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mirai-desu · 4 months ago

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As a huge friends to lovers enjoyer… it makes me so sad that the message of MSATD became don’t ever fall in love with your best friend or it will ruin your friendship 🥴

Like, they had William fall in love with Eliza too deeply too fast for the pacing that what RN/TPTB wanted (their apparent opinion, not mine obviously), despite the fact they are the ones who wrote that pacing. Like the call is coming from inside the house babes--

But then William felt like he had to leave the whole ass country because he couldn’t be around her anymore (and mind you, while he was still recovering from being shot and being in a coma!!!) because he felt like she didn’t return the same feelings at the same level as him, and that fucking sucks so much ugh

Like no matter “the why” this all happened, that’s the ultimate message and it’s horrible and hurts and I hate that they have perpetuated this.

Especially when you SHOULD be friends with your significant other, no matter at what point you fall in love.

And yes, Eliza's characterization ended up being all over the place thanks to shoddy writing, but she DID love him back, RN just refused to let her voice it, because she though that would ruin the show. HA.

And if they were going for something like "well sometimes it doesn't work out" ... if the show is about their bond and everything they've said before, then why just not make it actually tragic and kill him off then??? So what, they just don't fight for each other??? make it make sense

anyway it really doesn't matter which way you slice, it this whole thing still just sucks

[and I needed to get this rant out of my drafts because they are going to start S5 promo soon and I simply want nothing to do with it at all]

#the whole ass thing is sad and I keep thinking of new ways to be sad about it!#I have other depressing thoughts but I need to just push them out of my mind #like how William went through a Big Trauma and is now all alone #yeah yeah he's restarted his life before #but when he left Glasgow he didn't left anyone behind #vs when he left London-- yeah #also it sucks looking back and seeing shit that was clearly foreshadowing #and this isn't like other shows where it's all subtext #they literally kissed on screen twice he said I love you twice plus in a love letter! they went out on dates they were technically canon #he left so that they could figure out how to be together!!#but anyway it sucks that they banged us over the head with what fucking engagement ring she wanted #and him saying they were 'meant to be together' and then it turns out that they ripped out the rug #and we are just supposed to go with it???#I've said it for years but at least Matthew and Sybil died still in love with their spouses and their spouses loving them #I'm supposed to think that William and Eliza just give up on each other #and what? 'that's life'???#this is supposed to be escapism ffs #anyway it's been like four months and has irrevocably changed my relationship with (scripted) television #and the real world is a mess so yeah that's my shizz #mirai's text posts #[all these tags were written like last week or whenever I wrote this draft idk]#msatd rambles

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