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9x06 BRETTSEY REVIEW

Hi friends, here we are with a new all Brettsey review. I apologize if I can't always publish the same days, but I'm often busy with work, so much so that I had to temporarily put aside the project of the video I had in mind. In any case, if you like the review, it will be published by the day of the episode that airs (also to take stock of the situation that never hurts). Thanks as always @hamburgerheroes for her availability in making GIFs.

Let's start the episode immediately with a Matt Casey returning from an appointment with the beautiful Sydney. We knew it was going to happen, since in episode 4 he wanted to call her after seeing Brett hanging out with Grainger. Matt is trying in every way to do what Sylvie told him: to go on, and as always he is trying his way.

The situation changes suddenly, however, because something completely unexpected happens: Syvlie meets Matt early in the morning, tells him how much she appreciated his step aside, and that they can still talk to each other in the name of an important friendship that has been there between the two. Matt wasn't expecting such a reaction in the slightest, and is very surprised and upset at how he messed things up the previous night.

After the outburst with Gallo, Sylvie is worried, because it's not like Matt to behave like this; Severide himself notes that the behavior is exasperated because Matt is not happy right now.

Then Sydney arrives at FH 51 and of course who does she meet? It was inevitable that this would happen. But as understandable as Sylvie's reaction is, it's Matt's strange: he completely ignores Sydney, tries to hide his shirt behind his back (Matt we saw you) and starts staring at Sylvie. This meeting takes place just as Sylvie was starting to open up again. It was better not to happen.

The next day Sydney and Matt go out again, but Matt is upset, he doesn't want to continue his acquaintance. HE LOVES SYLVIE SO HE CANNOT GO FORWARD IN ANY WAY. I want to point out that Matt has always slept with other girls to try to get by and forget (Beth and Naomi are an example of how he tried to forget Dawson). He has always succeeded, except this time. The love he feels for Sylvie is really deep and it's something he has never felt before. In fact I believe that as much as he loved Gabby their relationship was not equal: she pulled the couple, she never listened to Matt's opinions and her enterprising spirit put them on two completely different levels; they wanted different things. Their love had such a passionate basis, and affection but it is not the same kind of selfless love that you see here. Although Sylvie suffers from the situation, she wants Matt to be happy (have we ever heard such a phrase from Gabby?). And Matt can't go on because Sylvie is different, there is an understanding that touches sublime levels. Openness to the other, KNOWLEDGE of the other. Sylvie is THE ONE. In fact, as he admits to Severide, it is not the right thing to do to sleep with others. On the contrary, it gets worse because you are not with someone you really love.

Of course, from now on Brett will also try to move forward and the obstacle to overcome will be that of Greg Grainger, the lieutenant of the FH 40. But if for Matt it was an interlude of a few days, I think Greg will last longer. Not only because the spoilers say so, but also because Sylvie is the most hurt right now: all her fears that Matt doesn't love her enough seem to be well founded, since she saw him with another woman after he said to her that his feelings were sincere. Plus, she thinks Dawson is the one Matt wants and the one he's always been in love with. So she will be convinced that she will have to go on, but now the games are made: Matt is the ONE and no one can change that.

I wish you a sweet day, or evening wherever you are. Let us know what you think and if you share or not, and if you have any other ideas or opinions please suggest them! Let's open a good debate.

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I am crazy or she seems like she is returning back inside Molly's? I think that if the pic was taken when she was leaving Molly's there should have been there a door behind her, not some lights. What do you think?

Is it possibile after Matt's love confession that she goes back to talk to him? Leave me your thoughts.

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9X02 BRETTSEY REVIEW

Here I am today talking about my impressions of the 9x02 episode of Chicago fire. Ready? First of all let me tell you that: 1. English is not my first language, so forgive me some grammatical errors. 2. I have written a lot (maybe too much) so I hope you have the patience to get to the end. 3. It is not a post against Monica Raymund or Gabby Dawson. Just some of my considerations about it. I do not want to start any war.

Let us begin! I will try to analyze what happened for the different phases that followed during the episode

RESCUE SCENE:

I start by saying that Sylvie Brett is really badass. She's really grown up and I think it's going to be a real PIC for Mackey.

