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I don't have high hopes for them this season. I don't not have hope....I'm not sure. The nagging urgency I felt for them to reconcile after their first breakup four years ago isn't there now. I don't think that means I have given up, as I'll always ship them for who they were, but where I thought LW would go back then versus where I see it going now also plays a factor in having hope for Bay/Emmett.
It doesn't hurt like it did. Doesn't make me angry or upset. I'm just....kind of rolling with it.
Really I just enjoy making fanart  I like the idea of Bay/Emmett in fanfiction and such because they feel safer there, if that makes sense.
In LW's world, they're not even unsafe. She just doesn't seem to care. I don't know. It's an odd predicament, to sort of be shipping a couple, but not really shipping. I feel like I'm on some kind of shipping hiatus. I don't ship them with others, but right now, they are kind of off to the side, but given the right set of circumstances, yeah, I could get excited about them again. Excited as I was back in 1B? Probably not.
Sorry. That was a long convoluted answer to your question about me having high hopes! |
That makes perfect sense, all of it. Thank you for sharing it.
I agree that I don't have high hopes for them this season and the nagging urgency for them to reconcile is gone. I believe there is at least a 50/50 chance of Bay and Emmett ending the series as a couple, or at least with the promise of a possible future. (The latter scenario is probably more likely.)
It's definitely different from where I thought Bay and Emmett would go, after the night that they first made love.
I don't want Bay and Emmett thrown together at the end, for the sake of throwing them together. That's my fear, and it's the reason I find it impossible to ship them anymore.
But if I knew that the writers were willing to do the hard work of bringing them back together, and if the writing was going to have depth and quality to it, then yes, I would be all for it. I don't have much, if any, faith that the writers are willing to write that kind of story for Bay and Emmett.
As you say, Lizzy Weiss and the writers with her do not care about Bay and Emmett's relationship. The writing itself, and the things said in interviews and social media, all of that makes it painfully obvious that Bay and Emmett's relationship is a nuisance to them. I'd even go so far as to say they feel Bay and Emmett's relationship is a noose around their necks, strangling them, cutting them off from their artistic freedom.
That's sad to me. Bay and Emmett are the most beautiful, meaningful part of the story. They have been from the pilot episode. And it's painful to sense that the writers regret creating them, almost as if Bay and Emmett were a necessary evil, but one that they resent for being so popular.
That will never make sense to me. If any writer is at all interested in ratings (and they ALL should be), then Bay and Emmett's popularity should have felt like a godsend.
I'll never understand why Lizzy Weiss treats their relationship with such condescension and disdain, as if she is superior to anyone who cares about something so beneath her.
Well, newsflash: There's nothing lowly about Bay and Emmett. They have always had a depth that none of the other stories on the series even come close to touching. Lizzy Weiss can treat Bay and Emmett like the red-headed step child, but they are the most valuable story she will EVER create. I guarantee that.