#I like Kenny too but idk. Chim just does nothing for me

[buddiesmutslut]

God I just. Do not care about Chim or Madney. I love JLH & Maddie & the Buckley siblings relationship but sometimes I’ll read fic or see scenes of Chim/Madney and be struck again by all the nothingness I feel lol. I do not gaf about that man I do not get the draw 😭

[lovecolibri]

I'm also side-eying the madney proposal. I mean, my aunt and uncle got married for tax reasons and they already had two children and had planned on staying together forever bc they love each other. So there's nothing wrong with that ofc and marriage doesn't change the love people have for each other, but I guess with madney, given what they both went through I would've liked something more romantic 😅 tho the proposal and wedding can still be romantic but I hope they make it look like the tax thing is the catalyst for them doing it bc they wanted to and were waiting for the right time, and not just "oh let's get married it's more practical" lol

Yeah, I'm with you. I'm hoping it ends well, but right now it's just making me roll my eyes because MADDIE should be the one proposing, not Chim. And who knows, we might get that in the end! But given these characters and their individual journeys before they met, and how their relationship has unfolded together, that's what makes the most narrative sense. Because Chim tried to propose before out of fear and it didn't go well. And Maddie was trapped in a marriage for so many years being beaten down and belittled and abused. So the real full circle moment for them would be Chim, as he's always done, respecting her boundaries and letting her take the lead on if she wanted to get married again or not. Because BOTH of them deserve to get married out of JOY and celebration of their love, and tying their lives together legally because they WANT to, not out of fear or obligation.

So right now, I'm very annoyed that a) it's something forcing their hand by way of "marriage would be more convenient" (rather than one of them being in danger and the other deciding they don't want to wait anymore. Which we still could end up with! But right now, I'm 🙄), and b) that it's ONCE A-FUCKING-GAIN a thing that's being played for laughs. IDK if KR took the "season 5 was too dark" the wrong way (i.e not understanding WHY people felt that way and assuming people didn't want ANY serious moments happening) or what the deal is. But I would rather have spent 6a seeing them going to couples therapy and then when Chim gets hurt in the final episodes, Maddie proposing because she's been thinking about it since Buck almost died and it never felt like the right time and she's reminded time is short, rather than Chim getting scared about the tax man and them turning the tax thing, and ring shopping, and losing the ring into a big joke. YES Chim is funny! Yes this show does need a balance! But Kenny is SO good at the emotional stuff too as is JLH and their love story deserves better than to happen mostly off screen unless they're being used to "lighten" the mood for the episode.

I ADORE Madney and their love story. It's one of the best relationship build-ups I've ever seen and I just hate what KR has done to them. Their story and we as the audience deserve so much better than this. And the journey matters!! It matters how we get there so even with it ending up with Maddie proposing doesn't erase the fact that they were GOING to have Chim propose even though that doesn't make sense for how his character has always let Maddie take the lead on stuff like that. I just....it matters. And the end result does not always justify the means to get there.