No matter what update/spoiler I see, I have this immense void in my heart.
What I thought was going to be a short wait from how successful season 2 was and how highly anticipated season 3 was after they announced its approval during the airing of season 2, I occupied my time reading fanfictions.
AO3 writers' stories had brilliant Fexi plots and ideas, and as I read those stories it was like they played in my head just like a movie/show. I could envision every detail vividly as I read them. I thank each and every one of you for that experience. And so many stories were too satisfying, it made me even more eager to see Fez and Lexi onscreen as an actual couple.
I can recall an interview with Maude where she was asked about Lexi and Fez's relationship sometime after the airing of season 2, and Maude made a comment that always stood out to me that, "In the last episode, they don't even kiss."
I'm trying to remain hopeful that they have some scenes from season 2 that were left out on purpose to continue Fez and Lexi's storyline together in season 3. I cannot accept that all they filmed, other than the three main scenes with them, were distant phone conversations.
There are lots of gaps to me like: how did she leave Fez's store after Cal spooked them (because I don't think Fez would let Lexi bicycle home after that)? Who texted or called who first? How exactly did they start talking every day? Did he pick her up to hang out before they watched Stand By Me together (because it was raining)? During the couch scene was there any personal dialogue between them outside the movie and the play? Did they hang out more than that time? Did they ever kiss?
Seeing how they had to 'refilm' scenes that happened in season 1 to Cassie but this time in Lexi's perspective for the last two episodes of season 2, I'm hopeful they learned to have (extra) scenes prepared and already filmed for the next season to carry on a storyline.
Whether they choose to use those scenes I am praying that they have in an entire episode or just as flashbacks in season 3, I will forever feign for Fez and Lexi's Happily Ever After for real. The potential their storyline together for season 3 had and just of them finally as an onscreen couple together, finally filling the distance between them after season 2; to just imagine...
What triggered this rant is reading and seeing that this season is focusing more on pimping and strip clubs. We all know that Rue owes Laurie money, and she needs help raising it. I couldn't help but remember a canon where Fez owns a strip club, maybe even the one his father once owned, that he and Lexi operate :(
That would have been so much fun to see and a means to help their friend Rue.
Any onscreen storyline with Fexi would've sufficed for me though as I know Fez and Lexi would have each other in one another, no matter what potential hardships season 3 was going bring them.
This is why I do what I do. And no matter how nice an episode/video of mine may turn out, it's nothing like being able to see Fez and Lexi together for real. When season 3 drops, I'll be crying every Sunday's episode whether it is sad or happy tears.
∞ FOREVER MISSING YOU, ANGUS <3