![]() ![]() I think that misguided/misled (because the context of the leak was misleading) hope infused the fandom far beyond the people who actually Knew* What To Expect (*they did not, in fact, know). Whether you saw it directly or not, knew about it for sure or not, I think it set the tone to “Hope” for too many of us that it would be reasonable to expect they’d be officially Together-Together by the end of the season. The leaked kiss that was directly tied to Pride celebrations by whatever unfortunate Prime person made the call to include it in the montage before/without doing their homework. I think we sort of forgot that it hasn’t happened yet on screen or took for granted that it would be at least a little bit handwaved…Ĭomplicating and compounding the above… is the leaked kiss. But, it’s been so long in media time it’s understandably a lot more common now to find AUs or concepts that take the position that Hard Work Was Done OffScreen as read and jump straight to What Comes After. They have to deal with it! And, as a fandom, we largely did do the work to meta and fic and art our way through unpacking all of it… during the first couple years. This is a season coming on the heels of new things like the cold open, the band stand fight, and their attempted executions, but without a moment from the book where Adam tells them “no more messing about.” There was already a lot of baggage they both carried in the books, and season 1 of revealed/added on so much more. ![]() ![]() All of their relationships are toxic: with their former sides, with their own selves, with each other, with the way they treat the world and humans they’ve decided to protect. But… literally the entire season is about almost nothing other than the hard work they both still have to do, and why they need to do it if they want to be happy. I think a lot of us-myself included-got a little too comfortable with assuming they’d work on their issues right away post-Armageddon, and that with the predeclared four year gap in the timeline between seasons we’d see them start season 2 already well on their way to a healthy relationship, that a lot of the difficult work to make that happen would have already been done off screen (or perhaps happen on screen but be done more rom-com style so focus could be kept on the central plot of the season, as a lot of comedy-based shows tend to do). ![]()
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