We are all seeing that they were about to kiss bc those were Storer’s exact instructions, guys. Why would he direct his 2 leads, that were playing 2 platonic characters, to do that, knowing that he was gonna cut to the Bday Party and start messing with the TL, where he showed they ended up together as The New Berzattos in a family event, where the old Berzattos were in the left wing of the room and the new generations were in the right one?
Also, Syd might be wearing an engagement ring.
So the Bparty was just an excuse to show they were still together, as a couple now, not as chefs, (maybe also as chefs on and off, we don’t know but we do and I have another meta that proves it but this is not it). And also that the restaurant survived. That’s why the TL of the show finally caught up to present day, 2026.
New generations mean FUTURE, they have a future together.
IMO, based also on her friends, Eva turned the age the actress that plays her is IRL, I thought it was about 10 years old but she’s 12.
In feb 2026, present day on the show too now, the girl was 11. So it made sense she payed a 10 year old.
And that’s how we know Sydcarmy ended up together as endgame after that hug where they almost kissed.
Storer made sure no one saw what happened between that hug that happened in OCT/Nov 2024 and June 2026 (approx). We know Eva was born in mid-2019, bc Tiff was in her 1st trimester in Fishes, which happened on Xmas eve 2018, 5 years prior to the events that unfolded in S2 and about to give birth in Gary. Storer also covered his tracks by making sure her cake had loooots of candles so we couldn’t know for sure how old she was, but an educated guess is that she could never be older than the actress’s real age. So 10, even 11, makes sense. I’m going for 10, because that sets the show’s TL in the summer of 26, when the show ended, started over, this time telling the story of a healthy, recovered family-family, that remained together after weathering several storms.
And in the center if it all, the greatest love story of all times.
Ps: We all know Richjess is canon, and they didn’t kiss on camera either, but ended up together being a happy endgame couple too. Storer does this. We won, and moreover, this was not even the end. When the credits rolled, the Sadist made sure to pause between The and Bear, so we all thought it was gonna say The End, but didn’t.
There’s a reason for that, and I’m pretty sure it has to do with a 9th surprise ep, or with the WOTSFS’s franchise. Ebra’s 💡, or a movie, or all of the above. He’s tricky like that. Never trust him fully.
This was not his goodbye: this was his “See you soon in a ghost kitchen franchise, chefs!” (Subtext). But his actual text was Syd’s voice in off, saying we’ll get the next piece and that she’s going around. No ending, around.
He wouldn't have planted that audio-estern egg if he wouldn't be planning to do something about it, and IK all this will only make total sense in the future when the spin off happens and Sydcarmy established couple makes a cameo or we get a 9th Xmas ep full of flashbacks where we get to see the kiss we were deprived of now, or even in the future when they get to the big screen, which was Storer's original idea for The Bear, IDGAF. I know either of those things or maybe all of them will happen, and that's why we didn't get an ending, what we got was a TIME SKIP, a time jump, a back to the future TBC kinda fade to black moment, but not quite so because Storer wanted us to know that more action was taking place off camera. And it had to do with Syd being a New Berzatto.
The Sadist kinda redeemed himself, hinting that, but it was still a dick move. Like I said before the premiere, "The winner takes it all, but The House never loses." He's The House, and we won, both things are true.
