#obx theory

[whosstella]

I think that Rudy now will realise how much we love JJ and especially HIM and he’ll be back on the g game soon.

[dreaming-for-an-escape]

My favorite OBX theory is that JJ and Sarah are really siblings 🥹

It might be a long shot but let me believe this could end up being true. They already radiate sibling energy.

[whytheylosttheirminds]

Even if Rafe dies tomorrow like no he didn’t. I will not accept that option. They can take my country but they can’t take my man

[patheticrafeenjoyer]

i know in my soul ward almost freudian slipped and said "he's just a little crazy/unstable"

[lostsyren]

https://collider.com/outer-banks-season-4-fiona-palomo/ more rafia to look forward to

I loveeee this interview!!! Thanks for sending it to me <3 Here’s some of my favourite bits!! Tell me your thoughts!

1- Rafe is a character with many different facets and Sofia understanding that conveys how their relationship managed to prosper– she understands that the face he has with all the kook crowd is not the ‘real him’ and that allows her to form a deeper connection to the ‘real’ Rafe he shows her when they’re alone!!

2- Sofia being an observer whilst Rafe is a proactive player in events makes sm sense for them and they balance each other out– evidenced in the beach scene where Sofia just watched it unfold/watch Rafe be complicit and supportive of Ruthie. She was the one to see Rafe was in the wrong when usually Rafe is so self-involved he’d either victimise himself/ villainise someone else

3- I’m curious to see how Sofia leans on Rafe? Financially? Emotionally? What support does he offer her? Also I like how Sofia understands that what Rafe said about her being a pogue to Topper and Ruthie was one of his ‘faces’, perhaps explaining how quick she was to forgive him/ act like things were normal between them, because he never wears that ‘face’ with her (which is all that matters to Sofia since she loves him, not his friends)

4- she loves him!!!! She truly sees the best in him and that in turn makes Rafe love her back and be so uncharacteristically sweet and caring– because no one has ever truly/purely loved him (i say purely because i do think Ward loved rafe, just in a toxic and dysfunctional way)

5- yessss I hope this means Sofia will get her own plot outside Rafe, further developing her character and showing us the kind of person she is!! And their arc together is making me think there will be some sort of reconciliation between the two, after a “crescendo” of a confrontation!

[sijjelly]

ah yes my fav character type: big sad blue eyes

[maybankiara]

obx brainrot but i really want them to reveal what happened during kiara's kook year. if we really get a whole show without revealing that... and what's the deal with her and rafe? they've been hinting at something for so long, but never elaborating... honestly. just give me info about kiara's kook year. please. please.

[oxpogues4lifexo]

My argument for Rafe Cameron

I’d like to just point out how throughout the whole of season 1 Rafe was a somewhat reasonable, respectable kid.

The episode ‘Midsummers’ for instance, when Topper gets upset over Sarah in the beginning and he tries cheering him up. He couldve pushed it off or laughed at him like you’d expect him to but he doesn’t.

Again later in the episode when he’s chasing JJ inside, he apologises for running into a woman. The subtitles I’m pretty sure say it was Kelce but from the voice alone it clearly wasn’t. Netflix does that a lot with the subtitles I’ve noticed.

Also when you look at the show itself from both sides, the Pogues are close to being as bad as the Kooks in a way. They’re all just defending their own side of the island. With JJ and his gun in the first episode protecting his friend, John B. And Rafe in another when he hits pope with the golf club, he was protecting Topper from what he wasn’t there to do the day of the gun incident. (I am in no way saying pope deserved it because he didn’t and that scene makes me cry, I just like seeing everything from both perspectives) like as he mentioned when working out, that he thinks them pointing a gun to toppers head was unreasonable and should have a consequence. To him that was his way of helping a friend.

Just because the Kooks did worse and more bad things, doesn’t mean the Pogues aren’t in themselves just as bad. To them, the gold was theirs, they had been searching for it for years (well Big John - ‘the Pogues’) and so it belonged to them. But then on the other hand, Rafe thought it was his and Wards because he never knew the Pogues were looking for it as he only found out through Wards side of the story. Hence why he thinks the cross should be his later on in season 2 and 3.

Rafe had no connection to the gold (technically) in season 1 as his only role in the show at the time was basically preventing the Pogues from finding it for reasons outside of that like Sarah joining the Pogues, JJ and the gun incident etc.

Season 2 all he’s doing is protecting what Ward had told him was theirs. To Rafe the cross belonged to Ward first and with the whole Peterkin incident, he needed a focus point. Thats why he attached himself to the cross as he saw it as a way to save himself. And a way to get closer to Ward which is obviously shown when Ward says to Sarah (infront of Rafe may I add??) that he’d pick her over Rafe despite everything he’d done for him previous to that. Like shoot peterkin and steal the cross back.

Also when he asks Sarah to stop and just stay with him after they thought that Ward had died. He just needed someone with him. He wanted to basically call a ‘truce’ in some way I guess. If she had stayed with him maybe they would’ve sided together earlier on? Maybe just my delulu brain working.