Moving on to Casey: "61 respond. Do YOU hear me?". I think that YOU has a great value for him. I think this phrase encapsulates all of Casey's concern about losing Brett. The face he makes immediately afterwards when no one answers on the radio is discouraging. And when he asks Stella "we should have seen them by now", he is looking for some support in Kidd (of the series tell me that nothing serious happened Stella please).

When Casey sees the wreckage of the ambulance he can’t wait to know if Sylvie is ok. First of all, for him is not ambulance 61, but Brett's ambulance. The difference is substantial. 

"Let me out". This scene is beautiful. Fortunately, after jumping out of a moving truck, Brett has already gotten out of the ambulance.

When Casey sees her, apart from screaming her name, he doesn't just ask her if she is okay. He looks at her everywhere, as if to see to himself that she is in one piece. Even afterwards he suggests to her to go to the hospital and when she refuses, he takes her to the truck to take her to the firehouse. With him. Brett's gaze is the mixture of being confused about the accident, and why Casey is there.

When Sylvie wants to save the crazy guy, he yells "Sylvie wait!". And then together they do what they do best. Saving lives.

IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN YOU

Of course Casey has to reach Brett to ask her once again if she is okay and tell her that he is glad if she is ok. What big scare did he get? But strangely enough when Brett asks him how he got there so quickly and why it was only him, he omits a few details in the reconstruction of how things went. Brett KNOWS him so the "it always been you" comes out of her. Remember that THE ONE she's been looking for for a long time, and she talks to Matt about in the 8x07 episode? She finally realized it was him all along. From the beginning of everything. And when she realizes that she practically told him that the key to everything is him, she tries to make up for the blunder she just made. In fact she says "such a good friend". Casey is amazed by this sentence, and wants to understand what else is underneath (because it can actually be sibylline), but is interrupted by Capp for the report.

SYLVIE AND STELLA

So Brett is in love with Casey. But she can't tell him. She doesn't want to tell him.

Let's make a brief summary of what happened between Brett and Casey from Sylvie's point of view. Gabby's departure marked a turning point for both of them. I think for both of them it was just a simple friendship at least until the episode 7x16. When Casey was almost shot with a gun. The two of them started talking more and more and became confidants of each other. Brett's feelings I think were initially seen in the 7x21 even if at the time as a simple attraction. She has been trying to suppress them ever since. It was said that they were not right. So she got engaged to Kyle and tried to carry on a meaningless relationship. In fact, not only did she want to suppress what she felt, she WAS CERTAIN that Casey would not have seen her any other way than as a friend and the 7x22 gave her confirmation. Casey involuntarily pushed her into the arms of another. After her return in the 8x03, Casey and Brett bonded more and more. And every time someone saw the chemistry that the two of them shared, she diminished. She did it with Olivia, Foster, Kidd and even Julie. Things changed in the 8x17 when Sylvie seriously started working on her feelings. In any case she became more and more convinced that the feelings she felt were not reciprocated, and mostly WRONG. He was still her best friend's ex, and she knew that he would not easily forget Dawson.

So when talking to Stella in this 9x02 SYLVIE DOES NOT WANT TO SPEAK TO CASEY BECAUSE IT IS SURE THAT HE IS NOT IN LOVE WITH HER, BUT THAT HE IS  IN LOVE WITH DAWSON. So she thinks the solution is to pretend this conversation never happened.

CASEY ASKS HER OUT, IN HIS OWN WAY

Casey wants to understand better the exchange of jokes that there have been between them in the dormitory. And on top of that he wants to ask her to get out of the 7x22, so I think it was the right time to do it considering that he could have lost her. The way he asks her out is very funny. How he claps and waves his hands. I HAVE NEVER SEEN THIS SIDE OF CASEY. The faces of Hermann and Mouch say it all.

THE DATE AT MOLLY’S

The way Casey gets up when he sees her and asks her if he can offer her something to drink, it makes me laugh my head off. He's in serious trouble: he doesn't know how to handle it.

Here the evening takes a completely unexpected turn. Gallo does what he should not do. He explains everything that happened at the beginning of the episode and Brett FOR THE FIRST TIME questions Casey's feelings. She asks herself "maybe he feels something for me?". The answer is clearly yes. Just look at their exchange of glances. One feels too much between the two of them. In any case, Dawson's shadow always makes itself felt in her head, and moreover she would like to kiss him but she can't because of a ban she has imposed herself. So she runs away. She is afraid.

