-2 I couldn't stop getting annoyed at the poor writing/directing when it came to how Snow and Serah interact with each other, both when they are with each other and when they are not. Not so much because of how their story went, but because of how they should have been talking about their love for each other on at least a couple of occasions. Serah is consistently more worried about Lightning than she is about Snow, which I found really weird.