Season 3 he (controversially, this is very arguable I know this is just my opinion) genuinely wanted to help Kiara. He had no reason to help her, she wanted nothing to do with him through any of the seasons, her friends got him in prison and ‘killed his dad’ according to him, so why would he have any reason to help her other than the simple fact of, he wanted to. He cares more than he lets on we know that from the Sofia scenes. But I also agree with the argument that Kiara had no reason to let him help her too. Like I get why she pushed him off the boat, he ruined all their lives pretty much. But the intention of helping her was there and when she ran off to take a photo of the map, he waited for her, he could’ve run off and left her there again but no he didn’t.

I’m not defending Rafes actions and in NO WAY am I an expert in psychology and all that stuff this is simply completely and utterly an opinion based post and I hope people can relate? Idk enjoy! 😘

I like seeing things from every point of view, it makes watching the show a lot more interesting when you don’t take sides yk! 🩷

[angrygirlromero]

I’m convinced that obx writers stole the idea of rafe’s love interest from a fanfic

[whosstella]

Maybe I’m blinded by grief and pain and I’m reading too much into this… BUT JJ said “y’all might have given up but I’m not done fighting” HEAR ME OUT “I’m not done fighting” Ik it fits in the context of the scene but this could be foreshadowing his return in s5. Our boy was not done fighting

[ivy-34]

okay hear me out what if instead of JJ being related to the Cameron's it's the Thorntons by Topper's dad and Sarah's mom weird ik BUUUT that would feels crazy but at the same time is it?.... it would such a plot twist but idk that's only based off of spoilers and my imagination lol idk

[ourmajestythequeen]

Don’t get me wrong. I’ve been very vocal about not liking JJ before. Well, it’s more like indifference really. But killing him off this season feels very wrong.

OBX main theme (even before treasure hunting) is friendship. They’ve lived all this adventures and been through hell together so that you kill an essential part of the group off? Who cares if they have all of the money and pougelandia or whatever shit, if they are not together to enjoy it?

This smells like the actor, Rudy, is tired of OBX and wants to do something different 🤷‍♀️

[hardlypartying]

i’m so thankful for the s3 riara plotline and the crumbs we will continue to get through s4 because of that. HOWEVER i will forever grieve the possible kook year flashback episode which could have explored rafe and kie’s past.

riara in s1 will forever be my roman empire 😭

tell me about it 😭 ill be going about my day and remember the fumble and wince. who knows maybe we’ll get a throwaway line alluding to something or another about kook year that we’ll explode about and weave into canon so we can hold onto that for the rest of our lives

[lostsyren]

I'm actually excited for the scene where Sofia reveals to Rafe what she did because Fiona and Drew are such good actors I'm curious to see how they approach it and the nuances they bring to both characters! Also because I don't mind some good angst but I hope that doesn't spell the end of their story though I think it'll be a waste but I am worried because of the trust quote by drew about how trust is a big thing for rafe and that it's a sensitive subject for rafe and because Sofia isn't a big character putting her storyline to the side is something they would do😭 idk thoughts?

No because I’m actually so scared. Like yes angst love it, but if this will mean they never get back together again I’ll be so upset.

And yes I agree!! Fiona and Drew are like two of the strongest actors on obx (seeing Fiona’s work in Un Actor Malo was sooooo good) so ik they’ll bring their A game to the fight scenes/ emotionally charged scenes. And yes for sure, nothing the nuances will be so fun– their tones of voice, their physicality, how Rafe will treat her differently when he’s angry, how Sofia acts when she’s angry (since we’ve only seen her be mostly happy)

I think what will happen is that Sofia will try to fix things first without telling him, going to Hollis. And then eventually when that doesn’t work, she will try and work up the courage/ find the right time to tell him. BUT Hollis will try and undermine their relationship, telling Rafe about how Sofia manipulated him/ was bought off. Rafe wont believe her, knowing Sofia to be honest and kind, so he’ll bring it up infront of Sofia being like “can you believe Hollis tired to lie about you like that? She must really wanna get with me huh?” All jokey and unserious and then the guilt just overwhelms sofia and she just confesses, trying to explain. Rafe will be shocked and hurt, etc etc and it will just escalate into a massive argument from there, addressing all the tension Rafe’s “I have standards” comment brought about and just any flaws in their relationship

I hope they can come back from this tho😭I need them in season 5 (if it happens)

[missmouse43]

So I couldn’t help but notice we haven’t gotten a scene inside JJ and Kiara’s bedroom yet.

They wouldn’t have bothered setting up that room with all of the character’s stuff if they didn’t plan on using it in the show, right?

[multiverses-and-promdates]

dear obx writers, please don't make rafe have a dramatic coming out in season 4. it would be so much better if his relationship with barry was just casually treated as a given fact because it's the most natural thing that these two are together. thanks.