“Nothing would happen…I don’t want things to change” In a i want more of you you’re my best friend and I can’t imagine that us kissing would ever impact us negatively I only see us getting closer I don’t want to lose you kind of way
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“Then stop talking about kissing me” in a if you don’t want to commit to me then stop saying things that make me want more when I know I can’t have them because I’m losing my mind kind of way
Oh my babies could you please realize that you’re both asking for the same things and kiss already??
Michael Wheeler wdym you had a whole conversation with Lucas about how Will would probably want a real relationship if he could, you call yourself his boyfriend, and you STILL don’t get it when Will asks why you want to kiss him???!!!
Michael Wheeler who avoids mirrors because if he looked for longer than five seconds he’d see how in love with his best friend he truly is.
will never found au where mike finally finds him and they lock eyes and mike just says "will" in his will voice with tears in his eyes and he's about to hug him but then will sort of backs away and just makes this pained expression for a few seconds and then clears his throat and turns away and-
I so badly need episode 11 to have Langdon take mel to the ambulance bay to calm down and ask her whats going on. And I need Mel to have the crash out she needs (deserves) and for Langdon to realize that Mel wants her own life the way that Becca has her own life. And I need for him to remind her that this is a good thing for Becca and that this is an opportunity for her to have her own life too. Then Mel replies that she doesn’t know where to start and she doesn’t even have any friends to hang out with and Langdon tells her “im your friend hang out with me” and Mel is all confused bc he has Abby and the kids he doesn’t have time to hang out with her and he says something vague like “.. yeah had a lot of extra time lately” because he’s divorced/separated but hasn’t told anyone at work about that yet because coming back was enough of a big deal for the day then they get interrupted by the car coming in with that kid.
Then before the season is over he ends up confiding in Mel that him and Abby are getting a divorce and she says smth like “hey that’s okay I’m apparently gonna have a lot of extra time from now on”
Season 3 they have to come back obviously closer and mention all the time they spend together and there’s a few jokes about that kind of alluding to some maybe feelings but mainly we get them being best friends and langdon trying to deny that he loves her
Then finally in season 4 they are even closer and have been doing a bunch of couple stuff but “as friends” ofc and Langdon is obviously in love with Mel but can’t work up the courage to ask her out (because how could she ever love him back - she does) and gets messed with about that by his coworkers (please santos if we get an apology and friendship) then finally at the end of the season as they’re walking out of their shift he asks her out and they leave together and from then on they’re together.
Then boom you get the perfect slow burn friends to lovers soulmate arc without Mel being a rebound and giving Langdon time to heal so that we end up with a relationship that’s actually built on them being best friends
Was at a basketball game tonight and on timeouts they would play music. When I tell you I physically flinched every time they did because not only did they play purple rain, but also under pressure, heroes, and SMALLTOWN BOY!!
Why I actively think Tyler will be redeemed and Wyler will be endgame based on actual clues and my knowledge about movie-making (and not just because I am a raging Tyler apologist)
This is a long one so strap yourselves in, hahaha
First of all, Hunter Doohan confirmed that Tyler’s feelings for Wednesday were real because he didn’t know who she was or her significance to Laurel’s plan when they first met at the Weathervane. But I’d go even further and claim that he didn’t know her significance during the entire first episode. If he knew, why would he ever offer her a ride out of Jericho and offer her the police file that inadvertently led to her cracking the case and bringing Laurel down (but the argument could also be made that that’s why he gave her that file, to bring his abuser down).
Wednesday makes it abundantly clear over the entire season that she has no interest in Xavier whatsoever and is constantly turned off/annoyed by his presence and antics. And this might just be me personally, but Xavier reminds me a lot of an ex of mine who was extremely entitled, selfish, immature and giving major incel vibes. I feel like Xavier is the type of guy who is nice to a girl only when he is interested and/or wants something. And the way he treated Bianca at the Rave’N (immediate no-no) and immediately goes into pity party-mode whenever someone rejects him just irks me. But again, that might just be me.
