This is mostly marluca related but on the topic of season 5 episode names, blue caramel is used in episode 6 of season 4 on these pieces of meringue by the two of them while they’re having a heartfelt conversation. I thought it might be significant.
Soda: Syd made a cola-braised short ribs with risotto in s1, it's the meal she gave to the reviewer. Or maybe it's called that bc she loves soda. I think this will be a Syd-centric episode.
Lamb: Carm has been stuck on that lamb for the last three seasons, lol. Two of them were inspired by Syd's outfits (the bandana in s3 and the green dress she wore at the wedding).
Actually, they gifted a jacket to the filming crew, they printed a menu on the back, one of the dishes is "lamb/aligot". Syd and Carm collaborating on a new menu, I can't wait to see it.
Mint: That one is tricky. We know Emmanuel always orders the same thing at a steak house, mint gelee (Carmy finally meeting Syd's dad?👀). But we also know Claire used to steal a lot of gum (mint?), so Carm might break up with her and meet Emmanuel later in the episode.
They also use mint in some dishes, the sprite (I really hope no ones pregnant) and I think the truffles they're making in the teaser could be mint-flavored. @chefkids pointed out that the french laundry offers some to their guests, I checked, and they actually have mint ones.
Since it's their last service, maybe they're making them as a goodbye gift.
Ribs: Short ribs, it comes up a lot, but with the exception of the short ribs risotto, I can't think of anything memorable🤔
Raspberries: I don't know if there's raspberry in any of their dishes, but it could have another meaning. We know there's an episode where Donna visits Nat, so the title might not be about the actual fruit but rather "blowing raspberries".
Focaccia: It was on the menu for friends & family, actually I think it never left the menu.
Caramel: In s3, Marcus asks Carm the recipe for it, and he tells him to check his notebooks. That's also how Marcus learns about leger de main.
The original beef of Chicagoland: No needs to explain for that one lol, and I can't wait to see Ebra's project coming to life. Definitely not ready for this beautiful show to end.
I think each episode is about a character, 8 episodes, one for each of them:
Soda is Syd
Lamb is Carmy
Mint is Gary
Ribs is Tina (she was the first to taste them)
Raspberries is Nat
Foccacia is Richie
Caramel is Marcus
The beef is Ebra
If the entire season is one last service, then maybe every episode is centered around one character like a puzzle (just like the letters in the trailer coming together to spell out the bear) and it all ties back together in the last episode.
Thank you, this was super helpful! I’m really interested in your theory about each episode being for a character. It’s really cool! Hopefully the trailer will be more enlightening.
I genuinely can not stand when there’s a black character in a TV show, especially if it’s a black woman character and she’s shipped with a well-known (male) character that’s beloved by the fandom, but the fandom treats her horribly.
I’ve seen this with every fandom I have been in, and each time it aggressively gets worse. For example, Damon and Bonnie from The Vampire Diaries. I have not read the books, but I have been told they did get together in them, and if I am not mistaken, I believe Ian was at least interested in the idea of Bonnie and Damon being together. When watching the show, you can see the chemistry; it just rubs off on each other. Yes, everyone knows Damon is a problematic character, but when he cares, he cares hard, and that especially goes for Bonnie. I wish the writers (Julie Plec) weren’t cowards and allowed us as an audience to see that side of their relationship blossom.
Then, with Mel and Jay from Arcane, the disgusting things I have seen this fandom do, the lengths that they go to treat Mel as an abuser in the relationship? To treat Mel as trash and not a character with complex qualities, just like everyone else in the show. Which is why I will forever side-eye any and every JayVik shipper. I do not care if you’re not the one perpetuating the stereotypes on Mel, but you being a shipper and seeing fellow shippers be distasteful; the least you can do is call them out on their behavior and make sure you’re not a safe space for them. Some fanfic writers have the nerve to write her as some aggressive black woman, and even Jay as aggressive sometimes, and Victor as the docile, could never hurt a fly character. Which is wrong, it’s disturbing, and it is racism.
Many fandom spaces are full of misogynoir and people who do not care to unpack their ignorance, even pick up a book and see why that is. Two authors I could easily recommend to people would be Bell Hooks and Toni Morrison. You have to do the work on unlearning racist and misogynistic behaviors because it is so deeply rooted in fandoms and other communities.
Whenever a black person decides to ship a black character and a non-black character together, I have seen many non-black people try to correct them, saying, “Oh, they’re just friends, he/she wouldn’t date them.” Are you the writer of the show? No, so what makes it right for you to police that person?
This goes with The Bear fandom and how people treat sydcarmy shippers. Why is it so shocking to you that people ship those two characters together? I personally haven't seen the show fully, but from the many clips I've seen of those two, I can see why people ship them, and even if I couldn’t, it's still not my place to police a person if it’s not doing any harm to anyone, or even the characters.
A lot of people love to humble black shippers and characters and force us into a box of some sort. While their counterparts get a safe space to be themselves.
With the Bridgerton fandom and their mistreatment of Michaela Stirling. It’s not just lesbianphobia, it’s racism, it’s misogyny. I see a lot of white lesbians and non-black lesbians in general forget to mention that racism plays a big role in why people want Michael Stirling and not Michaela Stirling. There are people in this fandom who will use AI and turn Michaela back into a man, but only a white man. As if the Kilmartin and Stirling families aren’t full of black people. I’m not interested in excuses either because more racism will go dismissed.
A lot of people don’t care to realize that if these problems do not get called out in fandoms, then we’ll have a situation like the Percy Jackson fandom and The Flash. As someone who grew up with both of those things, I am extremely tired of seeing the mistreatment of the actors and their characters. You don’t care about black women, you don’t even care about the character, you just want to insert yourself in these situations because of another character you love. A lot of white people have that problem, and we see it a lot in BookTok. I have seen it all my life.
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