#this is just my opinion. i dont think that anyone that diagrees is wrong

[readandwritesilver]

Hi there. :) I just saw and read your post about the reasons you dislike the Shameless/Gallavich fandom and don't dislike the show itself, and I found myself agreeing with many of the points you made. The toxicity and the constant hate and negativity of the fandom is one of the few reasons I couldn't be a part of it myself anymore. I'm just curious as to why you think Mickey shouldn't have been brought back to the show?

i honestly just think that his story was over.

i love mickey, and i’m not saying he doesn’t deserve the life he’s gotten with ian. despite the issues with his characterization in s10, i think that his overarching storyline this season was very good and worked well. i just feel like it’s sort of, for lack of a better word, sloppy.

his character has had three different endings by this point. i know that there are reasons for that beyond the show itself, but i just find it frustrating how you’ve never seen the last if him. i know some would say that its part of who he is, part of his relationship with ian, how he defies all odds and makes it back to the man he loves or whatever. which i don’t think is wrong, nessecarily, i just don’t feel the same way. to me it just feels like, at best, the writers just don’t know what to do with him.

if i could do anything (besides have him never have gone to prison in s6 in the first place), i would have had s7 be the end for him. honestly, i think that s7 should have been the end of the show (ive actually thought about this at length, i think that with a few tweaks this could actually have worked.) so in that case i would have had Ian go with him, but if not i would just have however ians storyline ended, be that in s9 or in s11, end with him going to mexico with mickey.

again, i don’t actually dislike mickey’s presence in s10. i enjoyed seeing him finally sort of get what hes deserved from the start, and though his characterization was awful, his arc was genuinely interesting. though i do wish they hadn’t just dropped the cartel thing for no reason. i just don’t think he needed to be there to begin with.