The way Casey gets up is so sweet. He still doesn't understand what's wrong. But he knows there's something he did that Brett didn't take well.

AVOID CASEY

When the shift starts Casey tries to say goodbye to her, but she doesn't answer. On the contrary, she runs inside the firehouse. And the same thing happens when they are reassembling the ambulance door. Severide's words are prophetic. Sylvie avoids Casey because on the one hand she wants to kiss him, and on the other hand she is afraid that she will not be able to take Gabby's place and that there is no game for her. There will always be Dawson in first place. Casey realizes once again that something is wrong (he still can't figure out what it is though). But his look says it all, and Severide notices it too. And it gives him the best suggestion. UNDERSTAND WHAT THAT LOOK MEANS.

I would like to point out that Stella, Severide, Mouch, Hermann, Gallo, Capp and Tony all saw the connection that brettsey have. The whole firehouse know. Even Tony who speaks very little says for the first time his own ("we don't know what happened").

THE KISS

First of all I find it beautiful that Casey went to ask for explanations. Their "talk to me" is the key to everything. They have always confided in each other, and have done so very much in these two years (7x02 and 8x16 for example). Tell each other what's wrong is the basis of a solid relationship. Sylvie then reveals the reason and kisses him. She makes the first move. And I found it fantastic. Clearly Matt gives in immediately. I want to point out that during the kiss they smiled, even with their eyes. Their happiness could be felt in the air along with their sweetness. It was beautiful and I loved it as all the time there was delicacy. I don't think we need other words to describe it. And they both wanted it for a long time. At least from 7x21. What patience.

THE PROBLEM: GABBY DAWSON

Let us now analyze the Gabby Dawson problem. As I have already widely explained Sylvie is afraid because she could take a place that is complicated to replace at best. She fears the confrontation with the one and only woman she thinks Casey has loved and will love. So she decides to clarify this issue with him right away, and I find it an extremely mature attitude. I want to emphasize that until now Brett has had messed up stories, broken engagements, so now she is looking for THE ONE. She finally found him, but there is the Dawson problem. Let's remember that in the 8x09 Dawson came back and Matt ended up back in bed with her. Can you build something serious and lasting with a person who as soon as the ex returns there is a risk that he will end up in her bed? That's what Brett is afraid of. Maybe for him it's just a desire to have sex, while for Sylvie it's trying to make the choices to start a family. Let's try to unravel the skein, and clarify some of my points of view.

I loved the Dawseys, very much. I found them beautiful. Their story was all passion, and I loved it. Gabby was a tough girl, Casey was a good guy and I liked them a lot. Then at a certain point (maybe due to the problem of becoming parents), each of them started to take a different path, in fact to be precise Gabby did. Matt and Dawson communicated very little, especially in recent times, and the important decisions were ALWAYS AND ONLY HERS. She confronted Matt at the end, when the decision had already been made. I've always admired Dawson's resolution, but in some attitudes I found it exaggerated. The choice to try to have more children even with a pregnancy at risk ONLY HERS, the choice to move to Puerto Rico? ONLY HERS AND OVERALL IS THE ONE THAT LEAVES CASEY, THE ONE THAT SENDS PAPERS FOR DIVORCE. SHE RETURNS, THEN SHE LEAVES. The one that says if you want, there is always a place in my tent. 

Until now the decisions have been unilateral. Casey tries in his own way to make a new life for himself. He succeeds very hard. Initially he has a flirt with the journalist, then a flirt with the smart girl who interrupts immediately, and then from 8x03 let's say that his feelings for Brett, already present in my opinion from 7x19 at least ARE ALWAYS GROWN. 

But why when Sylvie asks, he doesn’t respond: “I love you”? Simple, he hasn't understood it yet. Let's understand each other. Matt can't explain how he feels about Sylvie because he has never felt it before. He has these strong feelings, totally new. Here, in addition to a strong passionate component (which the Dawseys certainly did not lack) there is a strong mental component that makes all the difference. Brett and Casey have very similar characters, something that certainly could not be said with Dawson and have created a deep friendship. Basically speak his actions for him. Jumping out of a truck, asking her nervously if she wants to go out with him. These are all attitudes that have not been seen in Matt Casey before. They are attitudes of a person who is in love. His not being able to answer is dictated by the fact that he has never faced the problem. He has never closed the door with Gabby and he has always left a gap, at first very big, that he believes that that is still open, but which actually lacks a small push to close it permanently. 

