#and thats why rina will always be the ship with the most depth in the show

[heartsgallery]

my heart’s far, far away…

random post about a random scene because it’s 2 am and i just remembered and i still get left breathless every time i just think about it. let’s talk about one of my absolutely favorites rina scenes on the show: my heart’s far, far away.

this might be, at least to me, the most heartbreaking on the show by a landslide. but it’s so beautifully tragic and so carefully crafted that it makes it so perfect.

the whole season leads to this moment, and specially ep 6: the moment gina lets ricky go. like i said, their s2 storyline slowly builds to this moment but in ep 6 before we even have seen the flashback scene the meaning and the tone of this scene gets marked: ashlyn asks gina “what is your heart telling you?”. gina, who’s been talking about non stop about how she doesn’t know where ricky stands, before even thinking of herself, looks at him and responds: “i don’t know”. with this set up, we now know one pivotal fact. ricky’s IS gina’s heart. he’s not in her heart, or has her heart. he is the whole heart. ricky, the outsider who had her back. ricky, the first boy she ever liked. ricky, the guy who finally made the girl who’s always on the move want to stay. it’s not a crazy idea to think that he became her heart and guide during the whole s1 and then she leaves and ricky gets back to nini, and everything in gina’s life suddenly gets messy (not to say gina’s whole life revolves around ricky but it is interesting to see how both characters arcs go through their personal hardest moments when they’re not together, not even friends). it’s such beautiful and heartbreaking concept in the context we’re standing that i could literally start crying right now

and then, with all the cards laying in the table, now we know about gina’s confession, she closes the door to ricky: “nini’s back and he’s so happy now. what there’s to talk about?”. that’s probably the moment gina gives up on ricky for good, or at least the first she tells it to herself. now we have to find a way to make ricky “”know”” about it. then here comes my favorite scene ever

now i can’t think of a song that could fit ricky and gina’s individual and relationship arc until s2 better. these are the lyrics that start to be sung when ricky enters the room and gina sees him:

- oh but yes then, as my life has been altered

- once it can change again

“so what changed?” “let me guess, just when you’re getting use to things changing, they change again” “i don’t know, something’s different” “everything was the same every day, nothing changed” and i could goooo on for days but i don’t need to explain myself and ricky and gina being two sides of the same coin when it comes to change, and twin flames, and a lot more, right now

- nothing lasts, nothing holds all of me

“there’s no point on calling me anymore is it?” “the disappearing gina act” “i’m a change-of-scene”

- my heart’s far, far away

AND RICKY IN THE BACKGROUND LITERALLY WALKS AWAY. LIKE LITERALLY. EXPLICITLY. and not only walks away from the room, but from this point of the season, he completely walks away from her life. this is their LAST moment of the season. you can put a finger on it and exactly say this was the moment gina let her heart go. what was her heart telling her? her heart was just far away. i literally don’t think i’m making any sense right now but when i tell you this scene makes me insane. i was so angry when we didn’t get more scenes after this but looking back, let me admit this was the perfect perfect closure for the arc they built for them in s2. and specially because it left the door open for so much more. because it never implies that ricky ever stopped being her heart, he just went far away from now. and now, the second that it get close again, it’s inevitable that every feeling comes back because they never disappeared. the show told us that.

i feel CRAZY right now but i just love this scene so much i started rambling nonsense at some point 😭