Why I’m not ready to jump ship just yet...
Warning: Much speculation and opinion ahead. But also some facts and logic that everyone seems to have forgotten. Also, this is way too long. But this post includes over a weeks worth of thoughts and I have the total inability to be brief when I write. So don’t say I didn’t warn you.
Watching everyone give up hope this week and accept that Scott and Jackie are dating has been a strange experience. I don’t get it. I’m not seeing what everyone else is seeing. I don’t have an explanation why Jackie was in Toronto last week. But I know there has to be more than just one possible explanation. It simply doesn’t logically add up. Here’s why:
1. Why Jackie? I know that Scott has said he wants a family. If he’s out looking for a wife, why does he start dating a woman that lives 1500 miles away and is just coming out of a 10 year marriage? He cannot have seen her more than a handful of times and with his schedule, maintaining that relationship would be nearly impossible. If this is serious enough to bring her to Toronto for the Walk of Fame, how are they going to make it work long term? Furthermore, how likely is it that he’ll choose a wife who lives outside of Canada? Especially when I’m sure there are many Canadian women who would be more than happy to date him. No matter how Scott acted in previous years, he’s not a stupid man. I’m supposed to believe that he’s going to get himself involved in a complicated relationship with a married woman after one of the most intense years of his life? He has said that he and Tessa have barely had time to catch their breath and make a final decision about retirement. Yet he’s already jumped feet first into a new long distance relationship? I find that really hard to believe.
2. Why Scott? Why would Jackie start dating a guy that spends nearly 24/7 with his very attractive skating partner, lives 1300 miles away in a different country and travels non stop? She’s coming out of a long marriage and she’s not going to see him very often. How much trust would she have to place in him to make their relationship work? The way Scott and Tessa are on the ice would have to make her think twice about the wisdom of starting something when she is likely to get hurt in the end. Most women aren’t like the Real Housewives. When they go through a divorce it takes time to move forward and get their confidence back. They don’t usually jump right into a risky new relationship.
3. What about the last 3 years? How quickly the fandom has forgotten everything that’s happened between Scott and Tessa over the last 3 years. Remember Scott saying he came back to be close to Tessa? How he was only comfortable when he was holding her hand and looking into her eyes. The meaning behind both Latch and Moulin Rouge. And that meaning is not based on fandom speculation, but on their words. There have been a million moments between them that we have all obsessively watched and rewatched over the last 10 months alone. So, now I’m supposed to believe that we all misinterpreted everything? That doesn’t seem possible.
4. Scott and Tessa are planning to remain working together for the foreseeable future. They’ve already announced that they are planning to repeat TTYCT next fall. Besides that, at the Adidas event two weeks ago, Tessa said “Scott and I are already dreaming about bigger and better tours, new projects together both on and off the ice and that’s really exciting…” . Did you notice the word “together”? That seems important. And in the Anastasia Bucsis podcast Scott talked about how it was difficult to find life partners that understood his relationship with Tessa. So theoretically, wouldn’t Scott and Tessa have to stop working together in order to have successful outside relationships? But just two weeks ago, Tessa confirmed that they were going to continue working together long term.
5. The timeline. Let’s be honest, the timeline simply doesn’t work. Some suggested that Scott and Jackie hooked up again when she was in Ilderton for a family funeral sometime this summer. It is my understanding that Scott wasn’t even in town during the time she was there. Here is a link to Ballet Fever’s timeline (taken over by saucylittlesmile) (x) We know where Scott’s been nearly every day since February. Sure, there are a few days here or there that he could have gone to Florida, but it’s unlikely. The man needs to rest at some point. It doesn’t seen logical to think he’s squeezed in time to start a new long distance relationship.
6.Scott and Tessa’s behavior has not changed at all. I know some fans insist that something changed between them in Japan. I just don’t see it. I can’t forget Scott turning up for Tessa’s Vogue photo shoot. If there was tension surrounding them it was during the time of Kat Bitove’s visit and the Kobe video. Also, this was the time when trolls were leaving nasty messages on the Russian ladies skater’s IG about her pictures with Scott. If that got back to Scott and Tessa, that would account for them cutting back on social media. And even though the Kobe video was an invasion of privacy, the brief glimpse of them that we saw seemed to indicate that they we just fine. Personally, I never sensed anything off between them at all. But I don’t specifically look for those things. Remember how unconvincing they were when they skated to “I Dreamed a Dream”? So unconvincing that they ended up changing the song. And this week after the Walk of Fame event, they’ve been acting perfectly normal. They seemed completely at ease with each other in the bookstore interview. If they had a relationship and it recently ended, could they really act as unaffected by that as they appear to be?
7. The events before the Toronto weekend. The night before the Special Olympics Awards, Mr. D aired. Everyone was going crazy over him saying “We’re partners” and her saying “If you know what I mean”? And Tessa posted that video with # partners? I don’t accept the argument that they were just reading words from a script. In the interview after they both said most of it was ad-libbed. Now, if Scott really had a girlfriend, why wouldn’t he make it very clear that they were joking? Because I can guarantee to viewers outside of the fandom, that scene would have looked like confirmation that they were a couple. Yet, Scott hasn’t come out since and said that he has a girlfriend and that what they implied on the show was just a joke.
