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the way this episode took all my low expectations and just dumped them into the gutter wtf 😂 like i knew it was gonna be platonic partner shit and happy for the ppl who like that i guess but i am sorry i do not care even a little bit aaaand not sure i’ll watch anymore episodes after this tbh cause i just do not care 🤷‍♀️ like i actually stopped watching after that car scene cause…why

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i would just like to know how we have fallen SO FAR from last year’s finale like there was some promising stuff earlier this season and now even when they’re together it’s just the same old same old? like i’m expecting zero romantic undertones or overtones next week. and i mean…last season they literally cheers-ed “to partners” and canonically (if you take warren’s twitter as canon) danced for like an hour at the wedding after everyone had left. then called each other on the ride home. then confessed it was always them in a parallel universe. then the face touch. then said let’s find balance/hey will you maybe go out with me. and then…nothing??

personally i’m fine seeing them work a case together (i mean they’ve already done that like twice? three times? since he’s been back) but NOT until they’ve clearly made some forward momentum on their actual relationship. we had 12 years of them solving crimes together, and honestly i like their current crime-solving squads just fine, if we only get eo together briefly every 5+ episodes and they’ve literally had no actual conversations or things to move them forward as two humans trying to figure out what they were and are to each other like…what are you doing?! and not even being in each other’s finales like…they’ve put these two on the farthest of back burners and for the life of me i cannot figure out WHY.

(this is re: next week’s promo btw. i honestly have not been expecting anything and the promos pretty much confirmed everything i already thought which is that unless all you care about is the nostalgia of benson and stabler on the case together this seems like a deeply unsatisfying way to bookend their relationship? not to mention a very sharp turn from the way mariska, chris and even the writers have described their relationship as complicated, needing to go on a journey, needing to be unpacked…like we’ve seen none of that at all?)

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hi i’m here to rant about eo cause i think twitter was just about sick of me and my negativity!! i used to write *novels* on here about other shows and why they pissed me off so anyway back to my roots i guess.

first order of business is to establish that all the people who run these shows are clearly nuts, because in any other universe two actors with much *less* chemistry and love for each other would’ve been *jumped on* and their relationship absolutely would’ve been front and center of whatever show they were in. things started out really promising when elliot returned but like…we’ve fallen so so so far and it’s incredibly depressing.

if anyone feels like keyboard yelling about these shows/this ship with me please say hi! or not cause there’s a lot more i have to yell about and i *will* keep yelling even if it’s just to myself!!