Now compare that with Wednesday’s reaction to Tyler’s antics. Wednesday is not someone who wants closeness in the beginning, in any shape or form. She is honest, direct and blunt, with no interest in pretending she enjoys something to be polite. Yet she doesn’t object when Tyler manhandles her in ep 2 (in the forest), she never denies her interest in him in ep 4, her first reaction to attending the Rave’N with Xavier is ‘a bullet to the head’ whilst her reaction to attending with Tyler is to immediately start looking for a dress in her closet. She often seeks out his company when she doesn’t really have a reason to, like when she went through the trouble of going all the way to the Weathervane to ask Tyler about the meetinghouse instead just asking anyone else working at Pilgrim World. These small details are to me the ‘signals’ Tyler was referring to. And I think he also just felt the energy between them, or maybe when you’re a 16 year old boy, most things can be interpreted as ‘signals’ if there’s an interest on his part. Or it was just straight up manipulation, as Hunter stated on his instragram. Either way, we can’t deny that Wednesday seems to enjoy Tyler’s presence more than Xavier’s.
Speaking of Wednesday, this is WEDNESDAY ADDAMS. People claim Xavier is the “healthier choice”, which might be true for any other character. But I feel like it’s very OOC for Wednesday to choose one above the other for being “healthier”, not that I believe Xavier would be much healthier. Wednesday went as far as canonically confirming that Tyler is her type BECAUSE he’s a serial killing monster.
The Addams’ Family have a long history of embracing all things weird and unconventional. Fester would be over the moon hearing that a Hyde of all outcasts (his young crush) has captured Wednesday’s heart. Gomez and Morticia would be more than happy to give Tyler all the love and security he never got from his own family. Morticia smiles fondly when Pugsley mentions missing being waterboarded by Wednesday, I don’t think she would have any trouble embracing a traumatized outcast submitted to abuse and torture and then forced to do someone else’s bidding against their will. She mama-bear instincts would kick up.
Hunter Doohan also said that one of the things he looks forward to exploring in season 2 (now confirmed, yay!) is Tyler’s relationship with the Hyde, pulling each side. Who is the real Tyler and who is the Hyde? Does he have active control over the Hyde’s actions or are they all controlled by his master? Remember, we technically have no idea what Tyler did of his own free will and what he was forced to say and do (including that last fight in ep 8). I imagine the Hyde being more of a split personality rather just than man vs monster. The question is if only the Hyde-personality had access to his monster form.
We see that Tyler rebelled against Laurel when he could, when he wasn’t actively forced to do something. For example when he slipped Wednesday the police file (if we believe that theory) and when he chose to keep Eugene alive (Laurel said “take care of it”, clearly meaning “kill him” but since she never used the word ‘kill’, I believe he saw his chance). He also keeps pointing Wednesday in the right direction, even when he probably wasn’t supposed to according to his master, like when he helped her find the meeting house, helped her break into Laurel’s home, chased her and Enid into the basement where they could find more clues.
Grooming, abuse, torture, manipulation, and mind control!!! Need I say more? Tyler is a true victim of his circumstances and society. We must admit that it was pretty easy for Laurel to sink her claws into him. Lonely, traumatized boy with one dead parent and one to emotionally constipated to raise him through his trauma, and here comes Laurel and offers him the truth about his mother in exchange for mommy kink sexual advances until she kidnaps him to torture as she pleases in a cave. She basically presented herself as the sexual version of his mother that Freud loved to say young boys were so vulnerable to. Of course this lonely boy would fall for her act. Laurel even described herself as a plant metaphor in episode 4: some carnivorous varieties use sexual trickery or deception. She then made him think this entire nefarious plan was about him getting revenge on the way outcasts treated his mother.
We see Tyler screaming out for help, subtly and literally, when he tells Wednesday that he wants to “get out of this hellhole town” and later when he’s screaming in the bathtub in ep 3.
The writers keep mentioning Wyler’s “primal attraction” and how Wednesday is drawn to Tyler’s dark side even from the start when she didn’t know what he was. And I truly believe he feels the same way, he is so smitten when she states she would dump piranhas in the swimming pool again. They are both attracted to the darker aspects of their personalities, whereas I feel like Xavier has this romanticized view of Wednesday in his head and when she disproves that by being her morbid, honest self, his first instinct is to whine and feel sorry for himself. He doesn’t embrace every part of her character.
Netflix makes Wyler a large part of their promotion of the show, going as far as pinning Wyler-positive comments on Instagram and making Wyler at the dance their thumbnail for the show on Netflix and hyping Hunter Doohan in general.