In essence Matt has to close definitively with the past and with all the drama that the relationship with Dawson has left. For example one of these is the problem of being rejected. This explains his nervousness towards Sylvie. He is not giving up completely. So Matt has to work on his emotions and he can't answer because he never asked himself the question. He took it for granted that he had moved on, but he hadn't put an end to it. I'm sure he will. Because he has to make his mind understand what his heart has already understood long ago. It must work on himselt and let off steam, talk to someone. These feelings for Brett have always been kept to himself. He has to shout it to the world instead.

Fortunately Matt and Sylvie are friend before lovers. They have built a strong foundation, and they are still communicating. I’m sure they will find their way back to each other.

I hope you enjoy my “review”. Let me know if there is something you want to add, or if you think I’m wrong. I’d like to chat with you, so write me!

Love you all, and always ship Brettsey!

I would also ask @hamburgerheroes if she wants to participate in the next reviews with her fantastic GIFs, and maybe alternate in the work if you like to comment together also the next episodes. Let me know. 

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Today I finally managed in a couple of hours to put together the last pieces of video, and now it's complete. I apologize again, but it really takes time to make a video, even if I'm not very good. Thanks @deedee1993 for suggesting the song in one of my previous posts, I hope you like it. A hug to all of you! Let me know what you think!

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TWITTER TRENDING WE LOVE BRETTSEY

I’VE JUST FIND OUT THAT ON TWITTER SOME GUYS ARE TRYING TO TREND. IF I UNDERSTAND PROPERLY WE HAVE TO USE #WELOVEBRETTSEY TAG. I THINK IT COULD BE A NICE IDEA! SO GUYS!! LET’S GO!

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Guys !! How are you? I hope everything goes well. So, I'm sorry I haven't been around so much lately. I had to work hard and haven't had time to make a Brettsey video in 9x01 and 9x02 yet. I'm really sorry. I chose the song but I have to put the pieces together and I think I won't make it until Sunday. Anyway I have read the latest interviews with our loved ones and I am really happy for what comes next. I can't wait for January 6th to arrive.

Kiss you all. See you!

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I was thinking that the episode was beautiful, and I’d really like to write some comments about it, like a review. So we can chat about the “Gabby Dawson” problem, and the impact on Brettsey relationship. Let me know if you like my idea. 

Plus, I’m listening all the songs you wrote about one of my last post, for my video. Some of them are really amazing, so the choice is very difficult to make. Be patient. The video will arrive asap. 

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I waited a couple of days because I was hoping some other theories would show up (instead of only two - I have not so much followers). @gilbxrt-blythe and @welliea just answered me and I want thank them both. As for the theory that I like the most, I prefer the latter (@welliea ‘s one), because there must be something that makes Greg and Sylvie break up and in my opinion it must be something more complicated than the realization that Matt is jealous. In both cases, however, I think there will be an awkward situation between episodes 10-12 as both of you have rightly said.

I copy here @welliea theory:

“9x08: the cracks start to show in Greg’s far too perfect personality. Casey calls him on some bad decisions on calls and because of his jealousy loses his temper over it. Sylvie picks up on the cracks in his personality and calls it off with him, causing Greg to tell her about Matt’s jealous behaviour out of spite. Do I want Greg to be the bad one? No because I don’t like the idea of Sylvie thinking she’s made another poor choice of men. So hoping it’s more like the Sydney situation. Either way I’m hoping Sylvie realises Matt isn’t so over her. 9x09: Matts injury makes him realise life is too short and he decides to put his big boy pants on and talk to Sylvie. I don’t think it’s going to be a case of Casey’s injury being Sylvie’s wake up call, but more the other way around.

9x10-9x12 completely agree on the above - walking on eggshells around each other and hopefully by 9x12 another conversation about Gabby...”

I hope that if others want to share their thoughts they will. In the meantime, I embrace you, Holly.

Ok guys I dropped by to say hello and to ask you ... What do you think will happen in the next few episodes between Brett and Casey, and the intruder Greg? Write me your answers in the comments, the theory that I like the most will be published.