#foreshadowing theoru

[your-ace-cousin-clover]

What was your foreshadowing theory?

So yeah,, I was gonna make a proper post about this, but u know I'm gonna explain it here as a timeline.

So here's how it goes -

TINHAT ALERT. THIS IS JUST A THEORY. I'M JUST HAVING FUN.

1. Succession Season 2 finishes airing. The publicity is your general stuff, nothing very much about explicitly shipping them. But calling it a bromance / toxic relationship, etc.

2. Round Table Interview with the Cast. S3 has not started shooting. Only Brain Cox knows about the entire storyline of the season. Matt talks about how Tom loves Shiv and pauses for a moment before saying Shiv. This leads to Nick making a joke about Tom loving Greg.

Brain clearly says "Think about S3. Think in S3!" while the cast is cracking up about it.

3. S3 finishes shooting. Now, the entire cast knows about the storyline. Matthew suddenly more vocal (he's always advocated about Tomgreg since S2? even S1) But now literally, the frequency of him mentioning Tomgreg in an explicitly romantic context goes higher. Even going as far as to compare Tomshiv on par as Tomgreg.

4. HBO Marketing??? Need I say more? The posters. The stills with Matt and Nick next to each other. The individual / duo posters. The Nero Sporus thingy (with Tom explicitly invoking it). The Matt and Nick Q & A. The Tomgreg vid that HBO dropped.

They did the same poster thing for Roman and Gerri (literally the same pose in the photos). And before u tell me about ship marketing,, it is obvious they know about Kenstew (the trailer promos) yet, they haven't heavily invested in it for some reason? While Tomgreg is more heavily promoted so it isn't just targeting shippers.

(Also shout out to Kenstews, and Romangerris and Tomshivs, love u)

5. The reviews???? "Tomgreg is the emotional core of the show", "Tomgreg shippers won't be starved", etc etc. I also made a compilation of all mentions of Tomgreg in the reviews, naff said.

6. Also again, Matt Mac. 👀

"Lot of things down the road for both Tom and Greg and Tom and Shiv" 👀

So essentially, I feel like they're trying to foreshadow tomgreg instead of springing it up on us. Why? Idk. But the increased mentions of romantic Tomgreg have me on edge.

Let me know if I missed something y'all.