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go white boy goooo

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Can we get an Oscar for the casting director of the show pls?

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Carmy's thoughts while he stares at Sydney in different moments..

"jfeoahoohgaoeoahgoacn. Shit. Uhhh--wow she's..."

"Damn. She gets it. I...what is this feeling?"

"i'm going to tell her about Al-anon because I feel safe here and I need her to understand."

"She's beautiful...wait...fuck I can't--"

"She's so calm and chill..look at how she controls the kitchen."

"I feel really good right now. Because i'm with her."

"What is this feeling?"

"Oh shit."

"I can't think this way about her. It isn't appropriate but i'm so far gone. I'm fucked."

"time to suppress my feelings."

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Ayo Edebiri & Jeremy Allen White @ Wrigley Field, Chicago 05/19/2024

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THE BEAR | DOGS

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Out of touch

Every time Syd and Carmy physically touched (so far)

Season 1

01X02 - Hands

01x07 - Review

The first time she touched him and he actually registered her touch, because the previous time it was in the middle of a fight, he wasn't thinking.

Season 2

02x02 - Pasta

02X03 - Sundae

02X08 - Bolognese

Let's go with the bonus track right now: This Sharpie touch doesn't count, right?

But when he pointed at those stains, he said: "Actually, I've got something for you. Uh... For later."

And she started to take off her jacket:

And then as she continued undressing in front of him, so to speak, he said:

Because he had forgotten to call the fridge guy. Again.

I just find it funny that that was his word choice as she was taking off her jacket... he could have said: "Damn it!" or cussed in any other way, but he looked at her straight in the eye, as she was removing her chef's whites right in front of him and went: "Fuck me!". No touching, though. OK, moving on.

Season 3

In S3 it's like they are deliberately trying not to touch:

03x01 - Tomorrow

Avoiding contact, but close. In every sense, which is a rapport they maintained throughout the whole season, till Forever.

03X10 - Forever

So what we have here is literally Sydcarmy being OUT OF TOUCH with each other, very clearly and graphically depicted by Storer throughout S3, and an even clearer decrease in contact if we take into account all 3 seasons.

It's not like they touched so much before but we can clearly see the decrease in contact.

The physicality wasn't there, and neither was the best verbal communication to compensate for the lack of it.

They were growing apart and not talking about it.

There was less contact in every sense, not just physical but the physical manifestation was just ANOTHER manifestation of their distance, which obviously was also emotional.

So, my guess is that in S4 we will either get a SIMULTANEOUS recovery in the physical aspect and better verbal communication because this was rock bottom and there's no way but up from here, plus the CRISIS of Syd probably quitting will force a change

OR

What we will see FIRST is a PHYSICAL MANIFESTATION of non-verbal communication + a PROGRESSIVE IMPROVEMENT in verbal communication.

Because they will either get out of the woods all at once, during an EPIC argument or any situation where emotions are running high and they have NO FILTER, which is what I hope happens.

OR

The change will be progressive, slow but sure, and the full manifestation of it will be explicit by eps 4x9/4x10, which may or may not be the series finale, as S5 is not confirmed yet but by the time S4 is out, it may be... who knows? If this is how Storer decides to go about it, then the PHYSICAL aspect will be the first thing we see, the non-verbal shift, and THEN the verbal communication will follow and they will start using words that actually matter, FULL SENTENCES, as opposed to leaving most things unsaid or "saving it for later" because there may not be a later to talk about anyway.

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If Syd gets a nightmare sequence in S4 what would it be about?

The Bear turning into Sheridan Road? Mean pasta lady quoted in a media article written about Syd when she’s finally an exec?

Then Carmy brings her a coffee in bed. Because he’s thoughtful like that.

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let this guy be carmy’s therapist

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let this guy be carmy’s therapist

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CK is trying to destroy me

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We don’t talk about this moment enough. An entire conversation, playing out in a single glance.

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I’m unnerved.

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They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.

F. Scott Fitzgerald / This Side of Paradise

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… they don’t get how powerful these two in a Bonnie and Clyde action/romance would be.

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who else is missing sydcarmy.