If you compare Wyler and Wavier scenes, they tend to play very soft music and use soft/warm lighting during the Wyler scenes. Wavier scenes, sometimes have this too, but never as prominent as with Wyler. From what I’ve seen with other media, that is usually foreshadowing of the producers’ larger plan.
I have a Filler Couple Theory! And that is that the couple that becomes canon in the middle of a show’s entire runtime is almost never canon by the time the show ends. There are exceptions, of course. But generally, shows tend to follow a similar format: couple 1 is introduced as an idea in season 1, they may or may not become canon but the tension is there, for whatever reason couple 2 becomes canon in season 2/3 to create drama and more tension before couple one becomes endgame in season 3/3 (example Stancy in ST, Benvi in NHIE). An exception to this rule is if couple one is a blowburn over several seasons without a love triangle (example: Peraltiago in B99). The writers of Wednesday have planned 4 seasons. They end season 1 with Wyler broken up, hint that Wavier might take more precedence in season 2, and yet still keeps hyping Wyler as much as they do. I think Wavier will be a distraction/filler for Wednesday as Tyler regains her trust and they build so much sexual tension.
So, this was long and kind of all over the place. But as Enid, I write in my voice. And I will admit that some of these points may be down to pure manipulation on Tyler’s part, especially the signals thing. But part of what I love about this show is the ambiguity, the moral grey areas, the way they make a point of embracing the dark side of humanity and loving the characters through it. Until the show canonically confirms that there is no hope for Tyler/Wyler, I will continue to ship it. And I want to add that my will to ship Wyler has nothing to do with who I would personally choose for myself. If given the choice, I would date Enid before my mind could form the phrase ‘toxic relationship’, and I’m very much one of those boring straight people. But as a romantic partner for a dark, morbid character like Wednesday Addams, I would choose Tyler any day.
I couldn't have put it better myself. This is what I've been saying about how Xavier, in the end, is not a good fit for Wednesday. But Tyler, the serial killer monster who betrayed her trust, is the perfect pair for our little death trap.
• I wanted to restate and add onto something I saw someone else post, but Tyler is not the villain. He is made out by the fandom to be this evil person who manipulated Wednesday just because he wanted to, but so many people are forgetting that Tyler's absence of a motherly presence was used against him by Laurel to CONTROL him, not to just get him on her side. Tyler doesn't have to be your favorite, but stop making him out as the villain because it gives you a reason to justify your ship.
• Enid and Lucas had chemistry, and I'm tired of pretending they didn't, that is all.
• That being said, Ajax and Enid are the cutest. I have no idea who I think Enid should end up with just because we haven't seen enough development in either relationship, and there can always be a new character to join, but they are at least a temporary couple I can support wholeheartedly. Whether they should be endgame or not, TBD.
• Bianca Barclay is a queen and deserves to be treated as one. I don't think she needs a relationship for her character to reach full potential, but if she ends up in one, her partner needs to treat her like she deserves and more.
• Also, if Bianca is to be in a relationship, I think it would be a cool idea to have some kind of outcast that is able to resist the siren song so that she can have total confidence in the relationship and in the fact that the other person likes her for her.
Part 3 coming tomorrow (hopefully)
I have at least one more but let me know if you want part 4+
• As much as I love Xavier, who is a better fit for Wednesday than the manipulative psychopath killer, Tyler Galphin? Imo, Xavier is too nice for Wednesday, he won't embrace the darker sides of Wednesday like Tyler did.
• Do I think Wednesday will completely forgive Tyler for manipulating her? No. But I also think she's going to need him in season 2 and he will be in control of the Hyde enough for her to trust him again.
• I don't think he did anything out of a want to actually hurt Wednesday, and I think she will realize that. Tyler was very clearly groomed and manipulated and was in no control of the Hyde. I hope we get to see the effects mentally and emotionally that Thornhill had on Tyler, and I hope that means we see him rely on Wednesday because he knows she is the only one he can trust
• Not necessarily an opinion, but something I found funny... If my man Xavier didn't want Wednesday to think he was the Hyde, maybe stop drawing it and showing up when it attacks. You kinda set yourself up for that one buddy. And yes, Wednesday could have trusted him, but she trusted Tyler and we saw where that ended sooo love him, but my guy maybe dial it back on the creepy if you want to get her to trust that you're not the monster.
• Uncle Fester >>>
Anyways, this concludes today's rant of unasked for opinions. Part 2 coming soon!
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