Also, the Sunday prior to that was the last show of the tour. At the end of Moulin Rouge, Scott very clearly called Tessa “babe”. How would Jackie react to her boyfriend calling his skating partner “babe”? No woman would find that acceptable. And if Scott and Tessa were trying to maintain a platonic relationship, that would seem to be an inappropriate thing to call your business partner. There were certainly boundaries crossed in their 21 Summers program in Nashville. I know that they’ve done this before in front of Scott’s girlfriends, but not to this extent. If Scott is really serious about Jackie, you’d think he might consider scaling back on caressing and kissing Tessa on the ice. I get that they’re passionate about their sport but that song did not require him to kiss her arm in order to make it believable.
8. Canada’s Great Kitchen Party trips in May. They will be spending practically all of May together traveling with the Great Kitchen Party. Also in that time Tessa will celebrate her 30th birthday. So, do we really think she’s going to celebrate a milestone birthday with a guy that has a girlfriend? How do you think Jackie is going to handle that? And Jackie has a job in Florida. Is she going to take a month long leave of absence to go travel with Scott? Logically, it doesn’t make any sense. Also, aren’t Scott and Tessa supposed to spend less time together instead of more time together? Not logical.
9. Scott and Tessa’s chemistry. S and T are very clearly sexually attracted to each other. If one or both of them have been single for any length of time, all the handsy, kissy stuff they do on the ice has to have had an outlet. Many people have speculated that they haven’t been successful in outside relationships in the past because they meet each other’s emotional needs. And it’s pretty obvious that they’ve seen each other naked a time or two. So, they have an emotional attachment, sexual attraction and they’re best friends. They’ve also undergone a lot of therapy. Just listen to them talk. They could probably be therapists themselves at this point. So, we’re supposed to believe they can’t make a romantic relationship work? Or that they wouldn’t want to? Practically speaking, it would be very convenient! But if not, is Jackie or any other person that enters into a relationship with Scott, going to be okay with him having that type of deep emotional connection with his business partner? I understand that they have a unique relationship and a complex history, but that doesn’t mean that their relationship will be any messier than anyone else’s? And truly, if one or both of them was so scarred by mistakes they made in the past, they would not have the great friendship they do today. I don’t buy that argument at all.
10. One time does not make a pattern. I know that this is exactly how Scott’s relationship with KL began after Sochi. But why assume it would happen exactly the same way a second time? It didn’t happen that way with Cassandra or Jessica. Furthermore, Scott’s obviously matured and undergone a lot of self reflection in the last four years. He’s admitted that he made mistakes. After all that, why would anyone think that he would repeat the same pattern that caused him problems four years ago?
11. Scott and Jackie’s behavior. Fans all know that Scott wears his heart on his sleeve. Scott and Tessa have both said this. So over the course of 3 events that Jackie showed up to, there is not one single picture of Scott and Jackie alone. There is not one picture that shows him talking to her or even looking at her. For an extremely tactile guy, in the group picture at the Special Olympics he has one finger on her arm and he is leaning away from her. Is that the way a tactile man who wears his heart on his sleeve would stand next to his girlfriend? Especially if she’s important enough to bring to such a big event. To me, he looks like he’s scared that fans are going to read too much into it, just like we’ve read too much into all his secret girlfriends for the last 10 months. For her part, I didn’t think Jackie seemed particularly into Scott either. She wasn’t looking at him and smiling. She wasn’t following him around. She wasn’t clinging to his arm. All typical behavior between Scott and his previous girlfriends.
To answer the question of why she was even in the picture, maybe they were all standing together in a group talking and someone asked to take a picture. I’m pretty sure it would have been rude to ask her to step out of the picture if that were the case. She was also included in a group picture with Patrick and his girlfriend. Why isn’t anyone asking why she was included in that photo? Why was she sitting with Scott and Tessa? Maybe because she knows them?I don’t know. But those seem like reasonable guesses to me.
I cannot answer the question of why Jackie was at those events. I don’t know why Scott went to Florida. But I can say with absolute certainty that there must be more than one possible explanation. Jackie is not some random girl that just showed up out of nowhere. She’s a Moir family friend, Scott’s former partner and a friend of Cara and Jordan. Those connections at least open up other possible options.
The only evidence that anyone has that Scott and Jackie are together are a few pictures. None of the rumors that have popped up since then have proven to be true. There are no pictures of Scott on Jackie’s Instagram. If there were we’d have definitely seen them by now. There are no legitimate reports of them being seen alone together anywhere. I would love for someone to explain to me how this is enough to draw the conclusion that they are definitely dating. Or how 3 pictures would cause you to dismiss all of the above and say the only possible explanation is that Scott and Jackie are dating. I know it seems hard to explain any other way, but you can’t look at that and isolate it from everything that’s happened the last 3 years or even the last 10 months. Putting it all together tells me there must be another explanation, we just don’t know it yet and we may never know it.
And I know about Scott’s denials and have my thoughts about that, but that’s been rehashed already. No need to debate that again.
I would really love to hear from someone who is convinced that Scott and Jackie are together. Because none of this seems even remotely logical to me.
I suppose only time will tell.
P.S. If Scott and Jackie show up together alone sometime in the next month and there are pictures that prove this beyond doubt, this post will self destruct!
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